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It's time to call this World War III

I Served With Tulsi Gabbard and Yikes

The rules for destroying a liberal democracy, revisited

From America First to Nuclear War

A Peace Plan for Ukraine?

A Graveyard of Bad Election Narratives

Buckle up

The risk of accidental nuclear war

Fracturing the Security Map

No one can explain Trump's victory

The Cosmopolitan Globalist Election Fandango

Why I’m not taking Trump's deal

Welcome back, Polio!

Trump’s COVID Response: A Preview of Disasters to Come

The Fascism Debate

Weekend Update #104: Georgia Shows Why Ukraine Must Win

A Message for Haley Voters Still on the Fence

Farewell, Washington Post

I Don't Care About the Issues

Realistically, how much damage could Trump do to the U.S. economy?

My grandfather’s diary of Romania’s Holocaust

How Many Hellroads Must a Man Walk Down?--part 2

The free world teeters on the edge of a knife

The Partisan Rationalization of Donald Trump's Rhetoric

The Evidence for Trump's Fascism Is Overwhelming

How will you vote?

The End of Yahya Sinwar

Cluster B

The View from Israel’s Universe

The Price of a Hug

Middle East 201

On the anniversary of October 7

A grim anniversary — and a better way forward

The nefarious Soviet legacy on the Middle East and Western culture

Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris

Will Israel really invade Turkey?

Why can't US learn from experience?

Yes or No?

War With Iran

America's supply chains are a disaster waiting to happen

Iran attacks Israel

🚨MARS ATTACKS‼️

Global Eyes

🚨 Breaking: Israel (probably) killed Nasrallah in massive air strike

“Ukraine is dead, gone!” – Donald Trump calls time on Ukraine and aims to do the same on U.S. assistance.

Global Eyes Express

The Nakballs

Middle East 201

Quick update

Polling in Exotic Places

Could Jordan become another Middle East flashpoint?

Hostage murders cast an angry shadow over Netanyahu's Gaza campaign

Lewis's 2000 Years, Class Notes

Our Cretins

Global Eyes

Useful Idiots

Global Eyes

Macron nominates Michel Barnier as Prime Minister

I'm Back

The Russia Report

"It Must Be Said: There is No Military Solution to our Situation"

🌐 GLOBAL EYES 🌐

Harris has it both ways on the Middle East

Middle East 201

Egypt's intelligence chief visits Sudan

Thank You

Let's get this family to their new home

Why Ukraine staged the Kursk offensive now

Should the US help Israel launch a preemptive strike on Iran?

The Kursk Offensive Dilemma

The Philosophical Ramifications of Artificial Intelligence

🌐🌐🌐 GLOBAL EYES 🌐🌐🌐

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part IV, Chapter 10

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part IV, Chapter 7

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part IV, Chapter 9

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part IV, Chapter 8

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part III, Chapter 6

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part III, Chapter 5

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part III, Chapter 4

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part III, Chapter 3

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part II, Chapter 2

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis, Part II, Chapter 1

Middle East 201 Discussion Section: Bernard Lewis Introduction

Weekend Update #93: The Kursk Offensive Continues

Ukraine's daring counter-invasion

The Vibe Shift in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Haiti’s Deepening Night

Tories vs The Conservative Party

Defining Victory

YourINT SITREP (07 AUG 2024)

Ukrainian F-16s take off, Hungary and Slovakia ramp up their oil war with Ukraine, and Poland swaps a prisoner with Russia

Update

Riot Control

What is a Riot?

Why Britain is Rioting

Tim Walz on China

As Iranian Threat Looms, Israelis Keep Calm and Carry On

In Memoriam F.S.T.M.D.Z.S.

Israel is self-destructing

Giorgia Meloni and Europe's incoherence over China

Ottoman History links

"Stop Bullshitting Me"

The moral of Venezuela

Citizenry in fear as Venezuelan police crackdowns intensify

Weekend Update #92: Ukraine Strikes Deep

The Unlamented

What Kenyan protests tell us about economic management and the politics of reforms in African states

Is the Middle East on the brink of all-out war?

The US needs to regain its sheriff’s swagger in the Middle East

Hezbollah is the world’s problem, not Israel's alone

Russia goes full Mr. Kurtz

Ukraine and Harris

Weekend Update #91

Kamala Harris and Foreign Policy

Why Populism Fails

Some Advice for the Democrats

Middle East 201

A brief hiatus

Middle East 201

Read "The Flight from Reality" for Free.

