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As Reuters notes, “Trump's overall tariff plans… would push U.S. import duties back up to 1930s levels, stoke inflation, collapse U.S.-China trade, draw retaliation, and drastically reorder supply chains.”

Foolhardy military misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, pushed by Washington elites trying to deny any sense of decline, stoked simmering anger among ordinary Americans, slowly discrediting the very idea of international commitments.

A council leader has branded the former government's decision to issue a Best Value Notice over a four-day week trial at her authority as a "fruitless attempt to stoke up a culture war".

Back in Germany, though, the rise of the Nazis is what sets Bonhoeffer on his Christian resistance path, disturbed by the country’s sudden fealty to a false god stoking “rumor and rage.”

A former senior Ukrainian security official said it seemed likely that the Russian missile strike was intended to stoke fears of a widening war with Ukraine and its Western allies.