avoid. john kirby has said that success for the u.s. mission in ukraine is a free and independent sovereign ukraine. we also heard the mission is to prevented escalation beyond ukraine. which is it? both are true. if we re not specific about what exactly the desired outcome is, how do we why could both not be true? a sovereign ukraine and prevent them from expanding beyond. okay. moving on to the nuclear deal. general mackenzie told the armed services committee that from everything that he can see, the irgc is a terrorist organization. is the white house going to de-list the irgc in order to get a deal with iran? we re still in negotiations. i m not going to speculate or outline from here what the final details look like.
kermani sent this report from kabul. general mackenzie s visit to afghanistan comes amidst heightened concern over the country s future. with the taliban closing in on a number of afghan cities after having already captured vast swathes of rural territory, the us has launched a number of air strikes in recent days in support of embattled afghan forces, notably around the southern city of kandahar where heavy fighting has been taking place. and general mackenzie said america was prepared to continue with those air strikes in the coming weeks though he refused to categorically answer repeated questions about whether or not they would continue after the end of august, when the us military presence in afghanistan formally ends. in the past, he s previously suggested they will not. general mackenzie did however praise the capabilities of the afghan air force and said that a taliban military victory was certainly not guaranteed. i d like to be very clear the government of afghanistan fac
Rep. Markwayne Mullin discussed what he could of a briefing with Antony Blinken on Stinchfield last night. He said the situation is laughable and believes Russian President Putin wants to restore the old Soviet Union and took the weak sanctions into account. Sanctions were supposed to be a deterrent
Washington's hyper-militarised approach in Egypt and blind support for authoritarianism has been ineffective and counterproductive. President Biden can course correct if he adheres to his own stated foreign policy priorities, writes Nancy Okail.