Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Joe Biden caught a huge break here. You've got a government right center and left which has mutually assured destructive facet -- it means essentially, it's a government that will not take bold and risky steps or provocative ones.
The negotiations are confronting significant problems to begin with, a lack of trust, a profound political constraints on both sides and under some time pressure.
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American Intelligence found that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American soldiers in Afghanistan.
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