The MAGA Coalition Won't 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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The foreign policy of 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 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 join Israel in attacking Iran, perhaps by dropping bunker-busting bombs on a mountain where the Iranians have hidden parts of their nuclear program? Will he or won’t he line up with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to go even further and topple Iran’s regime?