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President Donald Trump has shown that, contrary to the beliefs of many policymakers and experts, aligning with Israel enhances America’s standing in the Middle East. Michael Doran and Gadi Taub explain how on Israel Update.
Last week, Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) introduced legislation to designate the Iran-backed Polisario Front as a foreign terrorist organization. Next Monday, July 7, at 1:30 p.m., he will sit down with Michael Doran to discuss how this designation helps advance the interests of the US and its allies.
John Lee identifies three lessons foreign leaders should learn about President Trump: (1) he is consistent in his core objectives; (2) he is opportunistic and feeds off the success or boldness of allies and partners; and (3) his negotiating tactics—toward adversaries and allies alike—rely on the credibility of his threats.
If European Union leaders can muster the political will to enact and enforce tighter sanctions, Brussels could accelerate the timetable for an economic and political crisis in Russia, writes Thomas Duesterberg.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has numerous critical missions in the Arctic, including the surveillance of Russian submarine assets. But 65 percent of the alliance’s icebreakers are past their design life. Timothy A. Walton and Liselotte Odgaard argue that the US and its NATO allies need to recapitalize their icebreaker fleets while also incorporating uncrewed systems to face the next generation of threats.
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“Inflation-adjusted federal welfare spending is 2.7 times its 1996 level, the budget deficit is nine times as high, and the federal debt is four times as large,” writes new Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Solon. In The Wall Street Journal, he and former Senator Phil Gramm argue that Congress should reintroduce work requirements to reduce welfare dependency and address runaway spending.
