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** Paris Summit was theater, and much ado about nothing ([link removed])
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By Anatol Lieven on Feb 18, 2025 06:04 am
Featured Image European summits are not usually the stuff of poetry, but the latest one in Paris was worthy of Horace: Patrturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus — “Mountains will be in labour; and give birth to a ridiculous mouse.”
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** The absolute wrong way to deploy US military on the border ([link removed])
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By Jennifer Kavanagh on Feb 18, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image “Guys and gals of my generation have spent decades in foreign countries guarding other people's borders. It's about time we secure our own,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ([link removed]) said during his first trip to the southern border earlier this month. “This needs to be and will be a focus of this department,” he reiterated ([link removed]) at a Pentagon town hall days later.
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** The steep but worthy price of minerals for peace in Ukraine ([link removed])
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By Ian Proud on Feb 17, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky has agreed to hand over to the U.S. $500 billion worth of his country’s rare earth ([link removed]) minerals. On the back of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s comments ([link removed]) ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine, this looks like a dreadful deal on the surface. But it may be the best one available.
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** Munich Dispatch: Zelensky calls for an 'Army of Europe' ([link removed])
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By Marc Martorell Junyent on Feb 15, 2025 04:09 pm
Featured Image MUNICH, GERMANY — During his keynote speech ([link removed]) at the Munich Security Conference today Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky repeated the need for a “European army” — also framed as “an Army of Europe.”
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** Munich Dispatch: Vance lectures Euros on democracy & tolerance ([link removed])
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By Marc Martorell Junyent on Feb 14, 2025 03:44 pm
Featured Image MUNICH, GERMANY — The Munich Security Conference started this Friday in a city recovering from anattack ([link removed]) in which a suspect drove his car into a crowd of people, leaving 36 people injured on Thursday morning.
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** Trump's peace efforts should be a wake-up call for Dems ([link removed])
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By Trita Parsi on Feb 13, 2025 09:21 am
Featured Image In less than 3 weeks, President Trump secured a ceasefire in Gaza, spoke directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, and kickstarted diplomacy to end the Ukraine war. At the same time, he has also put forward some idiotic ideas, such as pushing Palestinians out of Gaza and making Canada the 51st state.
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