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Security summits that exclude those most affected and prioritize ideology over pragmatism don’t produce lasting results – they produce photo ops.
0[T]he risk is that unconditional sanctions relief could once again reinforce Iran’s external projection of power rather than stabilize its domestic economy.
0European autonomy - military, technological, economic, and financial - is beginning to take shape as Europe hedges against current and future fluctuations in [U.S.] policy.
0The shift now underway is unlikely to take the form of a dramatic collapse of American power in the Gulf. It is more likely to be subtler and, for the region, more unsettling.
0Samaritan, imposter, pope, Caligula. In his boundless egomania, Trump can do everything.
0Will Trump continue negotiations even if it requires extending the current ceasefire?
0The trajectory is clear: Jakarta is tilting toward Washington at a cost many fear will be borne by ordinary Indonesians.
[The Trump era] is marked as much by policies that endanger vulnerable populations as by political bravado.
'A man has died whose historical brilliance never managed to conceal his profound moral misery.'
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