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Recently, Scottish artist Lewis Macleod dropped a hilarious impersonation of US President Donald Trump where the bit concerns him ending multiple wars, including War of the Roses, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Star Wars and currently working on resolving the American Civil War. Isn't it baffling how normal it would be to hear him say something similar? While exaggeration has always been an intrinsic part of comic impersonation and political satire - a world safely distanced from reality, the current scenario has people stuck between fact and fiction, where the absurd feels all the more real, and the reality seems increasingly perplexing.
As US-Israel attacks on Iran ensue, West Asia continues to negotiate between a rocky past and an uncertain future where the contours of the region keep being shaped by the global north. In yet another war, which was never theirs to wage, the US, promising to liberate women, ended up bombing a girls' school and along with Israel killed almost 1200 people after offering the people of Iran a chance to return to ‘normalcy’. In a world where the West continues to determine what deserves to be branded ‘a regime’ and what ‘a government’, not only have wars become the new normal, but are being fought like crusades.
In Outlook’s April 11 issue, Warlord, difficult questions are asked with tensions escalating, futures compromised, uncertainty looming and leaders of the free world being blinded by an obnoxious lust for power and interests.
Cover Artist: Vikas Thakur
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