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Pivot to Putin: America Goes From Western Leader to Wheeler Dealer. Asia Wakes Up. Europe Hears The Alarm, Puts Head Back Under Pillow – Plus more! #243

And why Logan Roy is a nicer dad than Rupert Murdoch...

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Adrian Monck
Feb 20, 2025
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  • In Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the Shire – a mythic paradise, home to comfortable, complacent and peace-loving Hobbits – has to be defended not at its border on the Brandywine River but at the gates of Mordor. Does that sound familiar?

  • This week in Trump: The King’s “Wheeler Dealer” foreign policy abandons the rules-based order, brings Russia in…

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