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Will NATO Survive Trump?

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump threatened to place new punitive tariffs on European allies until they acquiesce to his designs on Greenland, an escalation of his ongoing attempts to acquire the large Arctic island for the United States
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U.S. National Security Strategy Keeps Allies In And China Out

The new U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) marks a decisive and strategic revival of “America First 2.0,” representing a more refined, sharper and far more ideologically laden shift with practical impact and stronger assurances to the U.S. as compared to Biden's 2022 version
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F-35 Is The Biggest Money Sinkhole Ever

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has found that Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney, the primary contractors working on the F-35, made product deliveries 238 days late on average in 2024 — despite the program paying them hundreds of millions in performance incentive fees, which encourage completing tasks on-time
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US Military Tells Singapore To Take Its F-15s Anywhere But Guam

In an event barely noticed outside of the region, the U.S. military abruptly cancelled a planned bed down — the military term for housing planes — of 12 Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) F-15s at Andersen Air Force Base (AAFB) in Guam
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Congress Poised To Do Less Oversight On Arms Sales

As early as next Tuesday, Congress will vote on two bills that will make it easier for the U.S. government and U.S. arms makers to push weapons out the door to foreign clients more quickly, with less time for congressional scrutiny, and, in some cases, with Congress not even being informed that the sales are happening
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Why Spying On Greenland Isn't The Problem

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has instructed U.S. intelligence agencies to increase collection of information on Greenland
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America's 'Acute' Foreign Policy Disarray


NEW YORK, U.S.--The confusion and lack of clarity in the current administration's foreign policies are growing ever more dangerous for US national security.

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Nuclear Iran Not An "Acceptable Risk"

NEW YORK, U.S.--The Center for a New American Security (CNAS), comprising largely former, mostly Democrat administration foreign policy and defense officials, in a new study — "Risk and Responsibility: Managing Future Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction Threats" — tries to sell the notion that Iran armed with nuclear, biological and chemical offensive weapons will be an acceptable risk. 

 
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Turkey: NATO's Pro-Putin Ally


NEW YORK, U.S.--Turkey's "balancing act" during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the result of the country's Islamist leader's two-decade long indoctrination of a generation of Turks to make them "pious." 
 
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Biden Administration Kills Israel-to-Europe Gas Pipeline

NEW YORK, U.S.--The Biden administration has abruptly withdrawn American support for the Eastern Mediterranean (EastMed) pipeline, a project aimed at shipping natural gas from Israel to European markets. The White House said the project was antithetical to its "climate goals."

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Malign Foreign Influence: China's United Front

NEW YORK, U.S.--China obsesses over what the world thinks of it. Its rise to rival the US as the world's greatest economic superpower includes a strong psychological element. China seeks not to be feared, but as having peaceful intentions. 
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China Aims to Become the World's Leading Space Power by 2045

Shortly after becoming president in March 2013, Xi Jinping made his ambitions for China's space power clear. "Developing the space program and turning the country into a space power is the space dream that we have continuously pursued", he said.
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