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Bowen: Trump and Netanyahu wanted to reshape the Middle East - now they risk a permacrisis
✦ AI Brief
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu believed that victory over Iran would reshape the Middle East, but their judgement was wrong. Iran's rulers have proved to be a harder nut to crack than expected, and the country has not been defeated. The risk now is of a long, attritional permacrisis that will lurch in and out of outright conflict