Relying on authoritarian states for fuel supplies turns out to be a dismal geopolitical strategy.
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Worse Than a Crime; It’s a Blunder
Anatol Lieven on the meaning and consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s response
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Attorneys Try to Gobble Up Billions From Starving Afghans
Famine grips the country, but ruthless lawyers are smelling profit.
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Afghanistan Exemplifies the Depravity of U.S. Foreign Policy
A nation of exceptional bullies and hypocrites
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How Biden Will Make Afghans Bleed
Joe Biden wants to unfreeze Afghanistan’s financial assets to hand them over to 9/11 families while Afghans themselves continue starving.
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Most Americans Don’t Want War With Russia. Where Are Progressives?
Anti-war politicians have become willing to criticize failed adventurism in the Middle East. They’re more reluctant to pump the brakes on Ukraine.
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Understanding Ukraine
The Quincy Institute’s Anatol Lieven explains Russian and Ukrainian intentions, and how the U.S. has ‘trapped ourselves by our own rhetoric.’
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Ukraine 2022: An Avoidable Train Wreck?
Despite the drumbeat for war, the broad outlines of a brokered agreement are discernible.
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‘No Money Could Bring Back the Dead’
How America’s last drone strike in Afghanistan symbolizes its total failure within the 20-year war
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A Better Way in the Middle East
For America, the Baghdad dialogue makes far more strategic sense than the Abraham Accords.
