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<item><title>How Much Longer Can Putin Ignore Reality?, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/how-much-longer-can-putin-ignore-reality/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/how-much-longer-can-putin-ignore-reality/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:10:29 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551232</guid><description><![CDATA[Russia’s President Putin should read The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and ponder the famous statement that “it is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” Putin’s problem is that he is neither loved nor feared. Western propaganda has made him unloved, and Putin himself has made himself not feared. President Trump...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>AI and the Digital Revolution Are Bringing a Socialist Revolution, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-bringing-a-socialist-revolution/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-bringing-a-socialist-revolution/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551231</guid><description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of workers are falling victim to job cuts at Amazon, UPS, Nestlé, and other large companies, in an economy increasingly destroyed by AI. Amazon, which recently said that AI would result in 600,000 lost Amazon jobs, announced in a message to employees yesterday that it would reduce its workforce by 14,000 as...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Camp of the Saints Is Now Denmark’s Official Policy, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-camp-of-the-saints-is-now-denmarks-official-policy/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-camp-of-the-saints-is-now-denmarks-official-policy/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551205</guid><description><![CDATA[Replacement of White Populations Is Now Official Policy of Governments of White Countries. Denmark’s State Television Has Ads Warning White Danish from Breeding with Other White People. The State TV Calls It Inbreeding and suggests it can result in a population with health problems. The official policy is to turn Danish ethnics into a chocolate-colored...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>President Trump Needs to Turn Attention to Our Problems, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/president-trump-needs-to-turn-attention-to-our-problems/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/president-trump-needs-to-turn-attention-to-our-problems/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:42 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551178</guid><description><![CDATA[Do you remember when we were told that the “Reagan deficit” was going to destroy the economy? In the past two and one-third months ending October 15 the US national debt increased by $1 trillion. That is five times greater in a mere 71 days than David Stockman’s exaggerated “$200 billion annual deficits as far...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Sizing Up Trump and Putin, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/sizing-up-trump-and-putin/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/sizing-up-trump-and-putin/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551151</guid><description><![CDATA[Sizing Up Trump Approaching a year since Trump’s third election as president, how do we sum him up? He has done good things. He has closed the border. He is attempting to deport some of the many millions of illegal immigrants that the Democrats brought into our country. He freed the January 6 protesters framed...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>There Will be No Ukraine Peace Deal:  Putin Should Quickly Win the Conflict Before It Leaves His Control. Otherwise, a Big War Is in the Making, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/there-will-be-no-ukraine-peace-deal-putin-should-quickly-win-the-conflict-before-it-leaves-his-control-otherwise-a-big-war-is-in-the-making/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/there-will-be-no-ukraine-peace-deal-putin-should-quickly-win-the-conflict-before-it-leaves-his-control-otherwise-a-big-war-is-in-the-making/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:00:01 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551099</guid><description><![CDATA[One wonders how much longer Putin and Lavrov will take it or even if they comprehend the situation. For four years Putin and Lavrov have demonstrated enormous interest in ending the conflict by resolving the basic cause. The West has never bothered to understand that the basis of the conflict is Washington’s hegemonic foreign policy...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Clearly the Military/Security Complex Does Not Expect Trump to Deliver Peace, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/clearly-the-military-security-complex-does-not-expect-trump-to-deliver-peace/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/clearly-the-military-security-complex-does-not-expect-trump-to-deliver-peace/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:05:52 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551076</guid><description><![CDATA[Gilbert Doctorow and I have pointed out that Putin’s effort to prevent wider war has caused wider war. The White House’s cancellation of the meeting of Trump with Putin in Hungary is powerful evidence of Putin’s strategic blunder of pretending that the war the West has declared on Russia was merely a limited military operation...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Camp of the Saints, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-camp-of-the-saints-9/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-camp-of-the-saints-9/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551075</guid><description><![CDATA[Reports, such as these: Racism Against Indigenous Europeans by their own Governments: The UK Horror Story How Racism against Whites was legitimized by Marxist Multiculturalism UK Authoritarian Control: This age will be viewed as the darkest stain on British history, says the Christian activist, Tommy Robinson The Downfall of Europe: Former UK PM Liz Truss...