The geopolitical landscape of 2025 has been dominated by President Donald Trump’s US and the ongoing agony of Gaza, along with its consequences in the region. Europe and its friends and allies in the Middle East have had to come to terms with the second Trump administration, which will be barely 25 percent fulfilled at the turn of the year. A world order, built from the ashes of the 20th century’s European disasters and the diplomacy that followed, with its values base and postwar institutions, has run its current course.