1. General Miller, the last commander of Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Thomas Joscelyn & I “were right” about the Taliban’s control of districts & its military operations to take over the country.

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This impressive thread omits the most unique feature of the mosaics in Samarkand and Bukhara: figural representation of people and animals.

Another tragic consequence of US unwillingness to learn lessons from its foreign policy failures over the past 25 years. wsj.com/world/middle-e…

An explosion of Uzbek and Afghan cuisine here in Pittsburgh. Lovely profile of these communities and the traditions they bring with them by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan taking action to curb sorcery and charlatanism eurasianet.org/tajikistan-and…

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Can’t say enough about the inspiring leadership of Bard College that has done so much to support so many Afghans deprived of educational opportunities.

Chinese Government Shocked to Learn They Can’t Trust the Taliban | National Review ift.tt/wjDRItN

Treating countries mainly as proxies in your own strategic competition with a third party rather than as the principal subjects of your policy is ultimately going to be self-limiting. It’s patronizing. But they also will try to just extract more from both you and the competitor.

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Every US president in the past thirty years has wished away US reconstruction and state building.

It never went away.

Expert on Iranian TV speculates that Mossad agents based in the Republic of Azerbaijan could be behind the Raisi helicopter crash.

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Students from #India and #Pakistan targeted by mob violence in #Kyrgyzstan indiatoday.in/amp/india/stor…

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I spoke to Ahmad Massoud for The Spectator. He leads an insurgent group fighting the Taliban, and says he wants the West to send weapons. He’s got a rosy vision of installing democracy in Afghanistan

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Everything old is new again.

Looking forward to this! Swing by if you’re in NYC.

What is a “buffet diplomacy”?
Serbian (pro)government media are all but hiding from Serbian voters that Ukrainian president’s wife is visiting Serbia and her (cultural) diplomatic performances with the Serbian president’s wife.
As ridiculous as it may look, it also shows the

🇬🇪 Yesterday, 10% of Georgia's population rallied against a Russia-inspired law that would require foreign-funded groups to register as 'foreign agents,' increasing government scrutiny and threatening free speech.

A defining moment for Georgia.