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Aftermath: The Trump Who Cried Iran Deal

People have tuned out Trump’s promises of a deal. That is starting a cascade of consequences.

Stephen Miller is in large part dictating U.S. foreign policy, with a mindset of unilateral violence on a maximum scale.

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The president comes home empty-handed from his summit with Xi Jinping.

One positive effect is that midsized powers are less under the sway of Washington. But they could come under the sway of China.

Our backward-looking president has dismantled our scientific supremacy and forced allies to view China as the more reliable hegemon.

In today’s edition, we discuss how the haphazard ending to the war won’t divert from the terrible path Donald Trump has led the world down.

Any re-election campaign in 2028 is doomed. Will he spend the remainder of his term completing the betrayal of his own constituents?

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Did the president screw up a possible agreement with his own impulsivity? Or was the imminent deal that he touted on Friday an illusion all along?

Trump’s war craters the economy in multiple ways, even if it somehow ends soon.

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Will Bibi Netanyahu manage to keep the war going, or will Trump finally appreciate that U.S. interests and Bibi’s are far from identical?