Where are the 6 ‘Don’t follow illegal military orders’ congresspersons when we need them?

Where are the 6 ‘Don’t follow illegal military orders’ congresspersons when we need them?

Last November, six congresspersons, all military/intelligence vets, released a video telling US military and intelligence officials “You do not need to follow illegal orders. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders.”

President Trump was apoplectic, hinting the ‘Seditious 6 should be prosecuted, possibly even subject to the death penalty. Actually, he more than just hinted. "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH. HANG THEM, GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD!”

Since the Seditious 6 were exercising free speech and referencing legal response to illegal military orders, the story vanished within days.

Fast forward 3 months. President Trump launches an illegal, immoral; indeed, criminal war on Iran. In 36 days it’s killed over 3,000, caused massive damage to the entire region including all US Gulf States bases, Iran, Israel and vital energy resources. More ominous, it’s choked off 20% of the world’s oil supply, presaging worldwide recession, possibly even depression. More ominous still, Trump has no path to victory, ensuring it will continue killing and destroying endlessly.

This represents a perfect opportunity for the Seditious 6 congresspersons to use this ghastly, illegal war to reaffirm to every service member that they can, should, must disobey Trump’s illegal orders to make criminal war on Iran.

Where are you Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, Rep. Jason Crow, Rep Chris Deluzio, Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, and Rep Maggie Goodlander? You told military personnel to “not give up the ship.” You gave up the ship of refusing to obey illegal orders on February 28 when the war began. Thirty-six days later you are still AWOL from the urgency of reaffirming to every service person they can, should, must disobey orders to conduct criminal war.

Your silence while the Middle East, possibly the world crumbles, is deafening.

Divergent paths for 2 billionaires putting balls in holes

Divergent paths for 2 billionaires putting balls in holes

Michael Jordon became a billionaire throwing (or stuffing) big balls in 10 foot high hoops. Current wealth $3.6 billion.

Tiger Woods became a billionaire hitting little balls with a club into little holes in the grass. Current wealth $1.3 billion.

Sure is a bizarre culture that makes billionaires of men who can put balls into holes better than any other men.

Both are now retired but both turned up in the news recently under dramatically different circumstances.

First up was Tiger who incurred his fourth serious vehicle incident, over the past 17 years. The last, March 27, found him arrested for DUI after he clipped another vehicle causing serious damage to both. Tiger destroyed what remained of his golf career as player, advisor, spokesman. He’s apparently withdrawn from public view to seek treatment for personal issues.

A few days later Michael Jordan showed up in the media basking in the glory of his fabulous post basketball life as a major player in the wildly popular NASCAR circuit. In 2020 he bought in as co -founder of the NASCAR team 23XI Racing with legendary driver and three-time Daytona 500 champion Denny Hamlin.

Jordan’s off track NASCAR connection is even more amazing. Jordan filed an antitrust lawsuit in October 2024 with 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports. He alleged NASCAR was being run like a monopoly, controlling which tracks were used, what car supplies were allowed, and giving teams restricted, limited charters to compete in races. In December 2025, NASCAR reached a landmark settlement giving all teams evergreen charters with improved terms. Jordan called it a game-changer. NASCAR is now the second major US sport Jordan has transformed.

During his interview on CBS Sunday Morning, Jordan, 63, was asked if he likes to drive fast. “Not me…I like to drive slow.” Jordan said he wouldn't change a thing about his life or career, embracing both his mistakes and the lessons they brought, and crediting the relationships he's built along the way as part of what shaped who he is today. "If it ends today, you know, I will have a smile on my face, 100%.

Don’t know if Tiger has ever crossed paths with fellow sports billionaire ‘His Airness’, but they certainly should now. Tiger could get some tips on how to drive safely…and how to use his billion plus to put a smile on his face.

Walt Zlotow  Glen Ellyn IL 

After murdering thousands in his criminal Iran war, Trump surrendered during his address to the nation last night.

After murdering thousands in his criminal Iran war, Trump surrendered during his address to the nation last night.

No, it wasn't the unconditional surrender Trump demanded, then abandoned of Iran. It was a surrender couched as a US victory over Iran. Trump claimed he's obliterated enough of Iran's nuclear program and missile stocks to wind down the war in “2 to 3 weeks.” But inadvertently admitting Iran is far from defeated, Trump declared “"if during this period of time...If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously.” Bragging about committing war crimes before the fact is not just criminal, it’s insane.

