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The Regime We Were Supposed to Topple Just Got Stronger
What if everything you've been told about the new Iran deal — and what "winning" the war even meant — is built on a comparison that doesn't hold up, and a strategic outcome that's the opposite of what most commentators are claiming?
A 14-point memorandum is about to be signed in Switzerland, and the headlines are already calling it weaker than the 2015 Obama-era nuclear deal that Trump once tore apart. But according to Adam Garfinkle - veteran foreign policy analyst, former editor of The American Interest, and author of the forthcoming book The Age of Spectacle - that comparison is…
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