9 April 2026

When Fools Go to War

FEDERICO FUBINI

One need only look past the moral and strategic differences between Iran and Ukraine to see that both are facing similar situations. Both have been attacked by larger powers whose institutional decline has produced regimes that failed to anticipate what they were setting into motion.

MILAN—Although one might be hard-pressed to find similarities between the wars in Ukraine and Iran, Donald Trump’s April Fools’ Day speech from the White House has brought the parallel into sharper focus.

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