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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, July 14, 2025

July 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Lady Liberty Sent Back to France by Jeff Koterba, patreon.com/jeffreykoterba

The Flagler County Commission holds a 1 p.m. workshop to discuss the potential leasing of Bull Creek, and to discuss next year’s budget. It meets again at 5 p.m. The Bunnell City Commission meets. The menhirs of Carnac in Brittany, and the magnificence of a scene from Casablanca on Bastille Day.

Grover Norquist Gets His Wish: Drowning Government in a Bathtub

July 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, speaks on Capitol Hill on Nov. 7, 2017.

As he has done since the 1980s, Grover Norquist continues to exert outsized influence over the GOP. For more than four decades, Norquist has been a relentless advocate for fiscal conservatism. He is the living embodiment of an ideological thread that stretches from Goldwater to Reagan to Gingrich to current GOP leadership.

Lawmakers Describe ‘Disturbing, Vile Conditions’ at Everglades Migrant Prison

July 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

An actual sign paid for by the state of Florida, pictured here by Florida GOP Sen. Blaise Ingoglia in a selfie. he posted on X.

U.S. Democratic representatives characterized the state-run migrant prison in the Everglades as a cruel and wasteful political stunt following a guided tour Saturday. “There are really disturbing, vile conditions, and this place needs to be shut the hell down,” said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The South Florida Democrat said 32 men slept in each of the cages with bed bunks and three sinks attached to the toilets. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced hundreds of people started arriving on July 2.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, July 13, 2025

July 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Trump Opens National Forests To Loggers by Peter Kuper, PoliticalCartoons.com

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Gamble Jam: in Flagler Beach’s Roger Gamble Recreation Area, Edouard Riou’s illustrations for Jules Verne’s extraordinary journeys, and the Florida shipwreck.

Self-Censorship Is Silencing Americans in Public

July 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Polarization has led many people to feel they’re being silenced.

For decades, Americans’ trust in one another has been on the decline, according to the most recent General Social Survey. A major factor in that downshift has been the concurrent rise in the polarization between the two major political parties. Supporters of Republicans and Democrats are far more likely than in the past to view the opposite side with distrust.

The Texas Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come

July 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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The rapid onset of disruptive climate change — driven by the burning of oil, gasoline and coal — is making disasters like this one more common, more deadly and far more costly to Americans, even as the federal government is running away from the policies and research that might begin to address it.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, July 12, 2025

July 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Fossil Fuels Money Floods US Capitol by R.J. Matson, Portland, Maine.

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Peps Art Walk at Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, re-reading Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the earliest origins of the Nautilus.

The Justice Department Is Planning to Strip Citizenship from Naturalized Americans

July 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Denaturalization is different from deportation, which removes noncitizens from the country. With civil denaturalization, the government files a lawsuit to strip people’s U.S. citizenship after they have become citizens, turning them back into noncitizens who can then be deported. The current administration wants to do this on a massive scale.

Cancer’s Leading Cause? Aging.

July 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A radiotherapy mask that immobilizes the patient during radiation therapy. (© FlaglerLive)

If you were to ask most people what causes cancer, the answer would probably be smoking, alcohol, the sun, hair dye or some other avoidable element. But the most important risk factor for cancer is something else: aging. That’s right, the factor most associated with cancer is unavoidable — and a condition that we will all experience.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, July 11, 2025

July 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Funding Cuts by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres features Palm Coast Council member Charles Gambaro on the latest Norris follies, the very good and the very bad of Harry Elmer Barnes, and a sum-up of the mostly very bad Supreme Court term.

‘Big Beautiful Bill: Dirtier Energy, Higher Prices

July 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The nearly 900-page bill that the president signed slashes incentives for wind and solar energy, batteries, electric cars and home efficiency while expanding subsidies for fossil fuels and biofuels. That will leave Americans burning more fossil fuels despite strong public and scientific support for shifting to renewable energy.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, July 10, 2025

July 10, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

From Clay Jones.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets, Model Yacht Club races in Central park in Town Center, a text exchange on the next Nobel Peace Prize, remembrances of Kissinger and Le Duc Tho.

Hezbollah Weakened, Iran Crippled, Syria Defeated: Lebanon has a Chance to Cut Its Own Path. Will It Seize It?

July 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

An apartment building on Rue Ashrafieh in beirut still bearing the marks of the 1975-1990 civil war. (© Xavier Deman for FlaglerLive)

Iran is weakened and vulnerable after a 12-day war with Israel. Hezbollah, Tehran’s main ally in Lebanon, had already lost a lot of its fighters, arsenal and popular support during its own war with Israel in October 2024. Changing regional dynamics give the Lebanese state an opening to chart a more neutral orientation and extricate itself from neighboring conflicts that have long exacerbated the divided and fragile country’s chronic problems.