The Post Mortem, Part I

The Flight from Reality

An eerie dawn has broken in the UK

Biden's enablers are a disgrace

Get him out of there, Jill.

Steve Bannon's Prison Diary

Spoiler Alert

French Uproar

Fascism Once Again Lurks Around the Corner

Dramatis Personae: The Left

MIDDLE EAST 101

France on the Brink

Biotechnology and the Fermi Paradox

Democracies and the Death Wish

Student activists or pro insurgents?

Dramatis Personae, Continued

Middle East 101

French Toast

On Fire

Dramatis Personae

Hunger Games: Fifth Republic

Middle East 101, Week XIV

The West is still playacting in Ukraine

Jun 10: E-Stories

French far right clobbers the center

IDF Kills the Enemy, World Loses its Mind

Deter and Dominate

Friday Reading List - 7 June 2024

The Maelstrom

India cuts Modi down to size

A Conversation with Steve Schmidt

What do you make of the Mexican Election results?

Weekend Update 83: The Kharkiv Offensive is a Russian Strategic Failure for Now

Jun 1: E-Stories

Some thoughts on Amalek

Trump convicted: what comes next?

Middle East 101, Week XVIII

Nobody wants to "be that guy"

Fighting for 2029

The Locust Years

Is Hamas winning?

Antisemitism

So three American dudes walked into the Congo ...

A flawed and foolish gambit by the ICC

The Adventures of Eli Kopter

Weekend Update 81: Much of the portrayed Russian success is based on prediction

President Raisi's helicopter has crashed

The failure of the West to defend Ukraine rewrites the lessons of the 20th century

Intrigue in the Baku Initiative Group

The Slough of Despond

Middle East 101, Week XVII

The fates are revealing a new road

Can NATO be made Trump-proof?

Kuwait: Islamists and the end of Arab democracy

Bad News from Ukraine

Reminder: Michael Totten Discussion

Weekend Update 80: Russia is Pressing Lots, Breaking Through Nowhere

The Israel-Hamas Conflict

Help Georgian Democrats Now, Before It Is Too Late

Biden's Folly

Within earshot of Lenin's what?

(Energy) poverty is very bad for humans and the environment

Chartbook 281 137 million people: From DRC to Yemen - a megaregion in polycrisis.

Global Eyes

Middle East 101, Week XVI

What's worth fighting for, or against? Young Israelis and those in the West could not disagree more. [excerpt]

John's wife must let him have a cat!

Central American Brouhaha

Six Theses about India

Police in London politely take down a sword-wielding lunatic with a taser, stunning American observer.

🚨 It's the David Berlinski Cosmopolicast! 🚨

The Camels of War

Hunger deepens throughout war-torn Sudan

We're not Overproducers! You're Underproducers!

Spy v. Spy

Campus Nazis

Our Conversation with Peter Zeihan

Middle East 101, Week XVI

Would you do it?

A Dark Shining Moment

We're back!

🎟️ Reminder: Peter Zeihan Discussion

Ukraine aid passes at long last

Evening Update: Israel strikes Iran

Five Alarm Fire

The Persian-Israeli War

A Conversation with Peter Zeihan

Middle East 101, Week XV

Pivotal moment on Iran – but also on Gaza

Weekend Update #76: A Tale of Two Raids: Ukraine Has No Nuclear Weapons So Must Suffer

UPDATED: Iran's Attack on Israel

The GOP Is the Party of Putin

Tucker Carlson plants his flag

This Week in Africa

Middle East 101, Week XIV

From the Oslo Accords to October 7

Reminder: A Conversation with Chris Zappone

Six months of war

Apr 7: E-Stories

World War III or a nice holiday in Seville

Why Taiwan's earthquake isn't on the front page

Where's the Defense Minister?

Save the Date

Ask Prime Minister Oxley

You lose some, you win some

The betrayal of Ukraine and Germany’s misreading of history

The American Leviathan, Macron's Conversion, Lukashenko's Revelation, and More

Sinwar’s Script

The Kremlin's perception operations

Tuesday Morning Global Eyes

The New Caesars, Part I

The Heroism of Roni Eshel: What Really Happened at Nahal Oz IDF Base, October 7th

Middle East 101, Week XIII

ISIS offers the Kremlin a Reichstag Fire (UPDATED)

Oxbridge

"YOU will not utter one word here!" A father refuses to allow his (murdered) daughter's commander to speak at an IDF ceremony

It's Funny How Immigration and Crime are Trending in Opposite Directions

Responsible Retreat, Part II

ME101, Week XIII

Eek!

