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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Buncombe

Biden scrambles to defuse Ukraine crisis in first foreign policy test since Afghanistan debacle

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There were three questions for Pentagon spokesman John Kirby and each of them was excellent.

What, asked CNN’s long term defence correspondent Barbara Starr, specific military capabilities would the US troops take with them to Europe, and what specifically was their mission? In addition, how would the US know when that mission was accomplished?

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