‘France may well be in store for a less than rocambolesque future’

‘What the Louvre heist exposes about Macron’s France’

There is “never a good time for a government to have its pants pulled down by such rocambolesque escapades,” but for the heist at the Louvre in France to “happen at a moment when the nation’s politics border on the burlesque makes for especially bad timing,” says Robert Zaretsky. The “heist marks a moment that makes clear that the days of a president who would be neither king nor emperor, but instead Jupiter, are also numbered.”

‘Trump accelerates tensions with Venezuela — and risks a longer, messier crisis’

Developments have “reshaped the U.S. posture towards Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro,” says Javier Marín. Whether this is “intended to pressure and divide Maduro’s inner circle without committing to open intervention, or to t