By Walt Zlotow
President Trump bet his entire criminal attack on Iran as a quick 3 day operation which would force Iran’s capitulation. Kill its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the 90 million Iranians would rise up against their government and make peace with new master America.
It has backfired spectacularly. The vast majority of Iranians have rallied around the Islamic government. When Trump demanded Iran surrender, the remaining government publicly told Trump, ‘Go to hell.’ Instead, they have launched thousands of missiles and drone explosives on US instillations thruout the region. American deaths and injuries are occurring. They are successfully bombing America’s criminal war partner Israel, the real mastermind of this self-destructive war. Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz which will quickly destabilize the world economy over oil pricing. Iran’s attacks on US resources in the Gulf States will possibly destabilize the entire region.
Trump, realizing he’s both failed and trapped, is becoming increasingly more detached from reality. The US is already running low munitions to fight a long war, but Trump claims we have enough to fight multiple wars “forever”. But he quickly contradicted himself by claiming any shortages are due to negligence of his predecessor he only refers to as “Sleepy Joe”. This from a debilitated president falling asleep at public events. He’s cut off all trade with Spain because they refuse to help Trump wage his criminal war. Trump hints at boots on the ground in Iran, setting congressional critics’ hair on fire.
Why doesn’t Iran fold against the largest military in the world and its criminal war partner Israel? Simple. After trying to negotiate peace with these two brutal, vicious countries for decades, Iran realizes both represent an existential threat to their existence. Facing obliteration, proud Iran has decided to go down fighting, taking America and Israel with them.
Knowing it was coming, Iran has been preparing years for all out war. It has tens of thousands of missiles and drones scattered and well-hidden to prevent US, Israeli destruction. The US, Israeli hunters are now becoming the hunted. US embassies in the region, some already under attack, are telling their staffers they cannot help evacuate them.
Trump has nearly 3 years left in office. His failed 3 day quickie war to destroy Iran as an Israeli hegemonic rival may turn his last 3 years into an unrelenting personal catastrophe. Alas, it may also be a catastrophe for Israel, America, the Middle East, possibly the entire world.
Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL
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So so laughable that Chump has spent his entire second term doing everything in his power to alienate and economically cripple all of their allies with his stoopid tariffs (among other things)………….and is now whingeing and whining because they will not “help out” with his little war!!!!!!!!! And if they refuse, like Spain, he will just shut them off entirely like “no more trade with Spain”.
Then we come to the fact that he is already short of “ammo” less than a week into the war. Just to top that off a resolution to prevent the continuation of the war with Iran was put to the Senate and Republicans voted it down!!!!!!!!!!
Just like that other idiot from Germany, USA will have their arses handed back to them on a plate.
It takes more than religious extremism, hubris and pissing contests as a show of strength to win any respect at all.
Then you have internecine fighting between the paranoid cabinet members that currently support trump who have no grounding in reality and lack the capacity to respond in lieu of their current reactions.
Leave them to it to kill each other off without harming anybody else and we can all get on with what needs to be done, building bridges, rather than following the current trajectory.