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Trump Blew Up the Better Deal and Came Back Calling Defeat a Win

Trump’s Iran posture now looks like the purest form of self-inflicted failure: wreck a functioning framework, escalate into a wider crisis, then come back asking the public to celebrate a thinner, looser arrangement as if it were proof of genius. We lost. Not in the cartoon sense where somebody signs a surrender document on camera, but in the real sense that matters in politics and statecraft: the United States appears to be moving toward a deal that is visibly weaker than the one it already had, after paying the price of blowing the first one up. That is not strength....

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What Should We Think About The Trump Administration’s Approval and Cancellation of Iran Strike?

Image credit to maxpixel.net The New York Times reported that the Trump administration had approved of military strikes against Iran. Then, while planes were in the air and ships were in position, called off the attacks. Supposedly the attacks were to be retaliatory strikes for the shooting of a United States unmanned Global Hawk surveillance drone by Iran. The operation was underway in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said. Planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down, the official...