Transactional loyalties: Netanyahu, Trump, and the warfare for energy, affect & relevance

Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to forged himself as a global statesman. He crafts arguments in English and Hebrew, keenly conscious that persuasion is an influence unto itself. Then there’s Donald Trump: unpredictable, even unstable, pushed by a self-serving transactional logic. And but Netanyahu usually persuades him to embrace his worldview. Trump’s countless impulses and urge for food for legacy tasks make their alignment a fragile calculus, so will this dynamic maintain? And what is going to turn out to be of the battle throughout the Center East? Gavin Lee welcomes Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow on the Carnegie Endowment for Worldwide Peace.



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