Could Trump’s Iran ‘excursion’ be a bigger global turning point than Vietnam?
📰 The Guardian · 📅 May 31, 2026, 12:00 PM · 🌐 theguardian.com
The far shorter Middle East war has rapidly revealed the strategic weakness of US firepower in an interconnected worldIn a 1965 speech justifying the war in Vietnam, Lyndon B Johnson argued that the goal was to ensure “every country can shape its own destiny” since only in such a world could the US