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We keep hearing the respectable explanations for why Ukraine still isn’t safely inside NATO: procedures, conditions, reforms, consensus, timing and enough diplomatic vocabulary to wallpaper Brussels. But there is one uncomfortable fact that deserves far more prominence: Russia has repeatedly warned that Ukrainian NATO membership crosses a red line, and Western governments plainly have to…
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America has spent decades developing some of the most sophisticated weapons ever created. Its missiles can travel enormous distances, intercept extraordinarily difficult targets and strike with a level of precision that previous generations of military planners could barely have imagined. There is, however, an increasingly uncomfortable question hanging over all that technological brilliance: What happens…
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There is something deeply uncomfortable about watching journalists go undercover among suspected drug networks and people smugglers and thinking: hang on — why does a television newsroom appear able to get closer to this than the authorities? Investigative journalism has an important role precisely because police cannot simply operate like reporters: officers need lawful powers,…

