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In a globalised economy, the knock-on effect is less of a surge but more of a deluge that reaches East Africa with alarming speed.
0A summit that would normally send a reassuring message ... faces total uncertainty thanks to the weakness of the United States. The only person to blame for this is Trump.
0During the Cold War, the United States occupied the apex of this triangular dynamic, pitting China and the USSR against each other. Today, it is Beijing that occupies that apex.
0Trump’s willingness to defend an ally may depend upon whether he currently gets along with its political leadership.
0The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.
0In a globalised economy, the knock-on effect is less of a surge but more of a deluge that reaches East Africa with alarming speed.
0During the Cold War, the United States occupied the apex of this triangular dynamic, pitting China and the USSR against each other. Today, it is Beijing that occupies that apex.
0Europeans do not have a choice. They have to get along with both Xi’s China and Trump’s America.
0A summit that would normally send a reassuring message ... faces total uncertainty thanks to the weakness of the United States. The only person to blame for this is Trump.
0Four days after Donald Trump announced ...he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland, it is still unclear what the American leader had in mind
0[U]nity among the Arab Gulf states is completely collapsing.
A negotiated deal remains possible. Both sides will have to make compromises but that route must be explored extensively.
[W]hen ethics are abandoned for epics, and when political power subverts rational military decision-making, it is not surprising that symptoms of strategic fatigue begin to develop.
Ninety percent of his MAGA base backs the war, and that is all he needs.
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