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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday defeated a War Powers Resolution aimed at restricting President Donald Trump’s military actions against Iran. The resolution ultimately failed to advance out of committee.…

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Screenshot President Trump says that the U.S. Navy will escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz “if necessary.” Why would that be necessary? Because Iran has closed off this crucial trading route after it was attacked by the U.S. and Israel. The Senate voted NOT to pass a resolution to stop the war in Iran. It’s a double negative, but the meaning is simple: the Senate voted to allow the President to continue his war in Iran. The irony. The Constitution gives Congress alone the power to declare war, but now Congress is saying, “We don’t feel the need to weigh in here. The President can carry on.” The resolution failed because 52 Senators voted against it. Looking on the bright side, 48 voted for it. Because it failed in the Senate, it will go no further, so we will never know what the House of Representatives would do. Even if it had passed both chambers, the President most likely would have vetoed a bill restricting the war he himself started. But hey! We got a new war movie poster! Doesn’t that make you feel better about the war? Americans may die, but at least we are cinematically foreboding! Sources are telling Redacted that the American death count is decidedly more than six. Some say it is in the hundreds and that Americans are being lied to in order to tamp down dissent. Will it work? The post Congress Won’t Stop the War It Was Supposed to Declare appeared first on Redacted.

Politics I’ve Read 50,000 Epstein Emails and I Need About 50,000 Showers The Department of Justice has left in the salacious content, but redacted much of the relevant information. I’m only about 100,000 pages into the Epstein files, so these are just my preliminary observations, but clearly the Department of Justice abused its redaction pen. One of my own columns, printed in full, appears in the files, sent from XXXXXXXXX, to XXXXXXXXX, with a cc to XXXXXXXX. Or maybe it was XXXXXXXX — I always get those guys confused. Although the column is available online and wherever fine publications are sold, the DOJ redacted one name from it: “Haley Robson,” an Epstein victim-cum-procurer. Robson’s name is not a secret. She’s been publicly identified at least since 2009 as an Epstein associate. Ironically, she’s also been one of the loudest voices denouncing the many redactions in the files. She’s right. Way, way too many names have been X-ed out. I’m guessing the DOJ must have gone through at least 70,000 redactor pens. The law expressly disallows redactions “on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity.” So why has the Department of Justice blacked out the names of adult men—or women, God help us—sending emails to Epstein that say things like this: a) “P*ssy hunters!!” Yes, that’s it. That’s all the email said. b) “Subject: Hi from PB Hi J, Hope you can find a great guy for REDACTED :)) her p*ssy is getting wet” Remember the good old days, back when we were outraged about “grabbing p*ssies”? c) One email is entirely redacted except … “Has discovered the distraction of p*ssy, I assume. Well, I say good for him.” I’m almost certain this wasn’t a reference to some cat lover. d) “Love whats wrong with you you sound like a dirty old guy!! You’re surrounded by tits all day long… “ No, definitely not about cats. e) “no one can beat your p*ssy network” Thanks to all the redactions, we’re not even sure which banks these guys work for. f) “I’ll send car pics and updates as they come

Foreign Affairs Will a Political Murder in France Engender a New Cordon Sanitaire? The far left is giving the rest of the French political spectrum little choice. French mainstream politics has its repertoire of watchwords, chief among them “faire barrage” (block the path) and “front républicain” (republican front). These exhortations have in the last two presidential elections applied to the candidate for the nationalist right Rassemblement National (National Rally), Marine Le Pen. The cordon sanitaire has been weakening amid burgeoning support for the RN, but it now is making a surprising comeback: as a call to prevent the far-left coalition La France Insoumise (LFI) from gaining power after a grisly murder has changed the political calculus.  