If there’s one thing Democrats agree on, it is that President Trump’s very brief visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone to shake hands with North Korean leader is a “photo op” not a substantive move, a stunt not diplomacy. Kamala Harris said it. Elizabeth Warren said it. Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes said it. So...
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Where Democrats See Danger in the World
When it comes to the biggest geopolitical threat facing the United States, the Democratic candidates are divided. In contrast to the Iran issue, where the Democrats are united, the threat issue In the first debate, moderator Chuck Todd put the question point blank to the ten candidates. “Who is the geopolitical threat to the United...
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Diplomacy, Not War: Democrats Unite to Support the Iran Nuclear Deal
The first debate showed the ten Democratic candidates were divided on key domestic issue but united on Iran, now the biggest foreign policy story in the headlines. With an aborted U.S. attack, tankers in flames, a downed U.S. drone shot down, and a volley of insults between top officials in Tehran and Washington, the two...
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Russia Tweaks Trump: Putin Adviser Says U.S. Drone Violated Iranian Airspace
President Trump’s campaign of “maximum pressure’ on Iran has hit an obstacle: Russia. While the United States insists that Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone in international airspace last week, Russia rejected the charge on Tuesday and supported Iran’s claim that the RQ-4 drone with a 116-foot wingspan, was shot down over Iranian territory....
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Yahoo News: Pentagon Secretly Struck Back Against Iranian Cyberspies
President Trump ordered and then cancelled a bombing raid on Iran for downing a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. Cyber Command launched some kind of cyber attack on an Iranian spy group that monitors shipping in the Middle East. The group, which has ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, has over the past several years...