Leadership is crippled and politics is hobbled when those who hold the levers of power are caught in circumstances rather unforeseen or unwarranted. It was too late when Biden was persuaded to abandon his second term ambitions. Instances of leaders crippled by age or by upended politics have there been aplenty in our times. Before him, the war in Vietnam left President Lyndon Johnson hobbled, enough to force him into renouncing a second term. It is that military coups against elected governments leave societies and nations crippled.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 08, 2026 06:41 UTC