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05 September 2024
Reuters | Putin says Ukraine's Kursk incursion has failed to slow Russia's
eastern advance
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President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Ukraine's incursion into the
Russian region of Kursk had failed to slow Russia's own advance in eastern
Ukraine and had weakened Kyiv's defences along the frontline in a boost to
Moscow.
The Hill | US troops attacked in Turkey
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The incident prompted immediate backlash in Washington as U.S. officials
decried the attack on American troops.
NPR | 7 U.S. troops hurt in Iraq raid targeting Islamic State group militants
that killed 15
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The United States military and Iraq launched a joint raid targeting suspected
Islamic State group militants in the country's western desert that killed at
least 15 people and saw seven American troops hurt, officials said Saturday.
Military.com | House Republicans Subpoena Secretary Blinken for Testimony on
US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
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House Republicans have issued a subpoena demanding testimony from Secretary of
State Antony Blinken <[link removed]> as they wrap up a
sprawling yearslong investigation into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from
Afghanistan in August 2021.
POLITICO | Zelenskyy suffers huge backlash as reshuffle triggers power-grab
accusations
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy triggered blowback in Kyiv on
Wednesday as the parliament began the biggest reshuffle of government roles
since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Newsweek | Turkey's Role in NATO Comes Under Scrutiny
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Turkey's request to join two international organizations headed by Russia and
China has added to questions about its role inNATO
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New York Times | At Arlington, Trump Returns to the Politics of the ‘Forever
Wars’
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The extraordinary altercation on Monday between Trump campaign aides
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and an Arlington National Cemetery official over political photography on
sacred military ground is playing out in a hyperpartisan moment when war
records and former President Donald J. Trump’s respect for military service are
already up for debate.
Federal News Network | VA hiring fell ‘significantly short’ of goals to expand
substance abuse treatment for vets
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is falling short of its hiring goals in a
multiyear effort to expand veterans’ access to substance use disorder treatment.
Stars & Stripes | Senators push $15M bill to study birth defects in children
of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals
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The generational effects of chemical warfare agents and other hazardous
materials on the descendants of service members would be evaluated under a bill
to fund $15 million in research on birth defects identified in the children and
grandchildren of toxic-exposed veterans.
The Hill | America is a beached superpower — Europe should not rely on it for
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Thirty years ago this week, on Aug. 31, 1994, the last Russian soldiers
departed <[link removed]> Estonia and Latvia —
a long overdue end to Moscow’s military domination of the Baltics, which had
begun ignominiously in 1940 per the sordid terms of theMolotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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between Stalin and Hitler.
Foreign Affairs | Putin Will Never Give Up in Ukraine
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Two and a half years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States’ strategy
for ending the war remains the same: impose enough costs on Russia that its
president, Vladimir Putin, will decide that he has no choice but to halt the
conflict. In an effort to change his cost-benefit calculus, Washington has
tried to find the sweet spot between supporting Ukraine and punishing Russia on
the one hand, and reducing the risks of escalation on the other. As rational as
this approach may appear, it rests on a faulty assumption: that Putin’s mind
can be changed.
Financial Times | Letter: Remember, Biden extricated US from graveyard of
empires
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Reflecting on Janan Ganesh’s opinion piece “What Biden Got Right” (August 28)
I was struck by the omission from the scorecard President Joe Biden’s decision
to end America’s longest war. After 20 years in Afghanistan, and without a
military solution on the table, Biden acknowledged the costs — some 2,400
soldiers killed, tens of thousands wounded and a volunteer force exhausted by
double-digit deployments — and pulled the plug.
CVA continues the fight for veterans’ health care choice.
Despite the MISSION Act becoming a law, the VA has actively undermined
community care as an option for veterans, which it sees as a threat to its
system, rather than a partner for getting veterans the care they need. The VA
prefers that veterans stay trapped in the VA’s broken bureaucratic system to
justify their bloated budget, which has quintupled in the past twenty years,
even as our nation’s veteran population has steadily declined.
After fighting the VA to provide care for her husband, Dawn Longie
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entire VA health care system.
After faithfully serving our nation for years, Loren Longie came home to his
family. Unfortunately, like many veterans Loren suffered at the hands of the
Department of Veterans Affairs. After delayed care, denied treatments, and
continual failure, Dawn took matters into her own hands and became a “veteran
health care super advocate,” according to her husband.
Her mission is to ensure that veterans like her husband are treated with the
dignity and respect they deserve, and that they have access to the best care
available—whether within the VA or in their local communities. This isn’t just
a story about one family; it’s a call to action for all of us to stand up and
demand better for those who have served.
Watch Dawn and Loren’s full story here
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