This week in Washington, I asked him about war in Iran, the prospects for Ukraine and the future for Donald Trump. In Iran, Wright says, Trump is in “a real bind”. And when “people warn of disaster, it never really happens ... not for Donald Trump, not for America. But it hasn’t worked here.”“So I think he’s really stuck and I think he’s looking for options to try to break out of the mould a little bit. The Russian advance in eastern Ukraine, Wright says, has been “slow, sort of piecemeal.

Source: The Irish Times March 21, 2026 15:01 UTC