The war launched by President Donald Trump — cheered on with theatrical confidence by Benjamin Netanyahu — was never a war for the Iranian people, nor a strategic effort to reshape the Middle East,…

US entered war with maximalist goals and exits it with pragmatic decision to end conflict despite political cost

US President Donald Trump jumbled his justification to launch the war on Iran, whose nuclear programme he claimed was already obliterated in a June 2025 attack.

The war launched by President Donald Trump — cheered on with theatrical confidence by Benjamin Netanyahu — was never a war for the Iranian people, nor a strategic effort to…

"Trump always declares victory and relentlessly repeats that narrative, regardless of the facts or the outcome, in any and every situation," write Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven…