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An opinion piece argues that while partisan division is at a peak, the far left and far right are converging around anti-establishment anger and shared policy positions. It warns that this 'Horseshoe Party' convergence is dangerous, citing interest-rate caps, Israel criticism, and AI limits, while acknowledging failures of the bipartisan center.
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The op-ed argues that Houthi control of Bab el-Mandeb and Iranian strategy threaten global energy, requiring U.S. and Israeli military action. It claims a Russian move into the Baltics would expose Europe's vulnerability and urges Washington and Jerusalem to force Europe into a hardline anti-Iran, pro-Israel alignment.
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An opinion piece warns that Xi Jinping's Washington visit comes amid China's deep commercial penetration of U.S. infrastructure and key industries, arguing trade must be viewed through national security and enforcement lenses. It credits the Trump administration with accelerating a shift from decades of permissive trade policy to stricter scrutiny, while acknowledging the two economies remain intertwined.
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An opinion essay argues that Trump hesitated on Iran and lost the Iranian street, while presenting a sweeping historical attack on Shiite clergy and the Islamic Republic as corrupt and terroristic. It praises forceful U.S. action against Iranian and Islamist figures and says the revolution should not depend on Trump.
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An op-ed argues Trump's foreign policy is a disciplined, tactical fencing strategy rather than chaos, designed to keep Xi Jinping and Beijing off balance. It urges bundling trade with geopolitical behavior, maintaining pressure on Taiwan and tariffs, and rejecting traditional diplomacy.
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The article argues that a 2020 transfer of Tbilisi hippodrome land for a public park left the valuable frontage with Bidzina Ivanishvili, which was later sold for $85 million and now adjoins a Trump-branded tower. It says sanctions cannot capture such pre-designation gifts or the value created by public amenities, and it details overlapping ties among the buyer, developer, and a sanctioned Tbilisi mayor.
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United Russia won a record 355 of 450 Duma seats in a three-day election with no critical parties participating, after Russia's only liberal anti-war party Yabloko was banned. Western governments condemned the vote in occupied Ukrainian territories as a sham, while EU sanctions talks stalled over France's demand to remove an oligarch from the blacklist.
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The article calls for the immediate release of imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, emphasizing his daughter's cancer diagnosis and his Catholic faith. It portrays Lai sympathetically as a freedom fighter suffering for his beliefs and treats his imprisonment as an urgent moral cause.
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A former Pentagon official warns that China has upgraded a surveillance hub in the Red Sea about six miles from Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. A CSIS report cited in the article says the facilities could let China monitor nearby militaries but notes active interception cannot be confirmed. The piece frames the site as a dangerous espionage threat to U.S. operations and regional security.
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Thousands of Yemeni refugees have fled by boat to Djibouti over ten days after fighting on Yemen's west coast. The UN migration agency says they arrived on overcrowded boats with very limited food and water. The crossings were sparked by an offensive by the Iran-backed Houthi movement to capture a key island and the port of Mokha.
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The article argues that Trump’s Greenland agreement is a strategic win that blocks Chinese influence and secures U.S. military and investment control in the Arctic. It frames the deal as freezing out China and protecting American interests in the Western Hemisphere.
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An op-ed urges Congress to move beyond merely freezing Iranian assets and instead adopt a framework of release for compliance and confiscation for defiance. It argues the proposal would turn frozen funds into a defined enforcement tool tied to Iran's conduct, with safeguards and authorized uses.