Trump prefers collapsing world economy to admitting defeat in his criminal Iran war

Trump prefers collapsing world economy to admitting defeat in his criminal Iran war

That was some phony 2 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 to 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 7 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 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 

Hitchcock would have loved Trump’s MacGuffin to launch Iran war if it were a movie, not a real life catastrophe

Hitchcock would have loved Trump’s MacGuffin to launch Iran war if it were a movie, not a real life catastrophe

Movie buffs, especially fans of suspense director Alfred Hitchcock, know what a MacGuffin is: a plot device in the form of a simply made up desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues in furtherance of making a thrilling, suspenseful movie. For Hitchcock it was the plans for the airplane engine (39 Steps) or the uranium ore stored in vintage wine bottles (Notorious). Everyone knows the most famous MacGuffin in filmdom, the black bird that drove the narrative in John Huston's Maltese Falcon.

But neither Huston nor Hitchcock could have come up with a more bizarre MacGuffin for America's senseless real life war blowing up the Middle East and possibly the world economy than Trump’s MacGuffin, an imminent Iranian nuke.

Since Iran posed no threat whatsoever to the Homeland over 6,000 miles away, Trump simply made up the fiction that Iran was a couple weeks away from building a bomb, and more ominously, could detonate it over America as well.

No matter that Iran has never built a bomb, pleaded never to build a bomb, and was in full compliance with Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal which guaranteed they’d never build one. No matter that Trump sabotaged Obama’s nuclear agreement to prepare for the day he could attack Iran to prevent its building and detonating a bomb that his entire intelligence community determined was preposterous.

Hitchcock’s Macguffins worked perfectly to create some of the most suspenseful, thrilling and scary movies in filmdom. But Trump’s MacGuffin backfired spectacularly, killing thousands in Iran and neighboring countries, choking off 20% of the world’s oil supply, damaging all 13 US Gulf States bases and turning Trump into the biggest loser in US military history. And to hammer a nail into Trump’s defeat he has no way out of the impending global catastrophe he started with his cockamamie MacGuffin.

And up in Celluloid Heaven, Hitchcock might be muttering: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I've created 57 MacGuffins for my 57 films, but none compares to Trump’s Mother of All MacGuffins....Iran’s imaginary nuke.”

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition