Free Press Opinion: Trump’s Ukraine policy is succeeding while his Iran policy flails

One of the many ironies of Donald Trump's war against Iran is that only a year ago, most of the president's critics assumed that any second-term crisis for the American empire would be caused not by reckless war-making but by appeasement and retreat. In particular, the Trumpian push for peace between Russia and Ukraine was cast as the great betrayal, craven and sinister in equal measure, that would yield disaster for Europe and disgrace for the United States.