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Jan 15, 2025 | 
ft.com | Bill Emmott
What do you do about a problem with no solution, when any attempt to solve it would almost certainly lead to world war three?
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
asiatimes.com | Bill Emmott
Historians describe the period between September 1939 and May 1940, when words rather than weapons were being deployed between Germany and its European opponents, as “the phony war.” In the United States, we have been witnessing the phony presidency, as President-elect Trump and his allies have deployed words well ahead of being able to take action.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
billemmott.substack.com | Bill Emmott
Here is the link to Mainichi’s online English edition: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250109/p2a/00m/0op/027000cWith the new year under way, much attention has been centred on January 20th, the date when Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. Yet we actually know everything we can at present know about what a new Trump administration will bring and the condition America is in.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
billemmott.substack.com | Bill Emmott
Historians describe the period between September 1939 and May 1940, when words rather than weapons were being deployed between Germany and its European opponents, as “the phoney war”. In the United States we have been witnessing the phoney presidency, as President-elect Trump and his allies have deployed words well ahead of being able to take actions.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
lastampa.it | Bill Emmott
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
mainichi.jp | Bill Emmott
By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultant
With the new year under way, much attention has been centred on January 20th, the date when Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. Yet we actually know everything we can at present know about what a new Trump administration will bring and the condition America is in.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
asiatimes.com | Bill Emmott
It has been a fun holiday game. Social media have been full of images showing Donald Trump as Elon Musk’s servant: bringing him drinks in the Oval Office; cleaning his car windscreen; polishing his shoes. The president-elect even added to the fun by saying at a press conference at Mar a Lago that Musk cannot in fact aspire to being president as he was not born in the United States.
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Dec 28, 2024 | 
lastampa.it | Bill Emmott
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Bill Emmott
Henry Kissinger, the American statesman who died almost exactly a year ago, said of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s that he wished both sides could lose. As 2024 comes to an end and everyone is preparing for Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20, Kissinger’s saying looks horribly apt for the Russian war in Ukraine: both sides are losing. The past 12 months of horrible, attritional conflict have left both sides exhausted, and neither has gained a significant advantage.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Bill Emmott
Too often in the West we suffer from dictator envy, feeling jealous and a bit afraid of the power and decisiveness of today’s autocracies such as Russia and China. This month should act as a corrective for such feelings, for it has been a terrible December for dictators. This does not mean that the liberal West has triumphed. But it does mean that our chances of competing with the autocrats are better than our melancholic form of self-flagellation has led us to believe.
