Donald Trump’s threat to “blow up Oman” was vintage Trump—provocative, outrageous, yet hardly surprising. The remark drew global condemnation, but Amandeep Midha places it in a wider frame: the West’s seventy-year habit of dropping bombs at will while preaching a “rules-based international order.” Trump’s bluntness may have shocked, but the pattern long predates him. In his latest essay, Midha traces this continuity of violence and impunity, showing how one sentence at a Cabinet meeting revealed the true operating logic of Western power.
