The West’s magical thinking is sinking in the Red Sea
The US and its allies cannot change reality with air strikes.
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The West’s rivals everywhere are exploiting its vulnerabilities
From Africa to Latin America, competing power blocs are gaining from liberal democracies’ stalled growth and lack of focus.
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The new world disorder
A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos ranged against the West.
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The West’s dominance is a dangerous delusion
Hubris and ignorance might prove decisive in its proxy wars in Ukraine and Israel, and in its economic contest with…
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Countries can bear the West’s sanctions – but not its moralising
Even Australia pulled out of trade talks with the EU because it could not subject itself to European finger-wagging.
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The great unravelling
The Hamas pogrom against Israeli citizens was the day when the Western-led international order expired.
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The West is emulating China
Instead of the People’s Republic becoming more liberal, we have become more authoritarian.
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The last days of Pax Americana
The Second Cold War is underway – can the US prevail?
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The realists were right
As the much-hyped counteroffensive against Russian forces stalls, the West is asking hard questions about the war in Ukraine.
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The world ended in 1973
In the West, five decades of economic stagnation have scrambled politics.
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Anarchy unbound: the new scramble for Africa
Caught between climate change, migration and social upheaval, Niger and the Sahel are the crucible of Western failure.
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Ukraine must go to war with itself
Now is the time to confront oligarchs and cultural conservatives, and ask what sort of country Ukraine will become.
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The West can no longer make war
Defence planners in Washington dream of a conflict with China – it’s not one the US can fight.
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Zelensky is fighting two wars – against Russia and to win over the West
Ukraine’s coming counter-offensive is the best chance to prove to its supporters it can still win.
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The end of the liberal delusion
At the turn of the century, Western leaders claimed progress was inevitable. Yet events have contradicted this “faith”.
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Signs of the times
China and Russia are committed to upending the US-led international order. How should the West respond?
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The age of hyper-globalisation is ending
As competing geopolitical blocs emerge, countries are increasingly turning to regional allies for trade and financial security.
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Why the Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova sets an example for the West
Ovsyannikova is one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians standing up to Vladimir Putin despite immense personal risk.
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Whatever Moscow’s military defeats in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is winning the energy war
Russia’s exports to Eurasia are so great, its resource power won’t be dented by sanctions imposed only by the West.
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Western fatigue over Ukraine war risks handing victory to Putin
Russia’s renewed advance is a threat to the entire democratic world.
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