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Trump’s Armageddon-Taco shuffle
One minute he threatens death and destruction, the next he says the US and Iran are engaged in negotiations.
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US President Donald Trump speaking to the media in Florida on March 23.
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Edward Luce
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies,” said Winston Churchill. The truth inside Mr Donald Trump’s tornado of piffle is that he wants to get out of the mess he created. All the other reasons he gives – from regime overthrow to regime alteration – are noise.
At this point, were Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for being allowed to develop nuclear weapons, nobody could be sure Mr Trump would turn it down. If Iran made him the inaugural winner of the Cyrus the Great peace prize, those odds would improve.
