Donald Trump has returned to the White House with a bang, reshaping the global order in ways that have left Western leaders scrambling and autocrats genuinely frightened. The question is not whether he is creating waves, but if the world was prepared for the significant transformation he has already initiated.
In the space of mere weeks, the Trump administration has orchestrated a series of geopolitical shifts that would have seemed implausible under his predecessors. Iran, long considered a regional powerhouse backed by decades of authoritarian consolidation, is now teetering on the brink of collapse. Ninety million Iranians, exhausted by fifty years of religious dictatorship, suddenly see the possibility of freedom. A nationwide uprising that began two weeks ago has plunged the country into chaos, and the regime's clerics are running out of time.
