"It began with Trump travelling to Israel, where he was hailed as a latter-day Cyrus, a mighty ruler whose name would be spoken of for millennia to come, the man who had brokered what he himself boasts is an everlasting peace. Never mind that Trump's success, for which he certainly deserves some credit, was in pushing Hamas and Israel to agree a ceasefire and release of hostages and prisoners, a fragile arrangement that does not address, let alone solve, the underlying Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
"Indeed, buoyed up by his success, he is having another go at the one he thought would be easy but which, to his irritation, has proved as complex as all the hated experts and deep state naysayers warned it would be: Russia's war on Ukraine. On Thursday he announced his plan to meet yet again with Vladimir Putin, this time hosted by Viktor Orban in Budapest (which has the happy side-benefit of trolling the EU)."
Donald Trump presents himself as a peacemaker abroad while cultivating a confrontational posture domestically. He received praise in Israel and framed a fragile Hamas–Israel ceasefire and hostage release as an enduring triumph, despite the arrangement not resolving the core Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He claims credit for ending multiple wars and is pursuing another initiative to address Russia's war on Ukraine, arranging a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Budapest hosted by Viktor Orban. His style emphasizes spectacle and boastfulness, often substituting optics for substantive diplomacy, even as he foments domestic conflict against his own citizens.
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