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Sledgehammer for Putin (opens the original)
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On September 16, the US Senate and House of Representatives handed President Donald Trump an economic weapon of mass destruction capable of crushing Russia’s economy. The bill, signed by Trump on September 18, permits the President until October 18 to impose crippling sanctions on Russia’s oil, tanker fleets, foreign customers, banks, and intermediaries unless Moscow signs a peace deal with Ukraine. The legislation (the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026) is a sledgehammer
US-China: Carving up the World (opens the original)
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The recent United Nations gathering showcased Donald Trump, who completely rejected the institution’s founding concept by suggesting he may “annihilate” Iran, keep Venezuela’s oil because “to the victor belong the spoils”, and then gloated about his security arrangement in Greenland. Fortunately, he displayed a new, positive attitude toward Ukraine and its President Zelensky. This is because he likes winners, and Ukrainians are decimating Russia’s military and oil industry. In his speech, he pre
It’s War Already, Europe (opens the original)
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Russia is at war with Europe, but Europeans and NATO leaders use the euphemism “hybrid warfare” because Moscow’s attacks are surreptitious and not executed by uniformed soldiers or tanks. But its assaults are lethal and include criminality, cyberattacks, assassination, blackmail, terrorism, disinformation, and corruption. Russian drones damage defense factories, Europe’s infrastructure, political systems, media, undersea cables, trains, and economies. Europeans, traumatized by two world wars, re
Houthis: Gate of Tears (opens the original)
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It costs between $110 and $145 to fill up an empty Dodge Ram truck in the US these days, thanks to Donald Trump’s war against Iran. This is why, as midterms loom, the President tries to shift blame for high pump prices and inflation onto Ukraine for blowing up a few Russian refineries. But the scapegoating doesn’t compute: The culprit behind the growing oil and inflation crisis is America’s war against Iran, which now spirals out of control. Iran and its allies control two of the world’s critica
Canada Falters (opens the original)
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Canada’s economic dependence on the United States and its failure to build a strong military turned the country into the equivalent of an autonomous economic region of the United States. In 2013, I warned about this dangerous reliance in my book “Merger of the Century”. I recommended that Canada grow its economy and military, and pre-emptively propose a European Union-style economic arrangement to Washington to prevent it from being eventually gobbled up. Nothing changed. In 2024, President Dona
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