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Andreas Kluth

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Obsessed With Greenland? You Too May Have the Wrong Map

Obsessed With Greenland? You Too May Have the Wrong Map
28.03.2025 4

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Real Ukraine Peace Talks Require a Real US Security Guarantee

06.03.2025 30

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America’s Loss of Soft Power Is Putin’s Gain

03.03.2025 40

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Trump’s Oval Office Clash With Zelenskiy Was a Win for Putin

02.03.2025 80

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Reagan’s ‘Peace Through Strength’ Never Looked So Weak

27.02.2025 20

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Ukraine Gets a Bit Part in the 'Theater of the Absurd'

20.02.2025 3

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Without America, ‘the West’ Will Splinter, Wither and Die

19.02.2025 10

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Trump Got Himself a Dilemma in Talking to Putin

13.02.2025 10

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America First Is Quickly Becoming America Alone

12.02.2025 30

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Trump and Musk Are Vandalizing the World

05.02.2025 5

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Tulsi Gabbard Has Five Puppet Masters. Worry Most About the First

31.01.2025 4

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Trump Is Like Putin and Xi: an Imperialist

29.01.2025 2

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Trump Seems Bent on Killing Off Multilateralism

27.01.2025 2

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Hegseth and Rubio Show Substance Won’t Win in Trump’s Cabinet

Donald Trump’s picks to run the Pentagon and State Department were among the incoming cabinet members making their case to the Senate this week, so...

17.01.2025 10

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Under Trump, More Countries Could Get Nukes

As world leaders come to grips with the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House, they should weigh immediate but also second-order...

09.01.2025 8

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Trump’s Trash Talk Revives the Worst of World Politics

Donald Trump, just weeks from returning to the Oval Office, wants friend and foe to know that he’s wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a...

07.01.2025 5

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The Case For Paranoid Optimism Under Trump 2.0

The coming year, 2025, is really like any other, only more so: It deserves to be greeted with what one of my former editors calls “paranoid...

03.01.2025 9

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Rubio Could Be to Trump What Talleyrand Was to Napoleon

One of the least bizarre appointments by president-elect Donald Trump is his choice for secretary of state, Marco Rubio. As a senator from Florida...

20.12.2024 4

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Trump Plays Chicken With the Madman Theory

Here we go again: Donald Trump is preparing to move back into the Oval Office and once more boasting how “unpredictable” he is, convinced that...

18.12.2024 30

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Syria’s Rebel Leader al-Jolani Needs a Chance

Lame-duck President Joe Biden and his successor, Donald Trump, urgently need a theory of mind about Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of the rebel...

10.12.2024 4

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From South Korea to US, Democracy Could Die — or Get Stronger

What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphorism has always inspired me as a great life hack for snatching optimism from the...

08.12.2024 5

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The Tragedy of Merkelism in a Time of Trump and Putin

For most of Angela Merkel’s 16 years as German chancellor it was my job as a journalist to observe and analyze her. And although I often disagreed...

04.12.2024 10

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The US Can’t Stay ‘Ambiguous’ in the Taiwan Strait

This week, the usual protagonists once again played their assigned roles in the five-decade stylized drama set in the Taiwan Strait: Taiwan’s...

16.10.2024 20

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Kamala Harris Is Mum on Foreign Policy for a Reason

Kamala Harris is hardly the first politician in history, or in the past three minutes, to sidestep questions she doesn’t want to answer or to seek...

10.10.2024 2

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Vance Plays Saruman to Trump’s Sauron

“I’m a big Lord of the Rings guy,” JD Vance once told a podcaster. The running mate of former and perhaps future president Donald Trump went on to...

08.10.2024 9

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Beware Republican Groupthink on Israel’s Retaliation Against Iran

If ever there was “cause to target Iran’s nuclear facilities, this is it.” That sentiment speaks for much of the pro-Israel American right. Since...

04.10.2024 10

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US Support for Israel Can’t Stay ‘Ironclad’ if Bibi Keeps Escalating

Of course the United States welcomed the killing of Hassan Nasrallah in a massive Israeli airstrike the other day (apparently with ordnance that...

30.09.2024 3

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Lebanon Pager Attack Marks a New Era of Intimate Warfare

There was something particularly insidious about the pagers and walkie-talkies that exploded in Lebanon the other day, presumably planted by Israel...

26.09.2024 7

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If Biden Wants to Save the UN, He Should Kill the Veto

The whole world, literally, knows that the United Nations and its Security Council are anachronistic, unfair if not downright rigged, generally...

24.09.2024 2

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Kim Jong Un Will Have His October Surprise

Say you’re a ruthless narcissist and a natural-born dictator, and you’re reviewing footage of this month’s presidential debate in Philadelphia....

19.09.2024 1

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Biden Must Let Zelenskiy Bomb Putin to the Negotiating Table

When it comes to Ukraine, none of the three people in or near presidential power in the United States looks convincing right now. That can change...

17.09.2024 20

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Trump Is Right About World War III, Wrong About the Analysis

Because much of what Donald Trump says is unhinged and histrionic, it’s tempting to dismiss all of it as bunk. And yet the former and perhaps...

13.09.2024 2

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The US Will Abandon Europe. But When and How?

A sad trend in world affairs, and one that is personal for me, is the growing rift in the Atlantic. I’m not talking about the geological one under...

10.09.2024 30

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This UN General Assembly Will Feel Like a Wake, Not a Rebirth

If you’re not worried about world peace and global order as embodied by the United Nations and other multilateral institutions, you’re not paying...

05.09.2024 10

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Harris Could End America’s Era of Hubris Abroad

“If we are an arrogant nation, they will resent us,” George W. Bush said during a presidential debate in 2000; “if we’re a humble nation, but...

01.09.2024 8

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The US Must Win the Great Game in the Pacific

Don’t be so consumed by the race for the White House or by the conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, the South China Sea and Africa that you risk...

28.08.2024 2

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Why Is the US Fighting Nuclear Threats Behind Closed Doors?

“Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by...

23.08.2024 3

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Harris and Walz Can Bring Worldliness to Chicago — and the World

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler, it’s been said. By that standard, Donald Trump and the Republican convention to...

20.08.2024 2

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Bringing Evan Gershkovich Home Is Biden’s Last Big Win

Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan are coming home, in what is a huge victory for them and their families but also for President Joe Biden. His...

01.08.2024 1

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Harris or Trump, the US Must Avert a New Nuclear Arms Race

Right after moving into the Oval Office next January, either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump must open a dossier that voters prefer not to...

31.07.2024 2

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NATO’s ‘Bridge’ to Ukraine Is a Ramp to Nowhere

Metaphors are dangerous things, especially in matters of war and peace. That makes me dread the communique the 32 allies of the North Atlantic...

10.07.2024 20

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