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Defense Doctrine, Davos Delusions, and Decline in Plain Sight: Zelensky Overreaches, Europe Balks, Lavrov Audits
On Monday’s International Flavor, Samuel Trapp opens with Washington’s newly released 2026 National Defense Strategy—contrasting U.S. framing with foreign reactions—before turning to Davos fallout. Zelensky’s late, combative appearance is dissected as escalation theater rather than statesmanship, especially his Greenland rhetoric and demands on Europe. Germany’s Friedrich Merz is examined as a manager of decline, while AfD’s Alice Weidel detonates the Nord Stream taboo. The hour closes with a deep dive into Sergey Lavrov’s annual foreign policy “audit,” Zakharova’s caustic realism, and signs…
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