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Trump, Maga, and his Israel-Iran dilemma
John Bolton, Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser, seeks to decode the US president's decision-making over whether to join Israel's war on Iran: “Trump wants to be on the winning side. He can’t decide who is going to win.” Speaking at the FT Global Affairs and Business Council in Berlin, Bolton argues Trump has a difficult relationship with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the veteran foreign policy hawk predicts the Maga movement will stay loyal even if Trump breaks his promise to end US involvement in foreign wars. Explaining Trump's attraction to strongmen such as Vladimir Putin, he argues that US democracy will survive attacks from within.