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Aidan Stretch
Aidan Stretch is an American journalist and foreign policy analyst. He has worked for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ergo, a geopolitical forecasting company. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and National Review, and he holds a BA in History from Yale University.
Articles
Trump likes a deal. Zelensky should offer him Ukraine’s government tech — for free
President Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine follow not an overarching strategy but a single question: Can he sell them? President Volodymyr Zelensky knows this, presenting Trump with a generous deal for critical minerals and partnerships with American drone manufacturers.
But the Ukrainian president has yet to make what may be his most persuasive offer: the services of Ukraine’s bureaucracy-slashing government technology.
Since 2019, Ukraine has been developing digital platforms to streamline
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