The Guardian view on Trump’s civilisational threats: the words that fuel war must be condemned | Editorial
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Apr 10, 2026, 1:17 pm58 ptsMilitary euphemisms can be deadly. Yet the brutal rhetoric of the US and Israel is proving still more lethal “Metaphors can kill,” the linguist George Lakoff wrote in an influential essay on the Gulf war. “The use of a metaphor with a set of definitions becomes pernicious when it hides…
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