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Chuck Todd loves the debt-ceiling deal - because it's "bipartisan"
So does Joe Manchin because of that and also because he got his pet Mountain Valley Pipeline project as part of the deal
22 hr ago
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Bruce Miller
The "bipartisan" debt deal: at least Joe Manchin got an environmentally destructive gift in the process
Establishment Democrats are gushing about how wonderful Joe Biden’s surrender to Republican priorities in the debt-ceiling deal is. Progressives are…
Jun 3
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Bruce Miller
Checking in with John Mearsheimer on the Russia-Ukraine War
Things are not looking great for Ukraine
Jun 1
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Bruce Miller
May 2023
Dark Brandon: missing-in-action on the debt-budget hostage deal
The debt ceiling farce began as a dumb, First-World-War era stunt that was never constitutional in the first place. The 14th Amendment requires the…
May 30
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Bruce Miller
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European self-defense capabilities and the shifting strategic balance
Fred Kaplan provides a summary of the current politics in Germany on military spending. This is a key part about the larger strategic environment: One…
May 22
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Bruce Miller
The political reception of Ukrainian refugees in the US and Europe
I'm surprised and puzzled by the seeming non-reaction of far-right groups in Europe and the US to the Ukrainian refugees. Ana Kasparian recently…
May 19
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Bruce Miller
Nina Khrushcheva on the state of the Russia-Ukraine War
Nina Khrushcheva may be more widely known as the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev than for her qualifications as a foreign policy commentator…
May 15
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Bruce Miller
Ukraine 2014 vs. Ukraine 2023
I found myself again consulting the EU vs. Disinfo site, which I consider helpful but which needs to be read carefully. I was checking what the…
May 14
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Bruce Miller
Emotions, convictions, polarization, and exaggeration in political propaganda
In a 2022 analysis of the effects of anti-democracy propaganda, Christopher Nehring observed: [P]ropaganda and disinformation do not rely on facts and…
May 13
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Bruce Miller
Refugee discussions in the EU stumble along slowly
And the US chimes in with yet another bad asylum policy
May 11
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Bruce Miller
Poland and Ukraine as suspects in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing
Veteran national security reporter James Bamford has a new analysis of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing that focuses on the motives, means, and…
May 8
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Bruce Miller
Questioning the New Cold War narrative on the Russia-Ukraine War
Anatol Lieven takes on the New Cold War hawk narrative about the Russia-Ukraine War in a critique of a recent piece by Anne Applebaum and Jeffrey…
May 7
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Bruce Miller
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