Republicans should be worrying about millions of fools voting for treason and criminal war destroying the economy

 Republicans should be worrying about millions of fools voting for treason and criminal war destroying the economy

It’s understandable the Chicago Tribune is concerned about the future of the Republican Party (Editorial: Republicans are preparing for the midterms. They should be worrying about the party’s future). Soon after its founding in 1847, the Trib championed creation of an anti-slavery party and its most eloquent spokesman, native son Abe Lincoln. Seven years later that led to founding of the Republican Party and eventual election of Trib favorite Lincoln in 1860.

One hundred seventy-two years on the Trib’s still favorite party is fundamentally opposed to every vestige of its historical legacy. The Trib urges Republicans to reflect on their party "whose historical brand is inextricably linked with patriotism” How did the Trib miss the Republican Party, under Donald Trump, destroyed every vestige of patriotism when it inspired an insurrection at the Capitol in 2021 to overturn the election. The tiny handful of Republican patriots like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger who dared call out Trump’s treason were systematically purged from Republican Party. Trump, cheered on by nearly every Republican congressperson, then pardoned his 1,500 coup brigade who injured over 150 patriotic cops, five of whom died shortly afterwards from injury or suicide, trying to save American democracy from Trump’s treason.

Besides now being the party of treason, Trump’s Republican Party is now the party of senseless criminal war in Iran that, besides being lost with no exit strategy, is systematically degrading the world economy including America’s.

The Trib is anxious to find something of value in the Republican wrecking ball controlling the entire government with no check whatsoever. Alas, it’s not in the claim “There are plenty of rational folks who voted for Trump; 44% of Illinoisans are not fools. “Plenty of rational folks” are not words that befit the 56% to 44 % Illinois blowout against Trump. Every one of Trump’s 2,449,079 Illinois voters in 2024 were fools to vote for the only presidential candidate in US history who sought to destroy American democracy. And when each now forks over an extra 20 or 30 bucks to fill their gas guzzler due to Trump’s criminal war on Iran with no end in sight, they’ll likely ponder the wise words of a 1958 Elvis hit…”Now and then there’s a fool such as I.”

The Chicago Tribune, by spending 1,500 words seeking to salvage the Republican Party without mentioning the Trump GOP treason and criminal war on Iran , may be the biggest fool of all.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

128 years of US exploitation, degradation of Cuba continues on steroids

 128 years of US exploitation, degradation of Cuba continues on steroids

One must go back to 1898 for the last time the US was not exploiting Cuba and its people to benefit rapacious US capitalism and organized crime. That year the US cooked up fairy tale about Spain blowing up the US Maine, sent to Havana Harbor to intimidate Cuba’s Spanish ruler. The Maine did blow up but from an accidental internal explosion, not a Spanish mine. Those 261 sailors could not to die in vain so President McKinley and his war party blamed Spain in order to declare war, kick Spain out of the Americas and take over Cuba for US exploitation.

But nothing in the previous 126 years compares to the diabolical cruelty, including death, the US has inflicted upon Cuba by President Trump and his bloodthirsty Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

This is not exaggeration. Need a lifesaving operation in Cuba under the Trump, Rubio oil blockade? Faggedaboudit. Much medical care is unavailable in oil starved Cuba when the lights go dark. Food and life sustaining supplies are becoming scares as farmers and merchants cannot get their wares to the people with a transport system largely shut down. Nearly a fifth of Cubans have fled the Trump, Rubio regime change operation.

Trump glories in their death and destruction he’s unleased. “THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA – ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.” Trump is simply expanding in more grotesque terms US policy to degrade Cuba into submission going back to 1960. A secret State Department memo back then under Eisenhower promoted overthrowing Castro thru “a line of action, while adroit and inconspicuous as possible, denies money and supplies to Cuba to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of the Castro government.” Trump simply dropped the “adroit and inconspicuous” fig leaf.

Ironically, the first US embargo in Cuba was good for the Cuban people. In April, 1958, Eisenhower imposed an arms embargo on the Batista regime. The US had been supporting Batista’s murderous rule for 25 years to insure his support of US economic control, both legal and criminal that enriched US capitalists and Mafia enterprises to the detriment of the Cuban people. Eisenhower didn’t have an epiphany to help the Cuban people. He simply saw the inevitable triumph of Castro’s revolution and sought to curry favor with its eventual rulers.

Twenty months later Castro prevailed, Batista fled and Cuba finally ended 62 years of US cruelty and exploitation. Not quite. Within year the US imposed Cuban embargo 2.0 designed not to facilitate the inevitable revolution but to destroy it. Sixty-six years on, with the entire world community except Israel voting year after year in the UN for the US to stop, America’s endless lust to crush the Cuban revolution continues apace. And under the depraved Trump, Rubio oil embargo, it has become a monumental war crime against the 11 million sorrowful Cuban souls.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

Trump overseeing decline of US world dominance…and that’s good

Trump overseeing decline of US world dominance…and that’s good

The global economic consequences of Trump’s failed war on Iran have yet to be fully realized. But even if Trump surrenders to Iran’s sensible demands today, they will degrade the world economy for months to come.

