The price of Trump's stupidity
Source The Wall Street JournalDonald Trump is a man who lives by a singular philosophy: “Aaj kuchh tufani karte hain” (Let’s do something daredevil today).But sadly, his deep desire to be disruptive is completely at odds with what the world actually needs. Today, the entire planet is paying a steep price for his almost orgasmic fixation on chaos—reflected directly in surging global energy prices.His volatile tendencies have set the entire Middle East ablaze, recklessly destabilizing a region that was already incredibly fragile.We have reached a point where reality is merely parody masquerading as truth. Welcome to 2026.
Iranian officials have said the war won’t end and shipping routes won’t reopen until all of the conflicts in the region are resolved. Gulf states that had hoped for a quick end to the war are now grappling with the realization that the U.S. has pulled them into a conflict that could run for years with no clear strategy for ending it.“This isn’t just a Yemen story,” said H.A. Hellyer, a senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, a think tank in London. “Washington’s approach to Iran has rested on grinding it down through direct military and economic pressure while assuming the wider region stays manageable. That assumption was always fragile.”The chessboard is becoming more complex at a time when the U.S. military is already straining to shepherd tankers through the Persian Gulf and enforce its blockade of Iranian ports.
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