All Things Policy The Iran Brief: War and MAGA fissures
As the projectile war continues to rage on in West Asia, engulfing multiple Gulf states in addition to Israel, the US and Iran, fissures are developing in Trump's base (Make America Great Again or MAGA in short). Joseph Kent, a US counterterrorism official, has resigned, citing the ongoing war. Kent has joined a vocal section of the MAGA base that continues to criticise the US involvement in the war.
In this episode of All Things Policy, tech geopolitics researcher Lokendra Sharma is joined by Abhishek Kadiyala from the Indo-Pacific Studies Programme to discuss how the Iran war is playing out domestically in the US.
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