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DOGE officials attend Pentagon meetings, potential integration ongoing. Defense Secretary plans collaboration with Elon Musk and DOGE.

European leaders are scrambling for responses after Trump reached out to Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

In today’s newsletter: As the US and Russia go ahead with talks in Saudi Arabia, Keir Starmer and other European leaders are grappling with their next move

ANALYSIS: The president may be insulting McConnell and quoting Napoleon, but no one should expect any resistance from the current Republican party, writes Eric Garcia

CIA Director John Ratcliffe plans to apply counterterrorism methodologies developed over the past two decades to operations targeting the cartels, The Washington Post reported

After nearly three years of living under constant threat of Russian airstrikes while their troops fight a grinding campaign against Russia’s invasion, many Ukrainians long for an end to the war

European leaders are scrambling to respond to what looks like the end of reliable US protection of the continent. It is unclear what the “main European countries” (which includes the UK) might be able to agree at a hastily convened meeting in Paris on Monday February 17. But individual countries,…

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said European nations need to spend 5% of GDP on defence and would be responsible for peacekeeping in Ukraine.

The US public’s commitment to sending its sons and daughters to war has declined in recent years. Polls suggest that US involvement in modern conflicts is more likely to be viewed as mistaken than in the early and middle parts of the 20th century. Today, around 47% of Americans consider…