Will Trumpworld become Trump’s world? The domestic trifecta is attained, and the battle for the bureaucracy is joined. Donaldus Maximus turns to the far provinces of the empire: to Canada, Britain, and Gaul. He eyes the wild places beyond the walls and the water: Greenland and, again, Canada. He looks to the restive borderlands between the empire of the West and the empires of the East, to the client states of Judea and Arabia Felix, and to Ukraine, whose name derives from the Slavic for “borderland,” with its rich, dark soil that made it the breadbasket of the tsars of Russia but is mud in the White House.
We are back in the age of power politics and empires. The war in Ukraine will end because
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