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The Art of the War
“I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars,” President Donald Trump declared during his 2021 farewell address. Throughout the 2024 campaign and into his second term, Trump consistently branded himself as the “Peace President.” It was a title he maintained even as his administration conducted military […]
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How Can Iran Avoid a Nuclear Strike from Israel?
Benjamin Netanyahu is losing patience. Israel is being battered by Iran’s missiles and drones, while Israel’s defense shield is nearly depleted, and ineffective even when used. They can continue to attack Iran (although it’s often uncertain which attacks are Israeli and which American) but when it comes to Israeli airspace, they are even using anti-aircraft […]
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What if Russia and China Had Announced on Friday That They Would Intervene Together to Protect Iran against Unprovoked Aggression
At about noon, Moscow time, on Friday February 27, the Russian Security Council met in a video session. The regular weekly meeting of the Council is often at the end of the week. The Foreign and Defense Ministers, Sergei Lavrov and Andrei Belousov, and the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, participated. Unless Russian […]
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Hoisted by Your Own Petard
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, has been an obvious prime target for assassination by the US/Israel perhaps for the whole of his period in office, which began in 1989. It will have been just as or more obvious that his status in this regard would be amplified in the event of a fresh […]
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The Apologists for the Attack on Iran
February 28, 2026. Another attack, another breach of the United Nations Charter. A gross violation of international law. As usual, a violation celebrated as ethical, necessary, and high-minded in principle by the powerful who dictate such terms. Not squalid, dangerous, destabilising. Not, apparently, following the same pattern as before: interventions in Iraq, Libya. Not, goodness, […]