When Iranian drones struck an airport terminal in Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave last Thursday, injuring at least two civilians and narrowly missing a school, Tehran accomplished something remarkable: it threatened the one neighbor that had studiously avoided the escalating conflict between Iran and the West. The attack was strategically senseless. French intelligence claims that Baku explicitly […]

Imagine for a moment that you are the governor of a failing state. Would you try to improve the state by repealing failing policies, or would you spend taxpayer money on an ad campaign to try to improve your national image without helping the residents of your state? If you chose the second option, you […]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blasted CNN Friday morning for its coverage of the Iran war, exclaiming that the “sooner” Paramount CEO David Ellison “takes over that network, the better.” “Fake news from CNN reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war’s impact on the Strait of Hormuz. Patently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran...

Democrats shouldn’t let antipathy to Trump blind them to the strategic and moral necessity of defanging the Islamic Republic.