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The United States specializes in exaggerating the threat
The exaggeration of the Russian threat, and the additional problem of dealing with China, has led to record-setting defense budgets with no sign of easing the burden. We are the most active military force in the world; the leading provider of arms to the world; and the only nation capable of projecting power anywhere in the world. And we spend more on defense and intelligence than the entire global community.
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The United States of hypocrisy: Revisiting the Monroe Doctrine
We would do well to accept Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s efforts to get world leaders to “cool the talk of war.” “Talk” of a diplomatic variety has never been more urgent. There needs to be a revival of the NATO-Russian Founding Act from 1997 in order to create a European security framework for the 21st century on the basis of equal security.