From tweets to tectonics: Nato's void and the Global South's rise


IT BEGAN, again, with a tweet. Donald Trump, from his digital podium, declared that Iran and Israel had “come to him” asking for peace, promising a future of “LOVE, PEACE AND PROSPERITY.”

The post went viral. Commentators scrambled. Headlines were reframed. But beneath the performance lay the more troubling reality: real peace is nowhere in sight and never was.

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