Tag: Iran war

[W]e are all at grave risk of the outbreak of nuclear war as a direct result of the actions of Trump.

How can we believe in the seriousness of the world's most important politician’s words when he regularly abuses them?

Here was the American president ... deciding to go to war on a gut feeling and with no visible concern for what it would mean beyond [U.S.] borders.

America’s Achilles’ heel is internal. If it loses this war, it will likely be because much of the media, politicians, and even some of Trump’s allies do not fully understand his policies.

The shift now underway is unlikely to take the form of a dramatic collapse of American power in the Gulf. It is more likely to be subtler and, for the region, more unsettling.

Will Trump continue negotiations even if it requires extending the current ceasefire?

Trump has not achieved any of his never clearly defined war goals.

The United States may not be on the brink of a rapid or dramatic decline, yet it faces a genuine challenge in redefining its global role[.]

[T]he risk is that unconditional sanctions relief could once again reinforce Iran’s external projection of power rather than stabilize its domestic economy.

Trump’s erratic verbal attacks and threats ... are an expression of his inability to find a way out of the current mess.