Subject: Editors' Picks: How Assad is weaponizing Syria's public health system; and how Trump's blank check diplomacy is redefining the U.S.-Saudi relationship
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10/24/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at how Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s willingness to undermine Syria’s health infrastructure is becoming its own form of biological warfare, how Europe’s major political parties are reckoning with their more disruptive replacements, and how U.S. President Donald Trump’s approach to dealing with Saudi Arabia raises big questions about his foreign policy overall.

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A LETHAL DECLINE: By deliberately destroying and degrading public health infrastructure, the Syrian regime is passively killing civilians by allowing long-eradicated diseases to resurface, Annie Sparrow writes.

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RINGING THE ALARM: The Trump administration’s response to Saudi Arabia’s efforts to distance itself from Jamal Khashoggi’s killing in Istanbul raises four major questions about Trump’s foreign policy at large, Brian Katulis writes.

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BOMBS AWAY: To be worth keeping, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty—an agreement that bans nuclear missiles—needs to include all nuclear powers, Esther Owens writes.

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BROTHERS IN ARMS: The reason the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia is ironclad is not because of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner—it’s because of Defense Secretary James Mattis, Micah Zenko writes.

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GRIM GATHERING: In Europe, the mass political movements that once dominated are fading fast—and the fringe parties taking their place are here to stay, Matthew Goodwin writes.

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