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Xi Jin-ping, not Vladimir Putin, is the prime mover behind the Russo-Ukrainian War and what passes for "World War III."
The United States and its allies are not fighting to win in the Red Sea, where asymmetric guerilla warfare threatens to bleed them dry.
Iran provided ample casus belli for the United States. But Trump might have failed to make enough of a case for the war.
The Ohio Problem refers to the desperate resupply of Malta during WWII. Taiwan might be just as limited in resources in a war with China.
China is not ready to take Taiwan by force, and does not dare use its civilian ferry fleet even to attempt it.
America cannot simply adapt drone or other systems developed and tested in Ukraine, because approval processes take too long.
The problem with regime change is that it often leads to nation-building, from the Marshall Plan to the aftermath of Iraq. How to avoid it.
World War II caused America to become the greatest industrial power on earth, thus ending the Great Depression.
The leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran regard their government as a sacred project and will never trade it away for anything.
President Trump, unfortunately, is behaving like a battered wife giving her husband-assailant one more chance - in this case, Iran.
