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President Biden and his national security team are woefully unprepared for what awaits them across the globe over the six months, write MARK TOTH and JONATHAN SWEET. “The free world is on fire and President Biden and his national security team are still ostensibly proceeding as though it were the day before Pearl Harbor or 9/11.”

Europe is wavering in its economic commitments to Ukraine; Beijing is saber-rattling over Taiwan; Iran continues its pursuit of nukes; and Russia is forging alliances in America’s backyard. Meanwhile, the Biden administration “appears to be more content declaring global war on climate change.”

Toth and Sweet argue that “Biden’s national security team needs a reset — they are failing the president, the United States and our allies.”

The authors, a retired historian and retired Army colonel, respectively, lay out what a winning plan would look like, and it starts with booting “White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and the national security team from the West Wing.”

Read their op-ed here.

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Put aside impeachment and prosecution. Despite its manifest flaws, the January 6 Committee has made great strides in its main objective: to render Trump a spent political force.

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