Trump’s recent threat risks sparking ‘global economic disaster of historic scale’: expert

International security expert Robert Pape issued a dire warning Sunday over President Donald Trump’s most recent threat to Iran, a threat that if made good on, Pape warned, could spark a “global economic disaster of historic scale.” “Overnight, Trump’s threats have shifted the trajectory of this war,” Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, wrote Sunday on his Substack.