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What Europe wants from Biden’s State of the Union

LONDON — For­eign pol­i­cy nev­er wins elec­tions, as the old polit­i­cal max­im goes. So eight months out from polling day in Amer­i­ca, it’s hard­ly sur­pris­ing that domes­tic reac­tion to Thursday’s State of the Union speech will be dom­i­nat­ed by argu­ments over the econ­o­my, drug prices and the frailty of U.S. Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, 82 this November.…

US says no troops to Haiti as country reels from explosion of gang violence

Wash­ing­ton says no despite ‘fran­tic’ talks between diplo­mats, as bod­ies lie in street and army bat­tles gun-tot­ing gang mem­bers What led to the Haiti jail­break – and can democ­ra­cy be restored? The Unit­ed States has said it will not send troops to Haiti after a stun­ning erup­tion of gang vio­lence seem­ing­ly designed to bring down…

Macron: The grand master of grandstanding

Ivo Daalder, for­mer U.S. ambas­sador to NATO, is CEO of the Chica­go Coun­cil on Glob­al Affairs and host of the week­ly pod­cast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” There he goes again, anoth­er head­­­line-grab­bing state­ment from French Pres­i­dent Emmanuel Macron. “Noth­ing should be ruled out,” he said last week , respond­ing to a ques­tion about whether…