Opinion | How Trump Lost Friends, Iran War Safety Net, Price Control, And Midterms

Bullying or extortion cannot be a permanent currency in diplomacy. As an immediate consequence, it has led to Trump’s sobering defeat in the midterms

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When Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and military chief Asim Munir issued a drooling endorsement of US President Donald Trump’s Nobel Prize claim, bedazzled and grateful by the sudden attention thrust on them, it seemed a new and surreal global order was in the making.

Trump thought that with the raw power available to him as POTUS, he could violate the natural order at will. He thought he could keep winning even after humiliating friends and alienating allies. He mistook a moment’s transaction as the jackpot for which decades of painstakingly built relationships are worth sacrificing.

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Then came the November midterm elections, his comeuppance. The rout proved that many of those who voted to hand him the sensational 2024 mandate came back to spiritedly vote against him and reverse the damage the President’s hubris was inflicting on America.

The immediate reason for the citizen fury was the punishing rise in prices because of the Iran war.

But it was not America’s first war in the Gulf. It has been directly involved in conflicts in the region for 35 unbroken years. The war machine has boosted the US economy.

In the 1991 Gulf War, allies like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,........

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