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Ambassador Robert Hunter
Europe

RIP Amb. Robert Hunter, who warned about NATO expansion

His work in both the Carter and Clinton administrations reflected sober analysis and the pursuit of engaging Russia and Iran rather than isolating them

Friedrich Merz
Europe

Germany's grandstanding on Iran: The best Europe can muster?

Chancellor Merz predicts the demise of the regime, but it's just more performative rhetoric, not strategy, and helps no one

Trump and Lindsey Graham
Washington Politics

Does MAGA want Trump to ‘make regime change great again’?

The president went from praising ‘the wars we never get into’ to seeing how many the US can get into, and prominent members of his base are eating it up


Iran protests
Middle East

Iran regime is brittle, but don't count out killer instinct to survive

Every violent protest — of which there have been several over the last decade — takes a little more away from the government's legitimacy

Trump Iran
QiOSK

As Tehran cracks down, Trump’s likely instincts are to stay out

The president is already walking back 'lock and loaded' promises to intervene in protests across the country

‘Locked and loaded’: Trump threatens to attack Iran
QiOSK

‘Locked and loaded’: Trump threatens to attack Iran

If Iranian authorities kill protestors, the US will ‘come to their rescue’, Trump says