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Europe’s Critical Choices: Securing Ukraine Without Trump

To secure Ukraine and the continent, European countries must take action that Trump and Putin cannot ignore. This will require making three crucial but divisive choices on how to deploy financial and military capabilities. There is little more U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration could do to signal that …

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Trump’s China policy: A complete unknown?

Past and present policies indicate the president could be militarily hawkish or purely transactional, depending on the moment Only one month in, the foreign policy moves of the Trump Administration in Europe, the Middle East, and North America indicate that radical, tumultuous change, marked most notably by major reversals in …

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Trump-Zelensky ‘shouting match’ shows how US props up and discards ‘allies’

The heated exchange between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office revealed the true nature – and cost – of being a so-called US ally. The meeting, which took place on February 28, ended with the visiting Ukrainian president being asked to leave the …

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