Luke Harding, The Guardian: Cyber-attack is brutal reminder of the Russia problem facing Joe Biden
Analysis: new president must find a way to contain such hyper-aggressive behaviour from Moscow
It is Joe Biden’s biggest foreign policy headache. As well as confronting the Covid pandemic, the president-elect has to deal with a more familiar problem: Russia.
Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 US presidential election cast a shadow over US politics for four long years. And now the Kremlin appears to have struck again.
This week details emerged of an unprecedented cyber-attack against US government departments.
Beginning in March, suspected Russian hackers penetrated Washington’s signature institutions.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 18, 2020
Can Biden Unwind Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Venezuela and Iran? -- Judah Grunstein, WPR
The Taiwan ‘prize’ and the US-China rivalry in the Pacific -- Sheldon Chanel, Al Jazeera
Cutting Off Saudi Arabia Would Only Embolden its Worst Impulses -- Maya Carlin, National Interest
Are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan untying the knot? -- Jennifer Holleis, DW
Why Belarusians Are Turning Against Russia -- Artyom Shraibman, Moscow Times
What do US sanctions on Turkey mean for NATO? -- Alex Gatopoulos, Al Jazeera
How will Turkey respond to US sanctions? -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera
Why Retired Generals Rarely Lead the Pentagon -- Dwight Stirling, AP
Coronavirus: What does Emmanuel Macron's infection mean for other EU leaders? -- Barbara Wesel, DW
”Now It’s Totally Dead”: Can Small Businesses Survive COVID’s Economic Wrecking Ball? -- William Cohan, Vanity Fair
US experts debate: Who should be next in line for vaccine? -- Mike Stobbe, AP
