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Chaque jour de cette semaine, « 20 Minutes » revient sur les grands succès français des séries françaises qui ont jalonné l’année 2020-2021
‘RALLY THE WORLD'S DEMOCRACIES’: President Joe Biden departs this morning on the first overseas trip of his term, which begins with a meeting of G-7 ministers in Cornwall, includes a NATO summit in Brussels, and ends with a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva.
Combating corruption and kleptocracy has traditionally been an afterthought in U.S. foreign policy: a goal that most policymakers considered laudable but hardly a priority. That attitude is no longer acceptable. In recent years, countries such as China and Russia have “weaponized” corruption, as Philip Zelikow, Eric Edelman, Kristofer Harrison, and Celeste Ward Gventer argued in these pages last year. For the ruling regimes in those countries, they wrote, bribery and graft have “become core instruments of national strategy” through which authoritarian rulers seek to exploit “the rel...
An Open Letter to Secretaries Blinken and Austin Regarding Afghan SIVs Signed by 100 Former Foreign Service and Military Officers An Open Letter to Secretaries Blinken and Austin Regarding Afghan SIVs Signed by 100 Former Foreign Service and Military Officers Note: The below letter was sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on May 10, 2021. MEI's Senior Vice President Gerald Feierstein, Distinguished Senior Fellow on National Security General (ret.) Joseph Votel, and MEI Afghanistan and Pakistan Program Director Marvin G....
During the Leftists’ riot in Washington, D.C. in June 2020, the National Guard was quickly called in and the riot ended. That was not the case when the Right rioted on January 6th, 2021. Why? Apparently, a letter signed by ten former Defense Secretaries had a great deal to do with it. The letter seemed to have a profound effect on the Pentagon and explains why they refused to send in the National Guard for hours. The former acting secretary of defense said so yesterday (see the clip below). Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon ...