The Importance of Unified Spend Platforms From Brexit

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The West has every right to arm Ukraine with longer range missiles. It can urge Turkey to allow convoys to be escorted and protected. There are basically a number of ways in which pressure can be brought to bear on Russia. But the more you look at this, the more it looks like a panicky move.

Russia’s axeing of the Black Sea grain deal reveals a war machine running out of options. We explore how to get the deal back on track. A month-long mystery surrounding China’s absent foreign minister has grown deeper: now his memory is being scrubbed from official websites (10:15). And literary criticism has lost its claws—gaining a newfound civility that is bad for readers (16:37).

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