By Walt Zlotow
As Trump was cooling his massive, murderous bombing of Iran, he was ramping up his murderous bombing of small civilian boats in the Caribbean. In the last 5 days he obliterated 5 little boats Trump imagined were operated by narco terrorists. Since these dastardly attacks began last October, Trump has wiped out 48 little boats, killing 163 (as of March 2026). Those are war crimes.
On January 3 Trump invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its president Nicholas Maduro, murdering 83 in the process. More war crimes.
Most heinous but most ignored by the media is Trump’s endless war crimes in Somalia. Last year His African Command bombed pitifully poor, remote Somalia 124 times, likely killing thousands of imagined bad guys. Just last week Trump bombed Somalia 4 times in 2 days, raising the 2026 total to 49 attacks. He’s on track for a record year of war crimes in Somalia.
Why aren’t the media and the American people focused on Trump’s war crimes in the Caribbean, Venezuela and Somalia? Could be simply that these Trump war crimes have not raised a gallon of gas north of 4 bucks and threaten a global recession that will also engulf the Homeland. To put it more bluntly, “Hey, Mr. Trump, as long as your war crimes don’t affect me personally, go for it.”
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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An old Vietnam vet told me eons ago that “Those damn Yankees. They shoot at anything that moves.”
Trump is carrying on the tradition (from a safe distance, of course).
The GAS, (Great American Shithead) Trump is coming across as an emotional cripple, a born thug, a destined lawbreaker, a monstrous arsehole. POX. No charge, court, trial, conviction, sentence required by this foul fornicatory filthite, and we must hope he expires similarly soon. Our world, our age, needs relief.
TACO Trumpery is providing a reliable consumption market for the American NE Military Industrial Complex that dominated development in a fearful, ill-educated, under-resourced population taught from birth that becoming wealthy by any means is the appropriate life endeavour.
Moreover, TACO probably has shares in those NEMIC corporations and so is creating profits from which he benefits. QED,
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.
I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903.
In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.
Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Major General Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket
Trump is not doing anything new when it comes to US aggression, he is just doing it brazenly and wearing it like a badge of honour.
Apparently, Trump has been fed his news of his illegal war against Iran through short videos that exclusively feature things being blown up. It’s not hard to imagine that the video of these boats on international water being blown up is something that floats his boat as well.
Trump is now telling us that the deal to open up the Strait of Hormuz did not include the US withdrawing their blockade on Iranian ports which other parties insist it did. So the Iran has again blocked traffic until the US agrees to removing their blockade. In a rambling address Trump tells the world that Iran is being tricky.
Why cannot these people put these important agreements in writing so that we all know who is being tricky : I have my own opinion on who is being tricky.
I’ve said it before but negotiations at this level have to be mediated by a trusted and respected interlocutor (i.e. not a real estate buddy of Trump’s or a member of his Cabinet or family) and matters resolved made public immediately.
We know that Bibi Netanyahu doesn’t want a ceasefire and if he can see the Iranians (or the Lebanese) as being ‘tricky’ so much the better for his war-mongering.
The war criminal Trump, aided and abetted by his Cabinet, has no one to stop him enacting his fantasies. I do not understand why his military is happily complicit in his war crimes. Do they all believe that there will be no reckoning? In the end, it seems that Trump will be allowed to continue his games until he dies.