Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 26, 2021

‘The Biden administration has seemingly initiated a highly unproductive blame game that has further damaged the atmospherics for diplomacy.’ Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters 


Biden may inadvertently achieve what Trump couldn’t: destroying the Iran deal, Obama’s main foreign policy achievement 

“Diplomacy is back!” President Joe Biden declared at the Munich Security Conference last week. But so is bombing Syria, apparently. 

Biden has only been president a bit more than a month, but he has already ordered his first bombing campaign. (It took Trump four months to do the same.) 

The target was facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran-backed militia in retaliation for rocket attacks against US troops in Iraq earlier this month. 

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 Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 26, 2021 



Why the US won’t be leaving Afghanistan -- Salman Rafi Sheikh, National Interest 

Debate: How Should Biden Deal with Russia? -- Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest 

Getting Serious About Russia -- Dimitri K. Simes, National Interest 

Ukraine, EU Locked in Clash of Cultures and Values -- Oleg Varfolomeyev, Jamestown 

China’s Waning Rare Earths Advantage -- Phillip Orchard, Geopolitical Futures 




Al Qaeda Is Being Hollowed to Its Core -- Barak Mendelsohn & Colin Clarke, War On The Rocks 

Three Wars, No Victory – Why? -- Bing West, National Review 


The Global Lessons of the Pandemic -- Colleen Kelly, RealClearWorld 

Third US vaccine could raise question: Which shots are best? -- Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone, AP

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