In the international arena, commentary is intensifying around what analysts describe as a catastrophic miscalculation by Donald Trump in his confrontation with Iran. The assessment, drawing a direct parallel to Vladimir Putin’s disastrous decision to invade Ukraine, argues that “the evidence is piling up” that Trump’s hubris has “put the world on edge.” The comparison to Putin — whose war in Ukraine became a quagmire that reshaped global geopolitics — is a stark warning about the consequences of overconfidence in military and diplomatic brinkmanship.
