Trump, true to form, translates military achievements into diplomatic currency.
[W]hen ethics are abandoned for epics, and when political power subverts rational military decision-making, it is not surprising that symptoms of strategic fatigue begin to develop.
Ninety percent of his MAGA base backs the war, and that is all he needs.
The entire Trumpian policy of the day, riding high on the MAGA bandwagon, is all about rejigging the world order again in favor of America.
Do the U.S. and Israel really want to prompt a civil war, with all the chaos it would bring?
If the total collapse of Iran was the strategic objective of this war, then Washington needs a rethink.
Trump is essentially confronted again with a situation of asymmetrical warfare that the West has failed to solve many times in recent history.
You see, Mr. Carlson, this land was promised to a people, not to individuals.