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U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to deliver the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point s Class of 2014 on May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y.Susan Walsh鈥擜PBy Simon Shuster / BerlinJune 2, 2014 3:11 PM EDTPresident Obama laid out his vision last week for a style of global lea stanley cup dership based not on military strength but on moral authority, economic muscle and, above all, the ability to build coalitions through diplomacy. His three-day trip to Europe this week will be his first chance to put that plan into practice. It won ;t be easy.For one thing, when Air Force One touches down in Warsaw on Tuesday morning, on the first stop of a tour of Poland, Belgium and F stanley cup rance, Obama will find a Europe that did not exist even a few months ago. Its borders have been redrawn by the Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea, and the security demands that have emerged in Europe as a result are well beyond what the U.S. is likely to accommodate. Even the task of reassuring allies, as the White House has defined the goal of the trip, will run up against the massive and often incompatible assurances that the allies are expecting.Poland will be a trial unto itself, as its government has been waiting not for moral leadership or diplomacy from the U.S. but a firm military commitment to its security. In April, as the reality of Russia invasion of Ukraine gripped Warsaw, its leaders asked the NATO alliance to deploy 10,000 troops on its stanley cup territory. 8 Rajn Jonathan Demme
President Donald Trump listens while Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security speaks during a meeting at FEMA headquarters in Washington on Aug. 27, 2020.Erin Scott鈥擯olaris/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesBy Philip ElliottJune 29, 2021 1:57 PM EDTThis article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMErsquo politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday.Itrsquo not easy being a Fed.Federal workers are punching bags for both political parties. In recent decades, Waste, Fraud and Abuse has become shorthand for political leaders, including Presidents, to scapegoat the career corps of the federal workersmdash ome 6% of the entire U.S. workforcemdash;as a bunch of louses who canrsquo;t get its act together. The trope doesnrsquo;t do much for those workersrsquo; morale, even before former President Donald Trump meddled in so many agencies and the pandemic put unprecedented pressure on go yeezy vernment workers to meet presidential whims.So good-government nerds like me were waiting to see just what an annual report on the federal workforce told us about how the Feds thought of their jobs as they navigated the pandemic, an unprecedented airmax election, and the end of Trumprsquo presidency. The findings of the study from the non-partisan, non-profit Par salomon tnership for Public Service conducted by the Boston Consulting Group offer an interesting, if somewhat predictable, thesis about workers between September and November