Beyond the $40 billion price tag, the Iran war cost inflicted lasting damage on gas prices, inflation, consumer confidence, and Trump’s approval ratings.
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Turkey fuels terror in the West Bank by housing Hamas operatives who direct attacks, transfer weapons, and recruit from safe havens.
Turkey’s NATO summit hosting masks a dangerous agenda of strategic freelancing, maritime coercion, and democratic backsliding that the alliance must confront directly.
Europe can use trade leverage to challenge Israeli settlements, but delaying action risks rendering a two-state solution permanently unattainable.
Prematurely ending the bombing and trusting amateur negotiators left Iran’s nuclear path intact and America’s leverage completely squandered.
America’s technological supremacy is fading. To win the next conflict, the Pentagon must embrace cheap drones, AI integration, and radical bureaucratic reform.
The Abraham Accords face an uncertain future as Israel’s aggressive regional strategy increasingly alienates Gulf partners who once embraced normalization.
The Islamabad Memorandum signals a Nixonian shift, empowering regional powers to lead security while the US steps back as offshore balancer.
Reactive U.S. AI restrictions risk alienating allies and wasting a critical window to harden national cyber defenses against advancing adversaries.
The administration unleashes a fierce institutional counteroffensive to completely isolate multi-factional congressional opposition over the accord.