Two autocrats staffed by craven yes-men assumed that Iran and Ukraine were theirs for the taking.
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Trump’s Weird New Global Order
One positive effect is that midsized powers are less under the sway of Washington. But they could come under the sway of China.
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Drone Dominance Isn’t the Vital Lesson of Ukraine
Manpower is still the most critical battlefield resource in a war.
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Trump’s Delusional Escalations in Iran
Trump is assembling a force of some 10,000 potential ground troops to intensify his Iran war. What will they do? Does he even know?
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The War’s Winners: Putin and Netanyahu
Regardless of how Trump extricates himself from the Iran mess, the biggest winner is Russia, with Bibi a close second.
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Why Should We Replace Our ICBMs?
Intercontinental ballistic missiles are massively expensive, environmentally hazardous, and dubiously successful as a deterrent—even Donald Trump recognizes the madness of modernizing strategic nuclear weapons.
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Dance of the Dictators
To the extent that he thinks strategically all, Trump’s strategy is all about what grift he can grab for himself and his family from foreign policy deals.
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Putin, Trump, and the Inept New York Times
How could the Times so totally bungle the story of Russia’s latest peace plan and Trump’s capitulation?
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Trump’s Feeble Made-for-TV Diplomacy
President Trump left town last weekend for a six-day Asia trip, partly to change the subject and partly to score some cheap symbolic victories. As always, his goal was short-run successes, with foreign leaders fawning in his presence.
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Why Can’t a Trump Deal End the War in Ukraine?
It’s not a situation amenable to Trump’s traditional approach of clumsy, heavy-handed pressure.