Trump is utterly trapped because he cannot win with either his current blockade or renewed bombing campaign. All US bases in the Gulf States are damaged or destroyed. Gulf States oil infrastructure is degraded. Should Trump renew bombing, Iran will completely destroy them, finish off US bases, and resume degrading Israeli infrastructure as well.

The Gulf States will never again put their full security in US military might. It has proven a complete failure in winning a war against their imagined enemy Iran. America’s Asian allies Japan the Philippians, Taiwan and others now realize the limits of US power and credibility. European NATO countries are coming to the same conclusion as Trump has largely left them on their own to continue their futile effort to push Russia out of Ukraine.

As horrendous as the Iran war’s consequences are, the decline of US world dominance is an outcome we should welcome. China has passed up the US both economically and politically, in part because they have used investment, not intimidation, economic sanctions and yes, bombings to exert their power on the world stage. Outside of Israel, most countries are moving toward multi power polarity as evidenced by BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization rather than rely on, even prostrate themselves before US military might.

There is a long way to go before America fully realizes the folly of its quest to rule the world using violence. We’re still bombing countries posting no threat to the US whatsoever. Trump has bombed Somalia over 60 times this year tho most Americans couldn’t find it on a map, much less fear its non existent threat. We killed over a hundred to depose and kidnap Venezuelan President Maduro. We’ve killing Cubans with our grotesque economic sanctions, including cutting off most their oil imports. We’re still providing intelligence and military aid for Ukraine to continue its war with Russia. Of course, worst of all we have not given up on destroying Iran and may resume the futile bombing at any moment.

But US world dominance is inexorably eroding due to its refusal to pivot from war to peace to resolve international disputes. If somehow, some way America accepts this reality of a new world order without US dominance, we can thank, in part, President Trump for making that shift with his launching a war too far against Iran.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

On Iran war he opposed hen supported, Secretary of State Rubio channeled wrong predecessor

On Iran war he opposed hen supported, Secretary of State Rubio channeled wrong predecessor

Marco Rubio is America’s 72nd Secretary of State going back to John Jay in 1789. While serving as the President’s top foreign affairs advisor, overseeing diplomatic missions, managing international relations, promoting human rights, Job One for every Secretary of State is to champion peace, not war.

Predecessors in this prestigious post include Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and William Jennings Bryan.

What an as astonishing cast of noble Secretaries that Rubio could have chosen from to respond to Trump’s decision to blow up Iran and now possibly the world economy beginning 75 days ago. Reports indicate Rubio argued against the invasion, not on moral grounds it was a criminal war, but on practical grounds it would fail. When Trump brushed asides Rubio’s concerns and pulled the trigger, dutiful Rubio hopped off the Peace Train and grabbed a First Class seat on Trump’s War Train.

Once started, Rubio offered one of the most disingenuous, disgusting rationales for war in American history. Rubio said the US had to attack Iran first. Why? Because we knew Israel was going to attack Iran and if they did, Iran would attack their best buddy America. By attacking first, the US would suffer less casualties. Of course, Rubio omitted that all along the US and Israel planned a one, two sucker punch on Iran while in peace negotiations with them.

Rubio sadly followed up on what till then had been the worst precedent in US history of a Secretary of State abdicating his job responsibility promoting peace to support his President’s rush to criminal war. On February 5, 2003, George W. Bush’ Secretary of State Colin Powell shamelessly told the UN a blizzard of lies Iraq had WMD, intended to use them, and time was running out for the world to stop them. Forty-four days later Bush launched his war that Powell, with his enormous but fake credibility, made possible. The belief was, ‘If Colin Powell says war is necessary, then war it is.’

Alas, Rubio should have gone back 88 years earlier than Powell’s disgrace to channel instead predecessor William Jennings Bryan. On June 9, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned. After the British liner Lusitania was sunk May 7, Bryan sent Germany a conciliatory note requesting restraint and high level diplomacy to keep the European war from drawing in the US. Bryan was mindful Germany neither attacked nor threatened America far across its Atlantic mote. Wilson was furious and penned a much stronger note that Bryan refused to sign out of conscience, resigning instead.

Bryan’s principled plea for peace did not prevent Wilson’s disastrous declaration of war on Germany 22 months later. But had Rubio bluntly told Trump he would resign and go public with his opposition to a clearly unwinnable war, Trump might have pulled back from the catastrophe he’s unleashed.

