We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they

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“America is lost! Must we fall beneath the blow? Or have we resources that may repair the mischiefs?” These are the opening words of a memo in the hand of George III in the wake of the 1783 Peace of P

robertskidelsky.substack.com Britain’s strategic defence review, published in June 2024, sought to “implant a war-ready mindset across society”, says Robert Skidelsky. It insisted that the UK must pre

“Whatever Washington’s plans for the future of Venezuelan governance,” the “show of US force in Latin America” (see page 26) looks like “the first manifestation of a more assertive American foreign po

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