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By Bret Stephens In the first Cold War, the United States and our allies had a secret weapon against the Soviet Union and its satellites. It didn’t come from the CIA. Nor was it a product of DARPA or the weapons labs at Los Alamos. It was communism. Communism aided the West because it saddled an imperialist Russian state with an unworkable and unpopular economic system that could not keep up with its free-market competitors. “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work” — the quintessential Russian joke about working life in the workers’ paradise — goes far to explain why a regi...

In the first Cold War, the United States and our allies had a secret weapon against the Soviet Union and its satellites.

Open Thread 2021-016 Comments #MarineWarRisk: Yesterday at around 20:40 UTC, a vehicles carrier experienced an explosion while underway eastbound in the Gulf of Oman. Ambrey assess the vessel was possibly targeted due to its #Israel ���� and #UK ���� affiliations. Read more about this incident on the Ambrey MRI. pic.twitter.com/25nakMJmX7 — Ambrey Intelligence (@Ambrey_Intel) February 26, 2021 Posted by: librul | Feb 26 2021 14:05 utc | 1 @1 (continued) It is time for "Iran" to be blamed for something provocative. Right on cue. It will only be a surprise if something...

© Getty Images The European Union (EU) recently announced an investment deal with China, concluding seven years of negotiations, and coinciding with the end of Germany’s term as president of the Council of the EU. The agreement was not met with universal acclaim, with many critics noting that China’s minor concessions, such as vague commitments to improve labor rights, did not include agreeing to open public tenders, signing the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement, or accepting an investment court system for handling investor disputes. Even the EU-friendly ADVERTIS...

OPINION: A profoundly evil man died on Boxing Day, though one would hardly have known it from the entirely judgement-free tone of his obituaries. George Blake started spying for Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in 1953, and by the time of his arrest in 1960 he had copied no fewer than 4720 pages of secret intelligence for the Russians, and betrayed the identities of over 350 MI6 agents to the KGB. For seven years Blake systematically destroyed the network of agents who were working to bring democracy to Eastern Europe and an unknown number - thought to be around 10 - paid with their lives, someti...