{"id":79417,"date":"2025-06-21T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/trump-maga-and-his-israel-iran-dilemma-ft\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:47:12","slug":"trump-maga-and-his-israel-iran-dilemma-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/trump-maga-and-his-israel-iran-dilemma-ft\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Maga, and his Israel-Iran dilemma | FT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton, Donald Trump&#8217;s former National Security Adviser, seeks to decode his the US president&#8217;s decision-making over whether to join <!--more--> Israel&#8217;s war on Iran: \u201cTrump wants to be on the winning side. He can\u2019t decide who is going to win.\u201d Speaking at the FT Global Affairs and Business Council in Berlin, Bolton argues Trump has a difficult relationship with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the veteran foreign policy hawk predicts the Maga movement will stay loyal even if Trump breaks his promise to end US involvement in foreign wars. Explaining Trump&#8217;s attraction to strongmen such as Vladimir Putin, he argues that US democracy will survive attacks from within<\/p>\n<p>#johnbolton #trump #us #maga #washington #geopolitics #internationalpolitics #netanyahu #israel #iran #israeliranconflict #middleeast #putin<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just \u00a34.99 a month<\/p>\n<p>See if you get the FT for free as a student (<a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree<\/a>) or start a \u00a31 trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Check out our Community tab for more stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>@FinancialTimes\/community<br \/>\n\u25ba  Listen to our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@financialtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bolton, Donald Trump&#8217;s former National Security Adviser, seeks to decode his the US president&#8217;s decision-making over whether to join<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}