In the legendary X Article, also known as “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”—American diplomat George Kennan laid out an audacious thesis: “Who can say with assurance that the strong light still cast by the Kremlin on the dissatisfied peoples of the Western world is not the powerful afterglow of a constellation which is in actuality on the wane?” What if Iran is the same way—weaker than anyone thought, its post-war signs of stability in fact masking a steadily cracking foundation?
Also, the toy that preceded October 7.
All in today's edition of It's Noon in Israel.
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