The United States is set to resume nuclear talks with Iran in Rome this weekend, though as Axios reports, the Trump camp remains divided over what strategy to use.
This a little less than a month after the United States launched its deadly airstrikes on the Houthis, who the American government considers more or less to be a proxy of Iran. As Belén Fernández makes clear, we’ve been bombing Yemen on and off since 2002—a greater outrage than Jeffrey Goldberg getting added to a Signal thread. Emma Claire Foley, meanwhile, zooms out and looks at Trump’s nuclear strategy as a whole, which is as fragile as the infrastructure that props it up.
“The nuclear infrastructure of the United States is profoundly fragile, even when fully staffed. Each day brings a new opportunity for destruction at the scale and efficiency that nuclear weapons have always promised.”
“For these wannabe Prometheuses, the future of conservation lies not in tackling the complex causes of extinction but in wresting the power of extinction for themselves.”
“In my dozens of conversations with Nepalis, especially among the middle class, most have seemed fatalistic and disengaged when it comes to politics. It’s like they’ve given up on the possibility of once again changing the system.”
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