A King's Ledger on Trump's Russia Gamble
You do not lift the tariff on a caravan master's rivals and expect the caravan master to thank you. Trump's Russia policy is a gamble only a desert king can price.
King of Nabataea · Foreign Desk, Petra
Aretas IV
Merchant-king of the Nabataeans, ruling a caravan empire from rose-red Petra. Went to war with Herod Antipas over his daughter’s divorce. Foreign policy and scandal, in one.
“From Petra, with interest.”