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What if Russia wins in Ukraine? Ask Georgia.

There’s been a lot of debate about what the future holds for Europe and its neighborhood if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine succeeds. We already know...

02.05.2024 40

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Freeing hostages matters more than destroying Hamas

Over 200 days into Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to decide what matters more: extracting ultimate...

30.04.2024 30

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If only the West backed Ukraine as it did Israel

It’s time to call ourselves out over Ukraine. Because if the approach of the West, and the U.S. in particular, doesn’t change very soon, the...

19.04.2024 30

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Netanyahu can gain from Iran’s missile barrage error

Napoleon Bonaparte is supposed to have told his generals never to interrupt an enemy who was making a mistake. It is as good advice today as it was...

16.04.2024 20

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Iran hawks want to strike now. They're wrong.

John Bolton has called for Israel to respond to Iran’s massive, failed weekend missile barrage by destroying its nuclear fuel facilities. In one...

16.04.2024 20

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Turkey’s Erdogan is down, but don’t count him out

This past weekend’s election results in Turkey were astonishing, celebrated by hundreds of thousands of Turks as a victory for secularism and by...

03.04.2024 20

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Putin's conspiracy theories make Russians less safe

It’s been more than 20 years since al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden boasted of his success in bringing down New York’s twin towers — and there are...

31.03.2024 10

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Putin forgot Islamic State thinks he too is the West

Three facts stand out as clear after Russia’s arrest of the alleged perpetrators of Friday’s appalling terrorist attack on Moscow’s Crocus City...

26.03.2024 30

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Putin's win isn't just a sham. It's a danger.

As a democratic exercise, Vladimir Putin’s 87% victory at the polls this weekend was a travesty, meaningful only as a defining chapter in the tragic...

20.03.2024 20

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The Houthis school the world in asymmetric warfare

The Houthis of Yemen think they’re at war with the West. With the news that three undersea fiber-optic cables were severed off the Yemeni coast and...

14.03.2024 30

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Getting more aid to Gaza shouldn’t be this difficult

Some things seem so obvious that it’s bewildering when they don’t just happen — and getting enough food and medicine into Gaza to keep children...

08.03.2024 20

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Would Putin stop if he wins in Ukraine? Let’s not find out.

Addressing his nation on Thursday, a buoyant Russian President Vladimir Putin ridiculed the very notion that he might attack Europe. Not only was that...

03.03.2024 20

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The Gaza war isn't a Holocaust, but it's still a nightmare

Visiting Ethiopia, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared Israel’s devastating war in Gaza as a genocide conducted by soldiers on...

25.02.2024 30

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Navalny was too brave to be allowed to live

Alexei Navalny, who the Russian prison service says died on Friday, was a man as ambitious as he was spectacularly brave — punished for actions that...

19.02.2024 20

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Putin interview showed why he really invaded Ukraine

Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Vladimir Putin was in some ways as cringeworthy as many feared it would be. Carlson lobbed questions to...

13.02.2024 10

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Biden’s air strikes won’t work, nor would hitting Iran

The U.S. has hit 85 targets in Iraq and Syria with more to come in response to last weekend’s killing of three U.S. reservists by Iran-backed...

04.02.2024 20

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U.S. preeminence is threatened by a real 'missile gap'

As recently as October, U.S. President Joe Biden dismissed a question over whether the U.S. could cope with supporting allies fighting two...

07.01.2024 20

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Remember the world’s political prisoners. One could be you.

Gubad Ibadoghlu, a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, was due to spend this year’s holidays with his wife, daughter and two...

03.01.2024 20

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Can the governments that grew Hamas destroy it?

It is a great irony of the war in Gaza that the two governments most responsible for navigating the response to Hamas — Israel’s, for military...

13.12.2023 20

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Where is outrage against Hamas over Gaza’s death toll?

It’s something close to a law of nature that the farther people are from a conflict, the more simplistic their views about its causes and solutions....

16.11.2023 20

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Xi and Putin think they’re winning — and maybe they are

With hindsight, the last time Vladimir Putin visited Xi Jinping in China, just three weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, was a moment of hubris —...

22.10.2023 20

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Gaza hospital tragedy escalates war risk, no matter who’s to blame

Truth, infamously, is the first casualty of war and that’s never more important to remember than after a major tragedy such as the reported strike...

19.10.2023 80

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Gauging Iran’s culpability in the Israel conflict

It has been as unsurprising as it is grotesque to see Iran’s leaders applaud Hamas’ "victory” even as evidence of atrocities against Israeli...

10.10.2023 90

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Azerbaijan may have won the war, but a bigger test begins

It was hard to imagine any of Russia’s neighbors deciding this was a good time to start a war, given the bloody spectacle of Vladimir Putin’s...

22.09.2023 90

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Elon musk has power in Ukraine. Does he know how to use it?

According to excerpts from a new biography, Elon Musk last year curtailed his Starlink satellite service to prevent Ukraine using it for a sea-drone...

21.09.2023 100

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Zelenskyy needs to fight corruption like he’s fighting Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is under pressure to fight corruption, this time in the defense sector, and he’s responded with a...

17.09.2023 80

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