Bloomberg(center)
Markets are betting on an early end to the war, but both sides need to declare victory.
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The Trump administration can’t say why the United States went to war with Iran, and it can’t say what
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Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth conducted a remarkably peevish press conference on the United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran. At various points, journalists in the breifing room asked—reasonably enough—whether there was “a concern of this spiraling into a longer war.” “Did you not hea
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Joe Kent, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on December 11, 2025. | Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
This morning, Joe Kent — the director of the National Counterterrorism Center — resigned in prote
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Donald Trump has begun suggesting that his war on Iran may be over “very soon” as oil prices soar. Trump will proclaim victory no matter what happens, but he won’t be able to say what “victory” means, let alone persuade anyone else that he succeeded.
No matter how it ends, the end result is not goin
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