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Stevenson’s army, October 25

“Give ’em hell, Harry,” the man at the whistle stop yelled.”I don’t give ’em hell,” President Truman replied. “I just give ’em the facts, and it looks like hell.”

Today’s list:

WaPo says Trump has failed to drain the swamp.

WSJ says the China trade war has failed, too.

WaPo says US is helping the Taliban with our air strikes.

How US has been helping Putin. FP says US elections are looking like Bangladesh.

WSJ looks at the elections of 1864.

Recommended viewing: We signed up for one of those first week free deals on Apple TV to see a great documentary: “Boys State,”  showing how 17-year old Texans learned about politics. [I was a bit nostalgic because I had been elected Lt. Governor in the Colorado Boys State I attended many years ago.]

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).

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