collateral damage

Israel insists it always follows international law in Gaza, and has also argued that the particular nature of this conflict, with Hamas fighters hidden among the civilian population, mean collateral damage can sometimes happen.

Predictably, consumers and businesses are collateral damage, suddenly facing higher prices, layoffs, depressed retirement accounts and fears of recession.

They don’t care if “Pedro caught a bad flight. That was collateral damage,” they say when discussing a father who had no criminal past being transported to a foreign prison by Trump’s ICE teams.

"Vietnam... and others in the periphery are collateral damage in what is shaping up to be the most aggressive realignment of US trade policy in a generation," he added.

“We need the president’s help to untangle the spirits industry, and the greater hospitality industry, from these tariffs. We’re collateral damage.”