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In search of a Trump Doctrine: CI fellows analyze the president’s MENA trip & conclude that transactionalism is the only unifying credo—even when some outcomes are good. Read more from Rohan Advani Aron Lund @abujamajem @abujamajem Thanassis Cambanis Dahlia Scheindlin tcf.org/content/commen…

“An entirely screwed up way to arrive at the ideal policy outcome”— Sam Heller | سام هيلر on Trump’s welcome lifting of Syria sanctions. New CI roundtable discusses potus MENA trip: tcf.org/content/commen…

“Claiming victory in death”—Sima’s riveting new dispatch from Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon shows that its constituents are doubting the organization, but doubling down on its ideology. New report tcf.org/content/report…

“Why can’t we be sad?” said a 36-year-old butcher in Beirut. “There were civilians. Should I congratulate people for their deaths? Should we all be congratulating one another?” Sima captures the disillusionment of Hezbollah’s base in a new report tcf.org/content/report…

Hezbollah may be broken as a fighting force, but its base is still wedded to “resistance,” writes Sima in a new report from Lebanon. The unique situation offers an object lesson on the limits of military power to change political realities. tcf.org/content/report…