George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
About a year after the COVID-19 pandemic introduced its new rules of survival, my wife and I risked life and limb for the chance to travel. Having made reservations on an airline now shrunken and a hotel normally inaccessible at the time of year, we went to the airport, where as always we were asked if our bags had been in our possession at all times. Our carry-ons were X-rayed as always, and I was asked to remove my belt for visual inspection. Everyone has been doing this since 9/11... Читать дальше...
Amy Lehr & Henry Wu, CSIS
Collective Action to Develop New Sourcing Opportunities
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In episode 42 of Generation Jihad, hosts Tom Joscelyn and Bill Roggio discuss National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's comments on the U.S.-Taliban deal. They explain why there isn't much for the Biden administration to assess. The Taliban was never interested in peace and hasn't taken any steps to break with al Qaeda.
Garry Kasparov, CNN
(CNN)The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was sentenced in Moscow on Tuesday to two and a half years of prison. His supposed crime was a probation violation committed while he was in a coma in Berlin after being...
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Vladimir Putin has finally moved to banish his chief rival to prison. Could it propel Yulia Navalnaya to power instead?
Alexei Navalny, New York Times
I would like to begin by discussing the legal issue here, which seems to me to be paramount and a bit overlooked in this discussion. … There are two people sitting right there and one of them is saying: Let's lock up Navalny because he showed up [to meet with his parole officers] on Mondays, not Thursdays. And the other says: Let's lock up Navalny because he didn't show up immediately after coming out of his coma. … But I would like everyone … to remember that...
Denise Dresser, For. Affairs
The Biden Administration Can't Afford to Overlook Its Southern Neighbor
Brent Peabody, Foreign Policy
hundred years ago, Northern Ireland was established, and with it the current shape of the United Kingdom. That familiar form has survived World War II, the Troubles, and no fewer than three referendums on Scotland's political status. But it may not survive Brexit, which has scrambled political allegiances and rekindled separatism in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Today, Brexit has placed unprecedented stress on the already fraying bonds between the United Kingdom's... Читать дальше...
