Trump’s effort to end US foreign aid throws out a lot of babies with the bathwater. During the Cold War, the US waged a war of ideas with the Soviet Union to capture the hearts and minds of the world. Foreign aid also boosted US businesses.
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A 180° turn remaps world politics
Trump’s pitiful pivot to Putin has awakened two sleeping giants—Republican opposition and European unity.
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Vance's Munich speech was a call to arms for the populist right to be able to seize power in Europe, and a promise that the “new sheriff in town” would help them to do so.
The European takeaway
Antifascism and social transformation
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