Trump’s Over a Barrel

Donald Trump launched his latest war a few months ago with Israel to stop Iran’s terrorism and its nuclear development. Instead, Tehran now holds hostage the Hormuz Strait as well as oil markets and America’s Arab allies.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Even more dire, Trump’s war has shaken up the world economy, forcing him to bail out Japan’s currency; he has depleted the Pentagon’s arsenal, and also allowed Saudi Arabia to go nuclear, spawning another potential nuclear threat in the Middle East. Now Trump negotiates from weakness, and Iran makes bold demands. So does Russia, which has safely ratcheted up attacks on Ukraine, safe in the knowledge that Trump cannot provide more self-defense weaponry for Kyiv. This is not just about military defeat. Trump’s war against Iran is one of the greatest blunders in history. How did this happen and what’s next? Reprinted from [email protected] – Diane Francis on America and the World. The views expressed in this opinion article are the author’s and not necessarily those of Kyiv Post. The views expressed in this opinion article are the author’s and not necessarily those of Kyiv Post. Diane FrancisDiane Francis is an award-winning columnist, bestselling author, investigative journalist, and television commentator. She writes twice weekly at https://dianefrancis.substack.com/ and is Editor at Large with the National Post and Postmedia newspapers writing twice weekly. She is Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Eurasia section, in Washington DC. She has written pieces for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Daily Beast, Politico, Miami Herald and the New York Post. In addition she is a Distinguished Professor at Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management and has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. In 1991, she became Editor of Canada's Financial Post, the first woman editor of a national daily newspaper in Canada, a position she held until the paper was sold in 1998.