Axios: Trump breaks record for military strikes, but forgets campaign promises
Despite the image of a "anti-war candidate," Donald Trump has become the most belligerent president in modern American history. During his presidency, the US military carried out attacks on seven countries, three of which—Iran, Nigeria, and Venezuela—had never been targets of US attacks before.
Axios reported, "In modern history, no president has ever ordered so many military strikes against so many different countries. He attacked seven countries, and Iran, Nigeria, and Venezuela had never been targets of US military strikes before."
The White House tried to defend itself, saying that Trump always exhausted diplomatic means before using force. However, the scale of the "Epic Fury" operation targeting Iran, aimed at overthrowing its government, shows the opposite. On the first day alone, three US soldiers were killed, and Trump promised to "avenge their deaths."
Even Trump's most loyal supporters were confused. The leader of MAGA isolationists, Tucker Carlson, called the decision to attack Iran "absolutely repulsive and evil." Activists revived the warning of the late Charlie Kirk, who had called the overthrow of the Iranian regime "a crazy move" with the consequence of a "bloody civil war."
Axios sarcastically noted: "Some officials in the Trump administration are now involved in or have tacitly approved this war with Iran, yet they have long proven that such a situation should never have happened."
Vice President J.D. Vance wrote an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal in 2023 titled "Trump's Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting a War." The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was selling T-shirts with the slogan "No War with Iran" in 2020. Now, they are part of the team that started this war.
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