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WASHINGTON (Realist English). Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University, Rachel Metz, argues in her article for Foreign Affairs that the US war with Iran was made possible primarily by a network of overt and covert military bases across the Middle East. It is this “empire of access,” rather than just military superiority, […]
