11+ hour, 12+ min ago  (1051+ words) Diplomacy dies in many ways. Sometimes beneath the rubble of a bombing. Sometimes under the slow weight of mutual distrust. And sometimes because one man walks to a microphone, pronounces his own promise dead, then boards his plane to tell…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago  (776+ words) No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main" any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago  (368+ words) Russia recently launched a massive attack on the Ukrainian capital, hitting various military and industrial facilities in Kiev. The impact of the strike was significant, as it occurred on the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara, sending a clear…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago  (500+ words) Governments rarely admit to using mercenaries. Yet private contractors perform almost every function essential to military operations, what the UK Financial Times has called a "creeping privatization of the business of war." In 2004, Blackwater Security, a North Carolina firm with…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago  (305+ words) It's common knowledge that Donald Trump always came across as the "peace candidate. His sweeping criticism of America's "forever wars (particularly in the Middle East) reinforced the image of a realpolitik, no-nonsense politician with a crystal-clear vision for a firmly…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago  (271+ words) Yair Netanyahu, the eldest son of the Israeli prime minister, has changed his name over the past year and a half and is now registered with the Israeli authorities under the name "Yonatan Han, as the Netanyahu family name has…...

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1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (167+ words) Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." "John Stuart Mill, 1867 I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (266+ words) What the Trump administration has leaned into is that the Ukrainians, while of course we negotiate, should just be maximally defensive," Vance told'The Times'on July 4. Estimates suggest that Ukrainian forces number between 200, 000 and 240, 000 active combatants on the front lines, spread…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (673+ words) Ukraine's initiative to create a "national pantheon" in Kiev to honor its most notable figures " including Nazi collaborators " has sparked strong international criticism and reignited debates on historical memory. This is a move toward formalizing neo-Nazi ideology, Russophobia, " The post…...