In 2001, after the horrific 9/11 attacks, an apoplectic George W. Bush administration ignored Congress’s narrow authorization to use military force against the perpetrators of the attacks and those who harbored them. Instead, it launched a grandiose global war on terror much broader than those wisely limited legislative instructions. Congress’s …
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The “EU Defense Line” Is The Latest Euphemism For The New Iron Curtain
The whole point of rebranding what was first conceptualized as the “Baltic Defense Line” is to market this project as an inclusive pan-European one that’s supposedly being built for the “greater good” of the bloc’s citizens. Poland and the Baltic States just requested EU funding to finance what they now …
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Lavrov was directly asked to share his opinion about the observation that “India is now leaning more towards the US”, which his interlocutor provocatively added is now even an opinion among some in Russia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shared some detailed insight into Indian geopolitics during Wednesday’s Primakov Readings, …
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