The canny Ukrainian leader didn’t cower after the president signed a diesel deal with Putin and limited intelligence sharing with Kyiv.
Marco Rubio
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As Iran War Rages, Trump’s Gutting of Voice of America Undermines U.S. Influence
The president gutted public diplomacy tools like VOA’s Persian Service, then raced to repair them—kind of like alienating our allies, then begging them to help.
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David Frum Is Wrong About the Democrats and Iran
The Atlantic writer is asking congressional Democrats to fund Trump’s misbegotten war. They should decline.
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Democrats Should Tell Our NATO Allies Trump Can’t Quit Them
Any attempt by the president to unilaterally withdraw from the NATO treaty violates U.S. law.
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Cuba Libre: Rubio’s Big Bet on Regime Change in Havana
Without charismatic Castro and Russian/Venezuelan support, and with sky-high oil prices, the communist regime is brittle. But as the secretary of state discovers in Iran, breaking things is the easy part.
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Tucker Carlson’s Long, Strange Trip
From bow-tied neocon to flannel-clad conspiracist, a once-talented writer becomes a promulgator of MAGA bilge.
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America’s Illiberal Internationalism
The Republican Party’s turn against liberal internationalism is not a passing Trump aberration but a reversion to long-standing illiberalism on the American right.
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Could Trump’s Narcissism Save Ukraine?
The American president is eager to appease the Russian president, but Trump may be keener to win a Nobel Peace Prize, which would require Russian concessions.
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When the Establishment Goes MAGA
Senator David McCormick and his wife, Dina Powell McCormick, once normie Republicans and still an “it” couple, have written a book on mentors. The wildly successful duo had powerful ones from the pre-Trump GOP.
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The U.S. Didn’t Single-Handedly Broker an India-Pakistan Armistice
In fact, the Trump administration dangerously complicated matters, offering more proof of why we need experts, what it disparages as the “Deep State.”