U.S. Supreme Court Deals Blow to Florida’s Enforcement of Anti-Immigration Law in Rebuff to Uthmeier

July 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier that would have at least temporarily allowed enforcement of a new state law targeting undocumented immigrants who enter the state. Uthmeier last month asked the Supreme Court for a stay of a temporary injunction that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued in April to block the law. Such a stay, if granted, would have allowed enforcement of the law while an underlying legal battle about the injunction played out. The Supreme Court denied the stay request.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, July 9, 2025

July 9, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Musk is Wrong Messenger for 3rd Party by Jonathan Brown, PoliticalCartoons.com

Heat index values up to 105, Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Separation Chat, reflections on Mike’s Watch Repair at the Volusia Mall and Matthew Desmond on American inequalities.

Is Universal Rent Assistance a Solution to Housing Crisis?

July 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Thousands of American families that can’t find affordable apartments are stuck living in extended-stay motels.

Research shows little connection between a shortfall of housing and rental affordability problems. Even a massive infusion of new housing would not shrink housing costs enough to solve the crisis, as rents would likely remain out of reach for many households. However, there are already subsidies in place that ensure that some renters in the U.S. pay no more than 30% of their income on housing costs. The most effective solution is to make these subsidies much more widely available.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, July 8, 2025

July 8, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The Palm Coast City Council, meeting under Mike Norris for the first time since he lost his court case to get Charles Gabaro off the council, meets to discuss its budget, the Flagler School Board holds a pair of meetings, Clay Jones on funding Florida’s concentration camp with FEMA money, the Library of America publishes a two-set anthology of the Jim Crow era.

Why Texas Hill Country Is Such a Deadly Place for Flooding

July 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

A Kerrville, Texas, resident watches the flooded Guadalupe River on July 4, 2025

Texas Hill Country is known for its landscapes, where shallow rivers wind among hills and through rugged valleys. That geography also makes it one of the deadliest places in the U.S. for flash flooding.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, July 7, 2025

July 7, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Boiling Frogs by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets, the bill the Senate just passed adds 3.25 trillion to the national debt, John Oliver on the bill, Amin Maalouf on not getting do-overs in history.

One Green Sea Turtle Can Contain the Equivalent Of 10 Ping Pong Balls In Plastic

July 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A detail from a sea turtle sculpture sponsored by the Palm Coast Arts Foundation.

Sea turtles ingest plastic debris of a variety of shapes and sizes, which can include pre-production pellets, foam, plastic bags, sheets, fishing gear and food wrappers. Their ingestion of plastic can come with a slew of negative impacts, some of which include starvation, emaciation and damage to the gut lining. Sea turtles can also become entangled in plastic nets and rope.

As Texas Flood Death Toll Passes 50, Questions Arise Over Adequate Warnings and NWS Staffing

July 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Kerr County, Texas, was hardest-hit by catastrophic flooding in Texas Hill Country, northwest of San Antonio.

Catastrophic flooding that has claimed more than 50 lives in Texas came amid concerns about staffing levels at the NWS, after the Trump administration fired hundreds of meteorologists this year as part of Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts. The NWS Austin/San Antonio office’s warning coordination meteorologist announced in April that he was retiring early due to the funding cuts, leading to speculation that vacancies could have impacted forecasters’ response.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, July 6, 2025

July 6, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Israel food distribution by Tom Janssen, The Netherlands

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, when personal libraries risk becoming a liability, Peter Arnett remembers interviewing Osama bin Laden, Dred Scott is making a comeback.

Trump Is Shutting Down 3 Key Weather Satellites Ahead of Peak Storm Season

July 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Many coastal communities rely on satellite data to understand the risks as hurricanes head their way.

On June 25, 2025, the Trump administration issued a service change notice announcing that the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, DMSP, and the Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center would terminate data collection, processing and distribution of all DMSP data by July 31. The satellite data helps meteorologists create weather forecasts that keep planes and ships safe and prepare countries for a potential hurricane landfall.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, July 5, 2025

July 5, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Clay Jones on the degenerate merchandizing of Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Georges Simenon’s Lock 14, or what’s behind the name of a book title.

Welcoming Immigrants, Detroit Ends Decades of Population Declines

July 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

The Mexican-American community in southwest Detroit held a rally in March 2025, asking ICE to leave the immigrant community alone.

