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Strident hawks who have Russians in their closet
Europe

Strident hawks who have Russians in their closet

These former world leaders and others are publicly maximalist, but now have financial connections to Kremlin-linked oligarchs, and even Putin.

White House howling over Putin-Kim Jong Un hug rings hollow
Europe

White House howling over Putin-Kim Jong Un hug rings hollow

What did Biden expect after pressuring South Korea to transfer weapons to Ukraine?

Afghanistan-checkpoint
Europe

Afghanistan delusions blind US on Russia-Ukraine

On the two-year anniversary of the Kabul withdrawal, if Washington forgets the war’s lessons, its mistakes are likely to be repeated.

How Ukraine remade the rules in modern Middle East politics
Middle East

How Ukraine remade the rules in modern Middle East politics

The Persian Gulf’s oil and staggering wealth make the region one of the highest-stakes playing fields in the world.

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Europe

It’s all risk and little reward with cluster munitions for Ukraine

The Biden administration would do well to ignore hawks calling on it to provide Kyiv with these controversial weapons.

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Europe

How war is destroying Ukraine’s environment

A closer look at what war does to a country and internationally, what needs to be done to fix it.