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Trump’s Plans for the Rest of the World Are Truly Unhinged

Trump’s Plans for the Rest of the World Are Truly Unhinged

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The Most Tragic Part of That Disastrous Trump-Zelensky Meeting

The Most Tragic Part of That Disastrous Trump-Zelensky Meeting
01.03.2025 40

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Trump’s Foreign Policy Has Completely Departed From Reality

Trump’s Foreign Policy Has Completely Departed From Reality
26.02.2025 30

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Trump’s High-Level Military Firings Send Several Disturbing Messages

Trump’s High-Level Military Firings Send Several Disturbing Messages
25.02.2025 20

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What to Make of Trump’s Total Capitulation to Putin

What to Make of Trump’s Total Capitulation to Putin
20.02.2025 60

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Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to Our Alliance With Europe

Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to Our Alliance With Europe
19.02.2025 10

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It’s Really Not Looking Good for Ukraine

It’s Really Not Looking Good for Ukraine
14.02.2025 4

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Mitch McConnell Could Have Stopped This

Mitch McConnell Could Have Stopped This
13.02.2025 30

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The Trump Administration Just Handed Foreign Agents a Big Gift

11.02.2025 20

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This Trump Plan for Gaza Is One of the Craziest Things I’ve Ever Heard

05.02.2025 40

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Trump’s Tariff Brinkmanship Is Going to Backfire

05.02.2025 40

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Why It’s a Huge Deal That Trump Is Trying to Shut Down USAID

04.02.2025 40

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It’s Not Looking So Good for Tulsi Gabbard!

31.01.2025 10

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Trump’s Order to Create a U.S. Version of Iron Dome Makes No Damn Sense

30.01.2025 20

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Trump May Soon Find There’s a Big Downside to America First

28.01.2025 30

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The Drama Around Pete Hegseth’s Nomination Is Giving Me Déjà Vu

23.01.2025 10

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One of Trump’s Less-Discussed Executive Orders Is Truly Chilling

22.01.2025 50

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The Terrifying Power Now in Tulsi Gabbard’s Hands

20.01.2025 3

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This Is the Last Person on Earth We Should Have Working With North Korea

20.01.2025 5

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Donald Trump Fundamentally Misunderstands Putin and Other Tyrants. They Know It All Too Well.

20.01.2025 30

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The Central Weakness at the Heart of Biden’s Foreign Policy

19.01.2025 6

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There Are Still Ways the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Could Fall Apart

16.01.2025 9

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Is Pete Hegseth Qualified to Run the Military? Wrong Question.

15.01.2025 10

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Trump’s Obsession With Greenland Is Funny. It Also Sends a Dangerous Message to the Exact Wrong People.

10.01.2025 7

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An Important Lesson We Can Learn From Jimmy Carter’s Legacy

Tweet Share Share Comment Jimmy Carter died Sunday at age 100, setting records as the longest-living American president and the longest-lasting ex-...

30.12.2024 20

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A Newly Declassified Memo Sheds Light On America’s Cold War Mistakes

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23.12.2024 6

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Do You Feel That the World Is More Out of Control Than It Used to Be? There’s a Reason for That.

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20.12.2024 10

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Trump’s Cabinet Picks Are Great News for Putin

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12.12.2024 60

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The Moment Is Ripe to Push the Middle East in the Direction of Peace. What Will Trump Do?

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10.12.2024 5

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Syrian Rebels Are Closing In on Assad. What Does It Mean?

Tweet Share Share Comment The resumption of large-scale fighting in Syria’s civil war affirms, once more, the wisdom of the Irish poet William...

05.12.2024 10

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What the Ceasefire Between Israel and Hezbollah Could Mean for the War in Gaza

Tweet Share Share Comment In what might be his final achievement as president, Joe Biden, his diplomats, and their French counterparts have brokered...

27.11.2024 3

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How Tulsi Gabbard Could Plunge U.S. Intelligence Into the Dark

Tweet Share Share Comment President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to give his senior defense and intelligence officials access to classified...

