{"id":8244,"date":"2025-06-23T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8244\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:51:10","slug":"do-americans-really-want-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8244\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Americans really want war with Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">THINGS CHANGE fast in Donald Trump\u2019s America. Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2025\/06\/22\/trump-smashes-iran-and-gambles-the-regime-will-now-capitulate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the strike on Iran<\/a>, public opinion showed Americans overwhelmingly opposed to attacking the country. Polling for The Economist by YouGov last week showed that 60% of American adults opposed military involvement against just 16% who supported it. Much of that is due to the memory of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which few Americans think were worth their cost in blood and treasure. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, public opinion appears to be polarising along the familiar partisan lines\u2014as Republicans rally around the flag (and against the Democrats). In fact, YouGov\u2019s polling for us shows that this is already happening (see chart).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THINGS CHANGE fast in Donald Trump\u2019s America. Before the strike on Iran, public opinion showed Americans overwhelmingly opposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,50,67,1901,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-8244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-war-in-the-middle-east","12":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114733244936613409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}