<?xml  version='1.0'   encoding='UTF-8'  ?><rss  version='2.0'   xmlns:content='http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/'   xmlns:wfw='http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/'   xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'   xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'   xmlns:sy='http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/'   xmlns:itunes='http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'   xmlns:slash='http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/'  ><channel><title>The Unz Review: Patrick Lawrence's Articles</title><atom:link href='https://www.unz.com/plawrence/blinded-to-syria/feed/'  rel='self'  type='application/rss+xml' /><link>https://www.unz.com</link><description>A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media</description><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:23:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><language>en-US</language><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.9</generator>
<item><title>Desperation Row, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/desperation-row/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/desperation-row/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:00:15 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551054</guid><description><![CDATA[What a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval Office last Friday. The Ukrainian president (who is no longer legitimately the Ukrainian president) arrived for another summit with President Trump with a shopping list of air defense and weapons systems worth $90 billion. Yes, $90 billion. This compares with...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>36</slash:comments></item><item><title>Against Chutzpah, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/against-chutzpah/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/against-chutzpah/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550980</guid><description><![CDATA[I have been reading a lot these past days about how the Israelis treated those they detained when they illegally boarded the vessels that comprised the now-famous aid flotilla that never made it to Gaza’s shores. The Irish — naturally, given their bitter familiarity with imperial aggressions — gave fulsome accounts of the gratuitous brutality...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>226</slash:comments></item><item><title>Let Us Now Bury the Truth (Again), by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/let-us-now-bury-the-truth-again/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/let-us-now-bury-the-truth-again/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550887</guid><description><![CDATA[Headline in the Sunday editions of The New York Times: “A New Test for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?” What a question. Let us set aside our indignation and think about this. The piece below this head is by David Halbfinger, whose trade over the years has been to appear balanced when...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>170</slash:comments></item><item><title>Power and Justice, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/power-and-justice/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/power-and-justice/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:00:33 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550704</guid><description><![CDATA[Those were an eventful few days as the General Assembly convened at the United Nations Secretariat in New York Sept. 22. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco and Andorra formally recognized the state of Palestine on the first day of the General Debate, Sept. 23. Britain, Canada, Australia and Portugal had done so two days earlier....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>129</slash:comments></item><item><title>The War Dept’s War on Media, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/the-war-depts-war-on-media/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/the-war-depts-war-on-media/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550618</guid><description><![CDATA[It should be evident by now to anyone paying even casual attention that exerting full-spectrum control over American media is among the Trump regime’s most perniciously obsessive projects. Of all the extra-constitutional messes this vulgar ignoramus is making, I count his assaults on media his gravest attempt to destroy what remains of American democracy and...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>16</slash:comments></item><item><title>Our Age of Unreason, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/our-age-of-unreason/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/our-age-of-unreason/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550391</guid><description><![CDATA[Remarks delivered in late August at the annual congress of Mut zur Ethik, which translates (a little awkwardly) as “the courage of one’s ethics.” This group gathers in Zürich’s environs each summer to hear a variety of speakers consider a selected theme. This year’s theme was “Reason and Humanity.” — Patrick Lawrence I have titled...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>14</slash:comments></item><item><title>To Whom Goes the Good?, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/to-whom-goes-the-good/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/to-whom-goes-the-good/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:05:15 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550234</guid><description><![CDATA[So many questions arise since a sniper with demonstrated skill assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk in broad daylight on Sept. 10 — this as he addressed a crowd of several thousand no less. We have only our questions as of now, and history suggests these may be all we will ever have as to the...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>77</slash:comments></item><item><title>A Nation of Narcissists, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/a-nation-of-narcissists/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/a-nation-of-narcissists/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549963</guid><description><![CDATA[All those malign authoritarians, more than 20 of them, who gathered in Tianjin at the end of August for a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: This was a festival of anti–Americanism, you need to know. No other way to understand it. Making it all worse, Xi Jinping then invited more than two dozen heads...