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Ahead of her meeting with Joe Biden, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will come to Hudson to discuss [[link removed]] the conflict in Gaza and the challenge Iran poses, assess the state of the war in Ukraine, and explain Brussels’s view on China’s rise.

Last week’s events should be a wake-up call [[link removed]] that Biden’s effort at détente with Tehran has destabilized the entire region and emboldened Hamas, argues Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] in the Wall Street Journal [[link removed]].

After he appeared on Sky News Australia [[link removed]] to discuss the American carrier groups near Israel, Director of the Hudson Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Michael Doran [[link removed]] discussed the broader geopolitical fallout from Hamas’s attacks on Israel on C‑SPAN’s Washington Journal [[link removed]].

Hamas’s strategy of human sacrifice is solely responsible for civilian casualties in Gaza, writes Hudson Senior Fellow Douglas J. Feith [[link removed]] in the Free Press [[link removed]].

By giving Ukraine a few additional technologies, the United States could allow Kyiv to destroy the bridge connecting Crimea with Russia and gain vital leverage. Hudson Senior Fellows Bryan Clark [[link removed]] and Can Kasapoğlu [[link removed]] explain how in a new memo [[link removed]].

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The destruction of the Balticconnector pipeline might be Russia’s latest act of asymmetrical warfare against America’s NATO allies, writes Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey [[link removed]] in Arab News [[link removed]].

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