The Baltic Jammer

About Claire

Mar 20: E-Stories

Responsible Retreat, Part I

Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans

Russia's non-election and the death of the NPT

What does "an election" mean in Russia?

What makes a museum great?

The Case Against Labour Is A Moral One

What's really going on with aid deliveries to Gaza?

The Elephant Cage with John and Claire

Donald Trump's Peace Plan

India and the Human Triumph

The Annual Threat Assessment

'Round the Globe with John and Claire

Haiti on the brink

🚩 ME 101, Week XII: Important Update

Weekend Update #71: Was this the Week Reflexive Control Broke?

'Round the Globe with John and Claire

Middle East 101, Week XII

The Short Podcast, with a Vlad Davidzon Cameo

The No-Name-yet Podcast with Claire and John

The yet-unnamed, very brief, Claire Berlinski and John Oxley daily Cosmopolicast

Introducing the Cosmoberjoxlicast

GLOBAL EYES

The apocalypse we choose

Killing Navalny

The Cosmopolicast with Peter Zeihan

Le Jules Verne

Issue 70: Homeward Bound

Middle East 101, Week XI

Henry agrees to hold elections by Aug. 2025

Killing Navalny

The Decline of American Competence

Where is the UK headed? Part II

Asking the Wrong Questions About Sanctioning Russia

"Our children learned in school that we have a country so that there won't be another Holocaust, and they died in a Holocaust."

Weekend Update #69. Ukraine Does Better in South Carolina than Expected

"For all our sakes, wake up."

Middle East 101, Week X

The Moroccan Express

Feb 18: Occupation

Weekend Update #68. Ukrainians Withdraw from Avdiivka

Launch week concludes. Navalny pulls off an amazing caper.

Moroccan Interlude

A geostrategic catastrophe awaits

The Beijing Debrief

This Week in Africa

Where is the UK headed?

Feb 7: E-Stories

Non-state actors have the fate of the world in their hands

Qatar’s Gaza war mediation may be a double-edged sword.

The Betrayal of Ukraine by the Cowards of Congress

Hostage Crisis, Day 120

🇵🇭 Disuni-team: Marcos Jr vs. Duterte Sr

It's Now or Never

What to do about Iran

Middle East 101, Week IX

Weekend Update #65 Crunch time gets Crunchier

Israel’s Obligations Under the Genocide Convention

When will America Learn?

The Real Republican Position on Ukraine

"I was among those people who made the country weak, who hurt people."

The Strength of Evidence for a Lab Origin

The view from Jerusalem

Israeli wars, past and present

The Destruction of Sennacherib.

ME 101 Discussion of the Six Day War

The Collateral Damage to America’s Reputation from Not Approving New Aid to Ukraine

What Ukraine's defeat would mean for the US and the world

What Happens to Europe If America Withdraws?

The Danger We Face

Europe must prepare for a post-American world

Middle East 101, Week VIII

Full Text: UN Panel of Experts Report on Sudan

The Return of the Indecent Left

Stabbing Ukraine in the Back

Guatemala Just Ran January 6th In Reverse

A short, unscheduled vacation

Jason Smart explains why Ukraine’s future matters in the United States

Middle East 101, Week VII

Jan 14: E-Stories

Decoding Chinese mainland's response to Taiwan election results

The Taiwanese People have Spoken

Four essays about Israel and Gaza

Remember the other war

France has a new prime minister

Recognizing Somaliland

"This reality is no longer tolerable. ... It's time for your sons to enlist in the IDF."

Up all night in Kurtuluş: Notes on the energy of a 24-hour neighborhood

A Personal Update

Is Israel a Fragile Country?

Trade War

Taiwanese pray to this water goddess for Ukraine peace

S2 E1. A Mother’s Fortitude: Waiting for Her Daughter’s Release from Hamas Captivity

Hamas Hostages: Day 90

Hiding Behind History

The Neighbor's House is on Fire

Middle East 101 Reading

Myanmar in 2024: Junta in ‘Terminal Decline?’

Middle East 101, Week VI

Gaza war calls Middle East de-escalation into question.

The 2024 Cosmopolitan Globalist Forecast

Anderson v. Griswold: A Debate