The US-Iran deal will have far-reaching implications for other countries in the Middle East and beyond.
Atlantic Council experts assess the impacts on several affected regions and countries.
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🧵 🇵🇰 Independent candidates aligned with Pakistan’s @PTIofficial party won a plurality of national assembly seats in elections on Thursday.
What does this mean for the next Pakistani government?
Atlantic Council experts share their insights:
“Give the Ukrainians the tools to finish the job,” says @BorisJohnson at the @AtlanticCouncil. 🇺🇦🇬🇧
“The faster they win, the greater the savings in treasure and in lives.”
Watch more: ➡️ bit.ly/3Dz9ETM
“I am told they need planes,” says @BorisJohnson about Ukraine. 🇺🇦✈️
“I don't think it would take the Ukrainians very long to work out how to use F-16s or Typhoons or whatever we have to give them,” he adds.
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Finland has officially joined @NATO.
The Alliance now has 31 members:
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#StrongerWithAllies
Can Ukraine regain control of Crimea?
“The answer is absolutely yes,” says @GeneralClark.
Does it have what it needs to do that?
“Not yet.”
Watch more from today’s @ACEurasia event about #Crimea: 🇺🇦➡️ bit.ly/3XkCv5O
History teaches that if Putin could get Ukraine, it won’t end there, says @MinPres Mark Rutte.
“I'm not going to say there are analogies between him and Hitler... But there is one analogy, and that is with Munich ‘38.”
“For me, that analogy is absolutely there.”
#ACFrontPage
“We need to support Ukraine up to the end. That’s a fact,” Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Italy’s chief of defense, said at the @AtlanticCouncil today.
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“Putin started this war, not because he is afraid of @NATO,” @avalaina tells @JulieNBCNews at an #ACFrontPage event.
“Putin started this war because he’s afraid of freedom,” she adds.
Watch now: ➡️ bit.ly/4h3OUpv
Ukraine wants German-made Leopard 2 tanks.
The Netherlands has German-made Leopard 2 tanks.
Watch Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (@MinPres) respond to @ak_mack’s question about his government sending tanks to Ukraine.
🇳🇱➡️ bit.ly/3XaNXRT#ACFrontPage@georgetownsfs
“It is not enough to say that Ukraine must win—Russia also has to lose,” says Prime Minister of Estonia @kajakallas at the @AtlanticCouncil.
“This means being military defeated in Ukraine.”
Watch more: ➡️bit.ly/46vD0yG#EUDFF23 🇪🇺 🇺🇸
"Wouldn’t it be fitting if Kosovo could take its place within that peaceful union, thrive economically alongside our neighbors, and heal the hurt of conflict? With that vision in mind, I accept this award with gratitude for all the young people of Kosovo." - @DUALIPA#ACawards