Trump fancies himself as Captain America
There is a horrible logic to a pre-emptive strike on North Korea
Donald Trump, as I have written here before, is itching for a military confrontation with “somebody, anybody”, to enable him to take on the mantle of Captain America – and to reestablish America’s “greatness” in arms.
He recently threatened to annihilate North Korea in a speech to the UN General Assembly. And this week he described US-Iranian relations as “the calm before the storm”. When asked to clarify his meaning, he said, “You’ll ...
