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In an interview in the June 2025 edition of the Atlantic magazine, President Trump boasted of his second term, “I run the country and the world.” While our putative American Caesar may believe he possesses illimitable power on the global scene, a series of international elections since his inauguration have cast doubt on the veracity
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Thirty-five years ago the iron curtain collapsed. So ended a brief but tragic period in the European story first defined by Winston Churchill in a 1946 speech; “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” As communist regimes fell from Budapest to Berlin to Prague
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