He’s commander-in-chief of chaos. Now we’re all victims of Trump’s wars | Nesrine Malik
Composite: Guardian Design, Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APView image in fullscreen Composite: Guardian Design, Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APOpinionDonald TrumpHe’s commander-in-chief of chaos. But there has been so much talk and bluster and strike and turn tail that the conflict feels like it has started and ended several times already. The whole war is only five months old but is already settling into a sort of permanent feature of life, one that is all repetitive theatre now, each act indistinguishable from the one before it to all but the most plugged-in observers.
- ▪Composite: Guardian Design, Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APView image in fullscreen Composite: Guardian Design, Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APOpinionDonald TrumpHe’s commander-in-chief of chaos.
- ▪But there has been so much talk and bluster and strike and turn tail that the conflict feels like it has started and ended several times already.
- ▪The whole war is only five months old but is already settling into a sort of permanent feature of life, one that is all repetitive theatre now, each act indistinguishable from the one before it to all but the most plugged-in observers.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 7 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean right. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Now We're All Victims of Trump's Wars — Real Clear Politics
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Composite: Guardian Design, Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APView image in fullscreen Composite: Guardian Design, Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APOpinionDonald TrumpHe’s commander-in-chief of chaos. Now we’re all victims of Trump’s warsNesrine MalikNew tariffs, gas price rises, the deaths of thousands, insecurity … We’re living at the whim of one capricious, vain, easily bored man and his gang of stoogesMon 27 Jul 2026 00.00 EDTLast modified on Mon 27 Jul 2026 00.01 EDTShareYou would be forgiven, as the US and Iran traded strikes over the past few days, for thinking that it was only last month that the two signed the Islamabad Memorandum, which formalised the process of ending the war and established a 60-day period to negotiate the final terms of a deal. That’s because it was only last month.
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