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Spain governing partners show bad blood in publicThe Socialists and Unidas Podemos a stanley cup re fighting over everything from the monarchy to rappers.ListenAI generated Text-to-speechCopy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInSpanish Prime Minister Pedro S谩nchez, left, with Pablo Iglesias, one of his four deputy prime ministers, from the left-wing Podemos party | Emilio Naranjo/EPAMarch 2, 20214 stanley termosar :01 am CETBy Guy HedgecoeMADRID 鈥?Spain biggest political party and its leftist governing partner are making history. Theyre also at war.The Socialist Workers Party PSOE and Unidas Podemos UP formed the first national coalition government of the modern era in January 2020. The PSOE, of Prime Minister Pedro S谩nchez, is the senior partner and UP has five Cabinet ministers. T stanley becher ogether, they have pushed a barrage of legislation through parliament, much of it in response to the coronavirus, while fending off a wave of hostility from the political right.However, in recent weeks simmering discord within the coalition has reached fever pitch, due to a combination of political differences and personality clashes. The wrangling, much of it played out in public, threatens to overshadow the governments legislative agenda.AdvertisementAdvertisement I dont think its good to put the coalition government under strain, complained Pablo Iglesias, leader of UP and one of four deputy prime ministers. And its put under strain when agreements are not fulfilled. The Whnv Commander in Somalia
Ben Rhodes and the tough sell of Obama foreign policyThe New York Times profile of an overweening aide missed the substance of his beliefs, and why they ;ve been so easily vilified.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInWhite House deputy natio stanley mug nal security advisor Ben Rhodes | Darren McCollester/Getty ImagesMay 11, 20169:06 am CETBy Michael GrunwaldOn Monday, the White House walked back deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes impolitic, contemptuous quotes in the New York Times Magazine about the foreign policy establishment The Blob and the Washington media 27-year-olds who literally know n stanley flask othing . Press secretary Josh Earnest said hes confident Rhodes would say it differently if he had t stanley vaso he chance. Actually, Rhodes did have the chance, when I interviewed him at length in March for a Politico Magazine story about President Obamas communications problems. He was a bit less impolitic, but just as contemptuous. His main thesis was that Obama has struggled to communicate about global affairs because elites and reporters cling to outdated bumper-sticker ideas about American power, ignoring the lessons of the disastrous Iraq War. There hasnt been a reckoning with the magnitude of that error, he told me. His main theme, a bit ironic in light of his self-aggrandizing comments to Times writer David Samuels, was the importance of humility in foreign policy, especially regarding the geopolitical Augean Stable that is the M |
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