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Anatol Lieven: Freeze NATO expansion now or risk war (VIDEO)

Time is ticking: our expert hopes the push for military intervention is the fever dream of a few and that cooler heads will prevail.

Analysis | Europe
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The Russians want NATO to close its doors to Ukraine and all further expansion into Eastern Europe — this is the red line Moscow as declared. Quincy Institute senior fellow Anatol Lieven talks here about why the U.S. and NATO must decide whether denying Russia is worth the bloody conflict that it might cause. He also talks about the imperative of revisiting the Minsk II agreement, resolving the Donbas dispute, and Ukraine neutrality as a longterm solution.

He also explains why he believes negotiations should take place between the U.S. and Russia only, how Europe is divided, and the consequences of U.S. military intervention (directly or indirectly) in anticipation of, or after a Russian invasion of Ukraine.


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Who's behind push to designate Muslim Brotherhood a terror group?

Who's behind push to designate Muslim Brotherhood a terror group?

Washington Politics

It all happened in a flash.

Two weeks ago, Texas announced that it was designating the Muslim Brotherhood and a prominent American Muslim group as foreign terror organizations. President Donald Trump followed suit last week, ordering his administration to consider sanctioning Muslim Brotherhood chapters in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon.

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Doubt is plaguing Trump’s Venezuela game
Top image credit: U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meet with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (not pictured) over lunch in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., October 17, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Doubt is plaguing Trump’s Venezuela game

Latin America

Donald Trump reportedly had a surprise phone conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro last week. Days later, the U.S. State Department formally designated Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles a foreign terrorist organization and, furthermore, declared that Maduro is the head of that foreign terrorist organization.

Therefore, since the Cartel de los Soles is “responsible for terrorist violence throughout our hemisphere as well as for trafficking drugs into the United States,” the first claim puts war with Venezuela on the agenda, and the second puts a coup against Maduro right there too.

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Top photo credit: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna (Face the Nation/CBS/screengrab)

Khanna & Massie tag team against war. And they're friends, too.

Washington Politics

Republican President Donald Trump ran on an “America First” platform yet now seems on the verge of a U.S.-led regime change war in Venezuela.

Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (Ky.) has questions about this.

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