European Midday Briefing: Investors Wait on U.S. -2-

American forces were evicted this summer from their regional stronghold in Niger, further inland, and now the Pentagon is patching together a backup counterinsurgency plan in neighboring countries-refurbishing an airfield in Benin to accommodate American helicopters, stationing Green Berets and surveillance planes in Ivory Coast, and negotiating the return of U.S. commandos to a base they used to occupy in Chad.

Ukraine Pressed to Think About a Plan B for War With Russia

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Ukraine's leaders have insisted that Russia needs to be driven out of all Ukrainian territory before any peace talks could begin.

Now, with Russia continuing to make slow gains on the battlefield and Western support for Ukraine showing signs of fatigue, Ukraine may need to come up with a more realistic plan, at least for the next year of the war, according to European diplomats.

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