Among a spectacle on the South Lawn, a deal with Tehran, and Elon Musk’s wealth reaching new heights, one stands out as an inflection point of our time, writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints.
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🇺🇸-🇨🇳 Washington and Beijing do not trust each other.
“But over the next two days, expect them to remain on message in saying friendly things about the other,” writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints.
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For the first time since the aftermath of World War II, the US national debt now exceeds 100% of the country’s GDP.
“What worries me more than the debt numbers themselves is the complacency around them,” writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints.
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President Trump is fighting two wars with Iran.
If he fails to “address both simultaneously and successfully, he risks turning what has thus far been a tactical military success into a strategic failure,” writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints:
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Following George Kennan’s example during the Cold War, the United States today needs to clarify the challenges it is facing at this dangerous new inflection point, writes @FredKempe.
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The India-EU free trade deal announced on Tuesday is “one of the most dramatic markers yet of how the global system is reorganizing itself in the time of Trump,” writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints.
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Trump’s ‘shock therapy’ approach to Europe has “broken decades of strategic complacency and forced long-postponed decisions on defense, trade, and autonomy,” writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints.
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As 2026 opens, the most significant question facing the US and its global partners is whether Trump’s actions will gain lasting traction, and what legacy this “peripatetic man of action” will leave behind, writes @FredKempe in #InflectionPoints.
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