June 25, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Jun 25, 2026 · 3m

Good morning! Today is Thursday, June 25th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Leonid Ragozin reports that European leaders are exploiting Trump's Iran setback to derail his Russia rapprochement, gambling that a politically weakened president facing tough midterms will pivot toward coercion against Moscow. Ragozin traces the Ukraine conflict's roots back to Russia's explicit exclusion from the Euro-Atlantic project and warns that each successive peace framework, from Istanbul to Minsk to Anchorage, has proven worse for Kiev than the last. Harrison Berger covers the…