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‘Flux and Confusion’ in White House Could Embolden Iran, Foreign Policy Expert Warns

President Joe Biden is, for all practical purposes, a lame-duck president, and that may embolden terrorists in the Middle East, Victoria Coates says.

“Unfortunately, we’re in this unprecedented situation, where it’s almost not clear who the commander in chief of the United States is,” says Coates, vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation.

“We haven’t heard from the president. We haven’t seen the president,” says Coates, who also served as deputy national security adviser in the Trump administration, adding that Biden has had “nothing on his schedule for days now.” 

“Is the vice president essentially filling this role?” Coates asked. “It’s not in her constitutional powers to do so, although she may be doing it in all practical ways. But my concern is, given that unprecedented flux and confusion,…

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