On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses the President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meetings, the consequences of the president’s legislative achievement, where he stands on arming Ukraine, the Western Hemisphere’s bright fossil fuel future, and Gore Vidal vs. William F. Buckley.
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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)