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Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops
For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren’t paying enough. Now he wants to get even, and then some. Under White House direc...
By Jim Townsend
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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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Russia, Europe and the USA
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and James Townsend from the Center for a New American Security discuss varying perceptions and policies across Europe with regard to threats posed by Rus...
By Jim Townsend & Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Kremlin seeks more control over internet in Russia
Russia is taking steps to tighten its grip on the internet within its borders, as the nation’s legislature advanced legislation this week that would test temporarily disconnec...
By LtCol Colin Smith
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Allies wary of Shanahan's assurances with looming presence of Trump
U.S. allies were apprehensive about acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in his first meeting with NATO defense officials, with questions about the former Boeing executiv...
By Jim Townsend
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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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In NATO debut, acting Pentagon chief promises unity to skeptical Europe
In his NATO debut this week, acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan sought to reassure skeptical U.S. allies about transatlantic strains over defense spending, arms control...
By Jim Townsend
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Nancy Pelosi named in big US delegation to Munich forum, but government shutdown looms
The U.S. is set to send its largest congressional delegation yet to the 2019 Munich Security Conference, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence, bu...
By Jim Townsend
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Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Questions linger over Deripaska's Rusal influence after U.S. dealThe U.S. Treasury believes it can curb the influence of Oleg Deripaska over aluminum giant Rusal despite concerns the Russian oligarch may still be able to pull the strings of...
By Elizabeth Rosenberg
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
The US is withdrawing from a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. An arms race might be next.The Trump administration just announced it will officially withdraw from an aging nuclear missile treaty with Russia, a move that could kick-start an arms race and threaten th...
By Eric Sayers
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The un-diplomat
Richard Grenell arrived in the German capital as Donald Trump’s ambassador last year with a reputation as a diplomatic bad boy. A Fox News commentator and former aide to John ...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump and Putin Have Met Five Times. What Was Said Is a Mystery.
The first time they met was in Germany. President Trump took his interpreter’s notes afterward and ordered him not to disclose what he heard to anyone. Later that night, at a ...
By Victoria Nuland
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Trump and NATO Show Rare Unity in Confronting Russia’s Arms Treaty Violation
The Trump administration and NATO, which have been antagonists more often than not, presented an unusual united front on Tuesday, when U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave...
By 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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Russia, Ukraine And The U.S.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland about Russia, Ukraine and the United States. Listen to the...
By Victoria Nuland
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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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“It Is Hardly Coincidental”: Did Michael Cohen Scare Trump Into Ghosting Putin?
En route to Buenos Aires on Thursday, Donald Trump had a change of heart. Less than an hour earlier, as he walked across the White House lawn, the president had told reporters...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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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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How the Trump Administration Stepped Up Pursuit of WikiLeaks’s Assange
Soon after he took over as C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo privately told lawmakers about a new target for American spies: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Intent on fi...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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CNAS Experts: In Paris, Trump Should Mend Relations with Europe to Counterbalance China
Washington, November 9 – This weekend, President Donald Trump will depart for a long-planned trip to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I and ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Rachel Rizzo