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June 17, 2026

The Iran War and the Future of American Empire and Is Trump Blowing a Chance to Make Peace in Ukraine?

Then finally we speak with Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow & director of military analysis at Defense Priorities where her research focuses on U.S. military strategy, force structure and defense budgeting, the defense industrial base, and U.S. military deployments and interventions. Previously, she was a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and she has an article at The American Conservative we discuss, “The Iran War and the Future of American Empire” and another at Responsible Statecraft “Trump is blowing his chance to make peace in Ukraine.”

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