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"The U.S. must maintain peacetime access to ensure wartime access. Withdrawal would force the U.S. to fight two battles: the fight for access and the conflict itself."
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"Nearly two years after Biden shuffled out of office, McGurk is hard at work trying to paint the administration’s Gaza policy as the best response to a hopelessly complex crisis."
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Each of the five groups that made up this ad hoc coalition has found its own reasons to move against seeing Bejing as a singular threat.
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By so singularly focusing on power as the means to achieve civilizational renewal, Rubio is in reality laying the rhetorical groundwork for sustaining American primacy, says @AndrewEarvolino.
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WATCH: @AnnelleSheline joins the Always at War podcast to explain why another foray against the Houthis would only serve to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
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IYCMI, one of our most read pieces from last week: As it encroaches on on the western Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea, NATO continues to underestimate Moscow's red lines.
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"Regardless of the winner, one thing is clear: Israel is not likely to pull back from its wars in Gaza and across the Middle East any time soon."
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Examining Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's conduct throughout the war, there was little evidence his willingness to reach a deal was meaningfully influenced by disagreements between Washington and Israel, said a former Biden official who spoke with RS.
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"Rather than embrace a foreign policy that genuinely recalibrates American strategic thinking, politicians on both the right and left remain wedded to interventionist impulses divorced from concrete realities."
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China’s place as the primary U.S. strategic competitor has its roots back in the early 2000s, but the narrative really took hold during Trump’s first term, when it won support from five different groups.
The coalition those groups formed may be falling apart, write @jekavanagh & @PeterSlezkine:
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Democratic lawmakers have begun planning their post-midterm investigations into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose tenure has been filled with controversy.
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While both main parties in contention in Israel advocate continued wars against Hamas and Iran, they differ on key domestic issues as well as their approach to settler violence in the West Bank, writes @CarolDkas
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Whatever Brett McGurk may claim, there was little evidence the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's willingness to reach a deal was meaningfully influenced by disagreements between Washington and Israel, a former Biden official told @blaise_malley.
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Rather than embrace a foreign policy that genuinely recalibrates American strategic thinking, politicians on both the right and left remain wedded to interventionist impulses divorced from concrete realities, writes @AndrewEarvolino
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There is good reason to believe the peak of anti-China sentiment in U.S. politics has passed.
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For all our sakes, it would be better if European governments spent less time shouting in Russia’s face and more time examining their own, writes @lieven_anatol
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Regardless of the winner in tomorrow's election, one thing is clear: Israel is not likely to pull back from its wars in Gaza and across the Middle East any time soon.
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Nearly two years after Biden left office, Brett McGurk is hard at work trying to paint the administration’s Gaza policy as the best possible response to a hopelessly complex crisis.
His colleagues remember it differently, reports @blaise_malley
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Brett McGurk's new book "Brink" tells the story of his efforts to free the October 7 hostages. In it, he argues that pressure on Israel only emboldened Hamas and prolonged the war.
But several former Biden officials challenge that narrative.
My latest for @RStatecraft (1/6):
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Rubio is embracing the language of "civilizationism," the cause du jour on the new right.
But on closer examination, one suspects that Rubio is not truly offering some radical new vision, but a lot of the same old neoconservatism.
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