A brilliant piece in the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/opinion/trump-xi-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.sfUW.fdImCmQm1NoV&smid=nytcore-ios-share
The only thing wrong with it is the concluding paragraph. It ends:
“Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals,” China’s president, Xi Jinping, pointedly said. For the beleaguered Trump, the scale of defeat must have been unmissable.
Trump lacks the capacity to see it.
#uspolitics
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