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Martin Jay
Martin Jay is an award-winning British journalist based in Morocco where he is a correspondent for The Daily Mail (UK) who previously reported on the Arab Spring there for CNN, as well as Euronews. From 2012 to 2019 he was based in Beirut where he worked for a number of international media titles including BBC, Al Jazeera, RT, DW, as well as reporting on a freelance basis for the UK’s Daily Mail, The Sunday Times plus TRT World. His career has led him to work in almost 50 countries in Africa, The Middle East and Europe for a host of major media titles. He has lived and worked in Morocco, Belgium, Kenya and Lebanon.
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La trappola dell’escalation sembra trascinare Donald Trump sempre più in profondità nelle sabbie mobili della guerra con l’Iran.
MbS has shown verve and leadership, and his defiance now resets the game.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are both very much victims of the war, but each has an entirely different approach to finding a working solution – if the Trump-Iran deal holds.
The escalation trap seems to be pulling Donald Trump deeper and deeper into the quicksand of the Iran war.
For the moment, there is still time for distracting the media with utterly stupid statements that portray America as a winner in the war.
The real problem is that no outcomes paint Trump as a smart operator.
Russia and China have always liked Trump in the White House, largely for his ineptitude and weakness more than anything else.
Trump is making hundreds of millions of dollars each time the story takes a turn in the Middle East, but it is journalists in the U.S. itself who play a key role in this embezzlement.
U.S. submarine torpedoes Iranian tanker, killing 100+ sailors. Trump or Netanyahu? As allies flee and oil hits $4/gal, America’s depravity hits a new low.
Israel is running the show, and Trump is the mall security guard pretending he has authority before the cops arrive.