Lynne O'Donnell
Freelance at Freelance
Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine
🇦🇺 Si vis pacem, para bellum Writer. Journalist. @warstudies [email protected] https://t.co/0PgRcUBwLO
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2 weeks ago |
thenewworld.co.uk | Lynne O'Donnell
On Friday morning, after decades of threats often dismissed as political theatre, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorised an Israeli air assault on Iran as an existential necessity for the Jewish state. For Netanyahu, the timing was as critical as the targeting, and as personal as it was strategic. Facing plunging approval ratings, mounting calls for his resignation, and a trust deficit he may never recover from, Netanyahu needed a dramatic pivot: “Operation Rising Lion” gave him one.
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1 month ago |
lynneodonnell.substack.com | Lynne O'Donnell
May 19, 2025 — As Afghans who fled Taliban terror now face deportation from countries they once believed were safe, it is clear that exiled political organisations have failed to build meaningful support for dislodging the Islamists from power. Nearly four years into Taliban rule, the group has deftly embedded itself in global diplomatic discourse, while opposition factions have slid into irrelevance.
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2 months ago |
lynneodonnell.substack.com | Lynne O'Donnell
April 26, 2025 — Afghanistan isn’t safe, yet the United States may soon be responsible for sending our most trusted partners in Afghanistan back to a corrupt and brutal reality where they will be directly targeted for serving alongside American interests – unless the administration and Congress act now.
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2 months ago |
theneweuropean.co.uk | Lynne O'Donnell
In a town that never really liked Donald Trump much anyway, it’s getting harder to find anyone who has a good word to say about him, even grudgingly. And then came the tariffs, which damaged America’s export markets and hammered the stock markets. “The consequences are still unfurling, but the stakes are high,” the NYT columnist Jeff Sommer said of the dangerous volatility the tariffs unleashed.
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2 months ago |
lynneodonnell.substack.com | Lynne O'Donnell
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