If POTUS can really bomb peace, stability and women\u2019s rights into the Middle East, I\u2019ll take my hat off to him. Judging by his role in Gaza, I won\u2019t hold my breath<\/p>\n
Donald Trump says Keir Starmer has damaged the special relationship<\/a> by not helping him more in the US-Israel war on Iran. But you have to remember that when you do help, Trump pretends you didn\u2019t anyway, and also pisses on your war dead<\/a>. Still, what could be more enticing than the Americans trying to sell you a timeshare on a war in the Middle East?<\/p>\n And so to Iran. \u201cWar is the realm of uncertainty,\u201d said Carl von Clausewitz, who \u2013 and not to be a bitch \u2013 I still think of as a more impressive military theorist than Pete Hegseth. Certainly, Carl had fewer Crusades tattoos than the US defence secretary. Hegseth is 100% certain about all his nailed-down positions, even the ones in apparent conflict with each other. And it feels like a great sign that he, Marco Rubio<\/a> and JD Vance<\/a> already seem to have different rationales for why this war was launched. This is an administration that came to power on an explicit \u201cno more wars\u201d ticket<\/a> \u2013 but look, as Pete keeps saying, this isn\u2019t a regime-change war. If that seems confusing, given he first said it about 10 minutes after US-Israeli strikes had just cratered the ayatollah\u2019s compound, Hegseth has since been on hand to scoff that what\u2019s going down in Iran is \u201cno nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If POTUS can really bomb peace, stability and women\u2019s rights into the Middle East, I\u2019ll take my hat off to him. Judging by his role in Gaza, I won\u2019t hold my breath Donald Trump says Keir Starmer has damaged the special relationship by not helping him more in the US-Israel war on Iran. But you … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}