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Emzari Gelashvili

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The park was the gift, the frontage was the point: The sinister loophole behind Trump Tower Tbilisi

The park was the gift, the frontage was the point: The sinister loophole behind Trump Tower Tbilisi

Let me concede the point most coverage of Trump Tower Tbilisi has been built on, because the facts have moved past it. The tower is not rising on a...

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Emzari Gelashvili

His staff reads the threat file. Mamdani only gets the summary

His staff reads the threat file. Mamdani only gets the summary

The United Nations General Assembly is back in session, and presidents, prime ministers, and their security details are on their way to Manhattan....

18.09.2026 3

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Emzari Gelashvili

Don Jr. didn’t break the law in the Bahamas. He did something much dumber

Don Jr. didn’t break the law in the Bahamas. He did something much dumber

There was a barge in the water off a private island in the Bahamas, and on the last night of the party the fireworks went up from it — a display...

16.09.2026 7

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Two alliances just failed Saudi Arabia. Then they called Trump

Two alliances just failed Saudi Arabia. Then they called Trump

Five weeks ago, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement. An armed attack on one, the text says, is an attack on...

15.09.2026 5

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The Houthis just handed Trump leverage over China. Here’s when he can use it

The Houthis just handed Trump leverage over China. Here’s when he can use it

The fall of Mokha was a lesson for Riyadh about alliances: the Mecca pact produced a courier, America’s older allies produced restrictions on...

14.09.2026 6

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Putin understood the assignment. Kyiv sent Trump’s envoys a T-shirt

Jared Kushner is an observant Jew. On Saturday, Sept. 5, he sat in the Kremlin for more than three hours and stayed for dinner with Russian President...

10.09.2026 4

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Berlin blamed Russia for a bomb at NATO’s airlift hub. Then it closed a consulate

On the night of Aug. 4, an employee at Leipzig/Halle Airport in eastern Germany found a drone carrying an explosive device inside the secured cargo...

09.09.2026 6

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Emzari Gelashvili

I spent 12 years in counterintelligence. Trump’s defenders are sabotaging their own case

I recently sat through an hour and a half of a Russian-language presentation on President Donald Trump. Two men, a slide deck, a friendly...

08.09.2026 3

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An Iranian plot reached Brooklyn. Why isn’t a single American reporter covering the other end?

A man was arrested on a Brooklyn street with an AK-47 in his car. His target was Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist and former Voice of...

03.09.2026 5

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Iran is buying Georgia, and Trump is about to sanction the wrong people

In December 2024, the Biden Treasury Department sanctioned Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire who made his fortune in Russia and whose party has...

02.09.2026 7

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Russia can still sell oil. It just can’t make gasoline

A C-17 Globemaster left Joint Base Andrews on Aug. 25, routed by way of Riga, Latvia, and landed in Moscow. CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard and...

01.09.2026 6

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Trump talked for a week. Six capitals moved

Start with the week itself, in order. On Aug. 14, at a police training center in Garden City, New York, President Donald Trump told a room of law...

21.08.2026 10

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Trump is doing the one thing Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden refused to do for Ukraine

On Feb. 12, 2025, a reporter in the Oval Office asked President Donald Trump about Ukraine’s terms. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted...

18.08.2026 20

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The Soviet Union spent billions infiltrating the West. Russia just bought a $20 AI subscription

When Meta disclosed in a recent threat report that covert networks from Russia and Iran were leveraging generative artificial intelligence models to...

11.08.2026 10

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Emzari Gelashvili

Russia didn’t need an invasion to take my country. Is Trump paying attention?

Russia has learned that influence can often achieve what occupation no longer can afford to. The Trump administration must be on notice. For...

10.08.2026 10

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Biden sanctioned the man who owns Georgia. Then he made sure the checks still cleared

On Dec. 27, 2024, the Biden administration’s Treasury Department did two things, and only one of them made the news. First, it sanctioned Bidzina...

07.08.2026 10

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It starts with the Jews. It never ends there

In San Jose, two Israeli-Americans were beaten outside a restaurant for speaking Hebrew while they waited for a table. One was knocked unconscious. A...

06.08.2026 10

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Mamdani can’t arrest Netanyahu. He can still pick your judges

In July, New York City’s mayor spent several weeks insisting he could have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested on an International...

05.08.2026 10

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Georgia is demolishing its Western future — one landmark at a time

Tbilisi keeps losing pieces of itself. The Bridge of Peace, the glass-and-steel span across the Mtkvari that Bidzina Ivanishvili called “nothing but...

04.08.2026 20

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Washington is grading the costume. Moscow is running the playbook

In the summer of 2008, as Russian tanks rolled toward Tbilisi, the woman who is today the symbol of Georgia’s pro-Western opposition was writing the...

03.08.2026 10

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Behind Israel’s furious reaction to Trump Iran deal

25.06.2026 30

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My family lived through socialism. Most Democrats are frighteningly wrong about it.

Socialism, in practice, does not work without force and brutality, even if you give it nice adjectives like "democratic." My family learned this the...

17.06.2026 30

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Before you celebrate socialism, learn what it did to my family

17.06.2026 20

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Russia Day 2026: The hollow sovereignty

15.06.2026 20

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The pause was always the weapon: Controlled chaos and the breaking of Iran

12.06.2026 10

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Albany erased ‘mother’ and ‘father’ from state law. Here’s what that really means

09.06.2026 10

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The Caracas capillaries: How Maduro’s arrest shattered Europe’s left-wing slush fund

03.06.2026 30

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Cuba’s reckoning: The anatomy of a regime in collapse

01.06.2026 20

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Cold War 2.0: China didn’t challenge America from outside — it rose from within

29.05.2026 10

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Stop fearing a strong Russia — start fearing a dying Russia

A wounded bear is dangerous. A wounded bear that believes it has no exit is far more dangerous.

18.05.2026 20

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