Whether George HW Bush or Donald J Trump, Americanimperialism is unabated—the pathetic excuses and the violentshock-and-awe tactics don’t matter; the results do.
Incapacitated by the public health crisis and ineffective leadership, Washington is shying away from the global leadership it inherited at the end of the Cold War.
Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Iranian clergy and de facto head of state, openly mocked Trump on Twitter, a serious mistake that increased public pressure on a president whose base is strongly nationalist.