“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”
That was Donald Trump in January 2025. A little more than a year after his inaugural address, the US president has deployed a vast military force to the Middle East. He says that he will make a decision about whether to attack Iran in the coming days.
The experiences of the past year seem to have persuaded Trump of the virtues of war. The bombing of Iran’s nuclear installations in June and the capture of Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela in January, went well. In their aftermath, Trump was exultant.
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