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Daily Memo: Everyone Gets a Veto

U.S. defense bill moves forward. The U.S. House and Senate armed services committees reached a bipartisan agreement onĀ the 2021 defense policy bill that includes measures aimed at forcing the White House’s hand on a number of issues. It aims to make sanctions on Turkey mandatory within 30 days of becoming law, and includes measures to […]

The Struggle to Invent Qatari Nationalism

Nations naturally develop when a group of people with specific cultural traits and similar aspirations form a community of interest. Symbols that reflect these...

Brief: Russia’s Show of Strength in the Black Sea

Background: The Black Sea is an important buffer for Russia and provides its fleet with critical access to the Mediterranean. In recent years, especially...

Daily Memo: Flurry of Russian Naval Activity

Large-scale Russian naval drills. Russia’s Black Sea and Baltic fleets are both engaged in massive naval drills, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The entire...

Brief: Russia and Japan Jostle Over the Kurils

Background: Russia and Japan have jockeyed for power in the northwestern Pacific for more than a century. The two countries never even signed a...

Russia Considers a New Economic Model

The flaws in Russia’s economy might be too deep to gloss over. At an annual civil forum in Moscow on Saturday, Alexei Kudrin, the...

Daily Memo: US Liquidity, Chinese Manufacturing

U.S. liquidity. The U.S. Federal Reserve will extend until March 31 four emergency liquidity programs that were set to expire at the end of...

The Utility and Morality of Assassination

The head of the Iranian nuclear weapons program was killed Friday near Tehran. The assumption is that he was killed by the Israelis, whose...

Brief: Havana’s Rare Concession to Protesters

Background: For Washington, Cuba’s proximity to the United States and location at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico makes it a strategically important...

The Geopolitics of Vaccine Distribution

The American pharmaceutical firm Pfizer, in collaboration with German firm BioNTech, surprised the world when it announced that its coronavirus vaccine showed 90 percent...

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