Trump’s impending victory declaration omits any mention of Iranian retaliation (other than the 13 dead US military) in which thousands of undefended missiles have decimated 13 US bases in the Gulf States, and caused massive damage throughout Israel. That presages the Gulf States will kick the unreliable US out of the region. It presages the disintegration, unraveling of Israel that is self-destructing in their lust to destroy Iran.

The reality, that Trump is either unaware of, or choses to blot out his disintegrating brain, is that he's been defeated in every war goal.

Trump didn’t obliterate Iran’s nuclear bomb program. He’s made it infinitely more likely Iran will develop the bomb before Israel drops some of their 300 on Tehran. This may be the worst self-fulfilling prophesy in history.

Trump didn't achieve regime change in Iran.

Trump didn't get Iran to surrender unconditionally or in any other way whatsoever. Iran refuses to talk to the most dishonest, duplicitous diplomatic negotiator on earth.

Trump didn't destroy Iran's missile and drone defense. Iran is likely saving its most powerful to complete their destruction of the US, Israeli war machine.

Trump didn't destroy Iran as Israel's last remaining hegemon rival in the Middle East, the primary reason he attacked on February 28.

Trump didn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz as promised. It's closure to Iran's enemies is creating worldwide economic disaster.

As Trump was spinning his inevitable colossal defeat as victory, Iranian missiles and drones were raining down on US Gulf States bases and thruout Israel. The Strait of Hormuz remained closed as gas prices continue endlessly upward.

Trump will remain trapped like the rat while killing more thousands before his cabinet invokes the 25th amendment to take away his license to kill and destroy. Or so America, the Middle East, the entire world can hope.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

Netanyahu woke up on Iran war day 31 with a 3 front war he cannot win

 Netanyahu woke up on Iran war day 31 with a 3 front war he cannot win

Tho scrubbed from mainstream news, Trump attacked Iran February 28 because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded, begged, demanded he do so. Trump’s top diplomat Marco Rubio revealed this when he stupidly admitted Trump knew Israel would attack Iran and had to preemptively attack as well to avoid Iran retaliation. What Rubio didn’t admit is that the Israeli attack was fully supported by the US since Israel could not attack without total US support. 

Trump and Netanyahu unprovoked war of choice had one strategy. Kill Iranian leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and watch the Iranian people depose their government and capitulate within 3 days. 

That failed spectacularly as the Iranian people responded like Americans after Pearl Harbor. Iran’s government did likewise, with relentless bombing of Israel, 13 US bases in the Gulf States and closing the Strait of Hormuz. 

If this was all that unfolded it would still represent a catastrophic loss for the Trump, Netanyahu war criminal tag team 

But for Netanyahu it gets worse. He sent his army north into Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah. That war is now going south as Hezbollah just destroyed 20 Israeli tanks in one day. Hezbollah missiles are raining down on northern Israel driving tens of thousands of Israelis from home. 

It gets worse. The Houthis who control Yemen just entered the war on Iran’s side by launching 2 strikes into Israel Saturday. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree declared Yemen bombed Israel “in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the resistance fronts in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine, and in view of the continued military escalation, the targeting of infrastructure, and the perpetration of crimes and massacres against our brothers in Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine."

 

In addition, the Houthis may reimpose the blockade on Israeli-linked shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. If so, the Bab el-Mandeh Strait will join the Strait of Hormuz in expanding economic disaster worldwide. 

Worse yet. Shi’ite militias in Iraq have joined the war and will be targeting US military assets in Iraq that the US has kept there for 23 years. 

When Benjamin Netanyahu goes to sleep tonight, he won’t need to count sheep to fall asleep. He just needs to count neighboring countries joining Iran’s defense against the most self-destructive criminal war this century.

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL

Mass murderer Trump killing Iranians with bombs…killing Cubans with oil blockade

Mass murderer Trump killing Iranians with bombs…killing Cubans with oil blockade

Mainstream news coverage of Trump’s failed US war in Iran focuses on its devastating effect surging worldwide energy prices and its tanking Trump’s ratings ahead of the November midterms.

