{
  "id": 17241194,
  "title": "The middle powers step in, to America's detriment",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/the-middle-powers-step-in-to-americas-detriment",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-30T14:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hill",
    "slug": "the-hill",
    "url": "https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/6181190-middle-powers-hedge-american-support/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Last week, British Typhoon aircraft escorted French Rafale multirole fighters in a first-ever Anglo-French airborne nuclear strike exercise, codenamed Exercise Rummy. My former boss, Donald Rumsfeld, would not have been amused; it did not include American forces. Instead, as London stated, the exercise “mark[ed] a major step forward in UK-France defence cooperation under the [2025] Northwood...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}