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"I expect that we are going to have to be much more ruthlessly self-interested and that's not comfortable because our foreign policy has generally been based around cooperation, collaboration and multilateralism – so that shared sense of threat that middle powers have of working together to maximise their output."

President Donald Trump pulled the US out of a previous nuclear agreement between Iran and five other world powers in 2018, and has long said he would make a "better" deal.

“We’re still a federal state, and that means that there are powers that are given to the federal government in D.C. and powers that are given to states and localities,” Ross Burkhart told me.

That in turn has led us to this moment, when the powers that be are seeking to undo those gains.

Taken together, those orders are a huge expansion of the federal powers of policing, a move toward a “security state” where the president could have the ability to enforce martial law, and arrest or detain anyone who opposes him.