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After the Midterms

Apparently, even Trump has a half-life. We are looking ahead to a slow, ugly decay.The rollercoaster ride after Trump's improbable victory in 2016 mostly distracted the attention from an important sequence of events. Elections. He has made every single one of them about himself and he has lost every single one as well. The 2018 midterms elections, the 2020 presidential elections (making Trump the...
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Ukraine War - current state of affairs

I wanted to write a compact piece to provide a bird's eye view of the current state and future trajectory of the war and quickly realized that brevity and completeness are incompatible. A list of parts to mention only is long enough: the current state, the players, the short-, mid-, and long-term prospects, the military, political and economical aspects, ... So I restrict the scope to the very skeleton...