{"id":68085,"date":"2026-03-04T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trumps-quasi-dove-era-is-over-iran-strikes-expose-his-hawkish-turn\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:21:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:21:41","slug":"trumps-quasi-dove-era-is-over-iran-strikes-expose-his-hawkish-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trumps-quasi-dove-era-is-over-iran-strikes-expose-his-hawkish-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s \u2018quasi-dove\u2019 era is over. Iran strikes expose his hawkish turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deploying the world\u2019s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<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>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a claim uttered repeatedly on the 2024 campaign trail: \u201cI\u2019m the only president in 72 years that didn\u2019t start a war,\u201d Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RSBNetwork\/status\/1718726023859024339?s=20\">said in Sioux City, Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<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>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/04\/trump-military-us-quasi-dove-era\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deploying the world\u2019s most powerful military seems to exert an almost erotic fascination for Donald Trump This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland; sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday It was a claim uttered repeatedly on the 2024 campaign trail: \u201cI\u2019m the only president in 72 years that didn\u2019t &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s \u2018quasi-dove\u2019 era is over. Iran strikes expose his hawkish turn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/trumps-quasi-dove-era-is-over-iran-strikes-expose-his-hawkish-turn\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s \u2018quasi-dove\u2019 era is over. Iran strikes expose his hawkish turn\">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-68085","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\/68085","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=68085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}