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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.
I'm a historian and columnist whose Substack is called America Explained. It's about American history, politics and foreign policy - all tied together.
The Hague-based geopolitical \ud835\ude10\ud835\ude33\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude2f analyst. \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27 \ud835\ude22\ud835\ude2f\ud835\ude25 \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc29\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e is a dispatch on p... more
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