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Trump weighs 'all-out war' as Iran negotiators spin their wheels: 'Finish the job'
Diplomacy at GunpointThe Real Center of PowerDonald Trump is not “weighing options” so much as holding the trigger over both diplomacy and war. The article makes the power structure plain: he is consulting Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, but the decision is his. The military is not an independent actor here. It is the instrument Trump uses to keep negotiations under threat while preserving the fiction that force is merely a fallback.That is the core fact obscured by the language of “optionality” and “working the problem.” The administration is not managing a complex dispute. It is trying to…
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