{"id":90864,"date":"2026-03-13T06:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90864"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:05:22","slug":"this-war-will-last-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/13\/this-war-will-last-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"This war will last for decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angry<\/p>\n<p>Confused<\/p>\n<p>Perplexed<\/p>\n<p>Bewildered<\/p>\n<p>Resentful<\/p>\n<p>Frightened<\/p>\n<p>Grief<\/p>\n<p>Lost<\/p>\n<p>Vengeful<\/p>\n<p>What would you feel if a foreign government was illegally bombing your home, or was ordering you from it, when all you wanted was the chance to live in peace with your family and friends?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not pretend that the consequences of this war will end when Trump gets bored or when stock markets tell him that it\u2019s time to stop the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>Real lives, shattered by his indifference and the contempt he\u2019s shown, will be changed forever by what he\u2019s done, and some will never forget.<\/p>\n<p>This war will last for decades, until the last victim dies. And maybe not then.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot promote a politics of care when you pursue a politics of hate, and only one of them delivers a future of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry Confused Perplexed Bewildered Resentful Frightened Grief Lost Vengeful What would you feel if a foreign government was illegally bombing your home, or was ordering<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/13\/this-war-will-last-for-decades\/\"><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":[16,106,223,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-politics","category-politics-of-care","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90864","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=90864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90873,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90864\/revisions\/90873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}