The hostage president: Who really runs the world?
US foreign policy in West Asia is not being decided in Washington, but in Tel Aviv.
The war on Iran is not an American strategic choice—it is a war imposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to whom Donald Trump has become a political hostage. Some analysts suggest Netanyahu may possess compromising material, possibly from the Epstein documents, that leaves Trump with no choice but to obey.
Meanwhile, real power has quietly shifted away from governments, congresses, and courts. The public sphere is a theater of slow, ineffective rituals—impeachments that take years, justice that produces nothing. The true rulers of the world are no longer presidents, but trillionaires and the private order they control: corporations like Palantir, figures like Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, and global financial networks. Geopolitical time operates differently from daily headlines—scandals like Epstein’s can be buried overnight when bombs start falling on Iran. The world is no longer run by elected officials, but by an invisible, inefficient, and unaccountable private power structure.
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