It is one thing to revel in the fact that you have become the world’s policeman. It is another thing altogether to enforce that policing role upon the world. Donald Trump came to power in January thinking that he would set the world right. First, he tried to enforce an Israeli-Hamas truce. It took weeks in the making and only a day to unmake. Trump has practically handed Gaza to Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to do with as he wishes. Netanyahu has once again unleashed his worst impulses on Gaza’s Muslims.

Trump came up with a harebrained scheme to displace Gaza’s two million Muslims to his Arab vassals, Egypt and Jordan. Egypt and Jordan do not want any more Palestinians in their territory and shrewdly outmaneuvered Trump. Nothing more is heard about Trump’s grand plan. Then Trump thought that he would end the Russian-Ukrainian war by bending over backwards for his friend, Vladimir Putin of Russia. Trump wanted to reward Putin’s aggression but President Zelenskyy of Ukraine would have none of it.

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Trump proposed a carpet-bagging minerals deal to Zelenskky, which the latter has only now reluctantly signed. Zelenskyy is caught in a bind. Trump has suspended military aid to Ukraine. Without American military aid, Ukraine will surely lose the war. It remains to be seen how much aid Trump restores after the minerals deal, but it doesn’t seem like it would be enough to thwart the Russians. Another flashpoint in the world is South........

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