{"id":90601,"date":"2026-03-04T08:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90601"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:13:38","slug":"and-now-the-us-is-fighting-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/04\/and-now-the-us-is-fighting-in-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"And now the US is fighting in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you had not noticed, this is a New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com\/dynamic\/render?campaign_id=60&amp;emc=edit_na_20260304&amp;instance_id=171940&amp;isViewInBrowser=true&amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;productCode=NA&amp;regi_id=57004063&amp;segment_id=216111&amp;sendId=216111&amp;uri=nyt:\/\/newsletter\/55d498ac-5822-535a-9ca9-d4c961d00f54&amp;user_id=25b98ff8296aef9b7c527c5c9f885e7a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headline this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-90602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-04-at-08.09.47-550x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-04-at-08.09.47-550x119.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-04-at-08.09.47-768x166.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-04-at-08.09.47-1536x332.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-04-at-08.09.47-600x130.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-04-at-08.09.47.png 1546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump promised the MAGA that he would not engage in foreign wars. But, as Napoleon once noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a leader thinks that his people are going to revolt, he needs to go to war with another country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump must be expecting a serious revolt. One war is not enough for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you had not noticed, this is a New York Times headline this morning: Trump promised the MAGA that he would not engage in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/04\/and-now-the-us-is-fighting-in-ecuador\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,203,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-fascism","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90603,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90601\/revisions\/90603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}