WORLD ROUNDUPVenezuela’s Aggression Toward Guyana Must End | Emigration from Africa Will Change the World | Get Ready for the Aleutian Island Crisis, and more

Venezuela’s Aggression Toward Guyana Must End  (Andrés Martínez-Fernández, Wilson Beaver, and Jarrett Lane, National Interest)
Guyana has every right to defend its sovereignty and economic growth against the moribund, socialist autocracy next door.

Emigration from Africa Will Change the World  (Economist)
As other countries age, they will need African youth.

Trump’s First 100 Days Reveal a ‘Strongman’s’ Unprecedented Weakness  (Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy)
No U.S. president has ever surrendered global power so quickly.

Get Ready for the Aleutian Island Crisis  (Alex Alfirraz Scheers, Foreign Policy)
As conflict heats up in the Arctic, foreign adversaries eye Alaskan territory.

The White House Can’t Accept Russia’s Annexation of Crimea Without Congress  (Scott R. Anderson, Lawfare)
President Trump may be able to recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea—but that doesn’t mean he can make Congress play along.

The Middle East’s AI Warfare Laboratory  (Frederic Wehrey and Andrew Bonney, War on the Rocks)
many Middle Eastern conflicts fall short of total war, waged by state and non-state actors using a range of unconventional tactics. In such contexts, AI technologies hold out the promise of conferring unique and decisive advantages, while adding new operational and ethical challenges. Moreover,  wars in this region are characterized by the routine flouting of international norms of warfare — often abetted by outside powers — which puts the region even more at risk from the misuse of weaponized AI.
In many respects, Israel’s recent military campaign in the Gaza Strip epitomizes the intersection of these trends, while also highlighting the great dangers to civilians posed by this technology. It has also demonstrated Israel’s qualitative edge in the regional AI arms race, which has been joined by other ambitious and interventionist Middle Eastern states. The escalatory spiral of this competition, along with the region’s history of conflicts and entrenched rivalries, underscores the urgent need to regulate the development and use of AI weapons better through informal compacts that emerge from within the Middle East itself.