# Conversations’s Substack

My personal Substack

By Conversations Among the Ruins

· Launched 2 years ago

# [Conversations’s Substack](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/)

[The Day the "Special Relationship" Cracked: Why Trump and Vance are Finally Turning on Israel](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/the-day-the-special-relationship)

[This is the moment the “special relationship” stopped looking special and started looking dangerous.](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/the-day-the-special-relationship)

Jun 21•[Conversations Among the Ruins](https://substack.com/@conversationsamongtheruins)

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[The Great Decoupling: Are We Watching the Beginning of a US-Israel Split?](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/the-great-decoupling-are-we-watching)

[A reported Iran agreement has exposed a possibility long dismissed in Washington: that the United States and Israel may no longer want the same war.](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/the-great-decoupling-are-we-watching)

Jun 17•[Conversations Among the Ruins](https://substack.com/@conversationsamongtheruins)

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[The End of the Moral Alibi](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-moral-alibi)

[States do not wage war with force alone. They wage it with stories, and some stories collapse under the weight of what the world can see.](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/the-end-of-the-moral-alibi)

Jun 14•[Conversations Among the Ruins](https://substack.com/@conversationsamongtheruins)

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[The New Rules of the Middle East: How Iran Rewrote the Regional Balance](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/the-new-rules-of-the-middle-east)

[Iran has established a new regional doctrine. By extending a protective umbrella over its allies, Tehran is directly challenging Israel's long-term…](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/the-new-rules-of-the-middle-east)

Jun 10•[Conversations Among the Ruins](https://substack.com/@conversationsamongtheruins)

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[How to Arm Iran With Nukes in 5 Simple Steps](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/how-to-arm-iran-with-nukes-in-5-simple)

[Want to guarantee Iran builds a nuclear bomb? Just follow this foolproof, five-step guide to diplomatic sabotage and unhinged escalation.](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/how-to-arm-iran-with-nukes-in-5-simple)

Jun 6•[Conversations Among the Ruins](https://substack.com/@conversationsamongtheruins)

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[Russia’s Restraint in Ukraine May Have Been Its Biggest Mistake](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/russias-restraint-in-ukraine-may)

[Moscow spent years trying to contain the war in Ukraine. The result may have been the opposite: a longer war, weaker deterrence, and a far more…](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/russias-restraint-in-ukraine-may)

Jun 2•[Conversations Among the Ruins](https://substack.com/@conversationsamongtheruins)

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[Washington’s Three Bad Options on Iran](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/washingtons-three-bad-options-on)

[The United States still has choices in the Iran crisis. What it no longer seems to have is a good one.](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/washingtons-three-bad-options-on)

May 28•[Conversations Among the Ruins](https://substack.com/@conversationsamongtheruins)

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[As Support for Israel Collapses, the Risk of War Grows](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/as-support-for-israel-collapses-the)

[What once seemed untouchable in American foreign policy now looks brittle, exposed, and increasingly out of step with the public it claims to represent.](https://conversationsamongtheruins.substack.com/p/as-support-for-israel-collapses-the)

May 25•[Conversations Among the Ruins](https://substack.com/@conversationsamongtheruins)

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