Wannabe analysts depict the quagmire as a masterstroke. The post No 4D Chess: War With Iran Helps China appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs No 4D Chess: War With Iran Helps China Wannabe analysts depict the quagmire as a masterstroke. We’ve heard it all before. Pro-war MAGA commentators insist that every move President Donald Trump makes is a strategic masterstroke. The war with Iran is no exception. What appears to be a Middle Eastern quagmire in the making is not a blunder at all. Instead, this war is “really” about China. Another oil shock is nothing to worry about. It is “really” leverage against America’s “main rival”. Another open-ended entanglement is not overextension. It is “really” the opening act of a coherent Indo-Pacific strategy that the “America Lasters” are too daft to understand. This is the 4D chess defense of the…Open
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When Americans need to hear the Holy Father’s rebukes of the war, a prominent Catholic leader says the pope isn’t really talking about Iran. The post Pope Leo, Bishop Robert Barron and the Iran War appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Pope Leo, Bishop Robert Barron and the Iran War When Americans need to hear the Holy Father’s rebukes of the war, a prominent Catholic leader says the pope isn’t really talking about Iran. I was 28 when the U.S. invaded Iraq. As an antiwar, two-time Pat Buchanan voter, I opposed the war, and unfortunately, for my country and that region, time would prove me right. As a non-religious South Carolinian, I noticed that many of the evangelical churches I grew up around and their leaders were the most enthusiastic about the war. I thought that seemed not only wrong, but the opposite of my understanding of Jesus Christ. It was also clear at the time that neoconservative politicians and pundits, who defined the Bush-Cheney era,…Open
Destroying the UK’s economy won’t even advance the climate goals notionally being pursued. The post British Energy Policy Is Self-Defeating and Suicidal appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage British Energy Policy Is Self-Defeating and Suicidal Destroying the UK’s economy won’t even advance the climate goals notionally being pursued. UK Special Coverage It is sometimes called “suicidal empathy”: a compulsion to damage one’s own wellbeing in pursuit of an ideal or a moral dogma. The UK government’s response to what is being called by the International Energy Agency the “worst energy crisis in history ” is perhaps a textbook example. Rather than compromise its schedule to achieve net zero, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is prepared to accelerate economic decline and impoverish UK voters by refusing, on essentially moral grounds, to develop substantial energy resources in the British sector of the…Open
Alicia Halvensleben, the president of the city’s Common Council, defeated a Republican legislator, continuing a string of Trump-era mayoral wins for Democrats.
