By Walt Zlotow
President Trump is flailing around like every world leader in history who launched a criminal war of choice he can’t win but can’t quit.
Like every losing criminal war predecessor, he’s becoming more and more unhinged searching for a magic bullet, make that a magic missile, that will turn his inevitable defeat into his cherished victory.
He fantasizes Iran has been destroyed and is begging to surrender in Trump’s terms.
He threatens massive destruction one day, then calls off that destruction a day later for two reasons: he doesn’t have the firepower to inflict it, and knows Iran will inflict even worse damage to US Gulf State bases and Middle East energy infrastructure cratering the world economy. Thousands more Iranians may die and hundreds more US service casualties may pile up to no avail.
Iran won, the US has lost. Deservedly so. Iran did nothing to deserve Trump’s dastardly attack.
Except for a dwindling number of ‘destroy Iran dead enders’, Trump’s war cabinet must be apoplectic over Trump’s delusional descent into endless war madness. Neither VP Vance nor Secretary of State Rubio were keen on Trump’s cockamamie war but bowed to his hubris fueled by the power behind the push for war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On this war day 157 of Trump’s disastrous, failed war edging the world economy toward the fiscal cliff, Trump still has 900 days to ensure that happens.
On his own he appears incapable of admitting defeat or simply resigning the presidency to allow Vance to begin negotiations to end the war on Iran’s sensible terms. We can only hope Trump’s war council will conduct an intervention. Instruct Trump to quit the war or quit the presidency.
If not they should threaten resignation en mass to paralyze the government to fulfill the prophesy Bob Dylan once famously sang… “Even the President of the United States sometimes has to stand naked.”
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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Trump is another example of the post WWII string of US Presidents who do not personally determine or influence US Foreign Policy. The US Presidency is the mouth piece of the CIA, Pentagon, State Department and Zionist influencers who collectively manipulate US geopolitical strategies by creating “regime change revolutions” in foreign nations that do not align with the interests of corporate US/Israeli entities. This strategy is an extension of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine whereby USA covertly and overtly prevented any emerging North or South American nation from becoming an economic or political threat to USA.
As much as I love Bob Dylan, can you please not present me with the mental image of an undressed DJT?
“…Trump must quit the war or quit the presidency”
His gigantic, but fragile, ego and malignant narcisissism won’t allow him to do either of those things. It would be a horrific sign of weakness and would most likely break his already fracturing mind. Besides he’s raking in untold millions through his, “I don’t give a shit!” blatant corruption.
Donald Deepfried-Dogshit should certainly leave the presidency, that office of all things hypocritical, righteous and supremacist, and, also should depart the planet, via solitary confinement for gross criminality.