But nary a word about its grotesque criminality killing thousands of Iranians in support of Israel’s four decade quest to destroy its last hegemonic rival in the region. Virtually no mention of damage inflicted on 13 US bases in the Gulf States that presages US being pushed out of the region. Also scrubbed are revelations of widespread damage to Israel, possibly fracturing Israeli society. Absent is analysis how Trump’s international criminal gambit has failed, leaving him and his tag team war criminal partner Benjamin Netanyahu conceivably considering nukes to reverse their impending defeat.

Adding to mainstream news shameful Iran war coverage is its non-coverage of Trump’s oil blockade degrading life, inducing death among Cuba’s 10.9 million beleaguered souls. Trump has ratcheted up America’s abominable 66 yearlong embargo to destroy the 1959 Cuban revolution to a grotesque level…cutting off nearly all oil needed to sustain normal life.

Trump’s oil blockade is depleting Cuba’s fuel supply, causing blackouts, food shortages, cancelled classes, work, just about everything needed in a functioning society. Worst of all its killing Cubans by crippling Cuba’s universal health care system, one that America should have emulated decades ago. Cuban doctors report deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics causing many preventable deaths

Due to power blackouts, hospitals and clinics are canceling surgeries, chemotherapy, dialysis among critically needed medical care to prevent death. Ambulances have no gas to pick up the sick and injured. Pharmacy cupboards are bare. Medicine factories are shutting down. Vaccines spoil on non-working refrigerated trucks. Planes used to pick up medical supplies remain parked.

So on day 30 of Trump’s criminal war, mainstream media will keep the focus on rising gas prices, economic decline and Democrats regaining Congress in November. The death and destruction in Iran, Israel and Gulf States will be largely ignored.

And on roughly day 24,000 since the US began the embargo/blockade of Cuba in retaliation of for throwing off US colonial rulers Fulgencio Batista and United Fruit, not one word, not one picture of Cubans dying at the hands of the worst of 14 cruel US administrations.

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  

Missiles in Israel go one way…down

 Missiles in Israel go one way…down

Israeli citizens are hunkering down in bunkers as Iranian missiles rain down on Israeli cities. Israel has largely run out of US supplied interceptors, making Israel defenseless to Iranian retaliation to Israel’s senseless criminal war on Iran. Israel’s lack of defense is allowing to Iran to save its most powerful, lethal missiles for the finale as its older, slower missiles and drones are getting thru Israel’s porous defense.

Same goes for US bases in the Gulf States as well as the Gulf States oil infrastructure. The missiles rain down but none come up to intercept. At the rate Iran is degrading both, there will be little left of US bases there and Gulf States oil treasure keeping their brutal, corrupt rulers in power.

Trump’s crazed Iran war may be collapsing in on itself. If the war ends today it will be months, possibly years before the world economy will fully recover, if ever.

Trump is trapped by his hubris, stupidity and fealty to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whose 4 decade quest to destroy Iran may be the most catastrophic disaster in Israel’s 78 year history. Since he could only attack Iran with all out US support from his puppet Donald Trump, the unfolding catastrophic disaster may be the worst in America’s 250 years as well.

Netanyahu and Trump failed to heed the wise aphorism ‘Be careful what you wish for…you might get it.’

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition  

Hegseth cool boss…allows Iran war service personnel to work remotely

Hegseth cool boss…allows Iran war service personnel to work remotely

Tho demonized by his antiwar critics as a deranged war monger, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a caring, people oriented boss. He's allowing non-combatant service personnel in the region to work remotely instead of having to traipse into their base office. Some are as remote as Europe.

Oh wait…Hegseth is not allowing personnel to work remotely. He’s forcing them to because their work places on US bases are being decimated by Iranian missiles making them uninhabitable and too dangerous to occupy. They’re now working remotely from hotels and office buildings in the Gulf States

But risk of attack will follow them relentlessly. Iran is requesting local supporters to report where US military are holed up supporting Trump and Hegseth’s criminal war blowing up the Middle East and possibly the world economy. This will likely make their remote work sites subject to Iranian attack

So don’t expect Hegseth to tout his humane, nurturing treatment of his employees bogged down in his lost war on Iran. He knows that more will be needlessly injured or killed until the Gulf States push his military out of the region to stop Iranian attacks now engulfing them.

