Betrayal triggers the strongest emotions in all of us: rage, despair and the longing for revenge. Betrayals in high politics trigger much the same emotions as in private life. The resentment and bitterness that whole peoples can feel when they are betrayed decide what they are determined to avenge and what they are willing to […]

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On February 5, America 2.0 broke news of two memos created by an anonymous group of authors formerly connected to the Neoreactionary or “Dark Enlightenment” movement. Since then, they have created a stir and have been picked up by a variety of outlets, most immediately by Byline Times. Other outlets have also amplified the documents substantially, while making inaccurate […]

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When it comes to raw betrayal of American values, one may struggle to name a day in history worse than yesterday. There are contenders to be sure, but this day had a lot to offer: bringing in an ally to berate him on the world stage, peppering him with Kremlin talking points, leaving Europe gasping, asking — […]

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The American constitutional order has been broken, and it’s not clear it can be recovered. Many are still in denial about it, and continue to report on political machinations, business as usual. But this is just muscle memory: journalists have beats and write the stories they are expected to write, and the great game of […]

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Among the many striking features of Trump’s appalling betrayal of Ukraine has been the gaucheness and utter naïveté of the Trump ‘team’s’ diplomacy. Perhaps Trump thinks it’s clever to break basic rules of effective negotiation, who knows. Watching the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, meet the new US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia […]

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