The sordid UFC event represents his own efforts to symbolically fuse the federal government with his person, to insist that he is America and is the state Hitler dreamed of a 1,000-year Reich; Putin is said to have baroque dreams of territorial conquest meant to restore a dubiously historical emp...

Source: [Guardian US](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/15/donald-trump-spectacle-violence-dysfunctional-roman-emperor-ufc-white-house)

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