That day cannot come soon enough.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition

Kustra commentary ignores US criminality in Iran war to promote renewed US involvement in lost Ukraine war

Kustra commentary ignores US criminality in Iran war to promote renewed US involvement in lost Ukraine war

 

Bob Kustra’s Chicago Tribune op ed ‘Donald Trump’s war on Iran masks his support of Vladimir Putin’ represents an astonishing pivot from addressing possibly the most catastrophic criminal war in US history to promoting renewed US involvement in the lost war in Ukraine

 

To Kustra, Trump’s war in Iran is not the supreme international crime, just a diversion initiated by Trump to deflect the media from the Ukraine war.

 

Kustra ignores 14 years of US provocations seeking to march NATO and its nukes up to Russia’s borders with Ukraine, to put all the blame for the current war on Russia. Then he suggests the US jump back into this lost war with “stronger action” a meaningless suggestion detached from reality. Trump has correctly abandoned the Ukraine war, letting European NATO members bankrupt themselves giving Ukraine weapons having no impact on Russia’s impending victory whatsoever.

 

Trump is a monstrous war criminal killing thousands bombing 7 countries and now likely crashing the world economy over Iran. But he was sensible enough to dump predecessor Biden’s colossal blundering into war destroying Ukraine, possibly and thankfully dissolving NATO 35 years after the Soviet Union went poof.

 

Kustra ends by lamenting the real lesson of Trump’s criminal war blowing up the Middle East is that it “suits Trump just fine as he avoids any responsibility for deserting Ukraine as it continues to fight off the war criminal Putin.”

 

Time for Bob Kustra to take a remedial course in Political Science 101.

 

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL

On lost Iran war Trump mimicking Hitler at end of WWII

 On lost Iran war Trump mimicking Hitler at end of WWII

Listening to President Trump on his Iran war achievements yesterday brought to mind the ravings of Hitler hunkered down in his Berlin bunker as the Soviets closed in. He demanded his generals move imaginary armies to crush the invaders to stave off defeat and achieve victory.

Trump lost his war on Iran in the first week when the 90 million Iranians did not overthrow their Islamic government in capitation to the US, Israeli attackers. Dropping thousands of bombs on them had the opposite effect…they coalesced around their leaders to support a ferocious counteroffensive. US bases in the region are being decimated along with Israel from an endless supply of missiles and drones stockpiled for years in preparation for inevitable criminal war from America and Israel.

Trump declared on war day 26 Tuesday "We've won this. This war has been won.” He also said Iranian leaders have given him "a very significant prize related to the Strait of Hormuz.” Speculation is that Iran’s ‘prize’ was simply letting one Iraqi oil tanker pass thru the closed Strait of Hormuz. But that rumor Trump trumpeted has not been confirmed and likely never occurred. A third bizarre Trump statement is that Iran called him to negotiate the war’s end…presumably on Trump’s terms.

One has to go back 81 years to Hitler’s Berlin bunker ravings to hear such delusional statements from a world leader trying to imagine away his loss in a war only an unhinged leader would have started.

Where is the 25th Amendment when we desperately need it?

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition

 Israel’s primary role in Iran war scrubbed from mainstream media

 

No Israel, no Iran war. That fact is AWOL from any coverage of criminal US, Israeli war destroying Iran, US Gulf States bases and possibly the world economy.

 

Destroying Iran as a hegemonic rival preventing their Middle East expansion of Greater Israel has been Israel’s objective for decades. But the small country of Israel, without billions in US firepower and participation could never accomplish their cherished goal. What to do? Put tremendous carrot and stick pressure on Donald Trump to achieve Israel’s Middle East supremacy.

 

They came close to getting George W. Bush to take out Iran after Bush demolished Afghanistan and Iraq back in 2003. But Bush stopped his war crazed Veep Dick Cheney from pulling the Iran war trigger.

 

Obama was a huge problem for Israel. Instead of attacking Iran he made peace with it…or tried to. His leadership in creating the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) put the end to any concern that Iran was developing nuclear weapons. Which they never were. It should have stopped Israel’s lust to destroy Iran. But it didn’t. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked on a relentless propaganda campaign to destroy the JCPOA.

 

His dream was realized when Trump succeeded Obama in 2017. A year later Trump, likely following Netanyahu’s orders, withdraw from the JCPOA, putting Iran regime change back in play.

 

When Biden succeeded Trump in 2021, Netanyahu garnered another complacent ally in the White House. Biden did nothing to rejoin the JCPOA and normalize relations with Iran. But the Israeli genocide in Gaza, fully supported and funded by Biden, put Iran on back burner.

