{"id":27651,"date":"2026-07-19T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27651"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:00:58","slug":"flirting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/?p=27651","title":{"rendered":"Flirting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/18\/trump-iran-war-political-midterm-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Trump appears to be flirting with electoral disaster in re-stoking a war that is\u00a0already unpopular\u00a0with voters \u2013 not least for its inflationary impact on fuel and living costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThere\u2019s basically no timeline in which this makes any sense for preserving [Republicans\u2019] midterm performance,\u201d said\u00a0Curt Mills, executive editor of the American Conservative, a magazine promoting isolationist foreign policy goals favored by Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerican first\u201d supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a total loser. It\u2019s evidence that Trump doesn\u2019t really care about the midterms. He\u2019s like Icarus with the sun with this stuff \u2013 it seems to be a personal vendetta with the Iranians.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Guardian uses phrases like &#8220;flirting with electoral disaster&#8221; and &#8220;personal vendetta&#8221; to describe the United States bombing Iranian schools, bridges, and water treatment plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Trump appears to be flirting with electoral disaster in re-stoking a war that is\u00a0already unpopular\u00a0with voters \u2013 not least for its inflationary impact on fuel and living costs. \u201cThere\u2019s basically no timeline in which this makes any sense for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/?p=27651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27652,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27651\/revisions\/27652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.by\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}