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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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World Reacts to Putin and Biden Speeches

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden delivered dueling speeches on Tuesday, each offering different visions of Russia’s war in Ukraine and world events more generally. The main news from Putin’s sometimes rambling two-hour speech came toward the end: the suspension of New START, the last remaining nuclear …

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