# Ask Questions Later

Analysis of geopolitics, economy, and society, mostly by Dan Perry, former Cairo-based Mideast Editor and London-based Europe-Africa Editor of the Associated Press. Supporting reason, culture and the liberal order now beset from all sides.

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## [Trump Chooses North Korea Over South Korea](https://danperry.substack.com/p/trump-chooses-north-korea-over-south)

_2026-08-20 · Dan Perry_

And sure! Why Not? After all he likes the dictator Kim. We discuss this and other weirdness on the CRITICAL CONDITIONS podcast, Ep. 79

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211998232/bfb3f7d596f9bd9ce195952481e12127.mp3)

## [The President Who Cried Wolf](https://danperry.substack.com/p/the-president-who-cried-wolf)

_2026-08-19 · Dan Perry_

Trump's threats - the latest against Oman - carry diminishing returns. And posting that Hormuz is now US territory just makes you look ridiculous, which has no return.

## [The Killings of Kefalonia](https://danperry.substack.com/p/the-killings-of-kefalonia)

_2026-08-18 · Dan Perry_

DISPATCH FROM A PIVOTAL GREEK ISLAND: How the massacre of Italians by Nazis led to the World War II Holocaust of Greece’s Jews

## [The Depleted Arsenal That Could Decide the Wars](https://danperry.substack.com/p/the-depleted-arsenal-that-could-decide)

_2026-08-17 · Dan Perry_

The Ukraine and Iran wars are competing for the same finite Western weapons. China is watching.

## [The World That Knew Too Little](https://danperry.substack.com/p/the-world-that-knew-too-little)

_2026-08-15 · Dan Perry_

Why the news media ignored Douglas Murray’s book exposing the evils of Hamas

## [Want to Stop the Rise of Socialism? Stop Creating Trillionaires](https://danperry.substack.com/p/want-to-stop-the-rise-of-socialism)

_2026-08-13 · Dan Perry_

Capitalism needs inequality to work. But there is also a point at which inequality begins to destroy capitalism itself. We may have passed it.

## [Talking Russia, Ukraine and Propaganda with Tom Kent](https://danperry.substack.com/p/talking-russia-ukraine-and-propaganda)

_2026-08-11 · Dan Perry_

Uber-journalist and Russia expert Tom Kent appears on the CRITICAL CONDITIONS podcast, Ep. 78

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210681130/08409b10852084a216bc2942e826b538.mp3)

## [Netanyahu - Of Course! - Chooses Politics Over a Way Out of Gaza](https://danperry.substack.com/p/netanyahu-of-course-chooses-politics)

_2026-08-10 · Dan Perry_

Trump’s Gaza plan offers Israel security, Hamas’s verified disarmament and a path toward rebuilding a devastated territory. Netanyahu’s categorical rejection is more recklessless.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210596800/95631941aaff1b4681b1ced1f93dab33.mp3)

## [December 12, 2000: The Day American Democracy Broke](https://danperry.substack.com/p/december-12-2000-the-day-american)

_2026-08-08 · Dan Perry_

THE COUNTERFACTUAL SERIES, PART II: How a single Supreme Court decision reshaped US politics, transformed the judiciary, and altered the course of the twenty-first century

## [How the Iran War Could Become a World War](https://danperry.substack.com/p/how-the-iran-war-could-become-a-world)

_2026-08-07 · Dan Perry_

The confrontation with Iran has created the contours of a plausible path toward the broadest international conflict since 1945

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_2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_

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## [If the Democrats Had Won](https://danperry.substack.com/p/if-the-democrats-had-won)

_2026-08-05 · Dan Perry_

THE COUNTERFACTUAL SERIES, PART I: An alternative history of an America that never was — and why it would have been better, richer, calmer, and differently flawed