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The Art of the Deal Part XVII

Images of Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei and late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are displayed at a gathering to support Mojtaba Khamenei in Tehran. PHOTO: VIA REUTERS

Donald Trump’s vision for how the war against Iran should end is simple: "Unconditional surrender."

Is the 80-year-long peace now a thing of the past?

An explosion in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, Iran. PHOTO: VIA REUTERS

The Trump/Netanyahu war in the Middle East will not spread any further, and nothing going on there threatens our collective existence.

Simple Trump has been outwitted by wily Netanyahu

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. PHOTO: REUTERS

Donald Trump is not just Benjamin Netanyahu’s glove puppet, but it is remarkable how much influence the Israeli prime minister has over the American president.

Nato is dead: long live Nato 2.0

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio leaves after speaking at the Munich Security Conference. PHOTO: VIA REUTERS

Every year at this time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the world’s most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state of health.

Surviving the population crash as the global birthrate plunges

Photo: supplied/NZ Human Rights Commission

To them that hath shall (more) be given is generally a reliable guide, especially in economic matters, but it doesn’t work if the beneficiaries are too stupid to take advantage of the gift.

Where have all the generals gone?

The People’s Liberation Army — but where are its generals? PHOTO: REUTERS

Armies can be used against both foreigners abroad and citizens at home, but the two roles require quite different equipment and tactics.

Iran may be pretending about nukes

A heavy water plant in Arak, Iran. Photo: Getty Images

The Iranian regime is brutal, fanatical and corrupt.

We might have crested ‘peak Trump’

Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, wowing the room at Davos. PHOTO: REUTERS

It is too early to be sure, but it seems likely that we have just seen "peak Trump".

Blood spilled and everything will be back up in the air again

Desirable Greenland. PHOTO: REUTERS

In 1910, Henry Wilson, the British army officer charged with planning for a possible war with Germany, visited the French officer doing the same job in Paris, Ferdinand Foch.

Greenland: Trump versus Nato

Danish soldiers disembark at the harbour in Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: supplied, via Reuters

After the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers came out of a meeting in Washington on January 14 convinced Donald Trump really intended to seize Greenland, things moved very fast.

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