On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses Joe Kent’s resignation, Trump’s frustration with NATO’s refusal to help in the Gulf, JD Vance’s show of support for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and the state of the war in Iran.
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155 shell bodies sit on a pallet at General Dynamics ready to be shipped on August 20, 2025, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. (Getty Images)