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** Trump-Xi reset could collapse under the weight of its ambition ([link removed])
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By Denis Simon on Oct 28, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image On Thursday, President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC Summit in Seoul, where they will aim to calm escalating trade tensions and even explore striking a “Big Deal” between the world’s two superpowers.
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** On Russia-Ukraine, the misdiagnosed patient is flatlining ([link removed])
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By George Beebe on Oct 27, 2025 10:37 am
Featured Image With the imposition of new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil producers and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s dismissal of visiting Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev as a “propagandist ([link removed]) ,” the Trump administration’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine seem to be hanging by a thread.
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** Inflating Russian missile costs hides our own weapons crisis ([link removed])
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By Mike Fredenburg on Oct 27, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image The West likes to inflate the cost of Russian weapons as a way to suggest Moscow is in a financial bind and manipulate the narrative of a looming Ukraine victory — while also masking real inefficiencies in the U.S. defense industry.
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** Rand Paul to Trump: Don't 'abandon' MAGA over Maduro regime change ([link removed])
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By Jack Hunter on Oct 27, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Sen. Rand Paul said on Friday that “all hell could break loose” within Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition if the president involves the U.S. further in Ukraine, and added that his supporters who voted for him after 20 years of regime change wars would "feel abandoned" if he went to war and tried to topple Nicolas Maduro, too.
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** On Ukraine and Venezuela, Trump needs to dump the sycophants ([link removed])
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By Douglas Macgregor on Oct 24, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image While diplomats labored to produce the Dayton Accords in 1995, then-Secretary of Defense Bill Perry advised, “No agreement is better than a bad agreement.” Given that Washington’s allies in London, Paris, Berlin and Warsaw are opposed to any outcome ([link removed]) that might end the war in Ukraine, no agreement may be preferable. But for President Trump, there is no point in equating the illusion of peace in Ukraine with a meaningless ceasefire that settles nothing.
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** The Cowboy lobbyist who claimed he fixed an election ([link removed])
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By Nick Cleveland-Stout on Oct 23, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image “Did I help fix an election? Yes.”
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