Iraq's Elections and Shifting Global Alliances

Iraq just held its seventh parliamentary election since 2003, and voter turnout tells you everything

you need to know about how people feel. Citizens showed up with almost zero

hope for real change, exhausted by decades of instability and broken promises. Prime Minister Mohammed

Shia al-Sudani is fighting for a second term while trying to keep both the US and Iran happy,

which is basically an impossible balancing act. Meanwhile, Trump is back in

office and spending most of his energy on foreign affairs, meeting with world leaders left and

right while his own party deals with election losses at home. The whole situation

shows how global leadership is shifting in ways nobody predicted. Countries are picking sides,