LFI’s “politics in a new key” have been apparent for a while. The party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s rhetorical extravagances are legion. He has barked at policemen conducting an investigation into his party’s finances, shouting “la République, c’est moi” in his best Louis XIV tribute act. He has courted sections of the restive Arab Muslim electorate of the banlieue with unceasing antisemitic sorties, particularly after October 7, 2023. His deputies are no better. Sebastien Delogu, now the faction’s candidate for the mayoralty of Marseille, physically menaced an RN deputy at the opening of the new parliament in July 2024. Mathilde Panot, the bloc’s leader in the National Assembly, screams at her opponents in the chamber with the ferocity of a fishmonger. Raphael Arnault, a black-bloc “antifascist” militant serving in the party’s parliamentary caucus, has been placed among those who are fiché S, France’s equivalent of the terrorism watchlist.  Despite this record, the center and center-left have been willing to play ball with LFI. In snap parliamentary elections in July 2024, the parties of—LFI, the Socialists, Communists, and the Greens—gathered behind the banner of the “New Popular Front.” In the second round of the vote, when LFI candidates faced off against RN contenders, President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance faction urged its voters to back the LFI representative. Once again, and for the last time, the anti-RN coalition held, but only because it also included LFI, a party whose behavior is itself inimical to liberal democratic norms and practice. On the night of February 12, Quentin Deranque, a student at Sciences Po Lyon, was beaten to a pulp by far-left militants posted outside an event for the LFI European Parliament Member Rima Hassan. Deranque, an activist of the nationalist right, had been protesting with Nemesis, a feminist, anti-migration collective.  He died of his injuries two days later. Subsequent news reports revealed that LFI’s “security detail” was composed of adherents of a far-left black-bloc group called “La Jeune Garde” (Young Guard), which the French state has been trying to forcibly dissolve since last year. The aforementioned Raphael Arnault is the co-founder of that group, and several of his parliamentary aides, two of whom were taken into police custody for questioning, are members. Rather than expressing contrition for its proximity to the far-left Jeune Garde, LFI lashed back with whataboutism. Panot alleged that attention to Deranque’s murder is a distraction from the greater problem of far-right violence. Melenchon has presented himself and his party as the victim, deploring a “wave” of demonization targeting LFI.  The repercussions have torn through the political scene. Laurent Nunez, the country’s interior minister (a post that in France resembles the role of Britain’s home secretary), has reclassified LFI as “extrême-gauche” (far-left) in electoral documents. Macron has echoed this language in a radio interview, and his party has now adopted a policy of “ni-ni”: neither the RN nor LFI. Other left-wing parties now face growing pressure to disavow LFI. This could have immediate electoral consequences: French voters head to the polls in a matter of days to choose municipal representatives. Gregory Doucet, the Green mayor of Lyon, where the murder occurred, has been forced to equivocate on whether he would include LFI in his coalition if reelected.    Voters are also aghast at LFI’s involvement in the l’Affaire Quentin. The pollster Odoxa found in a February 18-19 survey that 57 percent of respondents felt Melenchon had not reacted properly to the incident (against 13 percent who responded in the affirmative). Sixty-one percent pronounced themselves ready to impose a cordon sanitaire against LFI in the upcoming municipal elections, including 46 percent of Socialist Party sympathizers. As a point of comparison, Odoxa found in December 2025 that 46 percent of respondents envisaged casting anti-RN votes in local contests. In a hypothetical face-off in the second round of the presidential election between Melenchon and the probable RN candidate, Jordan Bardella, polls show the latter would carry the day by a 30- or 40-point margin.  The RN is now reappropriating the rhetoric of the cordon sanitaire, with Bardella clamoring for an anti-LFI coalition in order to protect democratic debate. Despite protestations from Macronists and the center-right that the RN also sits outside the “republican arc,” the RN’s formulation captures an electoral reality. The center cannot hold: LFI and RN now garner too much of the vote to successfully isolate both. This had been laid bare in the National Assembly, where the RN (and its allies) and LFI occupy 211 of 576 seats. The ni-ni forces of the center, center-right, and center-left have been barely able to fend off no-confidence votes since this parliament began sitting in July 2024; passing a budget has required herculean measures. Polls now indicate that next year’s presidential election could indeed pit Mélenchon against Bardella in the second round. In that scenario, the center will lose the luxury of the ni-ni and be compelled to choose. Not whether to impose a cordon sanitaire, but which cordon sanitaire. The post Will a Political Murder in France Engender a New Cordon Sanitaire? appeared first on The American Conservative.

