John Bolton: Trump’s Iran war hawk

Is the president’s national security adviser ‘the most dangerous man in the world’?

John Bolton
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US National Security Adviser John Bolton is in the global spotlight this week after it emerged that the Pentagon is drawing up plans to send 120,000 US troops to the Middle East to confront Iran, largely at his behest.

Bolton has served in every Republican administration since 1981. But, says The Atlantic, it is not that long since “most observers of foreign policy would have pronounced Bolton’s career over, and predicted that he would not reenter government unless literally dozens of other Republican operatives were suddenly and tragically unavailable”.

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