United States President Donald Trump (L), US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (C) and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine (R) speak outside the Oval Office of the White House before boarding Marine One en route to Dover, Delaware, on March 18, 2026, in Washington DC, United States. [Celal Güneş - Anadolu Agency]

With each dragged out day, President Donald Trump begins resembling a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses but leave of everything else. Having hitched his wagon to the Israeli program of chaos and destabilisation in the Middle East, he is stuck in a war he is incapable of controlling or dictating. The periodic announcement of the next assassination of a notable Iranian leader is trumpeted like a holy ritual. The next round of ecstatic bombing is hailed in the court as the biggest yet. But behind these gestures lies an expansive emptiness. Perhaps most telling of such emptiness is the sham of the alliance system he has sought to distance himself from even as he […]

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