Official bravado and media bias degrade policy discourse—and undermine public support. The wages of hubris are dear. Four months into Ukraine’s vaunted counteroffensive—which, at a massive cost in men and materiel, has made minimal territorial gain—support for Kyiv is openly eroding. Frustration flows from the growing economic burden of war …

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “we are at war, and we will win it” early Saturday as the country’s air force began striking targets in Gaza in response to a surprise Hamas attack on the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, involving more than 3,000 rockets and …

Palestinian militants on Saturday fired thousands of rockets from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, and several assailant squads managed to break through the security fence and enter Israeli territory. Israel has amassed 100,000 troops on Gaza border in preparation for a ground offensive against Hamas. The operation that appears to …