[Link] Sweden returns to cold war tactics to battle fake news

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

A top official from Sweden’s new “psychological defence” agency said the country had decided to bring back the cold war-era government body amid fears over Russian aggression against Ukraine.

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[Link] Can Reaganism Rise Again?

Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com

For a long time, longer than I’ve held this job, my advice to Republican politicians and policymakers has been consistent: It isn’t the 1970s or 1980s anymore.

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[Link] China Is a Declining Power—and That’s the Problem

Read: 26/9/2021 foreignpolicy.com

Why do great powers fight great wars? The conventional answer is a story of rising challengers and declining hegemons. An ascendant power, which chafes at the rules of the existing order, gains ground on an established power—the country that made those rules.

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