With Democrats soundly defeated across the country and a resurgent Republican Party, led by Donald Trump and his cadre of political outsiders promising to overhaul the existing government, one might have expected the deeply unpopular Biden-Harris administration to quietly finish its term without stirring further controversy. However, the hawkish elements within the administration that fueled the conflict in Ukraine appear unwilling to relent. Facing the prospect of a Trump presidency that could end U.S. involvement in the war and open negotiations with Russia, the Biden administration has escalated the conflict to........

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