They say with Donald Trump that accusation is confession. Having warned during the 2024 campaign that Joe Biden, then Kamala Harris, would trigger “world war three”, Trump is now offering a perilous test of that proposition. In his statement on Saturday night, Trump pronounced his military strikes on Iran a success. America’s bunker-busting bombs had obliterated Iran’s nuclear capacity, he said. It could take a while to find out whether both Iran and Israel — the prime actors in a show that Trump did not script but in which he is now taking a starring role — will share the US president’s assessment. But Trump is hoping that his awesome display of power will bring the curtain down on the war. That is not his decision to make.
有人說，唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的指控就是自白。2024年大選競選期間，他曾警告稱，喬?拜登(Joe Biden)——后來是卡瑪拉?哈里斯(Kamala Harris)——將引發(fā)“第三次世界大戰(zhàn)”。如今他自己在危險地試探這一預(yù)言。特朗普在上周六晚發(fā)表的聲明中宣告，他下令對伊朗發(fā)動的軍事打擊取得了成功。他說，美國的“碉堡克星”炸彈已經(jīng)摧毀了伊朗的核能力。世人可能還需要一段時間才能知曉伊朗和以色列——特朗普并未編劇、如今卻扮演主角的這出大戲的主要演員——是否認同美國總統(tǒng)的評估。但特朗普正希望，令人敬畏的美國實力展示能夠讓這場戰(zhàn)爭落下帷幕。然而那不是他能做出的決定。