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No, we're not defending Taiwan.
Editorial Note: Some of my “notes” on Substack wind up reaching hundreds of thousands of readers. They catch fire (for whatever reason). If they’re going to get that much distribution, I figure, might as well also make it clear we have this...
Reserve Status Is Not an Identity. It Is a Trade. The Trade Is Closing.
The American conversation about the dollar treats reserve status as an identity. The dollar is the world’s reserve currency in the way the United States is a continental power, or in the way English is the global lingua franca — a fact abou...
NATO Is Already Over. Nobody Has Said So.
The North Atlantic Treaty is short. Its operative passage, the famous Article 5, is fifty-two words long. The words commit signatories to consider an armed attack on one member as an attack on all and to take “such action as it deems necess...
The Week the Refusals Stopped.
Within a single seven-day window beginning at the close of April and running through the first days of May:
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The executive bypassed Congress on the use of force in Iran.
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps publicly mocked the ex...
The Next Pandemic Won't Get a Warp Speed
Eight people on the Hondius contracted Andes hantavirus off the coast of Cape Verde. Three died. The ship is now anchored off Tenerife, passengers being repatriated to Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and — for the seventeen Americans aboar...
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