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Europe could blow the west apart

03/25/2025

Donald Trump has confirmed since 20th January that he is an aberration in American politics. That was clear in his first term, but many refused to acknowledge reality, fervently hoping his second term would be a legacy-building project. Their mistake was assuming that their definition of “legacy”—what normal political leaders see as solidifying a positive […]

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Ukraine, Trump and the Middle East

03/17/2025

Donald Trump’s jarring Oval Office confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky symbolizes what is wrong with Trump’s dysfunctional approach to foreign policy.  In what seemed like a television comedy show, Trump accused Zelensky of everything from risking World War III to having no cards to play in defending his homeland from Russia’s unprovoked aggression.  Trump […]

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Review of Kaplan, Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis

03/04/2025

T.S Eliot would not have minded Robert Kaplan expropriating the title of his mostfamous poem for his latest book, Waste Land. Kaplan’s focus on the decline of the West and thebirth of modernism were among the poem’s themes(175), and his latest tour de force on theunhappy state of the world is decidedly pessimistic on many […]

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How to Protect NATO and Other Alliances From Trump

03/04/2025

Responsible advisers and GOP lawmakers should redirect his focus to other targets, especially the EU. Last week’s Trump-Vance-Zelensky train wreck proved that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is on increasingly shaky ground. Starting with Donald Trump’s Feb. 12 phone call with Vladimir Putin about the Ukraine war, things got worse when Mr. Trump called Volodymyr […]

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After the Oval Office Debacle

03/03/2025

Vladimir Putin was the only winner in last week’s Oval Office grudge match between Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.  Trump harmed US national security by ignoring our profound, long-standing interest in European stability, which we learned through the 20th Century’s two hot world wars and one Cold War.  Ensuring our enemies do not […]

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