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Sudan al-Fashir El Fasher
Africa

Sudan's bloody war is immune to Trump's art of the deal

El Fasher's fall exposes the failure of Washington’s reliance on regional power brokers — many who are directly involved — to end the conflict

operating table
Europe

On Russia-Ukraine, the misdiagnosed patient is flatlining

All along we've been told this was about aggressive expansionism and applied a strategy of deterrence. That was wrong.

Patriot-missile
Europe

Inflating Russian missile costs hides our own weapons crisis

The narrative that Moscow's war is 'unsustainable' deflects from real production and performance problems in American arms to Ukraine

Rand Paul Donald Trump
Washington Politics

Rand Paul to Trump: Don't 'abandon' MAGA over Maduro regime change

The Kentucky senator isn't the only Republican questioning how the strikes on narco boats and saber rattling against Venezuela is 'America First'

On Ukraine and Venezuela, Trump needs to dump the sycophants
Europe

On Ukraine and Venezuela, Trump needs to dump the sycophants

There's a lot of smoke being blown about big 'deals' and huge 'wins.' True military professionals would tell him the hard truths.

Trump's most underrated diplomatic win: Belarus
Europe

Trump's most underrated diplomatic win: Belarus

Critics are seething but his commitment to investing in a stable, non-adversarial relationship turns out to be far better than values-based isolation