Are we heading for another world war - or has it already started?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : In the White House, Trump famously told Volodymyr Zelenskyy: "You have to be thankful.
57% : The implosion of Pax Americana, the interconnectedness of conflicts, the new willingness to resort to unbridled state-sponsored violence and the irrelevance of the institutions of the rules-based order have all been on brutal display this week.
50% : The intimate photo of Trump and Zelenskyy in conclave at the funeral of the pope (a picture taken by Zelenskyy's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak) reeked of reconciliation yet flattered Trump's ego.
49% : Trump sees the world in similar terms to Putin - a handful of sovereign powers dividing up land into spheres of influence.
46% : Trump clearly had a plan to extricate the US from the line of fire and to put relations with Russia on a different footing, a desire he has nursed since the 1980s.
45% : " With Trump silent, it was left to Europe to respond.
39% : Trump can hardly complain when Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's ultra-right finance minister, shared his vision for the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, predicting that within half a year the population of the territory would be confined to just a narrow swathe of land, with the remainder "totally destroyed".
27% : Trump is self-evidently not reliable, and his benign assessment of Putin's intentions is not shared.
26% : But Trump overplayed the cards he had, throwing many of them away with his self-destructive tariff war.
23% : In July 1999 in Washington, Bill Clinton personally browbeat Pakistan's then leader, Nawaz Sharif, into retreat in what one official called the most important meeting with a foreign leader of Clinton's presidency.

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