Generally speaking, when you bomb another country, and that country retaliates, you call it a “war”. Very simple word. Three letters. Even Donald Trump knows how to spell it.
But be careful about calling the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, which have expanded into an Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, a “war”. The geniuses in the White House can’t seem to figure out what the hell they’re doing. The House speaker, Mike Johnson, announced on 5 March that “we are not at war” and that the US has “no intention of being at war”. Some lawmakers, such as Senator Cynthia Lummis, meanwhile, are arguing that the US has been in “forever war” with Iran for decades.
