Peter Rough & Tim Morrison, National Review
n April 13, as tens of thousands of Russian military forces deployed along the Ukrainian border, U.S. president Joe Biden picked up the phone and called Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia. According to the White House
Stephen Wertheim, New York Times
Even before today's NATO summit, President Biden settled the most important question: He affirmed America's commitment to defend the alliance's 30 members by force. And despite divisions on many other foreign policy issues, his party stands in lock step behind him. To most Democrats, alliances symbolize international...
Mehul Srivastava, Financial Times
It seemed almost preordained that Benjamin Netanyahu would be undone not by a landslide at the polls, but by an army of friends turned foes and by the fire of the rightwing vitriol he fanned for decades.
Halya Coynash, KHPG
Russia and Belarus have agreed to jointly counter "the West's destructive activities" aimed at "destabilizing the situation" in the United State of Russia and Belarus. The high-level meeting came just over a week after Belarus hijacked a European plane to seize opposition journalist Roman Protasevich. This brazen act of air piracy resulted in consequences for Belarus, though none for Russia, despite widespread acknowledgement that Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko... Читать дальше...
Walter Pincus, Cipher Brief
Seven years ago, in June 2014, the Obama administration announced it would retire the B-83 and replace it with the proposed B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb, the first of which was to be produced in 2020. In August 2016, then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz told Congress "Once completed, the B61-12 LEP (Life Extension Program) will allow for the retirement of the B83-1—the last megaton-class weapon in America's nuclear arsenal—while supporting the nation's continued... Читать дальше...
Shir Nosatzki, Jerusalem Post
The fact that the Arabs occupy a place at the cabinet table, that their votes are not only needed but also essential, are ideas that are permeating the Israeli collective consciousness
Washington Examiner
The summit offers an important opportunity, indeed a responsibility, for Biden to outline America's expectation that true alliances require fair burden-sharing. He will rightly reaffirm the U.S. commitment to NATO's Article 5 mutual defense stipulation, but he must also explain why the alliance is not currently credible as a deterrent against prospective enemies such as Vladimir Putin's
Economist
Ahmed Charai, National Interest
For the first time since Israel's formation in 1948, elected Arab leaders have not only lent their votes to a governing coalition but joined it.
Michael Albertus, Foreign Policy
Pedro Castillo ran as an anti-establishment leftist. Here's why he won't govern like one.
Russia Matters
America today is grappling with a transition from its "unipolar moment" of the 1990s to renewed great-power competition with Russia and China. As U.S. decision-makers look for the best way forward, quite a few international-affairs analysts have argued that attempts to figure out a Russia policy that would give the U.S. an edge in that competition have been stymied by a failure to align policies with a hierarchy of U.S. interests. What, in short, are America's vital national interests? Читать дальше...
Afif Abu Much, Al Monitor
By one vote, with a majority of 60 to 59, Israel's new government was approved and Yamina leader Naftali Bennett sworn in as the 13th prime minister of Israel. The rotation government headed by Yamina and Yesh Atid that has been negotiated for the past month was finally authorized and put an end to former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 12 years in power. From today, we can say "Prime Minister Bennett" and "leader of the opposition...
Noah Rothman, Commentary
Then, they tried to fight Space Force. Former Sen. Bill Nelson, who currently serves as the Biden administration's NASA administrator, insisted that it would be strategically inept to "rip the Air Force apart" by handing its exo-atmospheric portfolio to a new branch. Progressives leaned on the...
Rep. Elaine Luria, War on the Rocks
When I was a naval officer, my ships always had a plan when we left port for where we were going, how we would get there, and what we would do when we arrived. While that remains true of individual ships in the Navy, it's not true of the Navy as a whole today. The Navy lacks a comprehensive maritime strategy that defines what the Navy needs to do, how it needs to do it, the resources required, and how to manage risk if those resources aren't available.... Читать дальше...
