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    • David A. Andelman
      Author and foreign correspondent

      David A. Andelman is a veteran foreign correspondent, author and commentator who contributes frequently to CNN Opinion on global affairs.

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    • Opinion: One miscalculation away from nuclear holocaust

    • A De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 MR aircraft drops water over a wildfire raging in the Monts d'Arree, near Brennilis, Brittany, on July 20, 2022. - A heatwave fuelling ferocious wildfires in Europe pushed temperatures in Britain over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time after regional heat records tumbled in France. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)

      Opinion: Cold showers in Germany, France's air conditioning crackdown are signs of Europe's future

    • Ukrainian service members fire a shell from a M777 Howitzer near a frontline, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Donetsk Region, Ukraine June 6, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer

      Opinion: The American-made weapons that could change everything

    • Carbis Bay (United Kingdom), 11/06/2021.- US President Joe Biden (L) and France's President Emmanuel Macron walk along the boardwalk during the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, Britain, 11 June 2021. (Francia, Reino Unido) EFE/EPA/PHIL NOBLE / POOL

      Opinion: Macron suddenly faces Biden's dilemma

    • (From L) Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis meet for a working session in Mariinsky Palace, in Kyiv, on June 16, 2022. - It is the first time that the leaders of the three European Union countries have visited Kyiv since Russia's February 24 invasion of Ukraine. They are due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, at a time when Kyiv is pushing for membership of the EU. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

      Opinion: When will the West lose its appetite for a war with no end?

    • Viktor Orban Prime Minister of Hungary arrives at the special EU summit, walking next to the European flags behind the flag of Europe and talks to the media about the Russian sanctions. Special Meeting of the EU leaders, the European Council in Brussels, Belgium on May 30, 2022 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

      Opinion: Europe's Russian oil embargo includes a birthday present for Hungary's Orban