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The American Power Crisis: How Europeans See Biden’s America

The American Power Crisis: How Europeans See Biden’s America

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - Most Europeans rejoiced in Biden’s victory in the November US presidential election, but did not think he could help the United States return as a leading world leader.Europeans’ attitudes toward the United States have changed. The majority of major member states now think that the US political system is broken and that Europe cannot rely on the United States alone to defend it.They value the systems of the EU and/or their countries much more positively than the United States – and look to Berlin, not Washington, as their most important partner. America’s weakness has geopolitical…
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US Strategic Bombers Engage in Arctic, Baltic and Atlantic Exercises

US Strategic Bombers Engage in Arctic, Baltic and Atlantic Exercises

PEJOURNAL - U.S. B-2 Spirit bombers concluded their role in what US European Command calls an historic Bomber Task Force deployment to Europe amid unprecedented and daily mounting tensions with the US’s fellow nuclear superpower Russia, last week. The current iteration of the Bomber Task Force mission combined the B-2 deployment with one of B-1B Lancer strategic bombers. Since the Cold War the two planes along with the B-52 Stratofortress have made up the American nuclear-capable, long-range, supersonic bomber fleet. In 2007 the B-1 was converted to carry only conventional bombs in accord with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty…
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