The Mistake Trump Risks Repeating in the Middle East
Why the Suez Crisis serves as a warning to the president’s Iran policy.
1 min readFeb 18, 2020
by Andrew Hanna and Alistair Somerville
February 14, 2020
A Middle Eastern power seeks regional hegemony. A Western power with a history of military intervention initiates a campaign to weaken that country’s economy and isolate it from the world. The ensuing showdown drives a wedge in the transatlantic alliance and pushes the region to the brink of war.
That sounds like the current situation between the United States and Iran, but it also describes the conflict between the United Kingdom and Egypt in the 1950s.
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