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MOSCOW TO BERLIN
Our allies and our adversaries alike are making the same assessments right now: What does this mean for U.S. hegemony? It’s not good.
Samantha Vinograd is a CNN National Security Analyst who served on President Obama’s National Security Council and at the US Treasury Under President Bush.
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HYPOCRISY
The president’s actions are the opposite of what we’re demanding from other countries.
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BAD ACTOR
Yes, the U.S. response has been a disaster. But China sure looks like it’s hiding something, and it uses extortion and other means to make its dirty secrets go away.
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'I ALONE'
Trump’s firing of intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson sends every dark signal you think it does, and more.
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POOR EXAMPLE
From tariffs to the rule of law to LGBTI rights, the United States used to set an example for the world to follow. What if the world followed our example today?
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PREP SCHOOL
Trump hates to prepare and likes to negotiate from the gut. The Hanoi humiliation with Kim Jong Un was the direct result.
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HUNGER GAMES
If there isn’t the necessary process in place, the institutional knowledge on a terrorist threat or covert outreach to a rogue regime official could be gone with the wind.
HIS MAD EXISTENCE
It’s hard to make America seem irrelevant at a summit like this. It used to be the foundation of the international order. No longer.
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TWEET LESS. THINK MORE.
I’ve prepped presidents for a meeting with the Russian leader. There are four critical steps Trump must take.
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STEP UP OR GET OUT
We have a deadweight in the chief of staff’s office. It needs to change.