Trump plays map-maker in the Middle East
Martin van Creveld describes Trump’s plan for Palestine, another step in America’s long, mad effort to re-shape the Middle East.
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Trump & conservatives hate the treaties that keep us safe
Conservatives opposed the treaties that have helped maintain the peace since WWII. We have muddled through despite them. We might be so lucky in the future.
Jessica Mathews: why scuttling the Iran deal is MAD
Summary: Trump apparently intends to scuttle the nuclear arms control deal with Iran. Here an expert explains that the reasons he gives are wrong and that the consequences will be ugly for both us and for them. For more information see the previous posts in this series, listed at the end. Iranian students with pictures …
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We pay for Trump’s gift to the hard-liners of Iran & America
Summary: Trump’s efforts to scuttle our arms control agreement with Iran is a gift to the far-right of both American and Iran. It is a blow to the interests of both Iran and America. Here an expert gives us the bad news, a part of the story that the news media forgets to mention. This …
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Stratfor: Trump’s art of wrecking the nuclear deal with Iran
Summary: Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran was one of his major accomplishments, a defeat of the multi-generational propaganda barrage by America’s pro-war hawks. Now conservatives work to overturn it, as they have opposed all nuclear arms control treaties — deals that have helped prevent atomic war. Stratfor gives a hopeful forecast for what follows Trump’s …
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