Foreign Policy

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France Contemplates the Bear

A novel presenting Putin’s worldview sympathetically has taken France by storm.

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Diplomacy Watch: US ignores calls for negotiations at its own peril

Huge swathes of the world want the war in Ukraine to end as soon as possible. Can Washington afford to disregard them?

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Vietnam 2.0 by Proxy

After Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old National guardsman, posted top-secret information from the Pentagon on the web, the list of those who demand to reveal the truth about what is happening in Ukraine keeps rising. Other U.S. presidents have often lied to the American people, especially in times of wars. The most famous cases include Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam), George W. Bush (Iraq), James Polk (Mexico), and William McKinley (Spain).

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Biden family profited from human trafficking scheme, House investigators say

Two Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee say the Biden family profited from a human trafficking scheme that included a prostitution ring in the U.S. and countries such as Russia and Ukraine.

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Of leaks and lies and lunatic ideologues

Unless Biden changes course, we’re entering the most dangerous period since a nuclear war almost started in 1983

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Joe Biden: President or ‘Head of a Crime Family’?

News is leaking out from behind the veil of lies the Democrats and their media allies have shrouded around that at least six more members of the Biden Family have financially benefited from Hunter Biden’s many illicit international schemes. This brings the total members of the Biden clan who’ve been enriched by Hunter’s illegal activities to nine.

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Russia’s Rise

The West’s sweeping sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine are shaping up to be the West’s most monumental miscalculation in modern history. The sanctions have not brought the Russian economy to its knees, as was widely predicted. Instead, it’s the Western economies that are reeling, their economic growth all but stopped. Many of them are simultaneously suffering from both high inflation and energy shortages.

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World War II analogies are about as useful today as carrier pigeons

Comparisons to that war usually don’t hold up, because most conflicts don’t start or end like it did.

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Macron’s dissent: This is what multipolarity looks like

Recent public displays throughout the Global South show the French leader isn’t the only who doesn’t want to be seen as a US ‘vassal.’

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Breaking up with Russia is hard for many Western firms, despite war

RIGA, Latvia — Only a small percentage of the hundreds of companies that promised to leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine have exited, according to several groups keeping a scorecard — and for those that dawdled, departing has only become more expensive and complicated.