We’ve learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.
The failure of Putin and Xi to stand up for their countries in the face of Washington’s aggression has convinced Trump that he can act with impunity anywhere in the world. Remember, Trump said words to the effect that he can do whatever he wants.
Trump promised in 2024 that he would not start any more wars in the Mideast or send brave young Americans far from their homes to die and get maimed in culturally alien lands.