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After initially denying that it slowed deliveries, the Biden administration has admitted that it stopped fast-tracking weapons to Israel. As Michael Doran explains, this is the textbook definition of an “Italian strike”: the intentional slowing or stopping of work by meticulously adhering to rules and regulations.
While Ukraine and Moldova have just begun European Union accession talks, another important country is missing from the discussion: Georgia. In Politico, Luke Coffey lays out Georgia’s long Euro-Atlantic history to explain why the country’s future is with the West.
Matthew Boyse explains that Russian control over Crimea has severe implications in the vital Black Sea region and beyond. To understand the region’s global importance, listen to Romanian Foreign Minister Luminiţa-Teodora Odobescu’s discussion with Jamie Fly at Hudson last week.
This Friday at 10:00 a.m., Ambassador Thomas Bagger, the state secretary of the German Foreign Ministry, will join Hudson to give an update on Germany’s foreign policy outlook toward Russia, China, Iran, and more.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s lame-duck reforms threaten to further derail the struggling Mexican economy and worsen the crisis at the United States’ southern border, warns Mike Pompeo in the Wall Street Journal. And for a preview of the next administration in Mexico, join Hudson today at 10:00 a.m. online or in-person for a conversation with Luis Rubio, chairman of México Evalúa.
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From Nigeria, Hudson’s James Barnett gives his outlook on how the West is perceived regionally and whether Chinese and Russian initiatives in Africa will have a long-lasting impact on Arsenal of Democracy.
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