I have seldom heard a more stern indictment of the Trump administration and the man himself and I am afraid they have a point.
Beyond the narcissism and the hypocrisy, the incompetence is simply stunning. Nobody in this administration seems to know what he is doing, let alone know what he should be doing. There is no strategy, worse not even pretense of one. Trump himself boast that he is unpredictable as if you could build relations with other countries on such foundations. Bullying across the seas has one direct consequence under the surface: A rapid acceleration of the build up of BRICS.
Well, if you look carefully, far from the devastated land of Ukraine, there is "one" strategy at play. If you are working for, sorry "with" Israel and consequently want to attack Iran sooner than later, then, you need to secure Venezuela's oil as soon as possible in the likely case where Iran would close the Hormuz Strait to navigation. That much seems to be as far as the American administration can think. When you think that a few short weeks ago, Trump thought he was a worthy contender for the Peace Nobel Prize! (Not that the final recipient was any better, but that's another story.)
In the end, as for Europe, propaganda and narrative have taken over. Inflation is down! (not really) Employment is up! (not really) and America is back. That is, if you believe it! But fewer and fewer people believe it and that's a problem because on these tracks Trump is very unlikely to win the midterm elections and could well become a lame-duck president in a year or so. Of course that means another full year of random decisions, gunboat diplomacy and abuse of super-power status. That is, if we avoid a larger war and the bursting of the current everything bubble. A big if for 2026.
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