Jonathan Power - weekly columns

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Dec 3, 20244 min read

Walls and fences should come down.

At first, I was a bit surprised to find that the English admonition, “Good fences make for good neighbours” exists in many other...

Nov 20, 20243 min read

To its credit the Soviet Union and its successor state, Russia, has long supported UN peacekeeping, a practice that originated in 1960 in...

Oct 29, 20243 min read

A speech of General George Patton, a famous World War II warrior, has an uncanny resemblance to the philosophy of Donald Trump. “All real...