Last chance for the war lover? U.S.’s Bolton sets stage for Iran conflict

John Bolton's extreme anti-globalist American-supremacy rhetoric might even be funny if he were just your ordinary crackpot and not the president’s national security adviser.
John Bolton, pictured in 2015, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, is a caricature of a virulent military hawk, says Les Whittington.
OTTAWA—The international community has rightly reacted with alarm to the United States’ effort to force Iran into a corner in ways that greatly raise the risk of the two countries stumbling into a war. Behind this development was John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security ad...

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