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>118</slash:comments></item><item><title>The State of the 'State of Palestine', by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/the-state-of-the-state-of-palestine/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/the-state-of-the-state-of-palestine/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549839</guid><description><![CDATA[nited Nations General Assembly sessions, held each September since 51 nations convened in a Methodist church hall in London in 1946, come and go and mostly go without event. The General Assembly is set to begin its 80th session come Sept. 9, and it is difficult to imagine this one will go off uneventfully. To...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>125</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump &amp; the Russophobes, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/trump-the-russophobes/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/trump-the-russophobes/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:05:12 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549661</guid><description><![CDATA[here is no saying yet whether Donald Trump will succeed in negotiating the end of the Ukraine war, or a new era of détente between Washington and Moscow, or new security relations between Russia and the West, or cooperation in the Arctic, or all the goodies to come of reopened trade and investment ties. All...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>123</slash:comments></item><item><title>That Big, Beautiful Summit in Alaska, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/that-big-beautiful-summit-in-alaska/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/that-big-beautiful-summit-in-alaska/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=549341</guid><description><![CDATA[No, the Trump–Putin summit at a joint-forces military base in Anchorage last Friday did not produce an agreement on a ceasefire in Ukraine. President Trump made no reference to “severe consequences” if Vladimir Putin did not consent to such an accord. Nothing was said about new sanctions against Russia and nothing about sanctions against nations...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>118</slash:comments></item><item><title>Yes, It’s a Genocide, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/yes-its-a-genocide/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/yes-its-a-genocide/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548922</guid><description><![CDATA[Correct nomenclature, as I have long argued, is essential for our understanding of things, people, events. Unless we name something properly we will not know how to judge it or what the right course of action may be in response to what it does. This is why our public discourse is so mixed up in...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>198</slash:comments></item><item><title>Washington Takes on the BRICS, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/washington-takes-on-the-brics/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/washington-takes-on-the-brics/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:00:04 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548556</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, it took long enough for the White House and the policy cliques to notice even the existence of the BRICS, the group of non–Western nations named for its first members. For many years after Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa coalesced to form this loose but formidable association, in the last years of...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>102</slash:comments></item><item><title>Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/sun-valley-vs-queensbridge/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/sun-valley-vs-queensbridge/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548322</guid><description><![CDATA[Maybe there was a time in the past when a candidate to become New York City’s mayor prompted as much fervor in some quarters and as much fear and loathing in others as Zohran Mamdani, but I do not recall it. In the 100–odd days until the city votes Nov. 4, we—New Yorkers and the...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>93</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump Dead-Ends Putin, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/trump-dead-ends-putin/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/trump-dead-ends-putin/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:00:56 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=548056</guid><description><![CDATA[Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have spoken by telephone numerous times since the former reassumed office seven months ago. Not much appears to have been accomplished by way of these exchanges, some of which have been lengthy, according to the accounts Washington and Moscow have provided afterward. No progress toward a durable settlement to...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>207</slash:comments></item><item><title>Now What?, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/now-what-2/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/now-what-2/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:00:42 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547926</guid><description><![CDATA[On one hand, you have the White House, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine, the Joint Chiefs chairman, insisting and insisting again — insisting too much, methinks — that those B–2 bombers that flew over Iran two Sundays back, June 22, obliterated the nation’s nuclear program just as President Trump hastily claimed as soon...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>96</slash:comments></item><item><title>'Completely &amp; Totally Obliterated', by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/completely-totally-obliterated/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/completely-totally-obliterated/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:07:34 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547584</guid><description><![CDATA[I have heard many unhinged speeches by American presidents over the years, but — no risk of exaggeration here — Donald Trump’s as he declared “a spectacular military success” after seven B–2 bombers attacked three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night is the barmiest of my lifetime. “The nuclear threat posed by the world’s No....