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It was hard to watch the scenes of President Donald Trump supporters storming the Capitol on Wednesday as the joint session of Congress was convened to debate and ratify President Elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory. Suddenly, the home of America’s representative government was threatened not by Islamic …

Daniel Kurtzer and Aaron Miller President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will confront a Middle East filled with many challenges and few opportunities. The arguments for pivoting away from the region are compelling, though they may well underestimate the challenges of counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and protracted conflicts that have the capacity …

Rachel Kleinfeld A mob, egged on by a presidential speech earlier in the day, breached the U.S. Capitol, spun in the president of the Senate’s chair, and sent members of Congress running for safety, some in gas masks. Its goal was to stop a peaceful transition of power …

Miles Kampf-Lassin At Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, the incoming president promised: ​“This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” The speech, authored in part by right-wing white nationalist Steve Bannon, blamed not just Trump’s usual specters of ​“crime and gangs and drugs” for this havoc, but also …

Victor Davis Hanson Hang on. It is going to be Mr. Toad’s wild scary ride for all of 2021. The proper conservative response to last Wednesday’s violent entry into the Capitol and vandalism, as well as assaults on law-enforcement, is to identify the guilty parties and ensure they …

Andrés Ortega Four years after Joe Biden concluded his tenure as Vice President of the United States, as U.S. President he encounters a very different world. Joe Biden has a long track record in foreign policy, security and intelligence matters, due to his 36-year long years of serving …

John Harris What exactly has happened within top levels of the United States government since the presidential election of Nov. 3, 2020? Once the transfer of power to President-elect Joseph Biden is complete on Jan. 20, the immediate crisis will pass. But the questions about the actions of …

Giancarlo Elia Valori During the last months of the year which is drawing to a close, in a world distracted by the Covid 19 pandemic, the U.S. Presidential elections and Brexit, geopolitics has recorded important evolutions probably destined to radically changing the scenarios in the Middle East and …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Diplomatic relations between Russia and the United Arab Emirates began almost after the founding of the United Arab Emirates in December 1971. In January 1972, a delegation from the Soviet Union traveled to the UAE. So in 1985, Moscow and Abu Dhabi announced the beginning …