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By Jude Russo, The American Conservative, March 26, 2026
Jude Russo is the managing editor of The American Conservative and a contributing editor of The New York Sun. He is a 2024–25 James Madison Fellow at Hillsdale College and was named one of the ISI Top 20 Under 30 for 2024.
Doing everything by war is in fact difficult, expensive, and unsustainable.
President Donald Trump is making big noises about calling off the Iran War. Good. As the local TV warlord Pete Hegseth would have it, we’ve made a complete mess of the place; you can watch it in the official Department of Defense X account, where footage of explosions has been intercut with clips from movies and videogames in what is the new historical standard for tastelessness. And now it looks like we’re offering the Iranians something like what was under consideration before the bombs started falling. Great success! Fire up the luxury jets! Get J.D. Vance out to Islamabad, now!
The problem is that it’s difficult to really put your heart into believing the gang at 1600 Penn. The Iranians are denying that any direct negotiations are taking place, and Washington’s latest great white hope, Iran’s Speaker of the Parliament Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, has said that the announcements to that effect are an effort to settle the stomachs of Western markets. …
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