It took two and a half years for Colin Powell to admit his perfidy in enabling America’s horrific Iran war that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and over 5,000 US and allied troops. "I, of course, regret the U.N. speech that I gave, which became the prominent presentation of our case. I never saw evidence to suggest a connection between the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States and the Saddam regime. I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and (it) will always be a blot on my record. It was painful. It's painful now."

Don’t expect Marco Rubio to ever apologize for helping bring on what will likely become the most disastrous war in America’s 250 years. Rubio has been a fervent, lifelong promoter of senseless, endless US wars and US exceptionalism. He has always demonstrated the exact opposite of what a decent, peace promoting Secretary of State should be.

Until Rubio signed off the Iran war and championed its necessity to “save American lives”, Colin Powel ranked dead last of Secretaries of State. With Rubio’s capitulation to criminal war on Iran, Powell moves up one spot to make way for the worst…Marco Rubio.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

Will Trump’s failed Iran war provoke his break from Netanyahu’s ironclad grip?

Will Trump’s failed Iran war provoke his break from Netanyahu’s ironclad grip?

On Iran war day 71 its clear Trump has not only lost his war, he’s blundered the world into a looming economic catastrophe. As horrendous as that is, it wasn’t even Trump’s idea. Trump was simply following orders from his real boss, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On February 11, Netanyahu arrived at the White House with Mossad Director David Barnea. They encouraged if not demanded invasion. The Netanyahu-Barnea tag team argued Iran would collapse within a couple of days from a combination of assassinating Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei, massive bombing, Mossad-fomented civil unrest and ground incursions by Kurdish fighters.

That couple of days has morphed into 71 days of arguably the greatest military disaster in US history. Instead of collapsing within a couple of days, Iran retaliated against the massive US, Israeli bombing onslaught with their own. Result? All 13 US bases in the neighboring Gulf States are damaged or destroyed. Gulf States infrastructure has suffered massive damage. So has Israel, suffering its worst bombing in its 78 years.

Worst of all, Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz of Hormuz, choking off a fifth of world oil supply which may cause a worldwide recession, if not depression. The Netanyahu-Barnea presentation was a blizzard of lies Trump swallowed whole in spite of Intelligence assessments to the contrary.

As the world careens toward economic catastrophe, Trump is completely out of options to achieve any of this war goals. Check that. Friday he alluded to striking Iran with nuclear weapons. Trump told reporters on whether the ceasefire if off: "If there's no ceasefire you're just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran."

Assuming he either doesn’t order nuclear strikes, or his military commanders disobey this directive to do so, Trump is facing the worst military defeat in America’s 250 years, all brought on by his fealty to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What motivated Trump’s caving to the Israeli Prime Minister? Was it the hundreds of millions in campaign cash showered upon Trump and his Republican Congress? Was it the ‘Epstein Button’, damaging evidence related to the Epstein pedophile enterprise that Trump dare not risk being exposed? Is Trump simply an ardent Zionist believing that any Israeli murder and mayhem to further Israeli expansion and Middle East dominance is worthy of Trump’s enabling?

While we’ll likely never know, Trump must be contemplating the enormity of the disaster he’s inflicted on the Middle East, and very soon the US and entire world. The one benefit that may result from Trump’s immoral, criminal war is he may be rethinking his special relationship with the man who brought on the greatest calamity of his life, Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump needs to truly become the peace president he campaigned to be in 2016. He can do that by quitting his senseless and lost Iran war. He needs to jettison his subservience to Netanyahu’s vision of Greater Israel. He needs to cut off all US military aid to Israel till Netanyahu or his successor end the genocide in Gaza, near genocide in Lebanon and quest to destroy its hegemonic rival Iran.

If Trump refuses to do the right thing, events on the battlefield and the world economy may push Trump aside and hopefully implement that peace initiative without him.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

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Three Chicago Tribune letters offer no insignt to Trump's failed Iran war

The Chicago Tribune broke a long silence on the most important issue facing America, indeed the world, with three letters on Trump’s failed Iran war degrading the world economy. Alas, they provided virtually no insight into the enormity of Trump’s reckless war going so badly he even hinted today he might nuke Iran. No kidding. Trump told reporters Friday on whether the ceasefire if off: “If there’s no ceasefire you’re just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran.”

But today’s three letters provide nothing of value to understand the unfolding disaster engulfing the Middle East and world economy.

Bruce Hovanec (Criticism of Trump over Iran) offers support for keeping US troops in the region when the war ends by citing our keeping troops in Europe and Korea decades after those wars ended. He’s apparently unaware all US Gulf States bases have been destroyed or damaged badly enough for troops stationed there to be evacuated.

