Lina Khatib of the London think tank Chatham House calls it “an earthquake in the regional order,” whose long-term effects may be comparable to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

However, not much evidence links sulfites directly to headaches, and other foods contain comparable levels to wine without the same effects.

Insulin is one of many inaccessible medications in this system, with Americans paying three-fold the price for drugs as comparable countries in 2022.

He told the BBC it was comparable to "if you had an airplane with just one engine - that will work, but two engines are safer, four engines is yet safer".

Trumpov proposed Hegseth for secretary of Defense, a job that entails managing almost 3 million people and an $849-billion budget, even though he had never run anything remotely comparable.