On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses Anthropic’s standoff with the Pentagon, whether munitions being used in Iran are really drawing down United States stockpiles in other theaters, the Central Intelligence Agency’s attempt to arm a Kurdish rebellion, the cards the ayatollahs still have left to play, and Trump’s war with the Tuckerverse.
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Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)