"For all their utopian dreams, the megaprojects championed by MBS don’t signal the future, but the trap represented by Saudi Arabia’s political economy."

Megaproject fiascos, an overdrawn sovereign wealth fund and speculative, crony real estate schemes won’t create MBS's “thriving economy.”

The 2001 AUMF is extremely broad, but it isn't an all-purpose license to attack any and all "terrorists" wherever they may be.

The US has issued a new NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions) for the entire Venezuelan Flight Information Region, advising of a hazardous security environment amid worsening conditions and heightened military activity in and around Venezuela.

If only we had research that showed if regime change was likely to work. Oh wait, we have an overwhelming consensus in a field that rarely produces them. Read @profdownes.bsky.social & O’Rourke in @foreignaffairs.bsky.social

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