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Potential reason behind Trump’s 'strange insistence' on Iran deal timing stuns onlookers
Diplomacy as Birthday ContentThe Story Beneath the StoryThe source offers a small but revealing glimpse of how power now markets itself: Trump says a deal to end the U.S. war against Iran will be signed on Sunday, while Iranian officials say that is not happening. The timing matters because Sunday is also Trump’s 80th birthday, and he is already planning an unprecedented UFC fight at the White House. That is the actual frame here: not statecraft, but staging.Who Has the PowerThe real institutional power sits with the U.S. president, who can turn foreign policy into a personal event and…
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