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Destruction of America Is What the Democrats Stand for, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-destruction-of-america-is-what-the-democrats-stand-for/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-destruction-of-america-is-what-the-democrats-stand-for/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:00:32 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551060</guid><description><![CDATA[The Democrat Party needs to change its name as it certainly isn’t democratic. The Democrats have shut down the government in order to prevent democracy from working. By freezing the government, they are trying to prevent the MAGA agenda that the people voted for. The Democrat’s method of operation is: When you can’t steal 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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Can the Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Succeed?, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/can-the-trump-putin-meeting-in-hungary-succeed/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/can-the-trump-putin-meeting-in-hungary-succeed/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:10:03 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551026</guid><description><![CDATA[The meeting between Trump and Putin in Hungary, assuming the pre-meeting negotiations between the envoys of the two presidents get that far, is likely the last chance for peace instead of war. An agreement between the two presidents will require large adjustments in position for one or the other or both. Either Trump would have...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>What Is the Real Reason for Sarkozy’s Prison Sentence?, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/what-is-the-real-reason-for-sarkozys-prison-sentence/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/what-is-the-real-reason-for-sarkozys-prison-sentence/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551025</guid><description><![CDATA[I never cared for former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Nevertheless, I see his conviction for campaign funding irregularities as a payback for something other than the official charge. I am puzzled by, and have read no explanation of, why the establishment, including Washington, that selected him as France’s president after serving as a mayor for...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Who Buried the Investigation of Charlie Kirk’s Murder?, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/who-buried-the-investigation-of-charlie-kirks-murder/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/who-buried-the-investigation-of-charlie-kirks-murder/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551008</guid><description><![CDATA[It has been one month and 10 days since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and we still know nothing factual about it. The information or disinformation that has come out is nonsensical. Andrew Kolvet, a spokesman for Turning Point USA and executive producer of The Charlie Kirk Show, said the doctor who examined Kirk told him that...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Only 49% of Americans Support Designating Antifa a Terrorist Organization, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/only-49-of-americans-support-designating-antifa-a-terrorist-organization/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/only-49-of-americans-support-designating-antifa-a-terrorist-organization/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551007</guid><description><![CDATA[If the report is correct, a poll found that only 49% of American voters support the violent anti-white organization Antifa’s designation as a terrorist organization. 30% oppose and 21% are unsure. 80% of Democrats oppose. Antifa is the group that looted and burned the business districts in many American cities with full enablement and protection...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>The No Kings Protest Is Insurrection, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-no-kings-protest-is-insurrection/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-no-kings-protest-is-insurrection/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 04:00:43 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550989</guid><description><![CDATA[According to America’s Whore Media, yesterday the No Kings Protests Drew 7 Million Americans at 2,700 separate rallies The No Kings protest is a form of insurrection. The aim is to stop the functioning of democracy in the name of democracy by branding the reduction of DEI, closing of borders, and deportation of illegal aliens,...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Is the Last Chance for Peace, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-trump-putin-meeting-in-hungary-is-the-last-chance-for-peace/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-trump-putin-meeting-in-hungary-is-the-last-chance-for-peace/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:10:18 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550955</guid><description><![CDATA[Gilbert Doctorow and I share the belief that unless Putin responds more firmly than he has been inclined to do to the West’s provocations, war is inevitable. Hungary, led by the only intelligent leader in Europe, has arranged a meeting in Budapest between Trump and Putin. I suspect that this is the last chance 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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Democrats Are Openly Committing Insurrection, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/democrats-are-openly-committing-insurrection/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/democrats-are-openly-committing-insurrection/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:00:41 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550954</guid><description><![CDATA[Do you remember when protesters gathered in Washington to protest the stolen 2020 presidential election? The few, who were at the Capitol rather than at the Washington Monument where Trump was speaking, were labeled “insurrectionists” by Democrat liars and whore media. They were arrested on entirely false charges, prosecuted by a totally corrupt Biden regime...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Russia No Longer Acknowledges Acts of War, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/russia-no-longer-acknowledges-acts-of-war/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/russia-no-longer-acknowledges-acts-of-war/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:10:22 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550938</guid><description><![CDATA[Putin initiated the Russian policy of not acknowledging acts of war when he defined the attack on Russia’s strategic bomber force as an “act of terrorism” in order to evade his responsibility to respond. Anticipating Washington’s delivery of nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, the Kremlin has defined their use against Russia as “terrorist attacks aimed...