In every confrontation between nations, there is a moment when words stop working. The radio crackles. A warning is issued. Then another. Then another. And at some point, when the ship on the other end keeps moving, and the crew keeps silent, the decision passes from the diplomats to the gunners. That moment came Sunday
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Trump’s quieter weapon is doing the loudest work. There is a subtle, quiet kind of power. That is the power President Trump described Thursday, standing on the South Lawn before boarding Marine
At ten o’clock this morning, Eastern time, the United States Navy drew a line in the water. A blockade of Iranian ports and a partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz went
Secretary of State Marco Rubio strode into the Capitol and delivered a message as crisp as a gavel strike: President Trump did not need Congress’s permission to hit Iran. “No,” Rubio said,
