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Joe Biden can’t champion law at home and flout it abroad
No one should be above the law, not former presidents, nor superpowers or their allies
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The US needs to get out of the Middle East—soon
What the debate about the US presence in the Middle East boils down to is opportunity cost. An American soldier standing guard at Tower 22 in the Jordanian desert cannot simultaneously watch over the NATO border in Estonia, the demilitarized zone on the Korean peninsula or Philippine shoals in the South China Sea. Captain America has a shield that’s big but not global. To keep holding it over Europe and East Asia, he must withdraw it from the Middle East
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From Gaza to Ukraine, the UN is fast becoming irrelevant
In times of crisis such as now, the General Assembly and Security Council turn into a Babel in which everybody distrusts everybody else and finding common words becomes impossible. As things fall apart, the centre cannot hold. That centre was to be the League of Nations in the 1930s and the UN in our time
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After the Wagner uprising, worry about the nuclear plant in Ukraine
Prigozhin’s coup, even if it fizzles, will multiply Vladimir Putin’s panic. He may escalate yet again, perhaps in a desperate attempt to change the narrative before withdrawing.
