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Iran Exposes Boris Johnson's Brexit Bombast
The Royal Navy needs help, as the likely new prime minister is about to discover, to his chagrin.
Facing an Iran problem.
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may be the world masters of the tactic, but Boris Johnson also understands the appeal of diversionary foreign policy. He made a career out of picking fights with the European Union — winning validation in the 2016 Brexit referendum and, very likely, in soon becoming his party’s choice to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May.
Now, however, Johnson stands to inherit a foreign policy crisis that makes an already difficult job a lot harder.