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EDITORIAL: Two hours of diesel for sanctions, Donald Trump’s bad bargain
A tanker. Forty thousand tons. Russian diesel. Bound for New York. Enough to cover barely two hours of American demand, analyst Ieva Miyares calculates.

EDITORIAL: It's Not the Taxes. It's What We Get for Them.
You hear it every election cycle, in every tavern, in every comment section. And it is not false. The question was never whether we…

EDITORIAL: Putin wants a final deal and signs it with 21 missiles on Kyiv
Putin wants a final deal. He said so on television. Not a short pause. A full settlement. Nothing less.

EDITORIAL: Peskov names the “price” Ukraine will pay. Arm its sky before Putin’s spring
On September 28, speaking in Moscow, Dmitry Peskov warned that Ukraine would have to “pay a price for the actions that have taken place…

EDITORIAL: American taxpayers pay for a 2024 ad the White House only stripped of its logo
Between two football games, on September 26 and 27, a president walks alone down a hallway and promises the “final battle.”

EDITORIAL: Trump wants Russian refineries spared, and Kyiv must hold its cards while the Kremlin refuses
Donald Trump told reporters on September 27 that he had asked Volodymyr Zelensky to “take it easy” on Russian refineries. We say no.

EDITORIAL: Washington invites Putin to Miami, and Canada must not sit there in silence
Washington is inviting Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Miami in December. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced it on Wednesday, September 23.

EDITORIAL: Trump spares our oil and taxes our hockey sticks, but we will not be his well
Jamieson Greer summed up in three words, on September 25, what Washington still gets out of Canada.

EDITORIAL: Taiwan is not a negotiating chip, so unfreeze the $14 billion before Xi gets his verb
There is still a blank page. On Thursday evening, after Donald Trump met Xi Jinping at the White House, Washington had released no official…