TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump is facing growing questions about the coherence of his middle-east policy after claiming he has deliberately "spared" Iran's military, despite repeatedly declaring that US forces had already "decimated," and "obliterated," Iran's military capabilities.
The apparent contradiction has become a metaphor for a presidency increasingly marked by conflicting narratives, stalled diplomatic initiatives, domestic legal setbacks, and a stream of wacky social-media posts that project confusion and chaos rather than confidence. Domestic and foreign policy analysts accustomed to searching for consistency in presidential doctrine are reaching for aspirin as they track a White House that often resembles reality television in which the star keeps announcing victory while the sets collapse behind him.
