Perhaps the most exquisite paradox of our age is that the man most universally condemned for moral rot — the gilded orange gargoyle of Mar-a-Lago — is the one actually getting things done. Donald Trump, that ambulatory conflict of interest, achieved what generations of polished diplomats, earnest Nobel laureates, and speechmaking moralists could not: persuading sworn enemies to sign the same page.
The Abraham Accords — brokered in 2020 between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, later joined by Morocco and Sudan — were not just a photo-op for a bloated reality star. They were a genuine geopolitical rupture: Arab states recognizing Israel without waiting for the Palestinians to bless it, trade routes opening, direct flights crossing airspace once deemed blasphemous.
Economic partnerships and security cooperation followed. The diplomats of Europe, who had spent decades achieving nothing but conferences, suddenly found themselves outflanked by a man who barely knew where the Le…
