diplomacy

Mind your business, we’ll mind ours
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NOLAN FINLEY The Detroit News 
May 19, 2025
DETROIT (TNS) — President Donald Trump redefined America's role in the world during last week's four-day trip to the Middle East. Since World War II, ...
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Europe’s self-inflicted irrelevance
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ANDREW LATHAM RealClearPolitics 
Feb 20, 2025
The great and the good of Europe gathered in Paris for yet another emergency summit, this time to discuss Ukraine and “security in Europe.” The specta...
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Neither side ready to end Ukraine war
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ML CAVANAUGH Los Angeles Times/TNS 
Jan 29, 2025
Earlier this month, a full moon blocked Mars from view. Historically, some have taken that as a sign for peace as Mars has been the “planet of war and...
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Trump and the Middle East deal
Commentary, Nation World
Jan 16, 2025
Donald Trump’s imminent return is already paying dividends on the world stage. IsraelandHamas have agreed to a ceasefire and hostage deal. While detai...
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Democrats rewrite history to praise Jimmy Carter
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FRANCIS P. SEMPA RealClearPolitics 
Jan 03, 2025
Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013, attempts to rewrite history on the Foreign Affairs website to prais...
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Trump can bring peace
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY 
Dec 13, 2024
Among the more outlandish claims that Democrats and progressives made when Donald Trump first ran for president back in 2016 was that he would, as an ...
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Readers’ Turn to Write: A letter to Dad for Veterans Day
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LINDA DODD-NAGEL Special to Olean Times Herald 
Nov 08, 2024
Hi Dad, I wish you were here. I miss you. I love you. You are buried with full military honors. At the age of 18, before Congress enacted the Universa...
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North Korea troop deal exposes Putin’s weakness
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JAMES STAVRIDIS Bloomberg Opinion 
Nov 05, 2024
NEW YORK (TNS) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is suffering grievous manpower losses as a result of his illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine. He...
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Biden’s foreign policy legacy goes through Ukraine
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TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Sep 23, 2024
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As the election nears and tension builds between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, many people may have forgotten that Joe Biden is...
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Now Trump talks tough on Russia
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LZ GRANDERSON Los Angeles Times 
Sep 18, 2024
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Once again, former President Donald Trump is talking about his candidacy as if he doesn’t have a presidency we can refer to. This ...
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‘American Globalism’ versus ‘America First’
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FRANCIS P. SEMPA RealClearDefense 
May 31, 2024
Hal Brands, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has la...
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College protesters need more clarity about goals
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TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
May 03, 2024
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — As someone who remembers when Columbia University students took over Hamilton Hall 56 years ago, let me say that 2024 is not 1968...
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Borrello addresses tolls of drug abuse at UN conference
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Olean Times Herald staff 
Mar 28, 2024
NEW YORK — State Sen. George Borrello addressed the challenges presented by drug abuse at the 5th Annual United Nations Global Conference for a Drug-F...
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