Photo courtesy the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Flickr “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time,” British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey famously remarked to a friend in August 1914. He was, of course, dead right about the longevity of
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Canadian Dimension: Trump is Igniting a Cold War With China to Try to Win Re-election
President Donald Trump salutes cadets during the 136th U.S. Coast Guard Academy Commencement in New London, Conn., May 17, 2017. Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley/US Department of Defense. “Go to China!”, a woman in Denver, Colorado, shouts at two hospital workers standing in front of her car
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Why the Evacuation of Aleppo May Not Happen
Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images Ceasefires in Syria are difficult to arrange and particularly likely to collapse because their successful implementation involves so many parties inside and outside the country who hate and would like to kill each other. All of these powers have their own agendas that may have
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