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  "path": "/2026/05/10/checkmate-in-iran/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-10T14:25:52.000Z",
  "site": "https://politicalwire.com",
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  "textContent": "Robert Kagan: “It’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored. The calamitous losses suffered at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and throughout the Western Pacific in the first months of World War […]",
  "title": "Checkmate in Iran"
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