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Europe Can't Fight Its Own Wildfires But Won't Stop Lecturing America
Belgium's record blaze required four countries' aircraft. The climate lectures came faster than the water bombers.
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Great-power competition and the West.
The World desk covers great-power competition, war, and the slide of Western institutions — always through what it means for American interests and security. Stories are built from wire and outlet reporting with sources listed on every article.
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Marine Pilot Escapes Fiery F-18 Crash as Pentagon Readiness Failures Mount
Another fighter jet lost on a training run — while billions flow overseas and defense contractors cash in.
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Trump Slashes Korea War Games: Why Is America Still Paying for Seoul's Defense?
After 73 years and a brush-off on Iran, a president finally reins in the permanent garrison state
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Navy Pulls Last Pacific Carrier for Iran War as Sailors Hit Breaking Point
The Navy feeds an unplanned quagmire, leaving zero carriers in the Western Pacific, 5,000 sailors at sea for nine months, and China ready to fill the gap.
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Ukraine Drones Torch Russian Warehouse as U.S. Writes Blank Checks
800-drone barrage burns warehouse near Moscow — escalation with no endgame and no defined American interest
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Stolen Renaissance Art Gets Headlines. Crumbling American Towns Don't.
Thieves took four Antonello da Messina works from a Sicily museum — and American media's breathless coverage reveals whose heritage they actually value.
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Press Frets Over Hungarian Bus Crash While Border Carnage Goes Ignored
Twelve die 5,000 miles away—U.S. outlets call it urgent while border deaths go unreported
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Indonesia Quakes Kill Dozens — While FEMA Leaves Americans Waiting
Foreign disasters get the headlines. American victims still wait on FEMA.
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Two More Soldiers Dead in 40-Year-Old Apache, Army Grounds Entire Fleet
Another crash, another stand-down — same condolences from the generals, same procurement dollars still flowing
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Trump Vows to Claim Strait of Hormuz as US Territory
Drone-hit tankers prove the Gulf is dangerous — but why are we guarding Persian Gulf shipping lanes while our own southern border stays wide open?
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Putin Visits Disputed Kurils, Japan Fumes — Taxpayers Foot Bill
Tokyo erupts over Putin's island photo op while American taxpayers still underwrite Japan's defense
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Nine Months Captive in Niger: Missionary Free, Feds Won't Say How
Kevin Rideout is home after nine months in captivity. The White House, State Department, and Pentagon won't say what it cost — or what they're hiding.
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White House Brands India Top China Tariff Evader as Trade War Expands
India flagged as Beijing's tariff-dodging enabler while U.S. tax dollars bankroll Ukraine's deep strikes on Russian oil
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Kushner Chases Gaza Deal Netanyahu Already Rejected — on Your Dime
Trump's unelected son-in-law pursues a peace plan Israel's PM already killed — while you foot the bill.
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260 Days at Sea: USS Lincoln Buckles as Another Carrier Rerouted to Mideast
Sailors go without mail and supplies while Hegseth vows an 'indefinite' blockade — and the Pacific goes uncovered.
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Russia Targeted American Citizen for Assassination on NATO Soil
A thwarted hit in Warsaw shows what happens when U.S. entanglements make our people the prize in other nations' wars.
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USS Lincoln Sailors Jump Overboard; Pentagon Insists All Fine
200+ days at sea, broken toilets, tainted water, half-rations — and the Pentagon says everything's fine
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CIA Doubts Israeli Claim Iran Targeted Trump's Plane
Israel warned Iran was targeting Trump's plane. The CIA had 'low confidence' in the claim.
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Two Soldiers Dead in Texas Apache Crash as Readiness Questions Mount
Fort Hood training flight ends in fatal wreck and wildfire while Washington ships billions overseas
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Ukraine Blasts Russian Grain Port As FBI Biden Cover-Up Exposed
The Ukraine nexus FBI shielded from scrutiny now gets blank-check war funding—threatening global food supply
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Putin Vows Retaliation After West Seizes Russian Ships
Moscow calls it piracy. This escalation risks dragging America into a war that isn't ours.
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Taliban Bars 2.4M Girls From School Five Years After U.S. Exit
Two decades of nation-building, wiped out — and the bipartisan war machine has nothing to show for the trillions spent.
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European Hotels Gouge Eclipse Tourists at $793/Night as Main Street Squeezes
A 98% markup for overseas eclipse rooms while American families can barely cover groceries.
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Typhoon Dolphin Slams China's Factory Coast — Our Supply Chain Takes the Hit
A million evacuated, Shanghai shatters 150-year rainfall records. Their storm, our supply crisis.
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- Middle East and Israel
- NATO and Europe
- North Korea and rogue states
- UN and global institutions
- Migration and geopolitical borders
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