{"id":8972,"date":"2026-03-17T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/17\/francis-fukuyama-trump-10-year-old-middle-east-policy-criticism\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:45:23","slug":"francis-fukuyama-trump-10-year-old-middle-east-policy-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/17\/francis-fukuyama-trump-10-year-old-middle-east-policy-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Fukuyama Criticizes Trump\u2019s Middle East Policy, Compares Him to a &#8217;10-Year-Old Boy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Fukuyama, the renowned political theory scholar, sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s approaches to regional developments, warning that these policies could have dangerous consequences.<\/p>\n<p>In a heated statement, he likened the current state of the United States to a situation &#8220;as if the country is under the control of a 10-year-old boy who has found a flamethrower in his backyard and enjoys setting fires.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fukuyama emphasized that continuing such an approach could pose greater challenges to regional stability, adding: &#8220;Someone needs to stop this boy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come amid rising tensions in the Middle East in recent months. Many analysts attribute Washington\u2019s policies, especially towards Iran, as a factor escalating the atmosphere of distrust. However, U.S. officials have consistently stressed that their actions are taken within the framework of the country\u2019s national interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political theorist Francis Fukuyama compares President Trump to a &#8217;10-year-old boy&#8217; over risky Middle East policies, warning of potential regional instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}