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Its ally Hezbollah, which used to send its best men to fight for the Assad regime in Syria, has been crippled by Israel’s attacks.

Should Beijing indeed attack Taiwan outright or, as appears more likely, impose a crippling economic blockade on the island, Trump seems unlikely to risk a war with China.

"We were left a dire inheritance, with crumbling public services and crippled public finances to face up to," Sir Keir said in his editorial.

The outage is a symptom of Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis, with daily 12-hour blackouts driven by a prolonged drought that is crippling energy generation at the Kariba Dam, the country’s main power source.

The strategy kept the Dodgers from making any crippling mistakes but also placed them at the mercy of market conditions.