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Biden Tested by Brewing Russian Crisis
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President Biden’s leadership is being tested by the brewing crisis caused by Russian aggression toward Ukraine. The stakes are high for Biden, particularly given the chaotic ...
By Richard Fontaine
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‘Tough on China’ Gains Traction as Electoral Test
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Congressional candidates have a new electoral purity test: who hates China the most. Witness the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary race where TV medical personality MEHMET OZ (“...
By Richard Fontaine
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European Leaders Meet With Putin. Should Biden?
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After weeks of dialogue, little has shifted in the standoff with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. European leaders have met with Putin in Moscow. U.S. and NATO a...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Restraint Crowd Facepalms Over Biden’s Ukraine Threats
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President Joe Biden’s face-off with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over Ukraine has deeply unsettled progressive lawmakers and other advocates of a restrained U.S. foreign poli...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden Seeks to Ward Off Second Ukraine-Russia Fight
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When Joe Biden was vice president, he was the point person on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and became so vested in the crisis that some academics believed it would ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden’s Stand on Ukraine Is a Wider Test of U.S. Credibility Abroad
The American president had issued a stern warning to Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin: Keep your troops out of Ukraine, or face harsh economic reprisals. The warning went un...
By Richard Fontaine
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As Biden Seeks to Bolster Democracy Around the Globe, U.S. Confronts Jan. 6 Fallout at Home
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President Joe Biden must acknowledge U.S. shortfalls on democracy, including the events surrounding the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, when he meets with world leaders this week ...
By Richard Fontaine
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What Will America Fight For?
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As the world’s great power, America ends up having to deal with all its problems, from North Korea to the war in Ethiopia and, more directly, the instability in Latin America ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden Opens Direct Line to Xi Amid Taiwan Tensions
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The world became a little bit safer this week, especially for anyone living in or near the Asia-Pacific, a part of the world increasingly anxious about a confrontation between...
By Richard Fontaine
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Allies lobby Biden to prevent shift to 'no first use' of nuclear arms
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US allies are lobbying Joe Biden not to change American policy on the use of nuclear weapons amid concern the president is considering a “no first use” declaration that could ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Secret Talks and a Hidden Agenda: Behind the U.S. Defense Deal That France Called a ‘Betrayal’
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In the end, Mr. Biden’s decision was the result of a brutal calculus that nations sometimes make in which one ally is determined to be more strategically vital than another — ...
By Richard Fontaine
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US builds bulwark against China with UK-Australia security pact
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The US has launched a new trilateral security partnership with the UK and Australia that will enable Canberra to build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, a move that will ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden’s Rushed Afghan Exit Adds Strains to U.S.-Pakistan Ties
Joe Biden’s hopes of keeping the Afghan Taliban in check will rely heavily on Pakistan, a neighboring nation that has close ties to the militant group but which has often prov...
By Lisa Curtis & Richard Fontaine
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Underestimating the enemy: why Biden’s Afghanistan exit went so badly wrong
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On July 8, Joe Biden stepped into the East Room of the White House to deliver a confident update on the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.The US military had left Bagra...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pentagon says threat persists after suicide bombings at Kabul airport
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Pentagon has said that the threat persists after ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the deadly double attack at Kabul airport. An attack in Kabul claimed by Islamic State kille...
By Richard Fontaine
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Afghanistan chaos tests Democrats’ opposition to US military intervention
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“Now that America’s participation [in Afghanistan] is ending on such a negative note, there may well be a rethinking of the balance between US action and non-intervention,” Ri...
By Richard Fontaine
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What The Exit From Afghanistan Tells Us About How Biden Sees The World
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In January 2002, when the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan reopened for the first time since 1989, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said the first member of Congress to visit him in Kabul w...
By Richard Fontaine
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Three ways the victory of the Taliban might reverberate around the world
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World leaders are racing to evacuate their citizens from Afghanistan after the Taliban’s lightning takeover last week — but the impact of the Islamist militants’ control will ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Was the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan inevitable?
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The swift collapse of the Afghan government has reinforced US President Joe Biden’s argument that nothing more could have been done. But was the Taliban’s victory inevitable? ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden faces lasting blemish from Afghanistan exit
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President Biden is facing criticism over his administration’s withdrawal from the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan that could leave a lasting blemish on his presidency. Bide...
By Richard Fontaine
