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In charts: how Donald Trump became a military interventionist | Financial Times
Source: Financial Times | 2 March 2026
Time and again, Donald Trump has crowed about the failures and humiliation of US presidents who got bogged down in foreign misadventures, from Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to George W Bush’s ill-fated invasion of Iraq.
On Iran, too, Trump has a long memory, musing in recent months about how Jimmy Carter’s 1980 re-election bid was doomed by a botched attempt to rescue 52 American hostages held in Tehran.
