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Disunited Kingdom

Will Nationalism Break Britain? In September 2022, the body of Queen Elizabeth was driven across Scotland from Balmoral Castle, where she died, to the royal palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. The coffin was draped in the Royal Standard of Scotland and carried by members of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, …

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Pursue containment to stop Russian expansionism

To prevent further damage to the rules-based international order, the United States and its allies will need a comprehensive strategy of containment that aims to deter Russia militarily, raises the cost to Russia for its destabilizing behavior, and increasingly decouples Russia from the international community, politically and economically, until Moscow …

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Russie-Ukraine : Une guerre fratricide (1/2)

Si les occidentaux ont une vision biaisée de la guerre en Ukraine, c’est peut-être parce que les médias ne relatent qu’un point de vue, celui de Kiev. L’info en provenance de Russie est purement et simplement censurée. Pour un meilleur équilibre de l’information, nous avons voulu donner la parole à …

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Why the West Is Afraid of Ukraine’s Victory

The West’s historical anxieties have made it impossible to come to terms with the war’s reality. On the first day of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner met with then-Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk. As Melnyk later recounted, Lindner didn’t simply decline to supply Ukraine …

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China’s Checkbook Diplomacy Has Bounced

China can make friends or break legs. It can’t do both. In the span of a decade, China has emerged as the developing world’s bank of choice, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars in loans into global infrastructure projects as part of its sprawling Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). But …

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