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Patrick Lawrence
Patrick Lawrence is a longtime correspondent abroad, author and essayist, credited with numerous books and awards. Foreign affairs commentator for 25 years chiefly for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker, and chiefly in Asia. Lawrence was the first to expose the Russiagate fraud.
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The delusion of Biden and the price of power.
It is remarkable how quickly the Biden administration is acquiring its stamp — the watermark it will leave on our parchment when it is done. This will be made of isolation and delusion, in my read. I conclude this partly because of what President Biden and his people have done in the four months since Continue reading »
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One does not accept for a moment that America is exceptional. (The Scrum Nov 9, 2020)
A humane health-care system? No—Biden has already said so. A proper infrastructure program? No. A jobs program, a Green New Deal? No and no. On the foreign side, renovated, 21st century policies toward Russia, North Korea, China, apartheid Israel? No, no, no, and emphatically no. What about the Iran nuclear accord—yes, that one, the one Continue reading »
