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  • Elias Rutten

    Elias Rutten is a philosophically inclined political economist and journalist with a Master's degree in Global Political Economy (cum laude) from Leiden University. He has written for major Dutch National Newspapers and a political party think-tank.

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    The Hague-based geopolitical ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ analyst. ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐‘๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž is a dispatch on politics, philosophy, and Persian aestheticsโ€”with Iran as its center of gravity, and the wider world as its universe. | Lecturer | Essayist.

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    I'm a historian and columnist whose Substack is called America Explained. It's about American history, politics and foreign policy - all tied together.

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