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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Establishment is Changing its Tune on Russia

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Establishment is Changing its Tune on Russia

September 9, 2019 · by Patrick Lawrence · in Articles, Consortium News

Russophobic rhetoric persists in Washington, but a counter-argument is emerging. Are Western democracies, the U.S. and France in the lead, rethinking the hostility toward Russia they conjured out of nothing since Moscow responded to the coup Washington cultivated in Ukraine…

As Trump Abdicates Global Leadership, Europe Moves to Fill the Vacuum

As Trump Abdicates Global Leadership, Europe Moves to Fill the Vacuum

June 2, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

ROME—Donald Trump has Europe quaking. His performances at the NATO and G–7 summits last week have left the Continent more uncertain of its trans–Atlantic ties than at any time since the early postwar years. From Paris to Berlin to Rome,…

If France Elects Le Pen, Another Country Will Have Been Scared Stupid

If France Elects Le Pen, Another Country Will Have Been Scared Stupid

March 10, 2017 · by Patrick Smith · in Articles, The Fiscal Times

The French, along with the rest of Europe, were on the edges of their seats before the American elections last autumn: Who will it be—a right-wing populist disrupter or a centrist favoring liberal economics, open borders, global institutions, and a…

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