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‘Impulsive and emotional’: Trump tosses traditional wartime presidency blueprint

President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said. Those experts said this week that where previous U.S. commanders in chief have sought to portray a steel will and generals-based…

Roll Call

The Iran War Has Already Hurt Oil Production More Than the '70s Energy Crisis Did

The conflict is squeezing global supply and pushing prices up.

Reason

Iran, the $39 trillion national debt and dedollarization: How Trump exposed America's Achilles Heel in Hormuz

With the national debt at $39 trillion and dollar dominance already at a 30-year low, the petrodollar system is more visible—and threatened—than ever.

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Want to understand why Trump is still bombing Iran? Look to Nixon and Vietnam

Richard Nixon’s strategy was about shielding his own reputation. Now Trump needs a face-saving exit of his own

The Guardian - US

Watergate journalist Bob Woodward to lift lid on Washington secrets in new memoir

‘Woodward has kept notes, transcripts and files of all of his interviews with the most important players in Washington,’ says publisher Simon & Schuster

The Independent UK

Trump tours Graceland and professes love for Elvis but seems stumped when asked his favorite song by The King

At Graceland, Trump asked reporters if they had a question for him about the late singer, and was inevitably quizzed on his favorite Elvis Presley track

The Independent UK

Vietnam ruined Lyndon B. Johnson’s political career. Will Donald Trump face the same fate over Iran?

Is United States President Donald Trump lurching toward decline and fall? Will he and his MAGA movement reprise Lyndon B. Johnson’s story, when the quagmire of the Vietnam War took the Democratic president out of the 1968 election and gave Republican Richard Nixon the opening he needed to defeat the…

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Trump’s war language is aggressive and extreme. It also offers some insight into his thinking

US President Donald Trump speaks in a way unlike any of his predecessors. His distinctive and highly recognisable style may even play a role in his appeal to his political base. Since the infamous Access Hollywood tapes, he has got away with saying things none of his predecessors would have…

The Conversation

Meet the past FBI directors who make Kash Patel’s problems look like child’s play

FBI director Kash Patel has faced backlash from his mass firings at the agency, to use of government planes for private trips

The Independent UK

Trump faces a ‘personal Vietnam’ in Iran

He is stuck in a quagmire. His goals are elusive. His bombing does not force a surrender. He has no exit strategy. Good morning, Vietnam

The Guardian - US

Trump’s war in Iran marks the culmination of his imperial presidency

The path to this reckless war was paved by the collapse of accountability in Washington

The Guardian - US

Trump's New Tariff Plan Still Asserts a Crisis That Does Not Exist

The president’s invocation of Section 122 conflates a trade deficit with a balance-of-payments deficit.

Reason

Democrats must defund Trump’s imperial war

Trump is wielding imperial powers created by a decades-long master plan. The only way to stop his war is to cut off the money

The Guardian - US

Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield who exposed Watergate tapes dies at 99

Butterfield believed he’d had a hand in the president’s fate

The Independent UK

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The Times of India

Inside the paradox of Mexico's never-ending war on drugs

The decades-long war on drugs, initiated by Nixon, has devolved into a geopolitical quagmire. The recent death of cartel leader El Mencho, hailed as a victory, quickly led to widespread chaos, demonstrating how successes in combating drug trafficking often breed deeper crises and more violence across Latin America.

The Conversation

Congress once fought to limit a president’s war powers − more than 50 years later, its successors are less willing to assert their authority

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution allows the president to use the military in certain situations without prior congressional approval – and have acted…

Reason

The Secret Phone Recordings of Henry Kissinger, a 'Habitual Liar'

A new collection of transcripts underscores the vast scope of Kissinger's systematic deception.

Fortune

America’s $901 billion trade deficit is like ‘chronically high cholesterol,’ top economist says, and Trump’s 150-day tariffs are the wrong medicine

Trump’s trade policy risks confusing one problem with a much bigger crisis, according to Harvard professor Gita Gopinath.

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Reason

Trump Can't Filibuster Through the 6-Year Itch

Those expecting fireworks at tonight's State of the Union will have to sit through the tedious resume-padding of a flagging president.

Fortune

Drug use on the rise as U.S. spends $1 trillion in War on Drugs and cartel leaders drive violence in Mexico

The death of El Mencho decapitates one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels, but there’s a whole lot more sustaining the drug industry nowadays.

Reason

What About Nixon?

How many Presidents make a precedent?

The Times of India

SCOTUS vs POTUS: Who really runs America? A throwback to the (in)famous tug-of-wars

'You can't always get what you want ... '

The Conversation

Why the ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ have echoed with public support – unlike the campus of Kent State in 1970

The president announces an aggressive, controversial policy. Large groups of protesters take to the streets. Government agents open fire and kill protesters.

The Times of India

Meet Charles Radford: US sailor who spied on Kissinger during the 1971 India–Pakistan war

A young US Navy yeoman, Charles Radford, secretly copied classified documents from the National Security Council during the early 1970s. He passed these sensitive papers, including those related to Henry Kissinger's handling of the India-Pakistan war, to senior military officers. This internal spying revealed a power struggle between civilian leaders…

The Times of India

'If India jumped Pakistan...': Unsealed Watergate files reveals Richard Nixon asked China to interfere in Bangladesh Liberation War

In his grand jury testimony, Nixon described a secret assurance given to Beijing during the war. His full statement reads: “The Russians were supporting India. … Nobody was supporting Pakistan because there was an embargo on the shipment of arms. … But we were giving moral support to them, and…

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