The canny Ukrainian leader didn’t cower after the president signed a diesel deal with Putin and limited intelligence sharing with Kyiv.
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The French Rejection
Why Emmanuel Macron can’t convince his voters to rearm.
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The Secret Plan to Murder a Pope
Forty-five years after the attempt on John Paul II’s life, the Kremlin has yet to be officially blamed.
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Why the U.S.-led Liberal World Order Is Only Mostly Dead
The same power that makes America capable of doing vast damage globally also enables it to do great good.
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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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Asymmetric War in Iran: How Trump and the U.S. Are Being Played
We’re depleting our big, expensive, Cold War-inspired defensive weapons on Iran’s cheap drones, and if Tehran expands its underwater drone program, look out.
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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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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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Trump’s Authoritarian Envy: The Plight and Peril of a Lame Duck
Envious of Putin, Xi, and other authoritarians who have no clock ticking, the president is more dangerous than ever.
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Why Europe Needs Its Own Nuclear Deterrent
With the rules-based order collapsing, Europe faces aggressive great powers, including, under Trump, the U.S. The case for a big exception to nuclear nonproliferation.
