What happens next depends on Hezbollah and Iran paymasters
Israel is trying to reshape its medium-term strategic environment, and it is doing this by posing hard questions to Hezbollah, to Iran and to the Biden administration.
Israel is trying to reshape its medium-term strategic environment, and it is doing this by posing hard questions to Hezbollah, to Iran and to the Biden administration.
It’s impossible to say anything more unfashionable than the next sentence, which is nonetheless true: when the dust settles, it will be the Netanyahu/Trump approach that offers the best chance of peace. But that’s a long way off right now.
The Quadrilateral leaders’ summit in Delaware has broadcast a loud and resounding message of weakness, timidity, irresolution and pervasive lameness to China and the rest of the world.
Nothing is failing in Western societies more completely, and more tragically, than school education. We’ve sub-let our thinking out to algorithms, and in the process all but abolished deep learning, while embracing the terror of the screens. But there’s a way back.
One central question: do the device blasts signal that Israel is about to take more decisive action against Hezbollah, or is it a complete episode in itself?
Democrats routinely tell the most appalling, extremist lies about Trump. Trump is a brash, crude, often offensive and even chaotic politician. But he’s not the author of American fascism.
The flip-flopping Democrat is lying through her teeth on almost all of her claims in a bid to win the US presidency via the most audacious identity theft in modern politics.
Debates seem better for Harris than unscripted interviews, where her answers are often meandering and indecipherable. Trump was relatively calm and steady, though of course there were moments of madness | Watch Greg Sheridan’s verdict.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris clashed over immigration, abortion and Ukraine but both rivals were sharp and engaged throughout; Harris’ campaign chair calls for second debate.
Albanese is no Joe Biden and Dutton is no Donald Trump. But the presidential result will have big consequences for our politics. If Trump wins, the PM confronts a series of diabolical dilemmas.
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