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How To Counter Tehran’s Economic Strategy – Analysis

Tehran is stringing out the nuclear negotiations endlessly with the expectation that President Joe Biden will not admit that the talks have failed. After such an admission, the public would likely pressure the administration to stop offering Iran stealth economic relief through the lax enforcement of sanctions. Rigorous enforcement would, …

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Why Are Politicians Ignoring The Elderly? – OpEd

Everyone knows that seniors turn out to vote at a higher rate than any other age group. In 2020, three-fourths of the people over the age of 65 voted, while the voting booths attracted barely half of those aged 18 to 24. Yet in the last election you would be hard-pressed to …

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Could Chechnya’s ‘Dark Horse’ Emerge As Kremlin King-Maker? – Analysis

Over the past few months, Russia watchers have been sounding the alarm about the domestic ramifications of Moscow’s faltering campaign in Ukraine, which appears to have blossomed into a dense nightmare of unintended consequences. The rise of a new and still rare breed of Russian political actors who espouse hard-line …

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