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Trump’s Reunion With May Caps Allies’ Deteriorating Relationship
President Donald Trump’s meetings in the U.K. with Prime Minister Theresa May next week likely will end the leaders’ relationship the same way it began: with awkward attempts ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump Learns to Live With NATO—And Vice Versa
Two-plus years into the Trump presidency, NATO is learning to live with the United States president, and vice versa. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has been praised f...
By Rachel Rizzo
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The Trump administration quietly corrects its diplomatic slight of the E.U.
On Monday, two months after news broke that Washington had downgraded the diplomatic status of the European Union mission to the United States, the U.S. ambassador to the Euro...
By Rachel Rizzo
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In Mattis’s Shadow, Acting Pentagon Chief Tries to Reassure NATO Allies
On his first international trip as Pentagon head, Patrick M. Shanahan entered NATO headquarters on Wednesday with a key question hanging over him: Would he be the stalwart all...
By Rachel Rizzo & Jim Townsend
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President Trump's Meetings (and Cancellations) Dominate G20 Headlines
America's trade war with China is on a temporary pause, thanks to conversations at the G20 Summit in Argentina last weekend. Rachel Rizzo, Bacevich Fellow at the Center For a ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump abruptly cancels Putin meeting at G-20, citing Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian vessels
Jolting another international summit before it’s even begun, President Trump on Thursday abruptly canceled a much-anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, le...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump may cancel his G20 meeting with Putin
President Donald Trump plans to meet with world leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina this week, including with the heads of Japan, Germany, and China. But t...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Two Eurocrats and Their Trans-Atlantic Quest to Woo Idaho
Henne Schuwer’s job is to understand Washington, D.C. Which is how he found himself in Boise, Idaho, last month. Schuwer, a towering figure with a bushy beard and a wry sense...
By Rachel Rizzo & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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A year after his stormy debut at the U.N., Trump will claim foreign policy successes from his brash diplomacy
President Trump had a stormy debut at the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders last September. From the podium of the packed U.N. General Assembly, he blasted Nort...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Higher NATO Defense Spending May Not Help U.S. Contractors
President Donald Trump emerged from the NATO summit in Brussels touting a renewed commitment from members to increase their defense spending, but U.S. defense firms might want...
By Rachel Rizzo
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After being called ‘aggressive’ by Trump, Montenegro insists it’s a friend to America
Earlier this week, President Trump identified a seemingly unlikely threat to world security: Montenegro, a tiny Balkan country of just over 600,000 people. Montenegrins, Trump...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Trump has wanted a summit with Putin for months. He finally got it.
It’s official: President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 17 days — making America’s allies even more nervous about the growing closeness betwee...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Europeans Are Bracing Themselves For A Possible Trump–Putin Meeting
European governments, already nervous for what next month’s NATO summit could hold, have been thrown for yet another loop: President Donald Trump is reportedly set to meet wit...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Putin just kicked out 150 Western diplomats. What comes next could be much worse
The Trump administration and its allies around the world expelled hundreds of Russian diplomats earlier this week after a former double agent was poisoned in the UK by operati...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Russia Promises Retaliation After Western Expulsions
On Monday, the United States, 14 European Union countries, Canada, and Ukraine expelled Russian diplomats in a coordinated response to the poisoning of former Russian spy Serg...
By Rachel Rizzo
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The British government says Russia poisoned an ex-spy in the UK. Now London is striking back
UK Prime Minister Theresa May said her country will expel 23 Russian diplomats on Wednesday — which would be the country’s largest removal of foreign officials in more than 30...
By Rachel Rizzo
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For Trump, No Qualms in Embracing Autocratic Leaders
President Donald Trump congratulated Turkey's president for sweeping up more power. He hailed Egypt's strongman leader as a "fantastic guy." When China's president visited, Tr...
By Rachel Rizzo
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European Diplomats to Congress: For Our Sake, Don’t Cut Foreign Aid Funding
President Donald Trump proposed slashing State Department and foreign aid budgets by nearly 40 percent. Now European diplomats are warning those cuts would be dangerous and ex...
By Rachel Rizzo
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Russia Wants a Reset — but This Time With NATO
NATO and Russia haven’t been on the best of terms in recent years. But on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said it was willing to let bygones be bygones and start anew ...
By Rachel Rizzo
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HuffPost Live: Should America Leave Nato?
On HuffPost Live, research associate Rachel Rizzo discusses the recent debate over remaining a member of NATO and why the U.S. needs to stay....
By Rachel Rizzo