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The Latest Articles by Simon Tisdall

Joe Biden got plenty right at home, but on the world stage he let himself be taken for a fool

In another era, the outgoing president would have made a great cold war leader. Instead, his tenure was dogged by errors, naivety and overcaution

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Cocksure Kim Jong-un is raising the nuclear stakes. Is it time for South Korea to follow suit?

Under Donald Trump, the US may become an unreliable ally. The case is getting stronger for Seoul to build its own deterrent

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From climate denial to gothic movies to ‘treat culture’ … what to expect in 2025

The new US president will almost certainly bring unpredictability but several themes will dominate the year ahead. Observer writers offer their guide on what lies ahead in politics, film, fashion, sport and more

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Forget Risk, play Fantasy Football for Fascists: grudge matches, foul play and violent conduct guaranteed

Leading FFF teams include Donald Trump’s Mad Angry Geezers Athletic (Maga) and Vladimir Putin’s Greater Russia United (GRU)

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Menaced by foreign foes, facing mutiny at home: how long before Iran goes nuclear?

After Syria, Israel and the US fear Tehran will build an atomic bomb. Their threats may produce that very outcome

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Israel to close embassy in Dublin over ‘anti-Israel policies’ after Ireland’s backing of genocide petition – as it happened

Ireland last week announced support for South Africa’s legal action against Israel in International Court of Justice

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The world failed to save Syria. Now its people must be free to chart their own path

Self-serving meddling by Israel, Turkey and other foreign powers puts the revolution at risk. They should back off now

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Assad’s murderous regime has been toppled – but what will fill the vacuum in Syria?

The challenges ahead are truly daunting for a country torn apart by 13 years of civil war and split between rival factions, says the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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Playing political footsie with Trump 2.0 won’t cut it for Europe. It’s time to get tough

The world must prepare for a US president who will be even more chaotic and less open to diplomacy and compromise than before

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Feeding off anger, fuelled by Russia… Enter Călin Georgescu, Europe’s latest radical populist

Riding on a TikTok tide of Putin propaganda, the Romanian nationalist typifies a swing on the continent that is raising the spectre of the 1930s

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Don’t be naive about the ceasefire in Lebanon. It may mean more horror and death in Gaza

Netanyahu can redeploy his troops or abandon the peace deal at any time. It doesn’t bind his hands, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator

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Keir Starmer played the China card in Rio – and sent a message to a hawkish Donald Trump

The PM and other western leaders are cosying up to Beijing. If the president-elect imposes punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, he will give Xi the upper hand

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The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin’s shadow war against the west finally breaks cover

After Kyiv used Storm Shadow missiles, Russia’s leader asserted his ‘right’ to attack the UK and US. In truth, he has been doing exactly that for two years now

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Joe Biden’s last-gasp missile decision is momentous for Ukraine – but Putin will retaliate

Zelenskyy must now show that missiles will change this war, and his European allies must unify ahead of the Trump presidency, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator

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Putin, Xi, Trump… The barbarians are at the gate but Europe’s leaders are too busy infighting to notice

Amid threats to its ‘reason for being’, the EU must stop squabbling and take a stand

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Contempt for human rights, trashing allies: the world’s populists are rubbing their hands with glee

After Donald Trump’s victory, brute force will prevail over geopolitics as authoritarians are appeased from Russia to Israel to China

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Donald Trump is a superspreader of a craziness that has split America in two

In displaying all the signs that he is off his rocker, the Republican candidate has infected millions of others

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Iran-Israel’s shadow war is out in the open and will only escalate unless causes are addressed

Face-to-face military confrontation on each other’s soil has now been normalised

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Joe Biden’s big blunder: how the war in Ukraine became a global disaster

Failure to contain the conflict has led to huge suffering and geopolitical shifts. Why didn’t the US commit to Nato?

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Southern Beirut hit by airstrikes – as it happened

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Netanyahu, the brutal chancer, will keep on bombing, but his brinkmanship may go too far

The notion that he will claim a victory and stop now is deluded. He will press on until there is the political will in the US to stop him, says Simon Tisdall, the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator

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Kamala Harris has a problem with men. Will misogyny cost her the election?

After a rousing start to her campaign, the Democratic candidate is flatlining in the polls, and sexism could swing the vote in Donald Trump’s favour

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A pause for peace is the best the world can hope for in the Middle East’s war without end

Western leaders look feeble and helpless as religious fanatics and rightwing zealots dig the region deeper into conflict

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Night of bombing in south Beirut – as it happened

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In their inhumanity, conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine offer a shared, brutal vision of the future of war

By acting with impunity and tearing up the rulebooks, warmonger leaders are setting an alarming precedent

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