Smoke rises over the city center after an Israeli army launches second wave of airstrikes on Iran on February 28, 2026. | Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images
With the decision to once again launch major airstrikes on Iran, in conjunction with Israel, and call for the overthrow of the Iranian government, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has come full circle. The US has once again launched the sort of regime change war, where the actual stakes for US national security are far from clear, that he has spent more than a decade deriding his predecessors for pursuing.
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