Chatty general blows a hole in US democracy
Mark Milley’s ‘troubling’, self-aggrandising account of Trump’s tumultuous exit nudges America closer to banana republic territory.
Gerard Baker
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It’s not difficult to understand Gallic fury over the subs deal, but why should the US protect France and Germany as they seek opportunity in China heedless of the danger posed by the Chinese Communist Party ?
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The dissembling and self-contradictions are many, but the press never sees fit to call them out as lies.
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The war on terror weakened America and cost far more in money, lives and foreign policy distractions than it gained.
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Hegemony of today’s left-wing radicals recalls the 1970s; but this time most of the establishment is steeped in the orthodoxy that produced the malaise.
Billionaires’ space race is more than a vanity contest
The Bezos-Branson-Musk rivalry will benefit us all when it comes to protecting satellites and containing China’s ambitions.
Vaccine polarisation is partisanship at its dumbest
The vaccine that the Trump administration worked feverishly to help develop is the same one now regarded by many conservatives as some evil plot by the Biden administration.
Trump’s Supreme Court is full of surprises
New conservative justices are disappointing the right and confounding the left as they look to bind a fractured USA.
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