Detroit’s population grew in 2024 for the second year in a row. This is a remarkable comeback after decades of population decline in the Motor City. What explains the turnaround? One factor may be Detroit’s efforts to attract and settle immigrants.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, July 4, 2025

July 4, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Founding Fathers Fireworks by Gary McCoy, Shiloh, IL

Independence Day Events in Flagler Beach and Palm Coast and Evening Fireworks, with midday First Friday in Flagler Beach, when Harvard chose to celebrate its anniversary as Emerson would have disapproved, with a few reminders from his “American Scholar.”

Who’s the Most American? Too Often, Biases Say It’s White English Speakers.

July 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Many people who explicitly endorse egalitarian ideals, such as the notion that all Americans are deserving of the rights of citizenship regardless of race, still implicitly harbor prejudices over who’s “really” American. White and Asian participants in a study responded most quickly in matching the white faces with “American,” even when they initially expressed egalitarian values. Black Americans implicitly saw Black and white faces as equally American – though they too implicitly viewed Asian faces as being less American.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, July 3, 2025

July 3, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Tax The Rich and Other Political Buttons by R.J. Matson, Portland

Mayor Mike Norris’s lawsuit against the city and Charles Gambaro goes before Judge France, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, the Australian cat-kidnappers of “Lebanon Days.”

Christian Nationalism Raises Its Flag at the Pentagon

July 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s affiliation with the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches – commonly called the CREC – drew attention even before his confirmation hearings in January 2025. More recently, media reports highlighted a Pentagon prayer led by Hegseth and his pastor, Brooks Potteiger, in which they praised President Donald Trump, who they said was divinely appointed.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, July 2, 2025

July 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

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Weekly Chess Club for Teens, the Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee meets, the Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets, Jay Gardner’s birthday, John McEnroe at his tennis academy, Casanova on love.

Bill Moyers’ Brilliant, Humane Journalism Strengthened Democracy

July 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

This photo of Bill Moyers was taken in 1996, three decades into his journalism career.

Bill Moyers, who died at 91 on June 26, 2025, was among the most acclaimed broadcast journalists of the 20th century. He’s known for TV news shows that exposed the role of big money in politics and drew attention to unsung defenders of democracy, such as community organizer Ernesto Cortés Jr. Earlier in his life, Moyers served in significant roles in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, but his fame comes from his journalism.

Pulitzer Prize Board Appeals to Supreme Court to Halt Trump Defamation Lawsuit

July 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Pulitzer medal. (Wikimedia Commons)

Pulitzer Prize board members have gone to the Florida Supreme Court as they seek to halt a defamation lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed after the board refused to rescind a 2018 award to The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, July 1, 2025

July 1, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Big Beautiful Tax Cuts For The Rich by R.J. Matson, Portland, Maine.

The Bunnell Planning Board discusses a retail project on the west side, The Palm Coast City Council holds an evening meeting, a few more thoughts on the Schbertian “Memory of Old Jack,” and some late Schubert.

One in 3 Florida 3rd Graders Have Untreated Cavities. Now a New Law Prohibits Fluoride in Water.

June 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

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Florida ranks among the worst states in the U.S. for dental care access, with over 5.9 million residents living in dental care health professional shortage areas. a new Florida law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May 2025 and going into effect on Tuesday (July 1), now prohibits local governments from adding fluoride to public drinking water. This makes other preventive treatments even more essential. Fluoride varnish, recommended by pediatric and dental associations, is a topical treatment that should be applied every 3-6 months to reduce the risk of tooth decay.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, June 30, 2025

June 30, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Total Obliteration of Truth by R.J. Matson, Portland

The total obliteration of truth, so naturally nobody wants to do anything today, how housing assistance falls short, how architecture shapes humanity, Dickens’s Bleak House.

The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Win in New York

June 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters in Brooklyn on May 4, 2025.

Top Republicans and Democrats alike are talking about the sudden rise of 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani, a state representative who won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York on June 24, 2025, in a surprising victory over more established politicians. Some establishment Democratic politicians say they are concerned about how the democratic socialist’s progressive politics could harm the broader Democratic Party and cause it to lose more centrist voters.

Sarasota County Officials Downplayed Flood Risk. Tropical Storm Debby Exposed their Failures.

