Washington Post Says Donald Trump Played Chicken With Iran After Withdrawing From Iran Nuclear Deal

A Washington Post opinion piece frames President Donald Trump’s approach to Iran as a game of “chicken,” arguing that “President Donald Trump decided to play a game of ‘chicken’ with Iran.”

“For the CNN journalist who was the first to theorize the concept of illiberal democracy, the events in Minneapolis touch on the fundamental principles of American democracy”

24 Heures

The same piece says the stakes differ between the sides, writing that “For the Iranian regime, if it loses, there is a good chance it ends up toppled and slaughtered.”

24 Heures

It contrasts that with Trump’s incentives, describing the outcome for him as “a bad weekend at Mar-a-Lago.”

The article also links the debate to Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, describing it as a focus of “The conversation” about “the Trump administration's policies.”

In coverage from Le Figaro, Fareed Zakaria says Minneapolis is about “the power of the state,” arguing that “Trump clearly abuses executive power.”

He adds that the Trump Administration’s approach to law enables masked police in the street, with “unmarked cars,” and he ties the concern to “the limitation of state power.”

El País

The 24 Heures interview similarly describes a pattern in which courts rule against the Trump administration, noting that “they did in more than 65 percent of the cases brought against the Trump administration in its first year.”

It then says the administration does not truly obey those decisions, stating it “delays the implementation of the decisions or skirts around them.”

A Fondapol review of Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World argues that the “specter of decline gnaws at the United States” as China calls on Washington to be more economically disciplined.

“The United States facing the promise of a post-American world Fondapol | August 26, 2011 Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World, with a preface for the French edition by Hubert Védrine, an essay translated from the American edition by Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj”

Fondapol

It describes Zakaria’s thesis as “The Rise of the Others,” contending that “the rise of other countries, particularly China and India, does not automatically signal the loss of American primacy.”

The review also quotes a preface by Hubert Védrine describing a “hub-and-spoke system” in which “every country would have to pass through the United States for all its external relations.”

In El País, Zakaria discusses how revolutionary eras occur when “the level of economic and technological growth becomes so drastic that it transforms societies,” and he says this is happening “now worldwide” as a reaction to “40 years of globalization, liberalization, and democratization.”