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Iran conflict: Regime Headed Toward Collapse
Iran has “talked tough,” notes R.N. Prasher at Asia Times, vowing to convey the United States and Israel to their knees. But its enemies haven’t “suffered casualties and damage anywhere near that suffered by Iran,” and their “leadership remains intact.” Even its hopes to unfold the “global energy crisis” appears “unlikely” to save lots of the regime. Notably, President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu don’t seem like “in a hurry to end hostilities.” Fact is, Iran’s posturing, amid an “economy in shambles, water stress, damage” to its oil infrastructure and “the attrition of its fighting capability,” solely makes “regime-survival” much less seemingly. Unless Tehran gravitates toward a “feasible endgame,” we might quickly witness the “collapse of its theocracy that the US and Israel seek.”
Iran conflict II: Enter the ‘Obama Republicans’
In response to President Trump’s determination “to bring justice to the Iranian terror-sponsoring regime,” Tucker Carlson “and others in right-wing circles” wrongly “claim that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States” and solid blame on Israel, sighs Frank Miele at RealClear Politics. This crowd ignores the truth “that an unrestrained Iran is not just an imminent threat; it is an existential threat.” Call them “Obama Republicans,” as they’re aligned with “a president who tried to avoid war with Iran by sending [the regime] a planeload of cash.” Insisting that Iran’s previous transgressions don’t represent “an ‘imminent’ danger is to redefine the word into meaninglessness.”
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Conservative: ‘Russiagate’ Tars Mueller
The “Russiagate” investigation was Robert “Mueller’s final public act, and he was not up to the job,” observes Eli Lake at The Free Press: It was a scandal he “could have exposed, but ended up fueling”: For years, the “resistance” fed off rumors about a probe that in the finish “turned up nothing.” Worse, the “investigation could have been closed: years earlier, as line FBI agents recommended; key allegations “heavily relied on unverified ‘research’” from the Clinton marketing campaign. Mueller “was in a position to expose a political dirty trick played against a sitting president. Instead, he kept his mouth shut for more than two years and allowed the dark clouds of innuendo and rumor to gather.” This silence “discredited the FBI and the Justice Department” in the eyes of half the nation, and is “a big part of Mueller’s legacy.”
Foreign desk: Selling Out Canada?
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s offers with China — a nation he’d “called, only one year ago, Canada’s ‘biggest security threat’ ” — goal “to accomplish a magical transformation from frog to prince, from interfering foreign power to ‘strategic partner’ in the ‘new world order,’ ” regardless of issues that this rapprochement “puts Canada in a position of vulnerability,” frets Jane Stannus at The Spectator-US. One accord (its textual content nonetheless secret) is on law-enforcement cooperation with Beijing’s Ministry of Public Security, which “has for years sought to control and intimidate members of the Chinese diaspora in Canada.” Trade offers might let China “use Canada as a dumping ground for its excess production, which could spell the end of Canada’s manufacturing sector.” Beware: A Canada “negotiating with a communist one-party authoritarian state from a position of moral weakness, without enforceable safeguards, may find itself in the soup.”
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Libertarian: US Can Lead on Rare Earths Again
“Breaking China’s hold on the rare-earth supply chain” solely requires the US authorities to “get out of the way,” explains Reason’s Eric Boehm. Right now, China mines 60 p.c of the world provide of uncommon earths” (“the collective name for 17 different heavy metals essential to many aspects of modern computing technology”), however “the United States dominated until the 1980s.” Why? “A single mine requires approval from multiple federal and state agencies with overlapping and duplicative regulatory requirements,” including “more than $1 billion to the development of major mining projects.” So “much of America’s abundant supply of rare earths — which are actually not all that rare, despite the name — remains untapped.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
