The United States Is Still Addicted to War
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/02/trump-iran-war-united-states-addicted/
Why every U.S. president ends up in a major military campaign.
Trump Spent Years Denouncing U.S. Intervention. Now He’s Toppling Foreign Leaders.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-iran-us-regime-change-a6f60e6b
The operation in Iran marked a sharp reversal for a president whose political rise was fueled by American fatigue with regime change.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/02/trump-iran-war-united-states-addicted/
Why every U.S. president ends up in a major military campaign.
Trump Spent Years Denouncing U.S. Intervention. Now He’s Toppling Foreign Leaders.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-iran-us-regime-change-a6f60e6b
The operation in Iran marked a sharp reversal for a president whose political rise was fueled by American fatigue with regime change.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/power-vacuum-in-iran-heightens-nuclear-threat-by-stephen-holmes-2026-03
The US sees regimes it can strike and concludes that striking them resolves the dangers they pose. But eliminating a visible adversary does not neutralize the underlying threat; it merely transforms that threat into something elusive, decentralized, unaccountable, and impossible to negotiate with or monitor.