Trump’s two-front challenge: Shades of 1914 as Zelenskyy and Netanyahu converge on Washington

Netanyahu, Trump, Zelenskyy TOI correspondent from Washington: For more than three years, the war in Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Iran have unfolded as separate geopolitical dramas. On Tuesday however, the two appear closer than ever to becoming chapters of the same story.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington around the same time for the funeral of the late Senator Lindsey Graham -- a staunch advocate of both Ukraine's war effort and a hard line against Iran -- with the White House finding itself at the intersection of two conflicts that increasingly overlap.Whether that convergence remains political and contained or turns into something more kinetic and expansive could become one of the defining foreign-policy questions confronting President Trump. Already, some historians and diplomats have begun invoking the pre-1914 period of World War I as an analogy because they see similarities in the way separate regional crises risk becoming interconnected through alliances, miscalculation, and escalation.The immediate trigger is a new confrontation in the Caspian Sea, the world's largest inland body of wa...