If one were to compile a chronicle of civilisational decay, the present moment would deserve its own chapter. Word arrives that the Trump administration, through the flapping lips of J.D.
Vance, is on the verge of finalising a nuclear accord with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The deal, we are told, will be announced before Friday, just in time to save the President from the tedium of a long campaign. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu faces a political crisis of his own making, a man who has coasted on the illusion of indispensability now finding the ground shifting beneath his feet.
This is not geopolitics. This is a farce.
