“Moreover, the French are seeking not just political capital but plain monetary capital: France's nuclear force de frappe is outdated, in need of renewal and in need of great expansion,” he adds.

“All of this will require money that France does not hand. Its sotto voce message to other European states is that they should help co-finance the build-out of the French nuclear force.”

“Once Israel saw that the US was attacking the Houthis,” the Jewish state saw “the moment opportune to attack Hamas locations in Gaza,” Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University Qatar, suggested in an interview with Sputnik.

“By emphasizing military action, Netanyahu seeks to consolidate nationalist support and shift focus away from the domestic arena,” Rakipoglu concluded.

“What will the European coalition of the willing to fight Russia do?” he inquires.

"No previous American administration, especially the Biden administration, had been willing to engage Russia to the level that the Trump administration is engaging Russia… This is about reengaging diplomatically. This is about normalizing relations. This is real dialogue that has not taken place for some time now," Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and retired US Marine Corps intelligence officer, told Sputnik.

"Great news from Washington and Moscow – today, the world has become a safer place. We fully support the peace agreement and hope Brussels will not undermine the peace process," Hungarian Foreign Minister wrote on X.

“Macron believes that providing French nuclear protection to Europe can restore French primacy in the EU which was lost to Germany in the last twenty years,” he suggests.

“This is all part of the plan to make Europe a more independent and sovereign quasi-State between the continental super-nations of US, Russia, India and China and perhaps tomorrow united Latin America, South East Asia and Africa,” de Gourdon postulates.

"President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency," wrote Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on X.