Outside the Beltway

Lessons learned? Or lessons identified?

A reminder.

Winging it is seldom a sound diplomatic strategy.

Now what?

Having set the region afire, he’s prepared to let others clean up the mess.

Oil prices are sharply up.

More excerpts from excellent columns I’ve read.

“Major combat operations” are underway.

Netanyahu will take it.

I question the timing.

The country’s citizens are enduring power outages while Saudis are making deals for cutting-edge technology.

A fifty-year dictatorship has been ousted. What now?

Trump is like a child with a new toy.

The Israeli government has no plan. Its defense minister does.

Two related questions.

Israel and Iran’s proxies are on a collision course.

Article 99 meets Catch-22.

Hamas continues to cynically manipulate the world’s humanitarian impulses.

The war in Israel is in danger of expanding.

A roundup of news and opinon.

The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war sees a re-escalation.

Sigh.

Understandable efforts to protect their market share are alienating customers who think they’re doing nothing wrong.

The PRC is skirting sanctions to supply a frienemy.

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