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Across India as cool weather beats a hasty retreat, anxieties are building up at farms and factories, with cropping patterns and business plans getting upended.

After losing the 2024 presidential election by razor-thin margins in the swing states, Democrats have staged a wholesale retreat, apparently concluding that cowardice and complicity are better political tactics than persuasion and protest.

“With this policy, the U.S. continues its retreat from being the main proponent of a rules-based international economic order to that of chaos and anarchy,” Meissner told Salon.

A few days later he told an audience in Munich, “In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”

Eight months ago, Stuart was forced into his own retreat, coming under severe scrum pressure in two summer Tests in New Zealand.