EIR LEAD EDITORIAL FOR WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16, 2023
larouchepub.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from larouchepub.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
when john kirby was asked something similar earlier today he said the pentagon is looking at how to make long-term changes to the united states force posture in nato countries given the new security realities. here s what he said. here in the united states, we had, before the war, 80,000 troops in europe. we now have 100,000. those are on temporary deployments. i m not saying that s going to be the future footprint. but we are in the pentagon looking at what the future footprint ought to look like to bolster nato s eastern flank. so obviously the challenges to the nato alliance, to europe, top of mind here, of course, but they are also trying to figure out the best way to continue that military support directly to ukraine, abby. natasha, thanks for all of that reporting. joining me from brussels is david sanger, the white house and national security correspondent for the new york times. david, you have been writing a lot about this over the last several weeks. but these annou
for some time is that s why nancy pelosi doesn t so far have a nickname. he respects money and power. being able to wield power. she might have the first but the second is getting his attention. when you look at the fight over the state of the union address that s a fight nancy pelosi herself orchestrated and won. what is that if not a clear display of power? she sent a note to trump saying, hey, maybe rethink this. trump said, no, i ll come and she said, no, you re not going to come and forced him to back down. that s a display of power he can respect. the president owned the shutdown and that may have been a high point for him in the battle. josh, you have written about it. there are startling new economic numbers. startling security realities, realities for the 800,000 federal workers out there, but the white house chief economist said we could see 0% growth this quarter. this is the stuff you care about
attacks. i m not prepared to say it s necessarily related to the thinking of policy in iraq and syria. but the president made major changes in his approach to iraq. the president has sent troops to iraq. the president is bombing in iraq and syria. i think this shows that in the second term, he s willing to make some adjustments to previous policies based on the situation on the ground. well, right now they re playing to draw down to 5,500 troops in 2016 to zero in 2017. talk about adjustments. do you think that president obama and the new incoming ash carter, the secretary of defense, they ll make adjustments and change that? i hope so. senator mccain, senator ayotte and senator graham are very clear, this is a politically oriented timetable. the president wants to say when he leaves office, i pulled all u.s. troops out of afghanistan. it is not based on security realities on the ground. and the afghan government they certainly believe that. they don t want u.s. troops withdrawn as
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.