Biden can’t allow Turkey and Russia to fill America’s Middle East vacuum

Joe Biden must not allow Ankara and Moscow to fill the space filled by the U.S.’ withdrawal from the region under Donald Trump, wrote Dov. S. Zakheim, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies President Trump is set on withdrawing as many troops as he can from the region. He has long called for U.S. troops to come home and has criticized U.S. military interventions over their costs and infectivity. In Dec. 2018, he shocked allies and advisers with his plan topull U.S. troops out of war torn Syria. While Trump’s plans to withdraw U.S. forces in Afghanistan has drawn…