A conversation with US Senator Dan Sullivan
Mon, Mar 22, 2021 6:30 PM
AN #ACFRONTPAGE EVENT – Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) discusses the future of US strategy toward China and “The Longer Telegram,” a recent Atlantic Council Strategy Paper.Register
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- Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show .What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven -F.A. Hayek -
The Road to Serfdom
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It seemed like the six-power accord on Iran’s nuclear developments was an extraordinary event that was something from another age. Despite some 35 years of mutual hostility and distrust between Iran and the US, Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and the US had achieved a limited, negotiated partnership with Iran to rein in the latter’s nuclear developments in 2015.
The ministers of foreign affairs of France, Germany, the European Union, Iran, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Chinese and Russian diplomats, announcing the framework for a comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 2 April 2015. (Photo: Wikimedia)
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th president is on trial by the U.S. Senate. President Biden took the oath of office in a ghost town. He delivered his inaugural address to a crowd of hundreds, not hundreds of thousands, after a campaign that divided Americans more than any election since 1860.
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Even before the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump supporters before the Nov. 3 election itself a shocking percentage of Americans (23%) asserted that political violence might be justified if the outcome didn’t go their way. As a candidate, Biden expressed apprehension about where such thinking might lead, and in his inaugural address he defined in a single word the trait Americans must summon to meet the challenges of the moment: “unity.”