The US president, who had said he would avoid needless foreign wars, has embraced military power with few limits.
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Despite a second-term pledge to end US involvement in costly and destructive foreign wars, President Donald Trump has initiated a full-scale offensive to topple the Iranian government just more than a year after returning to office.
The attacks on Iran, considered a violation of international law, mark the most aggressive escalation yet of Trump’s embrace of military power to pummel foreign governments and extract concessions demanded by his administration.
