It's hard to believe now, but Donald Trump once promised to be an antiwar president. "I'm not going to start a war," he said when he won reelection . "I'm going to stop the wars."
Instead, wars under Trump are becoming more deadly and expansive. Trump continues to arm Israel and defend its prime minister despite the country's well-documented genocide in Gaza. Russia's war with Ukraine—which Trump said repeatedly that he would end within "24 hours" of taking office—has been as bloody as ever.
And Trump is expanding the post-9/11 "forever wars" in three crucial ways.
The first is escalating U.S. military operations in the Middle East and East Africa. The first country the U.S. bombed when Trump returned to the White House was Somalia, and Washington has bombed the East Afric