Like in Britain, a generation of Americans now know they were lied to on the gravest matter imaginable: the decision to go to war 🔎 Analysis by danielgbates
It has taken two decades, Mr Trump leaving office and the Ukraine war for the “special relationship” between the US and the UK to recover from the Iraq war
That comment gives you an idea of the shadow cast by Iraq, which was arguably America’s biggest foreign policy calamity since the Second World War. In the US the Iraq War has become a ghost that has haunted politics for two decades and played an important role in the creation ofThe humiliation of Iraq made it easier for Mr Trump to turn his back on alliances with other countries and question whether US troops should be stationed in countries such as Germany – outposts which are critical to maintaining Nato’s readiness.
More worrying have been the comments of Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who is most likely to clinch the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination if Mr Trump falters.Ukraine and RussiaFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis has signaled an extension of Mr Trump’s isolationist foreign policy, by dismissing Russia’s war in Ukraine as a territorial dispute and killed up to 929,000 people, including 7,000 American servicemen and women.
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