 

Enter Donald Trump back in power in 2025. Within 9 months he secured a ceasefire in Gaza. Palestinian genocide switched places with Iran on the forefront of destruction. Iran moved into Trump’s crosshairs to please his Israeli masters.

 

Had Harris succeeded Biden, likely no Iran war. Unlike Trump, Harris was neither as fully funded by the Israel Lobby nor possibly subject to Israeli blackmail threatening to expose Trump’s peccadillos.

 

But Trump, totally in the bag for Netanyahu’s plan to destroy Iran, was fine with issuing imaginary warnings about Iran being an imminent threat to America requiring unprovoked attack. The 12 day war last June was a prelude to the Trump, Netanyahu tag team attack last month going for broke. It broke all right…but for US, Israeli defeat, not Iran’s.

 

So how do we know Israel instigated, promoted, demanded Trump launch his second criminal attack on Iran in 8 months? In one of the most astonishing revelations of presidential criminality in US history, Trump’s top counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, publicly quit 18 days into Trump’s Israeli inspired war. Kent, who reported to Directory of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, did more than just quit. He released a long statement laying out how Iran posed no imminent threat to America.

 

Mainstream news briefly mentioned Kent’s resignation and moved on. He was essentially banished from print, digital and television news. Why? Couple of reasons. Not a single person in the Trump administration could refute Kent’s accusation. The veracity of his argument was substantiated by Kent’s boss Tulsi Gabbard. At a Senate hearing, she refused to refute or criticize Kent. When asked if Iran posed an imminent threat to America, Gabbard, whose job it is to determine imminent threats, punted, saying it was only Trump who could determine imminent threats. One Senator pondered if Gabbard had any notion of what her job requirement was.

 

A bigger reason Kent disappeared from scrutiny is what mainstream media did not report. Kent laid the blame for Trump’s criminal invasion of Iran squarely on Israel and its American lobby. His full statement should have been splashed on every front page, every lead story on cable news 

 

“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”

 

Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and sowed pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war.”

 

“As a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times and as a Gold Star husband who lost my beloved wife Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives.”

 

Every person in the Trump administration, every person in the military not controlled by the Israel Lobby knows Kent spoke the truth. We’re left with a failed war of choice, the supreme international crime, killing thousands, blowing up the Middle East and possibly crashing the world economy. All this inspired by a country of 9 million people manipulating a country of 349 million people

 

Mainstream media disgraces public debate and discussion vital for a sane foreign policy by suppressing Kent’s irrefutable truths on Israel’s role in the Iran war.

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL 

 

Republicans tell Trump, ‘Destroy US economy, please destroy it’

 Republicans tell Trump, ‘Destroy US economy, please destroy it’

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 77% of Republican voters support Trump’s criminal war on Iran. Every one of them driving a car is now paying an extra buck per gallon for gas. That price will continue moving one way…up.

But the war they support will create much more economic chaos than gas prices. Unless ended soon on Iran’s sensible terms, it will raise the price of everything these Republican deadenders buy, pushing the US into recession along with the entire world. Maybe even Depression.

Why most Republicans support this madness will forever remain mystery. Are they gobbling up Trump’s deranged propaganda Iran was within a couple of weeks of nuking the homeland? Are they simply following any policy, no matter how senseless and self-destructive, cult leader Trump conducts? Do they love that Trump is slaughtering the ‘other’ in this case Shi’ite infidels in the hated country of Iran? Do they view the war as 47 yearlong retribution for Iran taking 66 US embassy hostages for 444 days? Are they so stupid they cannot connect Trump’s failed war to their looming economic destruction? Are they seeking End Times from the Middle East blowing up, raising them to heaven? Are they Israel Firsters supporting Israel’s master plan to wipe out Iran, its last hegemonic rival in the region?

Maybe all of the above.

And Democratic voters? Alas, they are not perfect. A whopping 6% also support the war. Maybe that 6% voting war support gave the wrong answer on party affiliation.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition

West Suburban Peace Coalition's March Educational Forum will focus on the vicious Trump administration campaign to destroy the Cuban revolution.

 West Suburban Peace Coalition's March Educational Forum will focus on the vicious Trump administration campaign to destroy the Cuban revolution.

How? by cutting off nearly everything needed including oil to keep the economy from collapsing.  Cuba's 11 souls must suffer starvation, degraded health, shortage of everything needed to sustain life in order for Trump to complete America's 66 year campaign to return Cuba to US colonial status. Tune in on Zoom Wednesday to her how international solidarity is responding.  

