
Trump’s Historic Blunder in Iran
Both the White House and Israel wanted swift regime change in Iran. Instead they’ve triggered a spiraling conflict with no plausible endgame.
Jason Brownlee is a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin specializing in comparative politics and foreign policy. He is the author of Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US-Egyptian Alliance.

Both the White House and Israel wanted swift regime change in Iran. Instead they’ve triggered a spiraling conflict with no plausible endgame.

China doesn’t have an empire. The United States doesn’t need to saber-rattle. And we really don’t need to fight these forever wars.