On his election to his second term as the President, Donald Trump said, "The world has gone crazy." Eight months down into his tenure at the helm, the news is, 'It is crazier and there is no stopping.' In these few months, the world has witnessed two new wars, Indo-Pak and Iran-Israel; and seen two ongoing wars, Israel-Gaza and Russia-Ukraine, intensify.

The sideshow in Yemen goes on unrelented. The US itself is active in and around Venezuela even when internal dissidence and political and social turmoil because of incessant upending of the existing sociopolitical order inside the US is forcing him to move troops to major cities to control some functions. American academia, economy, and the society at large remain possessed by uncertainty.

The White House rules and what Trump says is decree. Juxtapose that with the much-touted Gaza Peace Plan and its principal interlocutor, Donald Trump, and the mess is obvious. To be fair, little may be said of those who hail all that comes out of the White House, including the Peace Plan, for Trump leaves no choice but for his audiences to only cheer his proclamations. This includes world leaders that he invites into his chambers.

So, when the Foreign Minister declares on the floor of the Parliament that the announced Peace Plan is not the one the eight leaders of the Muslim World agreed to with Trump, yet hail what is announced only proves that you live by the rules Trump ordains. His mantra to the world at large is, 'Take it or leave it.' So, you 'take' the bargain on offer for that is the only offer. There cannot be a more authentic illustration of Hobson's choice.

There are two parallel thoughts which must be........

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