Donald Trump has long styled himself as the ultimate dealmaker, but in the sweltering heat of the Iranian theatre, he has revealed his true form: an ace whinger and tantrum-thrower par excellence. Since the first missiles flew in late February, this illegal war he has waged has not seen the quick and beautiful victory promised from the Mar-a-Lago war room. Instead, it plunged into strategic quicksand on day one, dragging the United States and the rest of the world willy-nilly, into what is rapidly becoming the most expensive and senseless and idiotic misadventure in history. The sheer scale of the fiscal haemorrhaging is matched only by Trump’s dictatorial petulance toward his allies.........

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