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Donald Trump and Marco Rubio Well Overstate Iran’s Oil “Leverage”

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Last week President Trump said that the high price of oil is “a very small price to pay” for keeping nukes out of Iran. His Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, added that if Iran got a nuclear weapon, it would have more leverage to keep the Hormuz Strait closed and “make our gas prices […]

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Contra Bret Stephens, Freedom Trumps Western Civ by Many Miles

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The frequently excellent Bret Stephens was thrilled about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s elevation of Western civilization in his Munich Security Conference speech last week. Stephens desires a renewed reverence for the civilizational qualities that shaped Europe, and subsequently the United States. He laments the “damage” done to “normal citizens in modern democracies who,

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