MNI POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS – US Daily Brief 12-04-22

Executive Summary:

• The United States Congress is out for its Spring recess and during its absence the White House is ratcheting up activity to try to address some of the Biden Admiration’s perceived weaknesses.
• Today, Biden will travel to Menlo, Iowa to relax regulations on E15 fuel, usually banned during summer for environmental reasons, in an attempt to bring down energy prices and inflation.
• Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said yesterday that Russia’s invasion is likely to enter ‘a more protracted and a very bloody phase. By what we have seen in the past, we’re probably turning another page in the same book of Russian brutality.’
• President Biden held a virtual meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of a 2+2 ministerial yesterday. Biden told Modi that accelerating Russian oil imports was not in India’s best interests, but the talks did not prompt an Indian diplomatic pivot away from Russia. Analysis of the bilateral talks inside.
• 70 foreign policy experts have delivered a letter to President Biden urging the administration not to remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list as part of a nuclear deal with Iran.
• Poll of the Day: An IBD report has suggest that President Biden’s approval rating is showing signs of recovery after a long period of stagnation.

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