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<p>How Washington responds to the incident will have profound implications.</p>

<p>Iran’s economic fortunes — and its strategic ambitions — are already expanding, even ahead of any new deal with the West.</p>

And the urgent need to reestablish deterrence.

  From ayatollahs wishing to destroy the Jewish state, good Lord give us deliverance. According to my sober judgment, there’s between them not an

Regardless of where one sits politically, it’s clear that the ‘bad bargain’ looming in Vienna would be a victory for evil and a defeat for the rest of us.

The 'bad bargain' looming in Vienna would be a victory for evil and a defeat for the rest of us.

Regardless of where one sits politically, it’s clear that the “bad bargain” looming in Vienna would be a victory for evil and a defeat for the rest of us.

Russian forces continue to push toward the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. While both its initial blitzkrieg and subsequent efforts to decapitate Ukraine’s government have failed, Russian forces grind on. The West focuses its attention on that fight, but the immediate reverberations of the Ukraine fight go further.

Senior military officials told the Hill they wanted to train Ukrainians on unconventional warfare tactics. But the idea was stopped cold over the administration's worries about escalation.

The White House reportedly rejected plans to send additional special operations personnel to Ukraine in December out of fear it could provoke Russia.