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In “The Sun Always Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote: “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” This also applies to Francafrique — and the “suddenly” is happening in 2025.

Official visits by any US president to any capital or country in the world are a pure headache for security forces, governments and even ordinary people, whose travel plans are disrupted by demonstrations or the fanfare that typically accompanies such visits.

The Middle East has never been short of strongmen but it has outdone itself this time. It has delivered the most dangerous man we have ever encountered and whom we can no longer tolerate.