The US has killed a lot of people, but it seems like everything gets much much worse every time Trump intervenes. Iran
had agreed to not build nuclear weapons. Trump just didn't like that it was work done by Obama, and—in a typical act of petty spite—withdrew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_...Fast forward to today and the US has sustained billions and billions of dollars costs. To still not have any clear success, or to even have any promise of success possible. Nothing seems like it will be better in the end. Freedom of Navigation (Carter, 1979) seems off the table for the world now. Oil production facilities in the region have been massively impacted. The US doesn't seem able to deal with mines. And with US intelligence saying there's still vast reserves of Iranian drones and missiles to cause ongoing problems. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/05/07/...
The tough talk perspective would be vaguely endurable if there were any signs of planning or competency, if there were any possible actual ways things were going to get better here. It just looks like more blustering bullying, but there was no plan, and no objectives ever get met, have any chance to get met. Trump threw away peace long ago, sat around doing nothing while protesters were getting slaughtered, and then engaged in a very pointless act that by all indicators he thought would be a clear victory like Venezuela. Tough or not, it's ridiculously frelling stupid.
Meanwhile the US continues to itself engage in lawless international savagery on the high seas, blowing up boats at a steady pace in the Caribbean. And starving Cuba & denying them electricity. All this anti-woke anti-"mollycoddling" looks deranged, and has been actively terrible for the world, achieving nothing, and is empty fury bearing nothing.