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NATO’s militarist predictions and enemy images wrong since 70 years

Stalin – a dab hand at political assassination – supposedly used to say, “No person, no problem.”

The tragedy of Alexei Navalny is that his death is less about intimidating ordinary Russians than permanently antagonising the West

States must take out insurance to avoid the disaster that befell Britain in 1942, when Singapore surrendered to Japan and British possessions around the world were threatened by the Axis powers.

Pax Americana faces a well-coordinated challenge from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. The first move was the Ukraine invasion. The second was the war of Iran’s proxies against Israel. The third will most likely be a Chinese challenge to American primacy in the Indo-Pacific, perhaps — if Xi Jinping is bold — a blockade of Taiwan

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Hypocrisy is an inevitable part of power politics. But there are limits to how far a nation like the U.S. should compromise.

Zelenskyy and the West rolled the dice on a spring offensive — and now Ukraine is worse off than it was last year

President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to "fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.

President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest - Medea Benjamin for Antiwar.com Original