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Syria, Rojava, Israel, and Gaza
This doesn’t speak well for the new Islamic-fundamentalist government in Syria:
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European Rearmament
One of the increasingly prominent new themes in world politics is the rearmament of Europe.
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Trump 2.0: Fascism? Partial Fascism? Something else?
Mary Trump, the President’s niece who is a longtime public critic of the Orange Anomaly, recently did a podcast focusing on one of the ugly and sleazy…
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Anne Applebaum on Trump's, uh, competence in diplomacy
Anne Applebaum in this interview gives a sensible view of the current European reaction to Trump 2.0.
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This week’s mess in the Middle East
The Israeli regime-change war against Iran has brought us new evidence of how disruptive and confusing Trump 2.0’s truly incompetent diplomacy can be.
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Ceasefire? No ceasefire? Regime change? Depends on when you tune in
Start with an alleged ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
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Benjamin Netanyahu, the Captain Ahab of the Middle East
I see I’m not the only one to think of the metaphor of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick in connection with Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsession with Iran.
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Quick takes on the US-Israeli regime-change war on Iran
Mehdi Hasan and Trita Parsi gives their quick take on the US bombing raids against Iran.
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Obsession on a grand scale: Netanyahu and Iran
(Drafted bnefore news of Trump's direct entry into the war)
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Trump 2.0 and Benjamin Netanyahu’s “White Whale,” i.e., regime-change war against Iran
I’ve always thought that the notion that Donald Trump is a Peace President who wants to avoid “forever wars” was wishful thinking.
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How sloppy history lends itself to ill-intentioned propaganda
Historical analogies are inevitable.
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Knee-deep in the Big Muddy? Will the Big Fool say to push on?
The historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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