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>271</slash:comments></item><item><title>The World’s Most Dangerous Man and His Enabler, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/the-worlds-most-dangerous-man-and-his-enabler/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/the-worlds-most-dangerous-man-and-his-enabler/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547394</guid><description><![CDATA[It is some years since I described Benjamin Netanyahu as the most dangerous man in West Asia. That was back when we heard all about the menace of the Assad regime in Damascus, the Beelzebub otherwise known as Iran’s supreme leader, and other such unthinkably malign figures. The Israeli prime minister just graduated. By any...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>181</slash:comments></item><item><title>For Whom the Drones Buzz, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/for-whom-the-drones-buzz/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/for-whom-the-drones-buzz/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:05:31 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=547266</guid><description><![CDATA[Those drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report from Moscow yet, but three figures’ worth of Ukrainian drones launched from the backs of trucks destroyed some number of strategic bombers in the Russian fleet. Now we read all over the place — well, all over mainstream...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>52</slash:comments></item><item><title>War in Our Time, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/war-in-our-time/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/war-in-our-time/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 04:02:07 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546843</guid><description><![CDATA[ERLIN—Friedrich Merz has been in office as Germany’s new chancellor a matter of weeks, and already he has the German capital aflutter with worry about the increasing danger of a third world war. More to the point, while Germans are fearful of such a prospect, the Russians are warning of it. In a series of...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>204</slash:comments></item><item><title>The White House as Playpen, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/the-white-house-as-playpen/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/the-white-house-as-playpen/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546756</guid><description><![CDATA[O.K, the Gulf of Mexico will remain so named, and the Government Publishing Office on North Capitol Street in Washington can stand down: The “Gulf of America” idea is no longer much of a kick. In the same line, Greenland will remain a Danish possession. Canada will still be called Canada, and Canadians can continue...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>23</slash:comments></item><item><title>Germany in Crisis Part 4: Wanderers and Seekers, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/germany-in-crisis-part-4-wanderers-and-seekers/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/germany-in-crisis-part-4-wanderers-and-seekers/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=546095</guid><description><![CDATA[This is the last of four reports on Germany in crisis. The preceding parts of this series are here, here, and here. DRESDEN—When Friedrich Merz is formally named Germany’s next chancellor on May 6, it will be a significant event and a nonevent all at once. The war-mongering Merz will lead the Federal Republic down...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>81</slash:comments></item><item><title>Losing &amp; Learning Nothing, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/losing-learning-nothing/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/losing-learning-nothing/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=545977</guid><description><![CDATA[How odd to look back now — now, as Washington’s proxy war in Ukraine ends in ignominious defeat—and think of that cornucopia of propaganda spilling out of what I called during the early months Washington’s “bubble of pretend.” Take a few minutes to remember with me. There was the “Ghost of Kyiv,” an heroic MiG–29...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>35</slash:comments></item><item><title>Germany in Crisis Part 3: A Culture of Submission, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/germany-in-crisis-part-3-a-culture-of-submission/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/germany-in-crisis-part-3-a-culture-of-submission/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=545908</guid><description><![CDATA[This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here. BERLIN— I return briefly to those singular moments when Olaf Scholz stood next to President Joe Biden at a press conference on Feb. 7, 2022, after concluding private talks in the Oval Office....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>143</slash:comments></item><item><title>Germany in Crisis Part 2: A Short History of Exploding Gas Pipelines, by Patrick Lawrence</title><link>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/germany-in-crisis-part-2-a-short-history-of-exploding-gas-pipelines/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/plawrence/germany-in-crisis-part-2-a-short-history-of-exploding-gas-pipelines/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:05:21 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick Lawrence]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=545769</guid><description><![CDATA[This is the second of four reports on Germany’s various crises, the history that produced them and how Germans, other than the neoliberal elites who now hold power, think about their way forward. Part 1 of this series is here. POTSDAM—A single, brief phrase always comes to mind when I think of Germany. Whatever may...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>16</slash:comments></item></channel></rss>