President Airstrike
The peace president in action.
Axios notes “Trump’s lethal presidency” and his propensity to use airstrikes.
He’s attacked seven nations, three of which — Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela — had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than President Biden did in four years.
Here’s a chart.
It all fits a pattern: He is able to engage in unilateral action that has an immediate payoff, pretending that whatever his amorphous goal is, it is met, while all the while avoiding the complexities of ongoing operations. Further, it all happens at a distance with relatively small risks to US forces (although, as we are now seeing, not zero risk).
I recognize that the chart does not include Obama’s drone strikes, nor the prodigious list that would be on a Bush chart. But the contrast with Biden is especially striking, given the campaign rhetoric in the last electoral cycle.
It also fits the profile of a bully. Punch down on those weaker, suck up to those stronger.
If only those darned Norwegians had given him the Nobel Peace Prize.
He’s probably upset that there is nothing in Greenland worth bombing.
When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.