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A Great Rebalancing Is Coming

Who Will Bear the Costs of a Global Trade Adjustment?

By Michael Pettis

 

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U.S. soldiers during a NATO exercise in Bemowo Piskie, Poland, May 2026

Leave Europe to the Europeans

The Case for a U.S. Military Drawdown

By Jennifer Kavanagh and Justin Logan

 
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After Putin

Russia’s Coming Succession Crisis

By Julian G. Waller

 

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America Must Let Go of the Middle East

The Failed Iran War Should Spur a Long-Overdue Withdrawal

By Michael Fuchs

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