When Kamala Harris took the Democratic candidacy replacing a consumed Joe Biden, Donald Trump warned Americans that, if she arrived at the White House, her sons and daughters would end up “being recruited to fight in a war in a country they have never heard about.” The statement did not collide with anything I had promised before. Much of his electoral success was based on opposing the “bellicism” of the Democratic Party. With that of the “United States, first”, Trump promised from the beginning to “turn page forever of those absurd and stupid days of endless wars” that “never ended”. On different occasions, he boasted to be “the only president in generations that did not start a war, […] The only president who rejected the catastrophic advice of many generals, bureaucrats and the so -called Washington diplomats who only know how to get into a conflict, but do not know how to get us out.
Since he arrived at the White House for the second time, Trump fed up to swear that the wars would end with him. He assured – although he later said that jokingly – that in 24 hours he would end the war in Ukraine and that thanks to his work the “bloodshed” in the Middle East would be avoided. Well, then The war in Ukraine has overcome its third year, Israel continues in the erase of Gaza and, now, the United States has bombarded Iran after, yes, Israel also asked for it. With the attack on the Iranian facilities, Trump has also become the first US president to order the United States Air Force to combat the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator antibunkeres, an artifact of 13,600 kilos that detonates great depth.
In addition to the global instability that is an intervention like this, Trump will now face the internal division in his movement, Maga. There are already many of its most fervent followers, such as Tucker Carlson or Steve Bannon, who had alerted the “cool” that would mean attacking Iran and how this would contravene the promise of the “United States, first.” Trump, however, does not seem to care. A few days ago, the US President meant what he wanted. “Considering that I developed the ‘United States, first’, and considering that the term was not used until I appeared, I think it is I who decides” what it means, he said. He added: “For those who say they want peace, you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for those wonderful people who do not want to do anything about it, that is not peace.”
But, even if he says he does not care in the least, Trump knows that he is not insured by the support of those who have fought the most. The extreme right policy Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most staunch followers of the president, lamented in social networks that “every time the United States is on the edge of greatness, we are involved in another foreign war.” “There would be no bombs falling on the people of Israel if Netanyahu had not launched bombs on the people of Iran first. Israel is a country with nuclear bombs. This is not our fight.”said.
A recent survey of YouGov He revealed that there was hardly anyone in the United States to defend an intervention like this Saturday. According to data, Only 16% of Americans believed that the army should enter the conflict between Israel and Iran. 60% thought they should not do it. The political spectrum as a whole, in addition, thought like this: 65% of the Democrats, 53% of the Republicans and 61% of the independents saw as an error the participation of the United States.
With their nuances, The new Trump position is also. It is striking that Trump himself who in 2016 said that the United States should never have “been in Iraq”, the same one that regretted that the Bush administration “lied” by ensuring that there were weapons of mass destruction, I have now bombard nuclear weapons that suspended in 2003 “. And what then did Trump answer, who had criticized Bush in his day for deceiving citizens? “I don’t care what I said,” he snapped at journalists’ questions.
At the moment, Trump puts his hope that these attacks will force Iran to sit again at the negotiating table. He calls him “La Paz.” But nothing suggests that Iran will not respond, and a greater climb would place the United States in one of those endless wars that the president claimed to detest. Just half a year after taking possession, Trump not only has not put an end to any conflict, but also has just placed the East next to the edge of another great war.
