“Donald Trump’s reelection promises to reveal and change as much about Europe as the United States,” Politico reports.
“There are many Europes in one: Different attitudes and approaches to themselves and to their most important political, military and economic partner in the United States. All are in varying states of concern over the return of a president who can sound ambivalent toward traditional alliances and has threatened to shutter NATO and launch a trade war.”
“Republicans from Capitol Hill to the White House are battling internally over the basic tenets of Donald Trump’s first 100-day agenda — including which priorities should come first — in a preview of the landmines looming over the GOP’s ambitious agenda despite controlling all of Washington,” CNN reports.
“Joe Biden is president of the United States for 42 more days. But within the Democratic Party, on Capitol Hill — and even within his own administration — it feels like he left the Oval Office weeks ago,” Politico reports.
“Biden has effectively disappeared from the radar in the wake of Democrats’ bruising electoral loss.
“Lara Trump will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee as she considers a number of potential options with her father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, set to return to the White House,” the AP reports.
“Among those possibilities is replacing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump tapped to be the next secretary of state.
Wall Street Journal: “The toppling of Assad’s regime, ending 50 years of his family’s rule, revealed how badly Syria’s army had been hollowed out by years of corruption, defections to the rebellion and the country’s economic crisis. Recruitment had declined, and Syrian men dodged conscription.”
“The military since early in the civil war had depended heavily on outside forces to reinforce its lines.