Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“There was never a serious expectation that Trump would effectively dismantle the warfare state by the time he left office. After all, his rhetoric in the lead-up to the election was often more hawkish against Iran and China than the political establishment. However, Trump’s occasional moment of sanity about foreign policy, his unusually genuine concern about causing needless deaths or risking nuclear war, and the utter panic his rise seemed to garner from establishment hawks had generated some hope that Trump represented some degree of change. But then Trump succumbed to neoconservative pressure and gave in when Israel ignored his opposition to attacking Iran, publicly bragged that negotiations had been a ruse, ordered a direct military strike deep in Iran, and put out a post in support of regime change.” (06/25/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/dismantling-warfare-state-was-never-going-be-easy