It's hard to keep track but just eight months into his term I believe the government of our "peace president" has involved us in a cascading series of illegitimate uses of military force - undeclared wars and other crimes showily dressed up as wars: The paramilitary war against undocumented migrants, and anyone who looks like they might be one, illegally deploying armed military on US soil to do so. A deliberately similar misuse of the military in a claimed war against "crime" in US cities, while preparing for another against imaginary "civil unrest." The drone assassination of eleven Venezuelan fisherman in their boat in international waters. (It would have been a war crime even if they had been members of a drug smuggling gang, which they weren't.) The just declared war on the "left" capitalizing on the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk... I could go on. The ontological war against anyone who doesn't fit a conservative science-denying gender binary, and indeed on science and its institutions too. The undeclared war against Iran's nuclear sites. The not just metaphorical war on the Constitution, habeas corpus, the separation of powers. The very real genocidal war the US supports in Gaza. Can they even imagine peace?
