More than 10 years of Trump as dominant US political figure, and over a year into a second administration organized around enacting his every unilateral whim, we still have this genre of Trump-adjacent commentary designed to deprive Trump of agency for anything "bad" that happens

No one's arguing, or at least I'm not, that Israel played no role in bringing about the current war. But declaring it ISRAEL'S WAR, as though it was something imposed on Trump, rather than a product of his own designs and ideology, is just perpetuating the usual pro-Trump deceit