Donald Trump is aggressively thirsting after the Nobel Peace Prize. He routinely claims to have "solved" from 7 to 10 wars, primarily because those wars have ended or abated since he took office, so he must've done that. This is part of his desperate craving for validation from elite stakeholders that goes back to him being a Long Island social climber in Manhattan.
As Richardson notes after her discussion of Republican gerrymandering and voter suppression, Trump has started moving military assets in place to strike at drug cartels. She doesn't mention that Trump has also used the American military against protestors and "crime" in American cities.
Trump clearly understands that a lot of his rural voters were burned by Bush's Global War on Terror and they are tired of American military adventurism. That was a core tenet of his first term. Trump also "gets" the bloody waste of war and seems to only want to commit to stand-off missile and bombing strikes.
However, he also seems jacked up to use military force against the broad umbrella of crime, which includes everything from the Sinaloa Cartel to muggers to the homeless to dudes throwing sandwiches to peaceful protests.
Trump is a bully and he's willing to engage in lethal force against people who can't fight back. He's willing to turn the armed forces on American citizens, but not send military gear to Ukraine. He would sell out Ukraine and Taiwan in a hot minute if there was money in it for himself.
Peace president my ass.
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