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Fierce response from top Democrats after US intelligence finding was reportedly briefed to Trump in March, but the White House has yet to act US troops in Afghanistan in 2009. Photograph: Manpreet Romana/AFP via Getty Images Outrage has greeted media reports that American officials believe a Russian intelligence unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for […] More
Interview Lisa O’Kelly Four years ago, the author predicted that Trump would transform the US into an autocracy. Now, Gessen believes the country is in a revolutionary moment Read an extract from Masha Gessen’s Surviving Autocracy ‘They both have this contempt for excellence, they both have a hatred of government’: Presidents Trump and Putin at […] More
Why be shocked by John Bolton’s book? Trump’s disasters are always plain to see Simon Tisdall The former national security adviser has laid bare the president’s foreign policy failings. As election day looms, they will only grow worse Former national security adviser John Bolton with President Trump at a Nato meeting in the White House […] More
‘Trump thought I was a secretary’: Fiona Hill on the president, Putin and populism Fiona Hill: ‘What I was most worried about was the toxicity of the issue of Russia.’ Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images She was the White House’s top Russia expert catapulted to fame by Trump’s impeachment. She reflects on her journey […] More
Even leaders who thrive by bullying people have realised that they can’t bully a pandemic. But nor does caution fit easily with their macho political image. Their temptation has been to let it run its course instead. Now the facts are catching up with them. The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has repeatedly dismissed the risks […] More
Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro have been complacent. Now the pandemic has made them all vulnerable Simon Tisdall The world’s strongmen may well end up paying a political price for their cynicism and incompetence Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, centre, and his ministers arriving in Brasilia. Photograph: Joédson […] More
Whereas recent US foreign policy has emboldened the Kremlin, Sanders actually understands how to undermine it He may not be running, but Vladimir Putin is already a formidable presence in the 2020 US presidential campaign. From concerns about Russian aggression abroad to anxieties about electoral interference at home, Putin has become a question to which […] More
