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Screen Shot 2016-07-22 at 5crop The Feds Brought Down the World’s Biggest File-Sharing Site
It was back up two days later, showing the futility of keeping the illicit web down.
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Soldiers walk at the national stadium where the NATO summit takes place in Warsaw, Poland on July 9, 2016. The Polish capital hosts a two-day NATO summit, the first time ever that it hosts a top-level meeting of the Western military alliance which it joined in 1999. / AFP / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN (Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images) The NATO Summit’s Winners and Losers
Defense contractors and Eastern Europeans went home happy. Germans, Ukrainians, and Georgians, not so much.
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CLEVELAND, OH - AUGUST 06: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump fields a question during the first Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News and Facebook at the Quicken Loans Arena on August 6, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio. The top ten GOP candidates were selected to participate in the debate based on their rank in an average of the five most recent political polls. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) First, They Came for the Experts
Anti-intellectualism is clearing a path for the spread of populist demagogues across Western democracies.
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polishkid Dragoon Ride (6): What Eastern Europeans say as they watch the U.S. and German militaries head toward Russia
Ultimately, the ability to find common ground will bind us together, even while unscrupulous, ill-intended agents seek to undermine that collective good, particularize us, drive us apart, and set us against one another.
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IMG_3399 Dragoon Ride (5): Flags up! The life of an Army XO heading east toward Russia
Orchestration implies organization and rehearsal. What an audience expects in theater or art becomes astonishing when encountered outside the confines of public performance.
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US_Stryker_DEU_Tank Dragoon Ride (4): Banging toward the Russian border with der Bundeswehr
On June 5th, Task Force Saber, made up of American troopers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and German Panzergrenadiers from the 12th Panzer Brigade, drove 60 miles north, to an airfield in the relatively cosmopolitan Polish city of Bydgoszcz (pronounced Bid-go-sh).
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GettyImages-520274650 crop3 Now Poland’s Government Is Coming After the Internet
Warsaw is tightening control over the Web in the name of national security — and setting an ominous precedent for other democracies.
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Orłowski_Husaria's_attack Dragoon Ride (3): Seeing Poland as medieval Europe’s sword and shield
Everywhere we go, there are reminders of the past here, which Poles remember and Americans have either forgotten or never learned in the first place.
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SHIMA, JAPAN - MAY 27: (CHINA OUT, SOUTH KOREA OUT) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a press conference after the Group of Seven summit on May 27, 2016 in Shima, Mie, Japan. The 2-day Group of Seven summit concludes after discussing key global issues such as global economy and counter terrorism measures. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images) Canada, Ukraine, and Poland Are Having a Passionate Lovefest on Twitter
Poland even used a winky face.
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 28: (AFP OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama shake hands for the cameras before the start of a bilateral meeting at the United Nations headquarters September 28, 2015 in New York City. Putin and Obama are in New York City to attend the 70th anniversary general assembly meetings. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The United States Needs to Keep a Watchful Eye on Putin and Russia
Obama has emboldened our enemies.
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![MOSCOW, RUSSIA. APRIL 29, 2016. Nochnyye Volki [Night Wolves] bikers in Moscow's International Biker Centre before the start of an annual rally from Moscow to Berlin. The race celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Sergei Fadeichev/TASS (Photo by Sergei FadeichevTASS via Getty Images)](https://develop.foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/gettyimages-526010660.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
MOSCOW, RUSSIA. APRIL 29, 2016. Nochnyye Volki [Night Wolves] bikers in Moscow's International Biker Centre before the start of an annual rally from Moscow to Berlin. The race celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Sergei Fadeichev/TASS (Photo by Sergei FadeichevTASS via Getty Images) Pro-Putin Biker Gang Still Can’t Get Into Poland
For the second time, the Night Wolves were blocked from entering Poland to celebrate the Soviet Union's World War II victory.
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ZAGAN, POLAND - JUNE 18: A soldier of the Polish Army mans a tank as a NATO flag flies behind during the NATO Noble Jump military exercises of the VJTF forces on June 18, 2015 in Zagan, Poland. The VJTF, the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, is NATO's response to Russia's annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Troops from Germany, Norway, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania and Holland were among those taking part today. NATO’s Eastern Front Is Being Tested
The alliance should renew its vows in Warsaw – loudly and clearly enough to be heard in Moscow.
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GettyImages-469141540 crop The Ghosts of Smolensk
How the divisive legacy of late President Lech Kaczynski still poisons Poland’s politics.
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GettyImages-496693690 CROPPED Europe’s Big Freedom Fail
It's time for the European Union to get serious about enforcing democratic standards.
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GettyImages-488754365 crop Can Europe Stand Up to Its Own Strongmen?
Eastern Europe is backsliding on democracy — and Brussels isn’t doing anything to stop it.
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