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06 February 2025










NBC News | Defense Department drafting plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from
Syria after recent Trump comments
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The Defense Department is developing plans to withdraw all U.S. troops from
Syria, two U.S. defense officials told NBC News on Tuesday.

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Washington Post | U.S. won’t pay to rebuild Gaza or send troops, White House
says
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The Trump administration does not intend to pay for the reconstruction of
Gaza, nor has it made any commitment to send U.S. troops there, White House
press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday, offering clarifying details a
day after President Donald Trump vowed to take over the territory and rebuild
it.

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Reuters | Exclusive: Ukraine sees marked improvement in accuracy of Russia's
North Korean missiles
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North Korean ballistic missiles fired at Ukraine by Russian forces since late
December have been far more precise than salvos of the weapons launched over
the past year, two senior Ukrainian sources told Reuters.


Military Times | VA will end remote work status for thousands of staffers this
month
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Veterans Affairs officials
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will require thousands of department staffers to return toin-office work
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by the end of February, part of a government-wide effort to eliminate remote
duty assignments launched during theCOVID-19 pandemic
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Task & Purpose | The new secretary of Veterans Affairs is an Air Force
chaplain and Iraq War veteran
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Doug Collins was confirmed on Tuesday as the next secretary of the Department
of Veterans Affairs. He served in the Navy in the 1990s before joining the Air
Force after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

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Military.com | Zelensky Says 45,100 Ukrainian Troops Killed in War, Open to
Talks
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Ukraine has lost 45,100 soldiers on the battlefield since Russia's all-out
invasion began nearly three years ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
In an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan published on YouTube late
on Tuesday, Zelensky put the number of injured soldiers at 390,000.

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The American Conservative | Trump Restores “Maximum Pressure” on Iran
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday reimposed a “maximum pressure” campaign
against Iran. The move brings back the tough-on-Tehran policy that Trump
enacted in his first term.










Foreign Affairs | “America First” vs. Primacy
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| Reid Smith & Mitch McConnell
In his recent essay, “The Price of American Retreat”
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(January/February 2025), Senator Mitch McConnell lamented the failures of the
Biden administration’s foreign policy and warned that “the response to four
years of weakness must not be four years of isolation.” McConnell fears that an
American “retreat” would embolden adversaries to advance while forcing allies
to cower. His remedy: restore industrial capacity to sustain U.S. military
predominance indefinitely. But after two decades of fruitless wars that drained
American resources and destabilized vital regions, political leadership requires
prioritizing core national interests, not endlessly underwriting the security
of dependents. A better strategy would shift burdens to capable allies and
prioritize Washington’s fiscal solvency.

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Foreign Policy | Why Trump Can’t Ignore Syria
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Steven Simon
Despite the president’s desire to pull back from the Middle East, dealing with
Damascus could be his first big strategic test.

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Responsible Statecraft | What Rubio said about multipolarity should get more
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I almost fell off my chair listening to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s
recent interview
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with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly where he declared unipolarity an anomaly
and treated a return to multipolarity essentially as a correction by the
gravitational forces of geopolitics.

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This is what he said:

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“So it’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power. That was
not — that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but
eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar
world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet. We face that now
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Russia <[link removed]>, and then you have rogue
states likeIran <[link removed]> and North Korea
you have to deal with.”










The Veterans’ ACCESS Act was introduced in the new Congress last week by Rep.
Bost and Sen. Moran – a bill that would protect veterans’ health care choices
from bureaucratic meddling and hold the VA accountable for improving veterans’
awareness of and access to their preferred treatment choices – even when that
treatment is not at a VA facility.

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Read CVA’s full statement here
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and watch CVA’s Chris Enget on OAN’s Tipping Point earlier this week
discussing the dire need for Veterans’ ACCESS Act.Watch the interview here.
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