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Source: Thomas Fazi for UnHerd

“European leaders have come to rely on the spectre of a permanent Russian threat to justify their ongoing erosion of democracy — from expanding online censorship to persecuting dissenting voices, and even cancelling elections, all under the pretext of combating “Russian interference”.”

After Anchorage, Trump…said that a peace deal was preferable to a ceasefire, and that secondary sanctions were off the table. For Putin, this was a major win. For the US, it was an implicit admission that Washington lacks the leverage to impose terms.