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** RIP Amb. Robert Hunter, who warned about NATO expansion ([link removed])
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By Eldar Mamedov on Jan 20, 2026 12:05 am
Featured Image The world of foreign policy restraint is poorer today with the passing of Robert Hunter, an American diplomat, who was the U.S. ambassador to NATO in 1993-1998. He also served as a senior official on both the Western Europe and Middle East desks in President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Council.
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** On Greenland, Trump wants to be like Polk ([link removed])
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By Sam Fraser on Jan 17, 2026 12:05 am
Featured Image Any hopes that Wednesday’s meeting of Greenland and Denmark’s foreign ministers with Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio might point toward an end of the Trump administration’s attempts to annex the semiautonomous arctic territory were swiftly disappointed. “Fundamental disagreement” remains, according to Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen.
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** Trump digs in as Europe sends troops to Greenland ([link removed])
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By Pavel Devyatkin on Jan 16, 2026 10:04 am
Featured Image Wednesday’s talks between American, Danish, and Greenlandic officials exposed ([link removed]) the unbridgeable gulf between President Trump’s territorial ambitions and respect for sovereignty.
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** In this scenario Trump's oil play could actually help Venezuelans ([link removed])
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By Francisco Rodriguez on Jan 16, 2026 12:05 am
Featured Image “We’re going to run the country ([link removed]) ,” President Trump said regarding Venezuela at a press conference just hours after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s capture in a U.S. military raid in Caracas.
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** If Europe starts attacking Russian cargo ships, all bets are off ([link removed])
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By Anatol Lieven on Jan 15, 2026 12:05 am
Featured Image Inspired by the U.S. seizure on the high seas of ships carrying Venezuelan oil, Britain and other NATO countries are now considering ([link removed]) using their navies to do the same to ships carrying Russian cargoes.
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** Does MAGA want Trump to ‘make regime change great again’? ([link removed])
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By Jack Hunter on Jan 14, 2026 12:42 pm
Featured Image “We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria,” then-candidate Donald Trump said in his acceptance speech ([link removed]) at the Republican National Convention in 2016.
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