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The Guardian's departure is also likely to intensify questions about whether others will follow.

“His staunch support for Israel and aggressive stance towards Iran’s destabilising efforts made him a key ally in the region, and his return to power is expected to intensify efforts to limit Iran’s influence,” former Israeli intelligence officer Joshua Steinrich says.

No doubt the discussions will intensify in the coming days, especially since Trump’s victory comes in the wake of North Korea’s test of a new intercontinental ballistic missile.

“These activities will intensify through election day and in the coming weeks, and that foreign influence narratives will focus on swing states,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a joint statement.

All action on an increasingly deadly climate crisis would end or be reversed, the right’s repressive anti-trans panic would intensify in its reach and its cruelty, and the reactionaries who wrote Project 2025 would consolidate their power across the administrative state and the federal courts.