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Russia’s Tactical Pullback From Northeastern Mali Shouldn’t Be Spun As A Retreat

They’re not the same thing, unlike what many might think, and the difference is important. Reports indicate that Russia has withdrawn from three bases in Northeastern Mali, which the local Tuareg call Azawad, after the offensive by “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) Tuareg separatists and al-Qaeda-affiliated “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) radical […]

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A Summit Born Out Of Frustration

In the coastal city of Santa Marta, nestled between the Caribbean Sea and the towering Sierra Nevada mountains, a quiet but ambitious experiment in global climate leadership is taking shape. Here, ministers from around 50 countries have gathered with a shared goal that once seemed politically impossible: figuring out how to […]

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The U.S. Empire’s Motivations In The Ukraine War

Ukrainians were lured into wanting EU membership in 2013, and this goal led to the EuroMaidan demonstrations in Kiev that produced the overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and his forced replacement by a new and rabidly anti-Russian government that has the closest of all borders to Moscow, only a five-minute missile […]

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A Failed Strongman Became A Global Liability

For centuries, political thinkers have debated the foundations of power. Few framed the issue more bluntly than Niccolò Machiavelli, who argued in The Prince that while it is best for a ruler to be both loved and feared, if one must choose, it is safer to be feared than loved. […]