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America's Middle East Gamble: Less Military, More Power

Washington is changing some of its most reliable military partnerships in the Middle East because it believes states, markets, and diplomacy can deliver what American troops and Kurdish proxies increasingly cannot.

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Two Fronts, One Strategy: What Putin Told the World in Bishkek

On 1 September in Bishkek, Vladimir Putin used one summit to tell Iran that Russia would keep supplying what Tehran needs and to tell the world that Russia is winning in Ukraine and will not negotiate with Kyiv. The same day was not two stories. It was one strategy spoken into two microphones.

Phil Butler

Which Country Will Trump Let Win the Lottery Next?

Modern geopolitics increasingly resembles a lottery where the US draws a number, and the “winning” country receives not a prize but a shower of stones — as the crowd applauds, never asking why it is throwing them.

Henry Kamens