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The Party's Over, Folks! Remember that lovely "holiday from history" after the Cold War? You know, that magical time when America's biggest foreign policy concern was deciding which countries to invite to our democracy-spreading parties? Well, guess what? The vacation's over, the hotel bill is due, and reality is banging on our door like an angry neighbor complaining about our decades-long karaoke session of "We Are The World." The Great Geopolitical Hangover: America's Holiday from History is Over (And Boy, Does Our Head Hurt) Welcome to the Global Drama Club The world has entered what experts call a "period of protracted systemic instability," which is fancy-speak for "everything's gone bonkers." It's like someone took the global Jenga tower we've been carefully building since 1991 and decided to play it in a hurricane. On a boat. During an earthquake. The New Reality Show: "Keeping Up With The Global Powers...

Gather 'round for the most entertaining diplomatic circus you'll ever witness! Picture this: two nations, both with leaders who have more gold-plated furniture than your average royal palace, trying to navigate international relations like two peacocks at a disco party. The Greatest Show on Earth: US-Turkey Relations in the Trump Era 2.0 Remember when Trump and Erdogan were playing diplomatic ping-pong during the first term? Oh boy, what a show! They were exchanging sanctions and tweets like teenagers exchange emojis. Trump would wake up at 3 AM, tweet something like "I'LL DESTROY YOUR ECONOMY!" and Erdogan would probably spill his Turkish coffee all over his smartphone. It was basically international relations meets reality TV, minus the Kardashians (thank heavens for small mercies). Now, as we gear up for Trump: The Sequel ( working title: "Make Alliances Confusing Again"), everyone in Turkey is oddly optimistic. Why? Because apparently, when you...

Ah, the European Union! That lovely collection of countries who decided that the best way to stop fighting each other was to create enough paperwork to make war seem like the easier option. Well, folks, they're about to face their biggest bureaucratic challenge yet: Trump 2.0 - This Time It's Personal(ity Politics). The European Union's Guide to Surviving Your Difficult American Uncle Picture this: You know that uncle who shows up at family reunions, criticizes everyone's life choices, demands they pay for their own meals, and then complains about nobody visiting him enough? That's about to be America's foreign policy toward Europe. The EU is frantically googling "How to deal with difficult relatives" as we speak. The US-EU relationship is about to become less "strategic partnership" and more "it's complicated" Facebook status. Gone are the days of cozy chats about shared values and mutual understanding. Now it's going ...