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** Why Trump probably can’t pull off a ‘reverse Nixon’ ([link removed])
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By Lyle J. Goldstein on Apr 08, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image President Donald Trump’s unorthodox diplomacy has alarm bells ringing around the world, not least in Washington, D.C. While much of the inside-the-beltway elite is horrified at the prospect of America supposedly reorienting toward Russia, administration insiders have hinted ([link removed]) at an ambitious plan to drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing.
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** Trump drops news bomblet: Direct US-Iran talks this Saturday ([link removed])
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By Safia K. Southey,Annelle Sheline on Apr 07, 2025 06:09 pm
Featured Image During Monday’s last-minute ([link removed]) meeting between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump announced that the U.S. will meet directly ([link removed]) with Iran on April 12 to talk about a potential agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program.
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** US outpost not given proper air defenses before deadly attack ([link removed])
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Apr 07, 2025 02:13 pm
Featured Image For three years the United States has been giving Ukraine everything it needs by way of offensive and defensive weapons in its war with Russia. Critically, this has included air defense systems, much of it taken from our own national stockpiles ([link removed].) .
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** The fix is in for new Air Force F-47 — and so is the failure ([link removed])
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By Andrew Cockburn on Apr 07, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image If and when it finally comes to be written decades from now, an honest history of the F-47 “fighter” recently unveiled ([link removed]) by President Trump will doubtless have much to say about the heroic lobbying campaign that garnered the $20 billion development contract for Boeing, the corporation that has become a byword for program disasters (see the KC-46 tanker ([link removed]) , the Starliner spacecraft ([link removed]) , the 737 MAX ([link removed]) airliner, not to mention the T-7 trainer ([link removed])
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** Deadbeats! Saudis won't pay $13.7M bill for US military fuel ([link removed])
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By Nick Cleveland-Stout on Apr 04, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Between 2015 and 2018, the United States supplied Saudi Arabia with tens of millions of dollars worth of jet fuel in support for the kingdom’s bombing campaign in Yemen. Seven years later, the Saudis refuse to repay most of their debt. And they are being rewarded for it.
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** How Trump tariffs are affecting allies, frenemies, adversaries ([link removed])
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By Karthik Sankaran on Apr 03, 2025 09:38 am
Featured Image At 4 p.m. on Wednesday — “Liberation Day” — President Trump announced the details of his “reciprocal tariff” strategy. He began with a speech that described persistent trade deficits over the last few decades as a sign that other countries were taking advantage of America through tariffs, non-tariff barriers, and currency manipulation.
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