Downsizing

Biden team rejected China "end state", France de/re-industrialising, French soldiers leave Niger and first Russian officials arrive, strategic tremors in India-USA geopolitical paradise.

UPDATE: A primary reason the Biden team has rejected end states appears to be that no single end state is simultaneously realistic and acceptable to two key audiences: the US public and policymakers in ally and partner countries. Administration leaders insist “neither collapse nor condominium are tenable end-states” and note that each suffers from fatal…