21.11.2024 10

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Biden Is Making a Big Change to Ukraine Strategy Before Trump Takes Office. That’s No Accident.

Tweet Share Share Comment In a reversal of a controversial long-held policy, President Joe Biden decided last week to let Ukraine fire...

18.11.2024 1

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Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard Are Bananas Cabinet Picks. But Don’t Overlook Trump’s Horrifying Choice for the CIA.

Tweet Share Share Comment In his first few picks for Cabinet secretaries, President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear—even clearer than many had...

14.11.2024 80

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Vladimir Putin Is Already Manipulating Trump

Tweet Share Share Comment Just one week has passed since Donald Trump’s electoral triumph, and already Russian President Vladimir Putin—one of the ...

13.11.2024 60

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Trump’s Election Really Does Not Bode Well for Gaza

Tweet Share Share Comment Anyone who voted against Kamala Harris last Tuesday to protest the Biden-Harris administration’s policy on the war in...

11.11.2024 1

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Trump Wants to Shut the U.S. Off From Our Allies. That Will Backfire.

Tweet Share Share Comment Many Europeans woke up Wednesday morning stunned to learn that while they were sleeping, their nightmare had come true—...

07.11.2024 3

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Israel Struck Iran Over the Weekend. Here’s What Might Happen Next.

Tweet Share Share Comment Israel’s weekend airstrikes against Iran have inspired the usual range of commentary from those who follow this conflict...

28.10.2024 2

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The War in Ukraine Is Spinning Off in a Dangerous, Unpredictable Direction

Tweet Share Share Comment North Korea’s shipment of at least 3,000 troops to Russia—the latest and largest step in a massive effort to help...

25.10.2024 2

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Why Trump’s Phone Call With Netanyahu Is So Alarming

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, mainly...

22.10.2024 100

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Israel’s Killing of Hamas’ Leader Is an Opening—if Both Sides Want to Take It

Tweet Share Share Comment Yahya Sinwar, the long-pursued leader of the Hamas terrorist organization, is dead, killed in a gunfight by Israeli...

17.10.2024 1

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Bob Woodward’s New Book Is About Biden, but the Most Urgent Takeaways Are About Trump

Tweet Share Share Comment It’s been three years since Bob Woodward’s last book chronicling the power games of the Washington elite—hardly a long...

15.10.2024 4

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One Year After Oct. 7, the Middle East Is on the Brink of Exploding

Tweet Share Share Comment It has been one year since Hamas terrorists smashed through Gaza’s northern border and killed 1,200 Israelis, mainly...

07.10.2024 10

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The Biggest Questions After Israel’s Killing of Hezbollah’s Leader

Tweet Share Share Comment With Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the wars in the Middle East have hit a turning point—though...

01.10.2024 10

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Why the War in the Middle East Is Widening

Tweet Share Share Comment The nightmare of a widening war in the Middle East is coming true. The question is how widely and violently it will...

27.09.2024 10

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Biden Just Gave One of the Most Moving Speeches of His Long Political Career

Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden’s address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday morning—his final speech before the body...

24.09.2024 3

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Why Did Israel Blow Up Thousands of Hezbollah Pagers?

Tweet Share Share Comment Israel’s remote-controlled bombing of thousands of pagers held by members of the terrorist group Hezbollah across...

18.09.2024 2

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The Real Story Behind Trump’s Would-Be Assassin

Tweet Share Share Comment Ryan Wesley Routh, the man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump on Sunday, professed to be a recruiter for a group of...

16.09.2024 3

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Harris Exposed How Easy Trump Is to Manipulate. Dictators Have Known This for a Long Time.

Tweet Share Share Comment Tuesday night’s debate devoted little time to foreign policy, but a few key moments revealed—more dramatically than half...

11.09.2024 2

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Hopes of a Cease-Fire Are Fading. What Happened?

Tweet Share Share Comment Negotiators believe that the chances of a cease-fire deal in Gaza are “close to zero,” according to Channel 12, Israel’s...

11.09.2024 4

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