Topic: International Solidarity in Response to the US Strangling Cuba

When: Wednesday, March 25, 7:00 PM Central Standard Time

Speaker: Stanfield Smith

Stansfield Smith, Director at ChicagoALBASolidarity.org has been promoting Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua solidarity movements for nearly 50 years. He's been publishing the Venezuela & ALBA Weekly News since 2013. 

Zoom Link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83417835716?pwd=rBsbVMB6ldR3Ry4OYr6jjvvMa9qFy8.1

Contact Walt Zlotow, 630 442 3045,  zlotow@hotmail.com for further information. 

Why US likely losing war on Iran

 Why US likely losing war on Iran

Iran has destroyed 10 advanced US radar systems that are crucial for identifying and destroying incoming Iranian missiles and drones. Three major bases lost their radar to Iranian missiles as well as radar protecting the US embassy in Baghdad. So desperate is the US for critical radar, they’ve scooped up high tech radars from South Korea to fill the breach. South Korea is not happy. Without sufficient radar, US bases, Gulf States oil facilities, US ships, and especially Israel become blind to thousands of Iranian missiles and drones.

US bases have been hit at least 25 times, but US censorship of damage hides this this unfolding disaster from the US public.

Knowledgeable observers believe the US will run out of missiles and drone interceptors before Iran runs out of offensive weaponry. They also believe the US likely has less than month of weaponry to continue round the clock bombing. US bases, Gulf States oil facilities and Israeli military and civilian infrastructure all geographically compact making them easily accessible to attack. Iran smartly spread their tens of thousands of missiles and drones thruout Iran’s 676,000 square miles, forcing Trump and Netanyahu to play ‘Whack a Mole.’

Trump’s colossal failure to collapse the Iranian regime shouldn’t surprise since Trump’s single victory plan was for the Iranian people to overthrow their Islamic regime within a few days after Trump assassinated supreme leader the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. That was stupid on steroids. Iran’s 90 million beleaguered souls rallied round their government determined to fight to the death rather than surrender to monstrous attackers US and Israel.

Bombing alone almost never wins a war, something true thruout the century long history of aerial bombing. Now Trump cannot tolerate a long war of attrition because he’s put the world into a possible economic death spiral by near totally disrupting flow of precious Middle East oil. That’s why he’s secretly seeking an off ramp from military, economic and political catastrophe. Having insulted and disparaged nearly every country on earth, he finds himself without an ally except his partner in criminal war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Of course, Trump could miraculously pull out victory from the jaws of defeat closing in on him. But with Iranian missiles and drones raining down on mostly defenseless US bases and oil infrastructure in the Gulf States, and giving Israel a taste of the massive destruction they visited on Gaza…the smart money is on Iran.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

Iran to Trump: ‘You started the war…we’re going to finish it

 Iran to Trump: ‘You started the war…we’re going to finish it

Speculation abounds Trump is seeking an off ramp to his failed war to destroy the Iranian regime, neutering Iran as an Israeli hegemonic Middle East rival.

His golfing buddy turned world’s worst diplomatic negotiator Steve Witkoff is believed to have texted Iranian leaders to discuss an off ramp to Trump’s failed war destroying US bases in the region, bombing Israel nonstop, killing US service personnel and edging the world economy to recession if not depression. 

Iran’s response? They’re not responding to Witkoff’s texts. 

Iran’s position is ‘Fool me once (June 2025) shame on America. , Fool me twice (last month), shame on Iran. Try and fool me a third time to exit your failed war? Ha ha, no more negotiations for the most duplicitous country on earth.’ 

Here’s Iran’s non-negotiable terms for Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Trump. Close your Middle East bases and get out of the region. End your criminal war on the Iranian people who will never capitulate to your existential threat. End all economic sanctions on Iran. Pay reparations for the hundreds of billions in damage to Iran.

Can Trump’s criminal war defeat Iran? Yes, Iran could run out of missiles devastating US bases, Gulf States oil facilities and the Israeli homeland. Iran could simply collapse under most ghastly, murderous bombing campaign this century. 

But by the time that occurs the US and world economy will be so degraded it may take months, if not years to recover. Trump will be left to emulate Pyrrhus of Epirus, who, after his victory over the Romans in 279 BC exclaimed, "One more victory over the Romans  and we are completely done for.”

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL