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Geopolitics

Egypt Cannot Rule Out War With Israel — And Must Learn From The Past

members of the Egyptian military, some with flags and guns, stand around and on top of transport vehicles.
Members of Egypt's military stand at the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Gehad Hamdy/ZUMA

Any future conflict with Israel will not resemble the 20th-century wars — those highly controlled, limited conflicts that lasted only days or weeks. Wars then followed rules of engagement because they were overseen by the two superpowers of the Cold War.

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Ideas Ukraine Winter

In Russia, Seeing Traitors At Every Turn

In St. Petersburg, a supporter of the "Other Russia" party
In St. Petersburg, a supporter of the "Other Russia" party Andrey Pronin

-OpEd- MOSCOW — Patriotic hysterics between Ukraine and Russia have given birth to a host of scathing labels — terms such a “fifth column” and “friends of the junta” — that state-owned television channels and some newspapers are employing with increasing zeal to identify Russia’s many “internal enemies.” The number of people targeted with these […]

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