Foreign Affairs Small Fires Everywhere: The Wages of Boomer Foreign Policy The Iran war incurs deferred costs for a splash of excitement now. Baby Boomers should be remembered in domestic terms for enervating the U.S. economy with Total Boomer Luxury Communism. That generation vacuumed up current and future revenues to fund their luxe retirements, while young people struggle to find good jobs and homes while staring down a desolate future of debt and constraints. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is very much a Boomer foreign policy, and in a similar sense. The second Trump administration has lit small fires across the world and let them burn, while accruing the costs of putting them out well into the future. It could be seen early with Venezuela. In September 2025, Trump began bombing Venezuelan small boats, first on the basis that they were to blame for the fentanyl crisis; this policy morphed into a larger campaign having to do with cocaine and the Maduro regime itself. Perhaps remembering his own rhetoric about regime-change wars, Trump had Gen. Dan Caine draw up a tactically excellent plan to snatch Nicolas Maduro and his wife and bring them back to the United States on drug charges. This approach satisfied no one, but even so, the costs were low. The Miami crowd was upset Trump stopped short of installing Maria Corina Machado, going so far as to claim she “doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country” to govern, despite her stand-in candidate having won in a landslide in 2024 after she was banned from running. For their part, the America Firsters were upset because the mission seemed like a Boomerish lark—an ’80s movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger taking on some moustachioed Latin dictator—that had little to do with how we live at home. But Trump wriggled out of this by punting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced there would be three phases to follow: stabilization, recovery, and transition. This of course raised the question why Maduro’s former vice president and successor Delcy Rodriguez would help the United States move from phase two to phase three. She seems far more likely to pocket the gains from stabilization and recovery and put roadblocks in the way of transition. But the costs of this policy resurfaced faster than Trump hoped. In a twist that should have surprised no one, Machado announced days ago that she would be returning to Venezuela in the coming weeks. The likely response of Rodriguez and former Maduro henchmen Diosdado Cabello and Vladimir Padrino should also surprise no one—they are going to seek to imprison her or worse. Then Rubio and Trump will be left with a decision: Do they let the regime in Caracas do with her what they will, or do they try to fight her into power? The costs of their January policy seemed so far away, but somehow they resurfaced within months. Similarly with Iran. The president’s most profound foreign policy instinct is casualty-aversion. This is a noble and sensible sentiment. It also recommends a restrained foreign policy. Given that big foreign policy goals often incur a large butcher’s bill, those unwilling to incur big costs should avoid big foreign policies. Not so with Trump. In Iran, the president has married grandiose ends to limited means. Perhaps knowing that the nuclear and ballistic missile arguments were duds, Trump threw a bit more spaghetti at the wall. Though he was at pains not to use the dreaded term “regime change,” Trump announced that “all I want is freedom for the [Iranian] people.” But freedom for the Iranian people is not going to arrive on the back of a Tomahawk.  To steal a phrase from George W. Bush, Trump is the “decider” and there is very little rhyme or reason to who influences the decider. This all should have been foreseen in the Signalgate chats from one year ago. The Signal chats were the functional equivalent of a Cabinet meeting, with the vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, and others all debating the policy of launching another military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. Just when the debate was heating up, the president’s vice chief of staff came onto the thread, shutting down the discussion with news that the president had already decided. What’s the point of being a Cabinet member if this is how decisions are made? What is the point of having a Cabinet at all? Trump’s foreign policy is straight from the Boomer playbook: Party today, and push the costs out as far as possible into the future. On the welfare state, it’s taken generations for the fiscal math to break through. On foreign policy, the costs might come much sooner. Possibly soon enough to consume the second Trump presidency. Hopefully Trump has someone around who will tell him this. Hopefully he will listen. The post Small Fires Everywhere: The Wages of Boomer Foreign Policy appeared first on The American Conservative.