US Self-Belief Is a 1-Way Street to Blunders

Israel’s spying activities have always been brushed under the carpet by compliant American politicians.

[T]he great powers court rising generations when they sense shifting power.

Returning to the moon is no longer a state mission, but a market.

Trump is not exactly a legal scholar. If he wanted to dispatch his gunboats here, he wouldn’t need a judicial pretext.

[Trump] disregarded Arab national interests, foremost among them the Palestinian issue and its legitimate, legal aspirations.

So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.

Another interesting feature is the absence of non-partisan journalists covering this war.