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Is Trump Really a Fascist? Examining the Controversial Claim Article In The Thread By Peter Bergen Oct. 30, 2024 Last week, former President Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly, publicly described his former boss as a “fascist.” Trump, predictably, dismissed him as a “nut job,” though the sober, retired four-star Marine general seems […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 4 minute read Published 9:00 AM EDT, Sat October 19, 2024 — Former President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the US military should be used to deal with “the enemy from within” on Election Day has reignited concerns about what he might ask US forces to do if he wins a […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 11 minute read Published 2:00 AM EDT, Tue October 15, 2024 Editor’s Note: The story below contains explicit language. CNN — The arrival of a new Bob Woodward book has a well-established choreography; enterprising reporters get hold of copies of the heavily embargoed volume a week or so ahead of […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 3 minute read Updated 6:54 AM EDT, Fri October 11, 2024 The impact of two catastrophic hurricanes in the last two weeks has underlined that rapid climate change is a threat that can do far more damage to American lives than traditional antagonists such as terrorists and authoritarian states. The […]

10:40 p.m. EDT, October 1, 2024 Analysis: Sen. Vance’s nonsensical claims on Iran’s nuclear program From CNN’s Peter Bergen During the debate, Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Waltz clashed on the issue of Iran. Vance claimed that former President Donald Trump had made the world “more secure” by taking the United States out of […]

Killing of Nasrallah is a key prize for Israel, but it’s too early to write off Hezbollah Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 4 minute read Published 12:00 AM EDT, Sun September 29, 2024 On Saturday, Hezbollah confirmed that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is dead after Israel announced he was killed in an airstrike in Beirut […]

From CNN’s Peter Bergen During the debate, former President Donald Trump pinned the blame for the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago on the Biden-Harris administration during which 13 American servicemembers were killed by an ISIS suicide bomber along with some 170 Afghans on August 26, 2021. There is some merit to Trump’s […]

Peter Bergen Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 4 minute read Published 1:00 AM EDT, Sun September 8, 2024 At a Fox News town hall on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump previewed some of the themes that we will likely hear more from him on the campaign trail and during his September 10 debate with Vice […]

By Peter Bergen, CNN 14 minute read Published 2:00 AM EDT, Sun September 1, 2024 Three years after the departure of the final US troops from Afghanistan, the situation in the country is bleak, with the Taliban tightening its grip as it introduces increasingly oppressive laws that restrict political freedoms and suppress the rights of […]

Analysis by Peter Bergen, CNN 7 minute read Published 11:00 AM EDT, Sun August 25, 2024 Until now, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster has held his fire about his stint in the Trump White House. McMaster served with distinction in key American conflicts of the past decades: the Gulf War, the Iraq War and the war […]