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The consolidation of an America-friendly stability in Venezuela would be a humiliating and damaging setback for Russia and China. It would likely be a mortal blow to the Cuban regime, writes @wrmead https://t.co/EudgEy30HF
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Beijing, Moscow and Havana will seek to engineer a quagmire for Washington.
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Iranians know the source of their economic plight. The Islamic Republic has made Iran a pariah and deprived its people—and for what? A nuclear program and terrorist proxy empire? Both now lie in ruins. https://t.co/KAtIW1zRS5
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He has options short of military force to assist the country’s people against the government.
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If Mamdani wants to show the world that “the left can govern” and be an example for the world, as he said, he could start by making the city’s 174,000 or so government apartments livable. https://t.co/1ZMQtObigp
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A single amazing line reveals the reality of his socialist ambition.
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If regulators nix a rail merger, supply-chain inefficiency will persist. That won’t help affordability. Letting the market work will, writes @mctoth https://t.co/IuDW9IWHfV
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A proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would foster efficiencies, but opponents say the deal would kill competition.
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NATO said it would send frigates, aircraft and drones to patrol the Baltic Sea for undersea threats. But the patrols won’t make a difference if sea saboteurs know that international law will shield them from consequences. https://t.co/UtQ6kGpysw
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Russia’s shadow fleet keeps damaging Baltic Sea cables.
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As the postwar international order continues to shift, few actions would do more to further Japan’s national interests than joining the Abraham Accords, write @ZviHauser and Andrew M. Saidel https://t.co/ftiGzTWyqn
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A U.S.-friendly move that would showcase Japan’s relevance.
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America’s real enemies are challenging U.S. interests across the world, and that’s who voters want the Trump Pentagon focused on, not Sen. Mark Kelly. https://t.co/3q1NTty5Zz
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The Pentagon says a Senator’s words were ‘seditious.’ They weren’t.
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The U.S. armed forces went into harm’s way and did more for liberty in Latin America in a single night than the Mexican state has achieved in a generation—and that state condemns us for it, writes Joshua Treviño https://t.co/UFS7X3PeCc
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Its president denounced Maduro’s capture and has given aid and comfort to dictators and drug cartels.
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It isn’t often that politicians pay a price for the failures of government. But we may have seen a rare and welcome example as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ended his campaign for a third term in November. https://t.co/iDW2tRctMX
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Minnesota’s Governor ends his re-election run as the scandal bites.
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Zohran Mamdani missed a chance to distance himself from Venezuelan socialism, writes @wjmcgurn https://t.co/4UPQbKbUIy
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Zohran Mamdani misses a chance to distance himself from Venezuelan socialism.
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Liberal internationalism is a moral and political failure if it can’t distinguish between the aggression of Russia and China to swallow neighboring democracies and a U.S. military action to arrest a lawless dictator. https://t.co/vk7XTCDgzA
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Rogue regimes now use it as a shield to protect their own lawbreaking.
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On the latest episode of the Potomac Watch podcast, Mary O'Grady considers how the Trump administration is going to manage Venezuela after the removal of Maduro. https://t.co/0MaYTxJoVS
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While Gov. Tim Walz and Somali migrants may be easy political targets, the GOP will let the Minnesota scandal go to waste if it fails to explain how vast government welfare payments have become an invitation for fraud and abuse. https://t.co/GvEvWaW3my
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It’s the vast size of the welfare state that corrupts them.
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Venezuelans living in exile celebrate the fall of Maduro, as he awaits trial in New York City. https://t.co/UXzAoJz79T
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Trump’s capture of Maduro is an act of hemispheric hygiene against a dictator who spread mayhem far and wide. Whether he admits it or not, Trump is now in the business of regime change that he’ll have to make a success. https://t.co/1RQ3O5f7cy
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Toppling Maduro sends a salutary message to America’s adversaries. Now Trump has to make the occupation a success.
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From @WSJFreeEx: “Change in Iran is ultimately in the hands of the people of Iran themselves,” Reza Pahlavi says, in an interview with @tunkuv. “I think Iranians are finding our path again, and I’m here to help.” https://t.co/fCBbeV1rdf
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“We don’t need a single boot of your military on the ground in Iran.”
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Conservatives seek to uphold traditions that have given us centuries of freedom and progress. Jacob Rees-Mogg personifies that point, writes @maxraskin https://t.co/4dr6gO9G4t
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The British heritage of common law, freedom of speech and personal virtue didn’t constrain innovation. It produced it, says the former parliamentarian.
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When those in power mistake online commentary for real-world consensus, they make decisions based on a distorted picture of what those citizens really want. I plan to become a social-media teetotaler in 2026, writes @VivekGRamaswamy https://t.co/4aih5zkw1I
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I’m swearing off Instagram and X, where it’s too easy to get a distorted sense of the public’s concerns.
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The Maduro grab was a superbly executed act of strategic opportunism that removed a troublesome enemy in the region most vital to U.S. interests. Ultimate judgment on it will rest on its long-term outcome, writes @gerardtbaker https://t.co/J6uXFLc1Q4
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And the reality: It was a superbly executed act of strategic opportunism that removed a vexing enemy.
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Mamdani, take note: New York City’s social-service system is rife with abuse and mismanagement, writes @katesfarmer https://t.co/LAIIir1jFT
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Mamdani, take note: New York City’s social-service system is rife with abuse and mismanagement.
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From @WSJFreeEx: “Stranger Things” succeeded because it turned the ’80s into something that lives up to the memories and imaginations of those who lived through it, and repackaged it as something new for subsequent generations, writes @bradleybirzer https://t.co/e6pFFQ1bk6
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The show became a phenomenon because it took a particular moment in time and transformed it into a modern myth.
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