The early polling on President Donald Trump’s war against Iran presents what might, at first glance, look like a constraint on escalation. Across numerous polls a majority of Americans oppose the conflict with support for military action rarely breaking out of the...
During the late nineteenth century, under the aegis of a colonial order supervised by the French and British and German Empires, the constitutional monarch of Belgium, a tiny country in Europe, created an imitation empire that became the world’s evilest regime. In...
“We've won. Let me tell you, we've won. You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the – in the first hour it was over. We won," President Donald Trump declared, claiming “we won” five times in just thirteen seconds at a Kentucky rally on March...
The United States can conjure trillions of dollars from thin air through the magic of the Federal Reserve's printing press. What it cannot conjure into existence are the missiles, interceptors, and precision munitions that modern warfare devours at a pace Washington...
War is often sold to the public as an act of national will: decisive, necessary, and under control. The bill arrives later, in a quieter form. It shows up in insurance markets, shipping rates, emergency guarantees, higher fuel prices, and sudden policy reversals...
Over the last week, the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States has played out in a second theater that never sleeps: the timeline of X/Twitter. The feed is saturated with claims about battlefield damage, casualty numbers, “secret” losses, and the health or...
Not distracted by the war on Iran, on March 3, President Donald Trump, once again, warned that Cuba was in its “last moments.” The next day, he said, “It may be a friendly takeover. It may not be a friendly takeover. It wouldn’t matter because they are down to, as...
Governments that want to send young people to die in distant countries have always faced the same problem: the arithmetic of the transaction is unfavorable. You are asking a twenty-three-year-old to trade his life for a geopolitical objective he cannot see, in a...
