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Yahoo NewsHow Russia's standoff with Ukraine could play out
With the tensions between Russia and Ukraine showing no sign of easing, experts who spoke to Yahoo News said they saw three possible paths forward.
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Putin's dangerous gambit: To invade, or not?
Just in the past week, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military buildup near Ukraine’s borders has grown to nearly 130,000 troops, and expanded into neighboring Belarus.
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When a president goes rogue, what can the chairman of the Joint Chiefs do?
A new book details Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley's attempts to erect safeguards against an increasingly erratic and unpredictable president and his enablers in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
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'We're going to lose fast': U.S. Air Force held a war game that started with a Chinese biological attack
Many foreign affairs and national security experts believe the global pandemic has accelerated trends that were already pushing the U.S. and China toward a potential confrontation.
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Attack on Capitol was the beginning of an American insurgency, counterterrorism experts warn
Counterterrorism experts say the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol looked like the birthing of a violent American insurgency.
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With an erratic, desperate Trump still in charge, military brass worry — and make plans to avert disaster
During Wednesday's riot at the Capitol, senior political and military officials tacitly acknowledged with their actions that the chain of command had been broken at the top, revealing the peril the nation finds itself in from an increasingly erratic and borderline delusional commander in chief.
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Why 780 retired generals and former national security leaders spoke out against Trump
The willingness of hundreds of career officers to break with tradition and speak out on behalf of one candidate reflects beliefs, on both sides, that the nation faces an uncertain future.
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New arms race taking shape amid a pandemic and economic crisis. What could go wrong?
Three decades after the Cold War ended without a long-feared nuclear cataclysm, arms control experts are starting to think the sigh of relief heard around the world then might have been premature.
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'Five Eyes' in the dark: Will Trump and Barr destroy trust in U.S. intelligence?
The effort by President Trump and his attorney general to enlist foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies in their smear of Joe Biden may do lasting damage to relationships with their counterparts in other countries and the critical “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing agreement.
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China's bid for Asian domination: The view from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
The waters of Pearl Harbor above the USS Arizona have an oily sheen, the result of persistent leakage from the once mighty battleship that was sunk by Japanese bombs nearly 80 years ago. The memorial that sits above the ship commemorates the events of Dec. 7, 1941, that began with a Japanese surprise attack and led directly to the U.S. entry into World War II. The USS Arizona Memorial is a place for quiet contemplation, and at Pearl Harbor it is nearly impossible not to reflect on the dangers that gather when rising powers like 1930s-era Japan and Germany confront dominant or status quo powers like Great Britain and its American allies.
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Trump got the crisis he wanted in Iran. Now what?
With both sides reacting to each other with provocations and rhetorical bluster, foreign-policy experts are concerned the situation is one miscalculation from spinning out of control.
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ISIS, defeated on the ground, returns to its roots with bombs and bloodshed
President Trump has boasted about the defeat of the ISIS caliphate, a swath of territory in Syria and Iraq formerly controlled by the Islamist fundamentalist army. But ISIS hasn’t disappeared, just retreated to fight a terror war — of which the Sri Lanka attacks may have been one of the opening battles.
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What to expect — or fear — when Trump meets Kim again
America’s national security establishment warily eyes the prospect of another summit between President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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The generals wonder: What took Mattis so long — and what happens now?
Mattis’s resignation sent a strong message after Trump unilaterally reversed strategic policy in combat theaters with life-or-death consequences.
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Jamal Khashoggi's unlikely legacy could be an end to the catastrophe in Yemen
In the wake of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, the U.S. Senate is reassessing American policy toward Saudi Arabia — including support for the disastrous war in Yemen, where millions face starvation.
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In Khashoggi murder case, Trump is torn between 2 tyrants
The Trump administration’s Middle East strategy to isolate and contain Iran is jeopardized by Saudi Arabia’s brazen slaying of a dissident journalist and Turkey’s determination to exploit the crisis for its own gain.
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Cold War II: Trump threat to pull out of INF Treaty could set off new arms race
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty banning medium-range missiles in Europe is far from perfect, and Russia clearly was cheating on it – but experts say it serves a purpose.
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In the new cold war, Western democracies are losing ground to Russia
Russia’s efforts to destabilize Western democracies through computer hacking, disinformation and propaganda are having success across Europe, and NATO is taking notice.
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Trump’s artless deals on the world stage
In an effort to remedy America’s place in what he sees as an unfair international order, the president has lately torn up the Iran nuclear accord, launched multiple trade wars, publicly admonished allies, and held chummy one-on-one summits with autocratic leaders. Is this how fixing things looks?
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What's at stake in Trump's summit with Putin
On Monday in Helsinki, it will be President Trump’s turn to take the measure of the former KGB agent steeped in the cloak-and-dagger culture of Cold War espionage. Vladimir Putin has shown himself to be not only utterly ruthless, but also arguably the greatest geopolitical risk taker of his generation of leaders.