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Joe Biden’s fraught mission of deterrence
The US president’s Middle East trip just got more complicated. But his calculus remains the same: to pull the region back from the brink of a major conflict.
James CurranInternational editorThe chaos for President Joe Biden began at Andrews Airforce base moments before his take-off for Israel, when news filtered through of a missile strike on a hospital in Gaza.
It meant his journey into the mounting fury of the Middle East assumes not only a higher level of personal risk, but that America’s diplomatic strategy faces more turbulence. Still, despite the inevitable criticism of his trip, he was right to go.
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