Madness or Incompetence?
Is Donald Trump's foreign policy madness, incompetence—or something deeper?
As the United States struggles to convert military superiority over Iran into a decisive political outcome, China is presenting itself as an alternative centre of global influence. Washington can still bomb, sanction and threaten. But other countries are increasingly finding ways to resist, bypass or hedge against American pressure.
In this analysis, The Axis asks whether the real crisis is not simply Trump's behaviour, but America's difficulty adapting to a multipolar world.
Perhaps the United States is not losing…
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