After Donald Trump’s victory, brute force will prevail over geopolitics as authoritarians are appeased from Russia to Israel to China
eelings are not the usual focus of a world dominated by macho strongmen, complex geopolitical challenges, wars and disasters. Yet every rule has exceptions. Following Donald Trump’s unexpectedly decisiveFeelings of shock and anger that this lying conman again seduced enough voters to win the presidency roil America’s friends and allies. There is incredulity that so very many people collaborated in their own seduction.
Or take the Middle East. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his gang of religious zealots, bigots and fruit-cases will seek to exploit Trump’s anti-Palestinian bias. They are pushing to annex much of the West Bank andand seize control of a chunk of south Lebanon. If backed by the US, such a policy guarantees perpetual Middle East warfare.
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