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Analysis | International

Lithuania vs Netherlands: Inside the EU’s Most Polite Knife Fight and Why the World Is Taking Notes
ByDaveslocker 7 September 2025

Lithuania vs. Netherlands: A Quiet Nordic-Baltic Chess Match Played on a Global Board The Hague—Picture two countries that most of the planet still confuses with each other at cocktail parties. One is flat, famous for windmills, and legally high; the other is flat, famous for wind, and emotionally high on existential dread. Yet this week,…

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Current Events | International

Global Week in Review: Oil Caps, Coups, and the Art of Pretending to Care
ByDaveslocker 5 September 2025

The World This Week: A Global Round-Up of Managed Catastrophes By L. M. Valdez, Senior Correspondent, Somewhere Over the Atlantic It’s late spring in the northern hemisphere, which means conference season, summit season, and—if you squint—apology season. From Washington to Davos-by-Zoom, the planet’s most powerful have spent the past seven days issuing statements that read…

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