A Dangerous US—Russian Version of ‘Inside Baseball’

A Dangerous US—Russian Version of ‘Inside Baseball’
Officials and military personnel at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on May 25, 2017. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images
James Dale Davidson
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Diplomatic negotiations are definitely not a spectator sport. You could think of discussions between Russian diplomats and their NATO and American counterparts as equivalent to Baseball’s winter meetings, where general managers haggle over trades and conspire to hold down player salaries. More like “Inside Baseball.”

James Dale Davidson
James Dale Davidson
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James Dale Davidson is a highly acclaimed economist and financial forecaster who has cemented his legacy through his renown investment newsletter Strategic Investment, which has been in publication since 1987. One of Davidson’s biggest fans include billionaire Peter Thiel, who says Davidson inspired him to start PayPal and cited Davidson as “his favorite stock picker.”
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