{"id":91399,"date":"2026-04-05T07:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=91399"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:56:34","slug":"if-youre-not-worried-now-when-might-you-ever-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/05\/if-youre-not-worried-now-when-might-you-ever-be\/","title":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re not worried now, when might you ever be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump posted this on his social media account yesterday afternoon:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_91400\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91400\" class=\"size-large wp-image-91400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1764-550x177.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1764-550x177.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1764-768x247.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1764-1536x495.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1764-600x193.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_1764.jpeg 1670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-91400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What to think about that?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I suggested in a post yesterday, there must have been a reason why US Defence Secretary, Pete Hesgeth, sacked the senior US army general late last week.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because of what is planned for tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>Are war crimes going to be committed?<\/p>\n<p>If you are not worried, or even scared, why not? There are mad people in charge of weapons of mass destruction that they appear intent on using. If that\u2019s not enough to make you worried, what is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump posted this on his social media account yesterday afternoon: What to think about that? As I suggested in a post yesterday, there must have<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/04\/05\/if-youre-not-worried-now-when-might-you-ever-be\/\"><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":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91399","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=91399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91412,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91399\/revisions\/91412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}