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Robert Kagan
Washington Politics

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

In a wide-ranging interview with RS, the hawkish commentator talks neocons, primacy, and why he opposes the war in Iran

John Thune Senate leadership
Washington Politics

Party elites so blind they can't see their base turning against the war

Numerous polls can't all be wrong. At some point there will be a reckoning with the out-of-touch Republican establishment in Washington.

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars
Europe

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars

Of course this would also appeal to Israel, prolonging the Middle East war and potentially drawing European governments into the theater, too.

South Carolina Senators Fritz Hollings and Lindsey Graham,
Washington Politics

Before Lindsey there was Fritz, an anti-Iraq war, Israel skeptic

On foreign policy the former senior senator from South Carolina was as far from Graham as one could get, and was quite quite unapologetic about it

Trump oil fields
Global Crises

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

The US risks depleting its emergency petroleum supplies even as it escalates with Iran

Ex-US ambassador says Palestinian state would be 'suicide' for Israel
QiOSK

Ex-US ambassador says Palestinian state would be 'suicide' for Israel

In a hearing on the Abraham Accords, witnesses lamented the end of bipartisan support for Tel Aviv