Trump and Rubio dismantled U.S. diplomacy. It’s making the Iran War harder.

The problem is that Trump and his advisers have declared war on a crucial tool of war-fighting: diplomacy. In the first year of his second term, Trump has seriously damaged U.S. diplomatic capacity and sidelined what diplomatic tools remain. That will make it harder for the United States to manage every conflict it now faces, including the Iran War. It will also make it immeasurably more difficult to pick up the pieces when the fighting stops