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...“[W]e are setting up critical infrastructure to fail,” he said in his letter, which made only cursory reference to advances by China....
...“[W]e retain an ability to reinforce very, very rapidly should it become necessary. And I think that fact’s not lost on [Iran].”...
...“[W]e absolutely missed the rapid 11-day collapse of the Afghan military, the collapse of their government,” he said....
...An Indian official warned that Afghanistan risked becoming a haven for Pakistani extremist groups, including Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, which carried out the devastating 2008 Mumbai terror attacks...
...Heavy fighting has taken place in Kunduz and Sar-e-Pol, with Reuters reporting that the insurgents had captured the two northern provincial capitals on Sunday. Kabul also appears to be under threat....
...“[W]e have conveyed to the Taliban representatives in Doha, via our Combatant Commander, that any action on their part on the ground in Afghanistan that puts US personnel or our mission at risk there, will...
...“[W]e’re not flipping a light switch,” the official told reporters after the summit. “This is going to be an ongoing process and the ultimate test is whether there are practical results.”...
...“[W]e thought a message without tangible examples of support would not be received well given the scale of the crisis....
...Additional reporting by Katrina Manson...
...Additional reporting by Katrina Manson in Washington...
...“[W]e should make clear that there will be consequences for any broader impact on private networks, critical infrastructure, or other sensitive sectors,” he said in a statement....
...Katrina Manson is the FT’s US Foreign Policy and Defense Correspondent, based in Washington Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Or the PG&E grid failure? Or Hurricane Katrina, the 2008 great financial crisis, the Fukushima nuclear disaster or the Covid-19 pandemic?...
...Additional reporting by Katrina Manson in Washington Letter in response to this article: Free world is duty-bound to resist reign of tyranny / From Rajiv Radhakrishnan, London HA5, UK...
...“[W]e would appreciate the opportunity to work directly with their virology labs in Wuhan to share whatever research they have, since they’ve known about it and have been fighting it for at least a month...
...Jus cogens refers to peremptory norms of international law, i.e. international red lines. That is, a big(ly) “no no”,” he said....
...“[W]e are safer without him than we are with him,” said the official. Another senior administration official argued Iran was unlikely to respond militarily because of the risk of further US action....
...British e-tailer Anna Garner’s exquisite online curation at The Garnered includes several Brooklyn ceramicists: Julianne Ahn, Amanda Moffat, John Born and Jason Miller....
...Does he see any parallels with the way that George W Bush handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, where he was accused of being slow to get to grips with the crisis?...
...Take electric car racing series Formula E, which teamed up with Jelle’s Marble Runs to create Marbula-E (geddit?). It’s a marketing stunt, but as you can see in the video below, a mesmeric one....
...The fires increase those odds,” said Katrina Ell, an economist at Moody’s Analytics....
...“[H]e wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters. We fell in love,” he told a rally in West Virginia on Saturday....
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