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With great issues of war and peace swirling across the globe, with questions of international law in the air, with the world economy facing fresh challenges, with the plate tectonics of geopolitics in motion, and with the political environment in countries from Hungary to Canada undergoing profound change, the United States is preparing for an election that won't happen for more than two more years.
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