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Reality, Like Facts, Is No Longer Applicable to Western Decision Making, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/reality-like-facts-is-no-longer-applicable-to-western-decision-making/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/reality-like-facts-is-no-longer-applicable-to-western-decision-making/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550937</guid><description><![CDATA[I have emphasized the extreme danger Western peoples face from empowering leaders or decision makers who do not exist in reality. Instead, they live in false narratives of their own construction. At a meeting of defense ministers of NATO countries, the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte presented a fantasy picture of overwhelming NATO military superiority...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>America Needs a Political Party That Represents Americans, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/america-needs-a-political-party-that-represents-americans/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/america-needs-a-political-party-that-represents-americans/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550910</guid><description><![CDATA[In the 20th century, the difference between Republicans and Democrats was between a party that wants citizens rewarded on merit and a party that wants citizens rewarded based on needs. It was Democrats who gave the needy property rights, sometimes called entitlements, via taxation, rent control, and other redistributive methods in the incomes of taxpayers....]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump Learns the Cost of Being Tough, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/trump-learns-the-cost-of-being-tough/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/trump-learns-the-cost-of-being-tough/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550885</guid><description><![CDATA[Ron Unz tells us the consequence of Trump’s Diplomacy by Threat Read the entire article here: The Chinese have “suddenly imposed an unprecedented new wave of licensing requirements on the import and use of the rare earths that they mine and refine, as well as the vital small magnets produced from those compounds. These extremely...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>“African Rulers Virulently Opposed British Antislavery Efforts”–Taki, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/african-rulers-virulently-opposed-british-antislavery-efforts-taki/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/african-rulers-virulently-opposed-british-antislavery-efforts-taki/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:10:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550867</guid><description><![CDATA[Taki Theodoracopulos knows his history. African tribes conducted slave wars on one another prior to the discovery of the Americas. The conquering of others and enslaving them released the warriors of the successful tribe from ordinary work, thereby permitting them to concentrate full time on their fighting ability. Surplus slaves were sold for revenues 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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Putin Stupidly Allowed the Americans to Define His Options in Ukraine, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/putin-stupidly-allowed-the-americans-to-define-his-options-in-ukraine/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/putin-stupidly-allowed-the-americans-to-define-his-options-in-ukraine/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550866</guid><description><![CDATA[The West gave Putin two options of how he could conduct the war he was forced into: (1) If Putin quickly subdued Russia’s foe, it would be a sign that Europe was next and opposition to Russia would rise. (2) On the other hand, if Putin fought for very limited aims, it would allow 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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>War Is Our Future, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/war-is-our-future/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/war-is-our-future/#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550824</guid><description><![CDATA[The reason war archives are withheld from publication for years after the war is over is that time is needed for court historians to instill in the minds of the population that the official narrative is correct and that any deviation from the official narrative is a conspiracy theory. The claim that the withholding 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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>It Looks Like It Will be War That Resolves the Conflict Between the West and Russia, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/it-looks-like-it-will-be-war-that-resolves-the-conflict-between-the-west-and-russia/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/it-looks-like-it-will-be-war-that-resolves-the-conflict-between-the-west-and-russia/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:01:47 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550804</guid><description><![CDATA[I have labeled Putin’s conduct of war in Ukraine a strategic blunder that has ever-widened the war and is on the verge of spiraling out of control if Trump delivers nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. The way Putin has conducted the war, now approaching four years in duration, has maximized Russian casualties. Putin stupidly never...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump’s Military Reforms Are Necessary, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/trumps-military-reforms-are-necessary/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/trumps-military-reforms-are-necessary/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=550803</guid><description><![CDATA[Russians Are Not Able Thinkers when It Comes to Understanding the US, and neither does it seem are others. Russian Journalist Vitaly Ryumshin says Trump’s clearing out “generals in dresses” is “the most radical military shift in a century.” Nonsense! Returning a military to fighting condition is not radical. The radical shift occurred under Obama...]]></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>0</slash:comments></item></channel></rss>