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Do you remember Condoleezza Rice’s “new Middle East”? During the 2006 war on Lebanon, Rice spoke as if war could give birth to a new regional order. Twenty years later, Washington seems to be returning to the same dream. Only this time, Donald Trump wants to assemble the pieces himself. After the war with Iran, Trump wants something “much bigger” in the Middle East. According to recent reports, his administration is working on a post-war strategy built around three ideas: containing Iran, closing the open files left after 7 October, and expanding the Abraham Accords, especially through a possible Saudi-Israeli normalization deal. At first glance, this looks like a grand strategy. In reality, it is an old map with new […]
