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By Walt Zlotow
The illegal, criminal bombings on Iran which killed over 800 and wounded over 2,500 have failed spectacularly.
While still going on, there are indications from the Trump administration a ceasefire may soon be possible.
What has 11 days of bombings accomplished?
It has not destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities or its enriched uranium. It has not achieved regime change in Iran. It has not shattered Iran into failed state status. It has likely rallied Iran’s population to coalesce around besieged Iranian leadership.
It has brought retaliation bombings to Israel killing dozens and wounding hundreds, the largest such attacks in its 77 year existence.
It has likely motivated Iran to repair and rebuild its nuclear capabilities outside of oversight of nuclear inspectors. Iran may decide to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) designed to give signatories the inalienable right to civilian nuclear development. When they observe how Israel and the US cavalierly bomb non-nuclear weapons states, Iran may decide they have no choice but to join the nuclear club. Since Iran was not developing nuclear weapons, the Israeli, US misadventure may speed up the very thing they claimed urgency in preventing.
Possibly the worst bombing campaign failure was to obliterate US credibility as a responsible diplomatic partner. By using the duplicity of negotiating an end to the imagined nuclear crisis to enable Israel’ sneak attack, US now ranks dead last of all 194 other countries to negotiate anything of consequence. Check that, the US can still negotiate with Israel which has complete trust in US backing of their ongoing genocide in Gaza and lust to topple Iran as their only hegemonic rival in the Middle East.
The US has made of shambles of international law. It has substituted its Orwellian ‘Rules Based Order’ allowing it to wage regime change, including outright war, on any targeted state at the point of a smart bomb fired by dumb, international war criminals.
But no matter how badly deranged US policy turns out, the current CICW (Commander in Criminal War) will call it “a spectacular success.”
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition, Glen Ellyn IL
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Trump had a tantrum saying that : “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.”
He was referring to Israel and Iran of course. Aides later brought him his Executive Order colouring-in book and crayons to pacify him.
Incompetent, vain, deranged, under educated, unintelligent, repulsive, Trump must go or be sidelined, or be atomised, for all our sakes. How can such deficiency be elected? And, the "world" should shun all USA relations.
Let’s be blunt.
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu should both be hauled before the International Criminal Court (ICC) to answer for what the world just witnessed in Iran — the unprovoked bombing of a sovereign nation under the tattered excuse of “nuclear deterrence.” Over 800 dead. Thousands wounded. Infrastructure flattened. And for what? A geopolitical tantrum dressed up as pre-emptive defence.
This wasn’t a targeted strike — it was a flagrant breach of international law, conducted by two men who behave like war isn’t the last resort, but the first political tool in their back pocket.
If the ICC has even a shred of credibility left, it must act. The precedent is clear: when leaders order mass civilian death, obliterate diplomacy, and drag the world closer to nuclear brinkmanship, they answer to the world.
Enough hypocrisy. If these attacks had come from any state outside the Western alliance, we’d be talking sanctions, tribunals, and emergency UN resolutions. Instead, we get excuses, handshakes, and spin.
The message to the global South? The rules don’t apply to those with enough bombs and enough vetoes.
The ICC should stop pretending it’s blind and start proving it’s brave.
Remember brandis of the freedom giving the right to being a bigot? Well is trump not a septic tank and therefore has a right to be ignorant of and uninterested in anything outside of American requirements??
Ergo, he is unconcerned about what he does or says for two reasons. The first is on his head and the second in is his head both empty slogans.
The bottom line is that he is loved by millions and super loved by americophobes who wonder at the damage he can wreak over 3 more years.
ps
He has one advantage over despots who had god on his side in that, albeit not far enough, god deflected a bullet.