The administration can’t play both sides forever. The post The Trump Admin’s Slow Breakup with María Corina Machado appeared first on The American Conservative .
Latin America The Trump Admin’s Slow Breakup with María Corina Machado The administration can’t play both sides forever. María Corina Machado is having a bad year. The exiled leader of Venezuela’s opposition has pinned her hopes of returning to lead the country on President Donald Trump, who overturned the hostile government of Nicolas Maduro after a raid to capture the former Venezuelan president. After Maduro’s removal in January, Machado attempted to position herself as the natural leader of a new government in Caracas, and travelled to Washington to personally present Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize—a distinction…Open
Fourth time’s a charm for Marine Le Pen. The post A French Rebirth? appeared first on The American Conservative .
France A French Rebirth? Fourth time’s a charm for Marine Le Pen. Marine Le Pen has a new lease on life. Last Tuesday, a court cleared a path for her to contest France’s presidential election next year. And she took it with celerity. “There is no longer any scenario in which I could not run,” Le Pen announced on TV that evening. “I am a candidate.” This will be Le Pen’s fourth bid for the job, and her chances appear better than ever. Multiple polls conducted over the past several days show her comfortably defeating all comers in both phases of France’s two-round election system. Of course, much could change in…Open
Washington needs a strategy grounded in realism and reciprocal diplomacy. The post The Real Lesson of America’s Decades-Long Conflict with Iran appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign policy The Real Lesson of America’s Decades-Long Conflict with Iran Washington needs a strategy grounded in realism and reciprocal diplomacy. Donald Trump entered office promising to end America’s endless wars. Instead, he chose a war openly aimed at regime change in Iran that has predictably become a quagmire, trapping the United States in an open-ended cycle of tit-for-tat strikes, economic blockades, and escalating confrontation over the Strait of Hormuz, with no plausible military path to victory. The immediate crisis is dangerous enough. The larger problem is that Washington is once again doubling down on a…Open
President Trump held a Situation Room meeting Tuesday to discuss a massive offensive in Iran that will be wider in scope than the current strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, three sources with knowledge said. Why it matters: Trump appears willing to escalate the war to cause enough damage that the Iranian regime will open the Strait of Hormuz and accept Trump's nuclear demands. Driving the news: Trump convened the meeting as the U.S. military conducted strikes in the Strait of Hormuz area and along the southern coast of Iran for the fourth day in a row. - Most of the targets were air defense and radar systems, anti-ship missile positions and drone launch sites. - U.S. officials said the aim of the strikes was to significantly degrade…
President Trump held a Situation Room meeting Tuesday to discuss a massive offensive in Iran that will be wider in scope than the current strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, three sources with knowledge said. Why it matters: Trump appears willing to escalate the war to cause enough damage that the Iranian regime will open the Strait of Hormuz and accept Trump's nuclear demands. Driving the news: Trump convened the meeting as the U.S. military conducted strikes in the Strait of Hormuz area and along the southern coast of Iran for the fourth day in a row. - Most of the targets were air defense and radar systems, anti-ship missile positions and drone launch sites. - U.S. officials said the aim of the strikes was to significantly degrade…Open