After Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran
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Six months of war, rising oil prices and miserable polls: Donald Trump is getting deeper and deeper into the trap he has set himself in the Iran conflict. An "economic war" is now supposed to save what has not been achieved militarily.
The war in Iran has changed the global balance of power – and not in the way Washington had hoped. While the US was emptying its missile arsenal and Europe was counting the bills for the energy crisis, the war's quietest winner turned out to be China. It didn't fire a single shot, but it profited from every day of the war.
Is the U.S. still maintaining world order? Carlota García is an expert in the U.S. at the Elcano Royal Institute and tries to answer that question in More than one. "First to know what world order we are in, because Trump exercises a leadership different from that he has exercised in the past. I think that's the change, adapting to the new leadership of the U.S.," she says, adding that the war in Iran has meant a "clear strategic defeat" for the…
The American president applies the same transactional logic to his foreign policy as that which allowed him to build his real estate empire. But in the face of an Iranian regime guided by ideology and a logic of survival, his pragmatism leads him to a dead end.
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