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** Kurds sign deal in Syria: Case for US troops there 'weaker than ever' ([link removed])
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By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Mar 11, 2025 06:40 am
Featured Image Amid all of the violence on the Syrian coast this week, there was one development Monday that may reduce the chaos in the northeast: the new Sunni leadership has struck a deal ([link removed]) with the Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces to merge with the central government in Damascus.
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** What happens if the robot army is defeated? ([link removed])
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By Dan Grazier on Mar 10, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image Many of the national security establishment’s leading voices say America’s military needs to rapidly modernize by embracing the digital future through adopting Artificial Intelligence, network-centric warfare, and uncrewed weapons.
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** The danger in suspending aid to Ukraine longterm ([link removed])
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By Anatol Lieven on Mar 10, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image The Trump administration’s suspension ([link removed]) of military aid and intelligence to Ukraine has some justification, but also involves serious dangers.
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** Fareed Zakaria, stuck somewhere in 1950 or 1995, is wrong again ([link removed])
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By Anatol Lieven on Mar 07, 2025 04:09 pm
Featured Image If the foreign policy of the Trump administration has done nothing else, it has certainly succeeded in depriving many members of the Washington and European foreign and security establishments of their wits. Talk is rife of the U.S. “leaving NATO,” of the “end of the global order,” of a “new Yalta agreement,” and so on. None of this is true.
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** How a post-9/11 law could enable a crackdown on speech ([link removed])
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By Elizabeth Beavers on Mar 06, 2025 12:05 am
Featured Image In yet another example of Donald Trump announcing new policy via social media ([link removed]) , the president has now pledged to crack down on “illegal protests” at universities, warning that “agitators” will be headed to jail or targeted for deportation.
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** Why are we still at war in Syria? ([link removed])
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By Gideon Pardo on Mar 06, 2025 12:05 am
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On Sunday, U.S. Central Command announced that it had recently killed two people linked to Al-Qaeda in Idlib, Syria. One of the men, Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, was reportedly the brother of a current Syrian government minister ([link removed]) . U.S. Central Command identified the other man as a “senior military leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din.”
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