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Why Europe’s warnings about Russia are vaguer than in 2022, but far louder
I do not often write columns that I later come to regret.
Vladimir Putin
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Trump’s Iran war is paying for Putin’s
Russian power has always sat on a contradiction.
Quadrant
The Long Estrangement
It is strange to observe a nation act irrationally and against its own interests.
Newsroom
Trump’s Thanksgiving ultimatum trusses Ukraine like a turkey
On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky faces an impossible choice.
Newsroom
How NATO failed Putin’s drone test
On Wednesday morning last week, I was getting ready for my afternoon speech at the Financial Services Council conference in Auckland.
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Putin humiliates Trump on home soil
Michelle Shocked’s 1988 song ‘Anchorage’ tells of old friends whose lives diverged.
Newsroom
Trump’s retreat in Europe shocking but not surprising
Was it really an “excellent” phone call with Russia’s dictator, Vladimir Putin?
The Australian
The US is in retreat as China rises: it’s time for ANZAC 2025
Donald Trump’s February call with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine’s future marked the end of the post-war order.
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Putin’s dangerous war games
Geopolitics offers no shortage of distractions.
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It’s Trump’s defenders, not detractors, who have ‘Derangement Syndrome’
The Kremlin’s poisoning of democratic discourse has reached New Zealand.