How will the U.S. war with Iran end? Certainly, it is not Israel's victory.
Tehran’s illusion is that by waiting until [U.S.] mid-term elections, which they think Trump will lose, they could claim victory.
Major wars do not always create permanent enemies. Sometimes they create the conditions for entirely new political arrangements.
[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.
For the narcissist in the White House, others are always to blame.
The Trump administration and the Tehran regime are both cornered and in need of some agreement.
[T]he Middle East remains a structural component of the global order that Washington seeks to lead.