Trump’s Middle East Policy is Teetering on Overextension

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When Donald Trump returned to the White House, many expected he would make major changes to U.S. policy in the Middle East. After all, Trump opposed forever wars on the campaign trail, worked to reduce troop levels in the Middle East and nearby Afghanistan during his first administration, and came back to office with a lot of political space to challenge conventions on foreign policy. At a strategic level, the expectation that Trump would begin pivoting from the Middle East made sense too. With

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