We lost the leverage — and the plan.
I invited Professor John Mearsheimer onto the Deep Dive because we needed a clear, unvarnished read on where the Iran war has left U.S. strategy. What he lays out is stark: this is not a temporary setback or a tactical misstep — it’s a structural failure of policy and purpose.
Mearsheimer is blunt: “I think you could…
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