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George W Bush said that the Iraq war was over in 2003. But those responsible have never answered for the chaos and bloodshed that followed.
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The Unification Church’s far-reaching links with the party of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe led to his assassination, but the country still has few controls over religious cults.
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When Netanyahu returned to office in 2022, there was a ‘silent overhaul’ in the West Bank. Settlers got more military protection and financial support, culminating with the distribution of thousands of firearms after 7 October.
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Since the start of last year, Israeli soldiers and settlers have forced thousands of Palestinians from their land. Israel’s creeping annexation of the West Bank has devastated Palestinian food sovereignty.
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Israel’s attempt to dispossess the Palestinians has for decades included laying siege to their culture. It begins with trying to erase their history from the land and extends to every aspect of daily life.
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Japan’s Communist Party is one of the world’s largest, but its ageing activists keep a low profile. Though its politics have shifted to the centre, admitting communist sympathies still invites ostracism.
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The arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor fractures the British monarchy’s carefully constucted façade — and is a sign of shifting sands.
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Japan wanted an eastern equivalent of the EU to guarantee stability and trade. But who would join, and would the US accept Japan’s exit from a co-dependency guaranteed by treaty since the end of the second world war?
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A century ago, a dying Ottoman empire sought to renew itself by exterminating its Armenian population. This attempt at nation-building through violence has parallels with Israel’s current assault on Gaza.
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When, on the morning of 28 February 2022, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to the European Union on Facebook to let his country join ‘immediately under a new special procedure’, no one took the request seriously.
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In the second world war the West paid scant regard to the slaughter that took place in Eastern Europe – human suffering counted for less in those bloodlands. Tragically, the same dynamic is at work in today’s Middle East.
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To China, possession of the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, which Japan also claims, symbolises naval dominance of the East China Sea and free access to the Pacific. Hence the worsening dispute.
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In 2022 Japan announced a massive increase in its military spending, which will allow it to project its power region-wide in response to China’s ‘strategic challenge’. Its neighbours aren’t happy.
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If opportunities existed in the past years for a negotiated peace in Ukraine, they were not taken. The US volte-face has left Europe scrambling to work out what it means for the continent’s security.
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Why does mention of the Armenian genocide provoke rage in Turkey and how did it become a taboo subject?
Admitting that there were thieves and murderers among those heroes who saved the country would have a shattering effect.
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‘We would be wise to concede that life on Earth is our permanent lot and organise ourselves accordingly. We could always go for a stroll on the Moon or Mars, but that would be exploration, not conquest.’
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The Arab world faces multiple crises: political, economic and environmental. Its best hope is the younger generation, who are tech-savvy, politically astute and more aspirational than their elders.
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Successive US presidents vowed to learn from the Vietnam war, relying on technology, ‘smart’ weapons and local proxies instead of US troops on the ground. Yet still they embark on unwinnable conflicts.
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