It is unlikely that the CIA director just came all that way on a specialized cargo aircraft to say “we give up”, but perhaps that was the essence of the discussions.
Leaders are not irrelevant: they determine the timing and form of détente.
Biden-era “removals” were a revolving door at the Rio Grande. Trump closed the door. Crossings collapsed.
Trump’s losing the Iran war – and now the nuclear option is being normalized.
Everyone in America should be disgusted by the fact that gerrymandering is a part of nearly every election cycle and is so normal and widespread that everyone knows what this ultra-specific electoral term means.
Turning Brazil into an open-air refugee camp is the natural outcome of the ideology of the Sixth Republic.
Only in South America do people believe that Paraguay – a small, landlocked country – nearly became a world power in the 19th century, to the point of being feared by England at the height of colonialism.
The SCO could evolve from a security organization into one of the institutional frameworks of a truly interconnected Eurasian economic and strategic space.
