Trump's Saudi deal highlights insanity of the situation in the Middle East
It's not just that some of the strongmen don't seem so strong anymore. It's that there is a new conflation of factors proving to be just as important, if not more so, in driving world events in increasingly disturbing directions.
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For much of the past decade, a lot of what has unfolded in the world has been seen through the idea of the rise of strongmen in global politics.
Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladamir Putin have headed the list, along with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Türkiye.
And that's not to mention the ones who have come and gone in the meantime: Hungary's Viktor Orban, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.
In the United States and Russia, two of the strongmen may still hold unprecedented power within their countries, and seek to exert on the rest of the world, but they do so with rapidly diminishing credibility and effectiveness.
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