June 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Sarasota County’s stormwater system is designed to steer floodwaters away from homes and businesses and safely to the coast. When Tropical Storm Debby hit in August 2024, the system proved dangerously unprepared when it mattered most — not because the system was overwhelmed, but because those in charge neglected to protect it, an investigation found.,

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, June 29, 2025

June 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Trump Bombs Iran by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

On the pleasures of smoking a pipe from Casanova to Flaubert to Yusuff Ali to John Updike to Simenon, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Pat Bagley on the bombing of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court Doesn’t Want You To Choose Your Own Doctor

June 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Killing Planned Parenthood

Having the freedom to choose your own health care provider is something many Americans take for granted. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority ruled on June 25, 2025, in a 6-3 decision that people who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance don’t have that right.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, June 28, 2025

June 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

I Hate Sequels by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian

Peps Art Walk, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. eat Beachfront Grille in Flagler Beach, the Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, Bruce Springsteen Hometown, Wendell Berry and Old Jack’s memories.

Understanding the Supreme Court Ruling Against Universal Injunctions

June 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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When presidents have tried to make big changes through executive orders, they have often hit a roadblock: A single federal judge, whether located in Seattle or Miami or anywhere in between, could stop these policies across the entire country. But the Supreme Court has just significantly limited this judicial power.

Environmental Groups Sue in Federal Court to Stop Everglades Stockade for Migrants

June 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Environmental groups Friday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to halt construction and operation of a detention center for undocumented immigrants that has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” saying it threatens ecologically sensitive areas and species in the surrounding Everglades and Big Cypress National Preserve. The lawsuit, filed by the group Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity, alleges that federal and state agencies have violated laws that, in part, require evaluating potential environmental impacts before such a project can move forward.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, June 27, 2025

June 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The rainbow of these times by Becs, CagleCartoons.com

Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, the Friday Blue Forum, Georges Lefebvre, Napoleon, and that bogus assassination attempt on 18 Brumaire.

Canada’s Strong Borders Act Is Bad News

June 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

American ‘Elbows Up for Canada’ protesters gather near The Peace Bridge border crossing in Buffalo, N.Y., in April 2025.

The Canadian government advanced the controversial Strong Borders Act covering a wide swath of proposed legislative changes, from intensified border security measures to more restrictive immigration and asylum policies. Embedded within the proposed legislation are significant risks to digital privacy, along with increased executive authority — also known as “warrantless” powers — without judicial or civilian oversight. In these respects, the proposed Canadian legislation could be considered more worrisome than American travel bans.

DeSantis Joins Other Southern States to Develop Anti-‘Woke’ University Accreditation System

June 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Rebranded for Kool-Aid. (© FlaglerLive)

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced, alongside State University System Chancellor Ray Rodrigues and university leaders from Texas and South Carolina, that the states are developing a Commission for Public Higher Education that will combat “woke” ideologies such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, and remake state higher education institutions to be more conservative.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, June 26, 2025

June 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Palm Coast Concert Series at the Stage at Town Center with Half Step Down FLA, The Flagler Beach City Commission talks Beachwalk/Boardwalk redesign, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, J.M. Coetzee on the barbarians.

Bombing Iraq’s Osirak Nuke Plant Fueled Saddam’s Ambitions

June 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Osirak nuclear power research station in 1981.

Israel, with the assistance of U.S. military hardware, bombs an adversary’s nuclear facility to set back the perceived pursuit of the ultimate weapon. We have been here before, about 44 years ago. In 1981, Israeli fighter jets supplied by Washington attacked an Iraqi nuclear research reactor being built near Baghdad by the French government. It didn’t work. Had Saddam not invaded Kuwait over a matter not related to security, it is very possible that Baghdad would have had a nuclear weapon capability by the mid-to-late 1990s.

DeSantis Scoffs at Environmental and Ethical Concerns Over 1,000-Bed Migrant Stockade in Everglades

June 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking the USF Health Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare in Tampa on June 25, 2025. (Photo by Mitch Perry/Florida Phoenix)

Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that the temporary detention center being constructed at an isolated Everglades airfield will have “zero impact” on Everglades restoration, rebuking concerns by environmental advocates and local officials who say the project threatens drinking water and protected land. He scoffed at environmental and ethical concerns while appearing at a bill-signing event in Tampa on Wednesday, contending the opposition from critics stems from their antipathy to the crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, June 25, 2025

June 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Iraq Missioned Accomplished Iran One and Done by R.J. Matson, Portland.

‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Hall with Council Member Theresa Pontieri, The River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meeting, Separation Chat, Open Discussion, the erasure of transgender people.

Europe Can Lead the World the US Is Abandoning. But Will It Seize the Moment?

June 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

The Place de Brouckère in Brussels, the Belgian city considered the capital of the European Union. (© FlaglerLive)

Europe’s decision-making processes are sub-optimal. Indeed, they were built for a different age. There is no shared voice on foreign policy – the EU has been able to say far less on Gaza than individual countries like Spain or the UK, for example. This may have the practical consequence of eroding the “moral leadership” that should still be Europe’s soft advantage.

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