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Can we say Donald Trump's Middle East nuclear strategy is dangerous — if it isn't even a strategy?

JL;DR SUMMARY Terrence Petty explores the complexities and contradictions in Donald Trump's handling of Middle East nuclear tensions, particularly focusing on Iran's nuclear program. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Middle EastBenjamin NetanyahuDonald TrumpMilitary StrategyNuclear WeaponsUs Foreign PolicyMiddle East DiplomacyIran Nuclear ProgramGlobal Nuclear Politics

Places mentioned

Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"War was averted through back channels between Washington, D.C. and Moscow, negotiations, and compromise."
Germany
"Nazi Germanys Uranverein, or Uranium Club."
Iran
"how Donald Trump has handled Israels war against Iran over the latters nuclear weapons program"
Norway
"American and British bombers dropped their payloads onto a heavy water production plant in Nazi-occupied Norway"
Israel
"In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an unfinished nuclear reactor in Iraq."
North Korea
"Starting in the 1990s, successive U.S. governments tried to reach deals with North Korea"
South Africa
"The apartheid government of South Africa had secretly built nuclear weapons"
Libya
"International pressure, fear of attack by the U.S. military, and a besieged economy prompted Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi"
Moscow, Russian Federation
"War was averted through back channels between Washington, D.C. and Moscow, negotiations, and compromise."
Syria
"In 2007 the Israeli air force flattened a reactor in Syria."
Iraq
"In 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed an unfinished nuclear reactor in Iraq."
Hiroshima, Japan
"produce the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
Nagasaki, Japan
"produce the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"

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