Enjoying the view from Limbo
Donald Trump has decided to follow the lead of Benjamin Netanyahu in bombing Iran, with the purported aim of destroying or at least weakening Iran’s nuclear weapons program. A few questions spring to mind. Everyone knows that a military escapade is the strategic stanch of choice for every political leader bleeding popular support at home. Netanyahu himself has the most obvious vested interest...
The neo-conservative crowd in the backrooms of U.S. politics, which has always been a largely bipartisan faction, has recently found the Republican Party an inhospitable host, and has therefore shifted most of its weight over to the Democratic Party. Hence the Democrats, partly for opportunistic political reasons related to Donald Trump (who was a consistent and valuable Putin asset for five years, with...
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