Don't worry HOFWatkins: No one mistakes you for an Economist reader. Your posting style reflects how you engage with magazines. Read the article, don't just look at the pictures. The Economist is not Playboy.
If America doesn't honor its word, administration to administration, then we are a puppet dictatorship country, unreliable long-term as anyone's ally and trading partner. Trump's approach to the world is to sh*t on honoring American honor and do what he alone thinks is right. And thus, the molotov cocktail photo.
The best line from that piece is the reference to Bannon as the "chucker in chief."