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This is Harry, along with Will, Pippa, and George Monaghan.
Is Biden toast? Focus only on higher quality pollsters and he is running Trump closer than you might expect. Among those with the best track records he is even tied. Jill Filipovic took a look at the voters he has lost for us this week. The data is also here. Since 2020 he has alienated Black voters, Hispanic voters, young voters, poorer voters, independent voters and moderate voters. Apart from that he’s doing well.
Talking of polls, we were hoping you could settle a debate: which generation reads the Saturday Read the most? (If you’re in the Greatest Generation, pre-1928, let us know.)
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John Mearsheimer – the most influential realist foreign policy thinker of his generation, who critics have cast as too forgiving of Vladimir Putin – spoke with Gavin. The West is mishandling both Russia’s revanchist leader and the Houthis, he argues, and operating under an ongoing delusion about what military force can do. Mearsheimer also reflected on his controversial 2007 book, The Israel Lobby. GM
Putin has made it clear that he does not intend to conquer all of Ukraine, and he has never indicated that he was interested in conquering any other country in eastern Europe, much less western Europe. He also doesn’t have the military capability to conquer Eastern Europe – the Russian army is not the second coming of the Wehrmacht. Even though in Ukraine the balance of power has shifted in Russia’s favour since 2022 the Russians are having a tough time rolling the Ukrainians back. The idea that Russia is going to conquer more territory makes no sense.
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