Why has the US under President Donald Trump failed to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, an end to the Israel-Hamas War and the hostage crisis, an end to Houthi assaults on Israel, and an end to the Iranian nuclear bomb program?

Because Trump and his team have the wrong paradigm in mind. They approach everything with a pragmatist, transactional perspective. They see everything through dispassionate business eyeglasses. And they think that America’s enemies do the same.

Worse still, Trump thinks that the weighty economic power of America and the force of his HUGE personality will bend adversaries to his will.

But what if America’s challengers are motivated by deeper, darker purposes? What if Russia, Iran, Hamas, and the Houthis (and even the Chinese) are driven by ideological a

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