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Sep 15 2021
Opinion
Biden Rejected Blinken and Austin’s Advice on Gradual Afghanistan Withdrawal
After inheriting the Afghanistan quagmire from his predecessor, newly elect President Biden was staunchly committed to withdrawing troops from the country despite dissent from military advisers.
Remembering the iron grip they held on former President Obama, Biden refused to be beholden to military leaders in making foreign policy decisions, despite his own lack of military experience.
National Review (News)Sep 15 2020
News
Russia's new Skyfall missile will be able to fly around Earth for YEARS and ready to launch nuclear strike at any moment, Britain's defence intelligence chief warns
Russia's new Skyfall missile will be able to fly around Earth for years and launch a nuclear strike at any moment, Britain's defence intelligence chief has warned.
The 9M730 Burevestnik missile, also known as Skyfall by Nato, has been linked to the deaths of at least five scientists in an accident in Nyonoksa, north eastern Russia, that caused a radiation spike 'one thousand times
Daily MailJun 29 2016
News
Istanbul Airport Attack Leaves at Least 41 Dead
Three suicide attackers killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens more at Istanbul’s main airport on Tuesday night, in the latest in a string of terrorist attacks in Turkey, a NATO ally once seen as a bastion of stability but now increasingly consumed by the chaos of the Middle East.
New York Times (News)Mar 30 2022
News
Biden's job approval falls to lowest level of his presidency amid war and inflation fears
Amid Europe’s largest land war since World War II, 7 in 10 Americans expressed low confidence in President Joe Biden’s ability to deal with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a new NBC News poll, and 8 in 10 voiced worry that the war will increase gas prices and possibly involve nuclear weapons.
And during the nation’s largest inflation spike in 40 years, overwhelming majorities said they
NBC News DigitalJan 09 2020
News
After ripping up Obama’s Iran playbook, Trump quickly pieces it back together
President Donald Trump started with over-the-top, machismo rhetoric toward Iran. He ended by backing down so far that he sounded more like his predecessor.
In a span of just 24 hours, Trump went from threatening to devastate Iran and bomb its cultural sites — a move widely considered a war crime and condemned by Republicans — to calmly delivering a measured address about slapping
PoliticoDec 06 2021
News
Ukraine
“President Joe Biden pledged Friday to make it ‘very, very difficult’ for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to take military action in Ukraine as U.S. intelligence officials determined that Russian planning is underway for a possible military offensive that could begin as soon as early 2022. The new intelligence finding estimates that the Russians are planning to deploy an estimated 175,000 troops and
The Flip SideMay 03 2017
News
First Rex Tillerson decided to fire thousands of diplomats, now he's going to find out what they do
Rex Tillerson has already had a reunion with the friends that pinned a medal on him in Moscow. He skipped out on a less-genial meeting of NATO leaders, but he did have time to make threats against Syria, threats against North Korea, and spill a few aspects of delicate international negotiations to Fox News.
Daily KosDec 15 2019
Opinion
What’s Worse Than World Leaders Laughing at the U.S.?
That viral video of the leaders of Canada, France and the U.K. laughing about their U.S. counterpart at last week’s NATO summit was vivid yet anecdotal evidence of what the rest of the world thinks of President Donald Trump. Now comes some hard data showing America’s declining global reputation.
Not only is the perception of the U.S. as a top ally fading, according to a new survey of 18
Bloomberg