By Walt Zlotow
At day 35 of America’s lost war on Iran – choking the entire world economy of Middle East oil – t’s time for a change. No, not regime change in Iran. Regime change in America.
President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio should resign. They are so committed to winning a war that cannot be won on their terms, their continued involvement will produce endless death in the Middle East and worldwide economic catastrophe.
They know the US has no chance of winning on any of their shifting war goals. But they are loathe to admit a single negative reality regarding the disaster they’ve unleashed upon the Middle East and world economy.
Their public statements are 100% US propaganda. They ignore the devastating damage to every US base in the region. They provide virtually no information regarding over US casualties. They totally ignore the devastating Iran retaliation degrading every aspect of life in Israel. They pretend Iran has no offensive capability left when Iran is positioned for long-term retaliation. They make up imaginary negotiations with Iranian leaders who will never negotiate with the most duplicitous negotiators on earth. They say they don’t care the Strait of Hormuz is closed when they know it is creating economic ruin worldwide. They’ve alienated every country on earth except Israel, the nation that goaded them into this military disaster.
J.D. Vance should replace Trump and appoint Defense and State Secretaries not wedded to catastrophe. The war must stop immediately. The US should prepare to leave the Middle East as no Gulf State being bombed from America’s perfidy, will ever allow America to rebuild its damaged bases. They should agree to reparations for the colossal damage they senselessly inflicted upon Iran. They should end all sanctions while reestablishing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regarding Iran’s nuclear development.
Most importantly, Vance and his new team must make any further military aid to Israel contingent upon ending its wars on Gaza, West Bank Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Israel must commit to creation of a Palestinian state, something they have vowed never to do.
Trump and his war council will never resign on their own. But if all 535 Congresspersons demand their resignation and refuse to govern till they do, they may face the music of their deeds fouling up the world.
If Congress takes up the challenge of forcing the war’s end thru peaceful regime change, they will not only be reclaiming their constitutional war powers duty, they may prevent impending worldwide catastrophe.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition
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I see that Pauline Hanson has thanked Trump for bringing regime change to Iran and liberty to the oppressed Iranian people. This was just before the US destroyed the bridge linking the cities of Tehran and Karaj, a vital part of the infrastructure of that region.
I wonder if Ms Hanson will applaud Trump’s plans to bring freedom to the people of Greenland and Cuba and prosperity to the rest of the world?
We should all be alert to misinformation coming from the US Emperor and the leader of One Nation.
The cognitive dissonance on display from that administration – and necessary for MAGAts to continue in their support – is mindboggling. Marco Rubio’s “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran … ” comment displays such a profound disconnect with reality that one wonders if he even lives in the same universe as the rest of us.
@ leefe: “Imagine a USA (Undemocratic Sewer of Apartheid)that, instead od spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent their money helping the people of America ..
Now read that passage again ….. “Imagine a USA that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting the rapacious greed of executives of multinational corporations displacing democratically elected governments (INCLUDING the 1975 Whitlam Dismissal), had spent their money helping the American people enjoy a free nation wide universal health service, an education system where religious bigotry was excluded in favour of academic excellence, while the reality of the promoted meritocracy, which currently is simply propaganda to confuse the working poor into believing that they alone are responsible for their present economic position because working for a pittance is their designated fate in life.
Everything TACO Trumpery touches turns to manure. Every time he speaks he is probably telling lies. He is a genius in his own demented mind, but nowhere else.
So it is time for Australian politicians sheltering under the Canberra Bubble to look outside and recognise that Australia’s future is linked to PRC China, where about 90% of our aviation fuel is manufactured before export to Australia; to Indonesia where an earlier COALition began sourcing rifle ammunition for the Australian military forces; to any nation prepared to stick with the negotiated terms of trade agreements for the duration of that agreement. This naturally excludes the TACO Trumpery MAGA state …..
Serious action for policy change is needed NOW!!!
Careful Walt, such thoughts will put you squarely in the crosshairs of the Trump brigade. Such manifest disloyalty must be punished. Ah imagine a situation where all 535 politicians could agree on something? Still, wishing might make it so.
Yes, definitely a regime change in the USA, the inmates of the asylum have been in charge way too long. In terms of bombs and missiles it may not be WW3, but globally the daily effects on our lives is starting to feel like it, (as someone who lived through WW2.)
Time also to look closer to home, including the UK.
“I have a dream”….then I woke up
Not sure that the idiot Vance is the answer.
Deception runs deep everywhere where US has political connections. It started with Howard – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard#Early_political_career – , Abbott, Turnbull, then Morrison.
I suspect this person did lots of damage in the interim and that is still unfolding to this day…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pezzullo#Career
To whit we are where we are thanks to this trio of misfits….
https://michaelwest.com.au/monsters-of-war-the-men-who-put-the-world-at-risk/
Maybe Albo could learn something from Robert Menzies….
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01/human-rights-could-menzies-help-albanese-see-the-light/?
Humans have a penchant for creating catastrophe. One might think with the benefit of modern unbiased history, academia and science, and after the increasingly techno-based annihilations of the 19th – 21st centuries, including two dire world wars and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Japan, and the creation of the UN, that good sense and amity would prevail.
Hah, what hope! When what we’ve got instead is a bunch of moron refugees from Western Europe, coalesced in mainly USA (& latterly Israel) hell-bent on vengeance & supremacy via murder and dispossession. And behind it all is a paranoid pseudo-puritanical religious fascism and its propaganda. Diplomacy has increasingly become a winner-take-all competition. All an M.O. that seems to work on the unread masses, so has been taken up and globalized by the oligarchs and their unconscionable tax dodging multinational corporations – and it’s now those mindless arseholes that perpetuate over-extraction, ruination, death and destruction.
So-called ‘democratic’ govts have allowed themselves to be conned to the point they are now fast becoming powerless and separated from any path back to a healthy reality.
What choice for ordinary folk?