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Pottery Barn Rule Out, Trump’s ‘I Broke It, You Fix It’ Rule In
In The News
“I anticipate he walks claiming victory and says the Europeans and the Gulf states have to sort out the strait,” agreed Jim Townsend, an analyst with the Center for a New Amer...
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Whose War Is It? Trump Eyes Iran Talks as Israel Hints at Long CampaignAnother deadline day, another ultimatum, another surprise turn from the US president. The same Donald Trump who may or may not send ground troops to try to secure the Strait o...
By Jim Townsend
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
Australian Involvement in Protecting Strait of Hormuz Would Provide Confidence to Other NationsJim Townsend, a former U-S Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, who spent more than two decades working o...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump Generating His Own Fog of Disinformation About Iran War
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While every military conflict brings difficulty in understanding what is really happening at the front lines, President Donald Trump’s war against Iran features its own unique...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump’s Iran War Will End When He Declares Victory — The Only Question Is When
In The News
When will Donald Trump declare victory in Iran? The answer to that question could determine whether it’s a few days, a few weeks, a few months or even longer that American ser...
By Jim Townsend
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Four Years In, Putin’s Ukraine Conquest Is Still Stalled – But He’s Still Got Trump On His Side
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Four years after launching an invasion to seize neighboring Ukraine in a matter of days, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin can no longer replenish the tens of thousands of soldi...
By Jim Townsend
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Ukraine Makes Its Case to Trump’s Congress
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Ukraine and its allies launched an advocacy week on Capitol Hill today, and got a warm welcome. But while Congress remains Kyiv’s staunchest supporter in Washington, sanctions...
By Jim Townsend
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Will the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Pay off Long Term?
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President Trump has put the U.S. on an expansionist path not seen since the early 1800s, trying to increase national territory and influence with an ironclad view that the Wes...
By Jim Townsend
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The Memo: U.S. Allies Grapple with a World Order Upended by Trump
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A tumultuous period between the United States and its traditional allies took another lurch Friday, as NATO nations expressed outrage over remarks from President Trump the pre...
By Jim Townsend
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‘Old Wine in a New Bottle’: Greenland Negotiations Resemble an Earlier Deal
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The negotiations over Greenland’s future center around building up a larger NATO presence, thwarting adversaries and giving the United States sovereign claim to bits of the is...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO Allies Take on Trump as Greenland Threats ‘Rupture’ Global Order
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The leaders of some of America’s closest allies used the Davos summit this week to confront a new world order under President Trump in which the U.S. is an unreliable partner,...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump’s Pentagon Chief Under Fire as Scandals Mount
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Hegseth -- a former Army National Guard major who went from Fox News co-host to leader of the world's most powerful military -- is no stranger to controversy and was only narr...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Ignites Diplomatic Flurry but Major Hurdles Lie Ahead
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The Russia-Ukraine war has seen almost four years of failed peace plans, blueprints and high-level summits. A new U.S. push to end the fighting has set off the latest flurry o...
By Jim Townsend
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Russia Says Talks to End Ukraine War ‘Serious’ but Rules Out Concessions
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Russia says the United States-brokered talks to end the war with Ukraine are “serious”, but its officials caution that an agreement is a long way off and Moscow would offer no...
By Jim Townsend
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Inside the Pentagon Fight with Congress over Troops
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The Trump administration’s decision to draw down troops from Romania is escalating the tug-of-war over how much say Congress should have in where the U.S. puts its forces....
By Jim Townsend
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Trump and Zelensky to Meet as Kyiv Presses for Tomahawks
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U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, with discussions over whether Washington will supply long-ran...
By Jim Townsend
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Trump to Hold Putin Summit in Budapest – Where Russia Promised Not to Invade Ukraine
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President Donald Trump is touting another meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin about his country’s invasion of Ukraine, this time in Budapest, Hungary — the city where...
By Jim Townsend
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NATO Chief Mark Rutte Tackles Trump, Russia in First Year
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Taking over after Jens Stoltenberg's decade-long stewardship of NATO on October 1, 2024, former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte knew that there would be no easing into his new...
By Jim Townsend
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‘Grasping for Straws’: Europe Floats Ukraine-Russia Buffer Zone in Push for Peace
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European leaders are weighing the creation of a 40 kilometer buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian frontlines as part of a peace deal, a last-ditch idea Moscow has emb...
By Jim Townsend
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Europe Scrambles to Aid Ukraine After US Intelligence Cutoff
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Ukraine’s allies in Europe are rushing to fill the void left by the Trump administration’s decision to pause its intelligence sharing with Kyiv. It isn’t going to be easy....
By Jim Townsend
