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The Maga coalition will not survive a bunker-buster in Iran
As the US President weighs whether to join Israel’s war against Iran, a rift cleaves his own base, not to mention the world.
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If Mr Trump does give the order to attack, he will lose a large and especially zealous part of his America First crowd.
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Andreas Kluth
The foreign policy of US President Donald Trump, as captured in the simplistic slogan “peace through strength”, has always been fraught with contradictions. So it was only a matter of time before those would explode, detonating his Make America Great Again (Maga) base and leaving it and distant parts of the world in ashes. Five months into the President’s second term, that moment may have arrived.
Will he or won’t he
