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NYTIMES (Elian Peltier and Safiullah Padshah) - Bagram Air Base Targeted by Pakistan, Afghanistan Says

The Afghan military said it had thwarted a Pakistani airstrike on the former U.S. base, Bagram airfield, amid an intensifying campaign that has targeted dozens of military sites across the country.

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Daniel Solomon) - Can MAGA ‘Conquer’ France?

French civil society is getting in position to exploit the White House’s “civilizational” turn. The post Can MAGA ‘Conquer’ France? appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs Can MAGA ‘Conquer’ France? French civil society is getting in position to exploit the White House’s “civilizational” turn. Transatlantic diplomacy has reached a low ebb of late. The American ambassador in Belgium, Bill White, just received a summons from Brussels and a public rebuke from the country’s foreign minister for accusing his hosts of antisemitism in a poorly-spelled X tirade. Charles Kushner, the American representative in France, has now gotten his second démarche from the Quai d’Orsay (both of them linked to his social media activity). These incidents are the latest crashes in our clown-car diplomacy, which in the past 14 months has done grave damage to the West’s alliance structure.  Recent…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (John Burtka III) - The Supreme Court Clarified Tariff Authority, but Did Not Change Economic Reality

The imperatives remain the same, even if the application of the tools must be adjusted. The post The Supreme Court Clarified Tariff Authority, but Did Not Change Economic Reality appeared first on The American Conservative .

Politics The Supreme Court Clarified Tariff Authority, but Did Not Change Economic Reality The imperatives remain the same, even if the application of the tools must be adjusted. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) I recently spoke to steelworkers and auto parts makers in Michigan. These are people who have spent their lives inside America’s industrial economy. Their concerns are not abstract. They want to know one thing: Does America still plan to make the things it needs to be a powerful country? This is the question that trumps all others. The Supreme Court’s recent ruling regarding the use of emergency powers to impose tariffs is significant, but only in the sense that it is now clearer how such a policy would be carried out. It does…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Jack Hunter) - On the Iran War, They Think You’re Stupid

This president and members of this Congress are openly and brazenly insulting Americans’ intelligence. The post On the Iran War, They Think You’re Stupid appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs On the Iran War, They Think You’re Stupid This president and members of this Congress are openly and brazenly insulting Americansintelligence’ . Does Donald Trump think Americans are stupid? After he announced in a video that “a short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran” to “defend the American people” by eliminating “imminent threats” to Americans at home and abroad, the president then listed some of his reasons for taking the U.S. to war. Presumably, he would tell us about this threat and just how imminent it was. Trump said, “For 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted ‘Death to America’ and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder, targeting…Open

YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - Robert Wilkie: 'Incredibly effective' strikes on Iranian leadership

Former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie comments on Operation Epic Fury, what potentially remains of Iranian leadership and more on NEWSMAX.