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Welcome to Cold War 2.0. It won’t be easy
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 01, 2022
No matter how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends, it already marks a turning point in history: the end of a 30-year period of relative peace in...
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We can win this Cold War, too
Opinion, Сolumns
JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Feb 28, 2022
Some years ago, when I was editor of a now-defunct newspaper in El Paso, Texas, my wife and I bought a house with a deteriorated, spider-filled, filth...
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West can’t break in solidarity
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 28, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal, lawless invasion of Ukraine is the consequence of the former KGB head’s messianic vision and numerous Weste...
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Putin’s power in age of lies
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 25, 2022
It shouldn’t be a surprise to students of history the way authoritarians use lies and manipulation to gather power and justify terrible deeds that des...
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Biden must hit Putin harder with sanctions now
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2022
Any illusions about Vladimir Putin’s objectives should have vanished on Monday, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in a decade. The Russi...
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Lithuanians give warning
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Feb 18, 2022
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The military and political games Vladimir Putin is playing with all of Europe will continue, whether Moscow invades Ukraine or no...
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Putin has a way out
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
When Russia’s Vladimir Putin massed 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, the United States and its European allies responded with a hastily assembled ...
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Vladimir Putin’s off-ramp
Opinion, Сolumns
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
Wars and military escalations breed clichés that are exclusive, yet elusive. So the Vietnam War’s best and brightest spent a decade chasing their illu...
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Putin, not NATO, is to blame
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Feb 05, 2022
Bad ideas never truly go away. So it is that an old left-wing trope from the Cold War has currency again, both on the populist right and among progres...
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Can NATO stop Putin’s dreams without war?
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Jan 12, 2022
This week, Western nations have been trying to rebuff Russia’s threats to invade Ukraine for the second time in eight years. The talks between the Uni...
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China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin
Opinion, Сolumns
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Dec 13, 2021
In his quest to make his country the undisputed leader of the global economy, China’s President Xi Jinping can learn a lot from his next-door neighbor...
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Biden wants China focus; Putin has another idea
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 30, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden arrived in the White House 10 months ago with two top foreign policy priorities: He wanted to rebuild the alliances h...
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No lovefest, no illusions
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jun 21, 2021
Rate the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva as a success for President Joe Biden. If you want to understand why, just look at what Vladimir Putin said back ...
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