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** Five restraint successes — and five absolute fails — in 2025 ([link removed])
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By Eldar Mamedov on Dec 30, 2025 07:56 am
Featured Image The first year of a presidency promising an "America First" realism in foreign policy has delivered not a clean break, but a deeply contradictory picture. The resulting scorecard is therefore divided against itself.
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** 10 moments we won’t soon forget in 2025 Ukraine war politics ([link removed])
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By Ian Proud on Dec 30, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image It has been a rollercoaster, but President Donald Trump vowed to end the war in Ukraine and spent 2025 putting his stamp on the process and shaking things up far beyond his predecessor Joe Biden. Here’s the Top 10.
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** Aargh! Letters of marque would unleash Blackbeard on the cartels ([link removed])
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By Michael Vlahos on Dec 29, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Just saying the words, “Letters of Marque” is to conjure the myth and romance of the pirate: Namely, that species of corsair also known as Blackbeard or Long John Silver ([link removed]) , stalking the fabled Spanish Main, memorialized in glorious Technicolor by Robert Newton ([link removed]) , hallooing the unwary with “Aye, me hearties!”
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** Trump's Christmas Day strikes on Nigeria beg question: Why Sokoto? ([link removed])
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By Taiwo Hassan on Dec 28, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image For the first time since President Trump publicly excoriated Nigeria’s government for allegedly condoning a Christian genocide, Washington made good on its threat of military action on Christmas Day when U.S. forces conducted airstrikes against two alleged major positions of the Islamic State (IS-Sahel) in northwestern Sokoto state.
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** The 8 best foreign policy books of 2025 ([link removed])
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By Connor Echols on Dec 26, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image I spent the last few weeks asking experts about the foreign policy books that stood out in 2025. My goal was to create a wide-ranging list, featuring volumes that shed light on the most important issues facing American policymakers today, from military spending to the war in Gaza and the competition with China. Here are the eight books that made the cut.
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** Why Russians haven't risen up to stop the Ukraine war ([link removed])
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By Anna Matveeva on Dec 25, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image After its emergence from the Soviet collapse, the new Russia grappled with the complex issue of developing a national identity that could embrace the radical contradictions of Russia’s past and foster integration with the West while maintaining Russian distinctiveness.
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