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Truss’s warmongering rhetoric is empty, antagonistic – and wildly dangerous | Simon Jenkins
The potential PM’s plan to cut benefits and boost defence spending merely serves her craving for the theatre o…
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Biden isn’t the first president to promise never to wage another war of intervention | Simon Jenkins
Military adventurism has long appealed to western politicians – even those who say they will not meddle in oth…
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Tony Blair damns the Afghan withdrawal but he would do better to show remorse | Simon Jenkins
The former PM has some nerve to say the west should stay on in Afghanistan to protect the ‘gains’ of his 2001 …
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The west’s nation-building fantasy is to blame for the mess in Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins
British MPs have turned on Boris Johnson – but what tidy end did they expect from this imperialist experiment?…
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What did 20 years of western intervention in Afghanistan achieve? Ruination | Simon Jenkins
Britain’s justifications for invading were having influence and deterring terror. They are just neo-imperialis…