Oct 1, 2025,
8:26 PM (4 hours ago) Hello, everyone. Today at WPR, we’re covering the Trump administration’s controversial decision to eliminate the Global Trends report and the increasingly stark reality that Europe is under attack from Russia. | But first, here’s our take on today’s top story: |  | U.S. military senior leadership listen as President Donald Trump speaks at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Sept. 30, 2025 (AP photo by Evan Vucci). |
| When news broke last week that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered hundreds of the country’s most senior military officers to assemble in Virginia with little notice, it set off a wave of anxiety among defense analysts and policymakers. | At least initially, top generals and admirals and their staffs were left in the dark about what the meeting was for. Rumors spread that officers could be publicly purged for being too “woke.” One retired general suggested in a social media post that Hegseth might use the opportunity to implement a new oath requiring military leaders to swear fealty to Trump rather than to the U.S. Constitution, noting a historical parallel from Germany in 1935. Hegseth gave a cryptic response that neither confirmed nor denied the theory. | What ultimately transpired was not quite as serious, but it still marked another troubling step in the ongoing politicization of the U.S. military. Hegseth gave . . . | Purchase a subscription now to get the paid edition of the Daily Review, which includes the full top story. | | This is the free edition of our Daily Newsletter. If you are a paid subscriber and are receiving this edition by mistake, please reply to this email and we’ll make sure you receive the paid edition going forward. | | Detecting and defusing threats, whether from external adversaries, internal weaknesses or broader economic and technological trends, is at the heart of a robust national security posture for any country. What if the biggest threat, however, comes from a government that chooses to blind itself to seeing such threats? Unfortunately, the Trump administration is doing just that by eliminating the Global Trends report, WPR columnist Dan Drezner writes. | | | In the span of just the past two weeks, three armed Russian warplanes entered Estonian airspace, 19 Russian military drones violated Polish airspace and another Russian military drone flew over Romania. In addition, drone sightings over several Danish airports led to shutdowns and flight cancellations, while unidentified drones were similarly spotted over Germany. These incidents are contributing to a delayed yet important realization in Europe that Russia’s war is no longer confined to Ukraine, Ulrike Franke writes. | | | As Nigeria struggles with inflation and rising poverty, President Bola Tinbu took to the airwaves on the country’s Independence Day yesterday to declare that the worst of Nigeria’s economic woes is over. He cited a decline in inflation in August to the lowest point in three years and second-quarter GDP growth that was the fastest in four years at more than 4 percent. | While macroeconomic indicators may be improving, Nigeria remains politically polarized and young people continue to experience drastic levels of wealth inequality. Writing one year ago in WPR, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja examined the way Tinubu’s policies have contributed to simmering discontent by exacerbating ethno-regional and class divides in the country. Strengthening Nigeria’s “democracy-facing” institutions to reduce politicization in governance would “go a long way toward reinvigorating national politics,” he wrote. |  | | Nigeria Is Coming Apart at the Seams | Bola Tinubu’s election last year exposed Nigeria’s divisions and disillusionment. He’s done little to address those issues since then. | www.worldpoliticsreview.com/nigeria-politics-tinubu |
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| | The U.N. Security Council has approved an additional 5,500 soldiers and police officers form around the world to fight gangs in Haiti. As Flora Marlene Willimek wrote in WPR in November 2024, military solutions to Haiti’s security problems will need to be accompanied by simultaneous political and humanitarian advances to be sustainable. | | The United States will begin drawing down forces in Iraq that have been fighting the Islamic State group there, the Pentagon announced yesterday, although a timeline for the drawdown was not provided. In a WPR briefing in March 2024, Sam Heller wrote that the “counter-ISIS rationale for originally deploying U.S. troops” to the country “is now largely defunct.” | | More from WPR | | Read all of our latest coverage here. |
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