By Walt Zlotow
That was some phony two-week ceasefire President Trump agreed to with Iran. When Iran refused Trump’s impossible demands presented by amateur US diplomats Vance, Witkoff and Kushner, Trump essentially resumed the war with his imaginary blockade of all Iranian shipping delivering the world’s oil.
Trump still hasn’t ruled out resuming his murderous but ineffective bombing campaign, or launching a possible ground invasion to extract Iran’s enriched uranium, or snatch its oil infrastructure on Kharg Island. He’s sending 10,000 more ground troops to bolster the 50,000 waiting around to either do nothing, or face major destruction if dropped into Iran.
To show the extent of US war failure, 6,000 troops aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush and accompanying warships had to skip the short route through the Mediterranean to go around the much longer southern Africa route, due to the Houthis’ threat to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. As a result Trump won’t have his 60,000 troop force in place till early May.
Trump must know he has no path to anything remotely resembling victory. No regime change. No end to nuclear enrichment. No end to Iran’s missile stockpile. Most importantly, no reopening to the Strait of Hormuz and renewed flow of Middle East oil.
He’s also likely still controlled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who convinced Trump to launch the war on February 28 and has been sabotaging the ceasefire with his ghastly bombing of Lebanon. While Trump desperately wants out of the lost war, Netanyahu demands it continue till Iran is destroyed as an Israeli rival. Why Trump remains under Netanyahu’s control is both horrifying and may forever remain a mystery.
Trump is now a shell of the former war president who gloried in bombing seven nations and snatching Venezuelan President Maduro to capture his oil. He’s trapped with no way out except admitting defeat by ending the war on Iran’s sensible terms.
But Trump’s lifelong delusion of his invincibility in anything he does prevents him from facing the reality of the unfolding world catastrophe he initiated.
At present, Trump resuming his murderous war and precipitating worldwide economic collapse appear more likely than seeking peace, albeit certifying US defeat. Unless Congress acts to defund Trump’s $200 billion request to continue this catastrophe, or the Cabinet, led by Veep Vance, removes Trump via the 25th Amendment, things will only get dramatically, possibly, infinitely worse.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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Beware of false prophets as Emperor Trump tells us that he has brought together Israel and Lebanon for peace talks in Washington – his number ten peace success he says.
Before these parties even meet, Netanyahu has stated categorically that Israel will not be withdrawing any troops from the areas they have occupied in Lebanon. Even today they have demolished another bridge preventing the return of the 1.2million people who have been banished from their towns and villages whilst their homes and businesses are demolished.
Netanyahu is making it very clear that he is not attending these talks with clean hands and he has no intention of surrendering the areas of Lebanon he has forcibly occupied – make no mistake, this is a land grab!
“This war has been won” Trump is correct from a USA perspective. The EU buys weapons off the USA to give to the Ukraine, I’d suggest much, if not all the weaponry used in the Sudan is made in the USA. We, here in Australia, are increasing our expenditure on weapons, USA made!!
Every conflict in our world turns a dollar for the USA. no doubt about it, Trump’s war has been won.
Donnie CAN NEVER EVER EVER admit defeat, that’s not for manly man tough guys. Showing weakness would destroy him.
“Psychiatrists do not diagnose from afar. But Trump’s latest messages were too dangerous to ignore
Is Donald Trump mentally unwell? Does he have dementia? Most psychologists are banned from giving a verdict. But these experts are prepared to speak out.
by Bevan Shields SMH 170426
SMH 170426 (Paywall)
https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2026/trumps-state-of-mind/index.html
“Respected investigative psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who died last year, has argued the more appropriate term to describe Trump is solipsism. “Narcissism suggests self-love and even, in quaint early psychoanalytic language, libido directed at the self,” he explained. “Solipsistic reality means that the only reality he’s capable of embracing has to do with his own self, and the perception by and protection of his own self.”
@ jonangel: Agreed. Australia has been subsumed into the US military machine (at our expense), so purchase of US manufactured armaments guarantees profits to the NE military industrial complex, as warned by then POTUS Harry Truman.
The Nord I & II gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea that supplied Russian gas to Germany & Europe was deliberately cut, allegedly by US interests. Now Germany & Europe is replacing that gas supply by purchasing US gas, more profits to US fossil fuel corporations.
The disgraceful Iraq Wheat affair (about 2007) when the AWB Sales person in Iraq was pilloried by US wheat grower organisations for doing business ”the Iraqi way” (just like the US has done around the world since 1945) resulted in the Australian established Iraq wheat market being transferred to US wheat growers, including all the bulk handling infrastructure. More profits for US wheat growers.
John Bolton noted that since 1945 the US has been involved in 80+ interventions in the internal affairs of democratically elected governments of third party nations, including the 1975 Dismissal of the Whitlam LABOR government for threatening to demand access to the information produced at the spy stations at Pine Gap and NW Cape.
Two scumbags, Trump and Netanyahu, with their active filth, while boasting, threatening, occupying, cornering, domineering, are extremely rotten murderers and thieves, deluded liars, dominating world affairs and adolfing away. We are fringe parties to this, but remain attached to delusions, weaknessess, an alliance within a decayed world “system” that has gone, one of filthy USA imperialist heartless criminal oppression. POX. Surely we must risk a detachment? How? Let us join in stopping all the wrong, the crime. A decent future demands action.
I reckon Trumps pathological fear of weakness and losing is in some way a driving force in his ongoing and increasing dementia and declining health.
Netanyahu was described by Biden as a ‘bull sh*tter, and is at again replicating Trump after his chum former PM ‘mini Putin’ Orbán was turfed, now claiming new Hungarian PM Magyar ( who Netanyahu campaigned against) has invited Netanyahu to Budapest; false.