foreign policy

Mind your business, we’ll mind ours
Commentary, Nation World
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
Commentary, Nation World
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
Commentary, Nation World
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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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
Commentary, Local Columnists, Readers Turn To Write
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
Commentary, Nation World
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
Commentary, Nation World
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
Commentary, Nation World
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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Will what’s happening ‘over there’ hit home again?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
JAMES JAY CARAFANO Tribune News Service 
Jan 14, 2022
Americans have a lot to worry about. Soaring inflation. A pandemic that refuses to go away. Locked-down schools that keep the kids at home while you h...
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Putin is only pretending to be crazy on Ukraine
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ELI LAKE Tribune News Service 
Dec 29, 2021
Watching Vladimir Putin Thursday at his year-end press conference, one is tempted to ask whether the Russian president has gone mad. Here is a man lea...
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