https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/03/02/vance-trump-iran-war-00806812
“In Mr. Trump’s four years in office, he started no wars despite enormous pressure from his own party and even members of his own administration,” wrote Vance, then just one month into his first term as the junior senator from Ohio. Trump’s refusal to plunge the U.S. into any new foreign conflicts marked “the first real disruption to a failed consensus and the terrible consequences it wrought” — a record that, “more than any single accomplishment, is the enduring legacy of Mr. Trump’s first term.”
