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Trump hurls annihilation threat with dark afterthought: 'Anything could happen with me’
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he attends the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 8, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
“Anything Could Happen With Me” Is Not a Foreign Policy
The Power to Escalate
Donald Trump is presenting a possible return to large-scale war with Iran as a personal choice: whether he wants to “go in and annihilate them.” That phrasing identifies the central fact more clearly than the surrounding diplomatic choreography does. The president, backed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a…
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