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by Tommy Salmons | Apr 3, 2026 | Blog, Year Zero
John and I continue to read and comment on Rules for Radicals
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2026 | Blog
$200 billion is not a rounding error, it’s a signal that Washington is settling in for a long Iran war while pretending it can buy its way out of the consequences. We walk through the Pentagon’s latest funding push, why leaders keep hinting the price tag will rise,...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2026 | News
President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off arms sales to Ukraine if NATO members do not join his coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. While Trump halted military aid to Ukraine, he has continued to sell weapons to NATO members, who transfer the arms to...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2026 | News
President Donald Trump said that the “new” President of Iran had accepted a ceasefire with the US. Tehran quickly denied Trump’s statement. “Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United...
by Charles Goyette | Apr 3, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Are the people as clueless as the Deep State expects them to be? You have to wonder. Standing on the tarmac in France before meetings with European foreign ministers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained to reporters that for Iran to ever get nuclear weapons would...
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 3, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 24, 2026, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un made it official that his country is now an unapologetic nuclear weapons power. In an address to the rubber stamp Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim stated: "We will...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 2, 2026 | Blog
The part that doesn’t get said out loud often enough is this: you can be “aligned” in a war and still be on a collision course. We dig into why U.S. goals in Iran and Israel’s goals in Iran don’t just differ, they actively clash and how that clash shows up in...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 2, 2026 | News
US commandos accompanied and assisted Ecuadorian soldiers on raids targeting suspected cartels. Two US officials speaking with CBS News confirmed that US special forces were participating in the Ecuadorian operations. They explained that the US soldiers accompanied...
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Apr 2, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As the United States and Israel press their war of aggression against Iran—now entering its second month—attention has understandably focused on the carnage in the Middle East. Yet with the Strait of Hormuz effectively blockaded and global energy markets in turmoil,...
by Jeff Wright | Apr 2, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Make no mistake: the self-proclaimed defenders of America’s liberal democracy at The Bulwark love war. But the one thing that may possibly outweigh Bill Kristol and company’s love of war may be their hatred for Donald Trump. So, it should be no surprise The...