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With no friends left to burn, Trump isrunning out of diplomatic ammunition | Rafael Behr

Everyone can see that the Iran war has been a strategic disaster for the US, while a failing president pretends he is winning

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Rafael Behr26 Aug 2026, 07:00 amUpdated 3h ago1 min readAmericasUnited States
With no friends left to burn, Trump is running out of diplomatic ammunition | Rafael Behr

United StatesRafael Behr

Everyone can see that the Iran war has been a strategic disaster for the US, while a failing president pretends he is winning

Now is the twilight of Donald Trump’s supremacy. The US is still the richest and most heavily armed nation on Earth. That status is secure. The current president, contemptuous of law and indulged in lawlessness by a supine Congress, enjoys even greater power than the constitution allows.

With those advantages it takes a special talent for incompetence to look as thwarted and impotent as Trump does with more than two years of his second term still to run.

Now is the twilight of Donald Trump’s supremacy. The US is still the richest and most heavily armed nation on Earth. That status is secure. The current president, contemptuous of law and indulged in lawlessness by a supine Congress, enjoys even greater power than the constitution allows.

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Source: The Guardian · Rafael Behr. Published 26 Aug 2026, 07:00 am.

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