"Mr #Trump is too sure that he can cow foreign leaders by threatening to bomb their countries. And he is overly confident that conflicts can be ended quickly, if only warring parties could understand that peace would bring an economic boom. In the words of his vice-president, J.D. Vance, Mr Trump does not understand why Russians and Ukrainians keep killing each other and do not “engage in some commerce with one another”."
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/03/17/americas-failing-gunboat-diplomacy
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