“Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a June 16 summit meeting with President Biden, objected to any role for American forces in Central Asian countries, undercutting the U.S. military’s efforts to act against new terrorist dangers after its Afghanistan withdrawal,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The previously unreported exchange between the U.S. and Russian leaders has complicated the U.S. military’s options for basing drones and other counterterrorism forces in countries bordering landlocked Afghanistan.”
