Un-Diplomatic

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June 2025

Working with the Contradictions of “Antiwar MAGA”
Questioning whether far-right opponents of *some* foreign wars are useful allies, useless, or simply controlled opposition for MAGA.
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The Complete Andor Mini-Series
Our grand Andor mini-series is finally complete!
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Parsing Preemptive from Preventive War
US and Israeli aggression revives the need for some hard-won insights from the Iraq War years.
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Announcing Un-Diplomatic’s In Media Res
In Media Res: A literary device that cuts the reader straight into the plot, immersing them in the action of the story without prior exposition.
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Iran, Israel, and the US Making a Mockery of the National Security Bro
“Restoring deterrence” is tantamount to saying “Make Deterrence Great Again,” and that just makes no sense.
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Why I Predicted War With Iran...
...and the longue duree of violence that it nests within.
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Tucker Carlson Ruins Ted Cruz | No War with Iran | “No Kings” Protests | Democrats Need a Peace Agenda | Ep. 245
New episode of the pod, confronting all things fascism at home and war with Iran abroad:
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Trump’s War With Iran Would’ve Happened With North Korea...
On the lessons from the 2017 nuclear crisis that the world seems to have memory-holed.
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The Hawks Finally Got Their War With Iran
Guess what comes next...
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War on California, United Farm Workers, and Leaving the “Lockheed Left” w/ Antonio De Loera | Ep. 244
The Trump administration’s troop deployments to California are in defense of surging ICE raids against farm workers and immigrant communities across the…
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