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Why Russia Would Win in a Nuke Reduction Deal

On June 19, standing at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate, President Barack Obama renewed his pledge to achieve “a world without nuclear weapons,” saying the United States would reduce its cache of nuclear weapons by one-third if Russia does the same. Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the offer, but made a counter-offer. It’s an offer that Putin would love the United States to accept, given that it would cripple the West’s defenses.

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Are US-Taliban Peace Talks Hopeless?

Despite the Obama administration's hopes, the prospects for peace talks with the Taliban are poor given the unlikelihood of the Taliban negotiating in good faith and the Afghan government’s resistance. Although a dispute that threatened to scuttle the first round of U.S.-Taliban negotiations may have been resolved over the weekend, it is unclear whether the talks will still take place.

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Global Reflation is the Main Event

Despite recent concerns over efforts by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to use a reflation policy to boost the Japanese economy, this is becoming a global strategy, says LIGNET Special Economic Adviser Dr. Peter Warburton. However, Warburton advises that there are some bumps in the road for the world’s turn toward reflation.

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Syria Is Now the Front Line in a Sunni-Shia Struggle

Clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims over differing interpretations of Islam are increasingly to blame for the violence in the Middle East. And nowhere is the clash between the two denominations as pronounced as it is in Syria, where mostly Sunni Muslim rebels and foreign al-Qaeda fighters have taken on the Shia regime of Bashar al-Assad. Whichever one, Shia or Sunni, wins the civil war in Syria will have won a big prize, and will see its power in the Middle East significantly increased.

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