Trump’s ‘quasi-dove’ era is over. Iran strikes expose his hawkish turn
Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald TrumpThis was originally published in This Week in Trumpland; sign up to receive it in your inbox every WednesdayIt was a claim uttered repeatedly on the 2024 campaign trail: “I’m the only...
<p>Deploying the world’s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump</p><ul><li><p><strong>This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland; </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/election-newsletter-sign-up-stakes"><strong>sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday</strong></a></p></li></ul><p>It was a claim uttered repeatedly on the 2024 campaign trail: “I’m the only president in 72 years that didn’t start a war,” Donald Trump <a href="https://x.com/RSBNetwork/status/1718726023859024339?s=20">said in Sioux City, Iowa</a>.</p><p>Fact checkers cried foul and pointed out that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/18/jonathan-alter-jimmy-carter-donald-trump-reagan-bush-clinton-obama">Jimmy Carter</a>, president from 1977 to 1981, did not start any wars either. But Trump won the election anyway.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/trump-military-us-quasi-dove-era">Continue reading...</a>
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