Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction

Photo: President Donald J. Trump at the NATO Summit on July 8, 2026 at the Bestepe Presidential Compound in Ankara, Turkey. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Daniel Torok via Flickr. US government work. Opinion article by Simon Tisdall. The Guardian – July 18, 2026.

As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire

Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump is lost in Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous war he started. Once again, the US military is pummelling the country and, increasingly, its civilian infrastructure. As before, this unlawful bludgeoning strengthens the resistance of a hardline regime that cares little for its people’s suffering. How often have Trump and Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon’s wildling lord of bones, hailed a bogus victory? The president claimed this week to be “winning big”. No one believes him. Even as it counts the vast human and economic cost of his Persian folly, a watching world scoffs at US impotence. […]

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