The Land Baron’s War: When Foreign Policy Becomes a Private Game

Michael and Sarah Walker

The Land Baron’s War: When Foreign Policy Becomes a Private Game

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The Land Baron’s War: When Foreign Policy Becomes a Private Game

In the growing tension between the U.S., Israel, and Iran, there’s a disturbing pattern emerging—and at the center of it is Donald Trump. Not acting as a head of state. Not as a strategist. But as a rogue land baron, pulling strings for personal and political gain, with little regard for institutional process or long-term consequences.

This isn’t diplomacy. It’s unchecked manipulation of global conflict.

According to recent reporting, Trump has escalated pressure for potential action against Iran—not through formal coordination with U.S. military or intelligence agencies, but through private channels with Israeli leadership. And much like his past foreign policy moves, this play appears guided more by ego, impulse, and election politics than by national security strategy.

We’ve seen this before. In 2020, just weeks before leaving office, Trump seriously considered striking Iran’s nuclear facilities. It took high-ranking officials to talk him down. Today, those guardrails seem absent, and the MAGA apparatus he now commands looks far more willing to go along for the ride.

What makes this so dangerous isn’t just Trump’s disregard for process—it’s his bypassing of American checks and balances altogether. The Pentagon? Sidelined. Congress? Not consulted. NATO allies? Out of the loop. Instead, he’s dealing in foreign aggression as if it’s a private oil deal, directing proxies like a man playing with matchsticks in a field of dry grass.

Meanwhile, loyalists like Pete Hegseth and the MAGA media machine cheerlead potential war, not out of duty, but out of loyalty to a man who views international conflict as a chessboard for self-image.

Let’s be clear: coordinating strikes with a foreign nation while excluding your own defense institutions isn’t policy—it’s paranoia in action. It’s a vigilante doctrine where the only strategy is spectacle, and the only goal is control.

And if history teaches us anything, it’s this: the cost of impulsive war is never paid by the land baron. It’s paid by the people living under the rubble.