Trita Parsi

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As support slips for military funding to Ukraine, some analysts argue that America is getting a great deal for its money. But there are a lot of strategic costs that don’t show up on the balance sheet.

The president vowed to end the war. But the U.S. keeps selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, which keeps using them to wreak misery in Yemen.

What binds Israel and its new Arab allies is not the threat from Iran but the threat of the U.S. military leaving the Middle East.

Lessons from a 2016 naval crisis that could have sunk the nuclear deal and opened a conflict, but didn’t.