It is hard to imagine a crisis more precisely engineered to intercept the trajectory of Donald Trump’s presidency than his ill-judged, heedless war against Iran https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/03/19/war-in-iran-is-making-donald-trump-weaker-and-angrier?taid=69bc374e9ac2060001303d71&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=voante