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American neopatrimonialism

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Source: https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/14211788/gaming-artificial-intelligence-ai-nuanced-communications The normie national-security advisors who dominated the first Trump administration needed a way to make Trump's semi-coherent ramblings legible to the global foreign-policy community. Their answer was "Great Power Competition," especially as articulated in the 2017 U.S. National Security Strategy by its principal...

Via Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/photos/cologne-train-central-station-1510555/) Daniel Drezner has a recent-ish post on "the weaponization of government" by Republicans. It's a perfectly fine, sensible piece. Republicans have been railing about the “weaponization of.

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Republican Putinism

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On April 5, 2022
I know that there's nothing particularly new about regimes using state power to reward supportive oligarchs and corporations while destroying opponents. But the current "global patrimonial wave" — and its relationship to democratic backsliding — tracks back not just to Orbán but, ultimately to Putin....
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Voice of America First?

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In foreign policy
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On July 10, 2020
I've mentioned the VOA before. Yesterday word leaked that the propagandist that Trump put in charge of the VOA plans to let the visas of foreign journalist lapse. In effect, this means that many face persecution, especially those who would have to return to countries...
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