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America and the truth of asymmetric warfare
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America and the truth of asymmetric warfare

From Putin to Tehran and the Palestinians, the west fails to grasp that fanatics mean what they say

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Melanie Phillips
Mar 11, 2022
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The fable of the scorpion and the frog

In an interview about the war against Ukraine, the former Soviet dissident turned Israeli public figure, Natan Sharansky, made a key observation.

Commenting in Tablet that both Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, were far from the strongest in the world, Sharansky shared something he had learned from his time …

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