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Opposition leader boycotts bills; will Erdoğan respond?

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu announced that he would not pay his electricity bills, calling out President Tayyip Erdoğan to take back the gradual electricity price hikes that were taken into effect at the beginning of the year that raised protests all over Turkey. You …

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Ucrania: la extraña campaña de comunicación estratégica de EEUU

Para disuadir a Rusia de invadir Ucrania, Estados Unidos está librando una campaña de información de inteligencia, revelando conclusiones, pero no pruebas Quién sabe –salvo Putin– si habrá invasión rusa de Ucrania y guerra, aunque incluso en ese caso es sumamente improbable que intervenga la OTAN en lo que no …

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The tragic US exit from Afghanistan was rooted in decades of failure

An important new Atlantic piece on the trauma of the withdrawal should be put in the wider context of American incompetence. The betrayal of Afghanistan was solidified years ago when U.S. leaders made promises they should have, or must have, known they could never keep. The inevitable consequences of creating …

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