Dave Coyne (Bombing Iran into submission) accurately notes that bombing virtually never works in achieving victory and won’t in Iran. But Coyne is simply stating what is obvious to anyone following the utterly failed 39 day US bombing campaign. Coyne suggests that only nukes could achieve a US victory, “but Trump would have to be crazy to do that.” Based on Trump’s quote today, we can’t rule that out.

Dave Schuchardt (Time to end the war in Iran) argues the US should quit the war because ”If we can believe what we’ve been told, the damage to critical parts of Iran’s nuclear capabilities has accomplished our major concern.” That is utterly untrue because we cannot believe on word of the blizzard of lies coming from Trump and his self-proclaimed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The truth to any objective war observer is that Iran’s military and civilian infrastructure is intact and ready for any resumption of US bombing.

On this 70th day of Trump’s failed war to collapse the Iranian regime, the Chicago Tribune needs a refresher course on publishing accurate and insightful reader commentary.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

Combatants must address root causes to end Ukraine, Iran wars

 Combatants must address root causes to end Ukraine, Iran wars

Ukraine cannot win its war with Russia, now in its 51st month. Why? Russia will never allow Ukraine to join NATO which would allow NATO nukes on Russia’s borders to weaken, isolate Russia from the European political economy. Nor will Russia give back the Donbas containing mostly Russian leaning Ukrainians being brutalized and killed for 8 years prior to the Russian invasion. 

Isolating, weakening Russia while ignoring Russia’s security concerns represent the root causes of the war which for Russia is an existential threat to their national security.  The Biden administration knew both threats would provoke a Russian invasion but did so anyway figuring war would weaken, if not collapse Russia. 

The opposite occurred. Russia has prospered both economically and militarily while Ukraine is a failed state near collapse and totally supported by hundreds of billions in US, NATO aid. But even a trillion in aid will not prevent Ukraine’s inevitable defeat. 

Russia always preferred the West negotiate the war’s root cause, their sensible security demands both for themselves and their Russian speaking Ukrainian brethren. While the US is not averse to this now, European NATO countries continue to pour tens of billions into the lost cause to weaken, isolate Russia. Therefore, Russia is committed to resolve the root causes of the war on the battlefield.

All this could have been avoided in November 2021 if the Biden administration had the decency and common sense to negotiate Russia’s national security interests, the root cause of their invasion three months later.  

Failure to address the root causes of war also applies to the current US, Israeli war against Iran. For Israel the root cause of the war has nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear program which is not developing a nuclear weapon. It is simply Israel’s lust to destroy Iran as a hegemonic rival for Middle East supremacy. The US, supplying most of the fire power, has no dog in Israel’s quest. We can only lament that Israel exerts such malicious control over the Trump administration that it willingly engaged in suicidal war to please Israel. 

Just like with Ukraine, the US attack had the opposite effect of a quick collapse of our imagined enemy. Iran prepared a robust defense that has largely destroyed US Gulf States bases, inflicted heavy damage on Israel and Gulf States oil infrastructure. Unless the root causes of Israel’s quest to destroy Iran and Iran’s determination to survive intact are addressed, the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed, possibly crashing the world economy. 

The war in Ukraine now in its 51st month, and war in Iran now in its 3rd month, will not be resolved till the root causes of both are addressed. Neither the US, NATO nor Israel show any desire to bring peace by addressing them.  

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL 

Trump claims his mass murder in the Caribbean saved a million American lives…real number 0

 Trump claims his mass murder in the Caribbean saved a million American lives…real number 0

President Trump sure loves committing mass murder worldwide. Gaza, Iran, Somalia, Niger, Iraq, Yemen, Venezuela are among nations he’s victimized with violent murder. Add in countries like Cuba where he’s essentially murdering innocents with life suffocating sanctions, he’s racked up tens if not over a hundred thousand deaths in 6 years exercising his presidential License To Kill.

While bombing innocents worldwide was practiced by all presidents since at least Bill Clinton, Trump is unique in ordering mass murder bombing of small boats in the Caribbean. He ghoulishly lunched Operation Southern Spear in the Caribbean last September. In the past 8 months Trump, playing Long John Silver instead of a decent world leader, has blasted 54 little boats to smithereens, sending 185 innocents to Davy Jones Locker.

His justification? ‘Oh they’re certainly running fentanyl and cocaine to the Homeland killing millions of Americans.’ Trump claims the boats were all part of 24 narco terrorist cartels but couldn’t name a single one. When a couple of Trump’s targets survived the bombing, Trump’s military polished them off with another murderous salvo. ‘Can’t let these stinkin’ narco terrorists floating around gathering up the drug packages floating nearby’ was the justification for instant execution.

Trump lies shamelessly about everything. But his Whoppers about the bombings dwarf anything Burger King could cook up. Trump claims “Drugs entering our country by sea are down 97 percent.” More absurd, Trump calculates each boat he obliterates saves 25,000 American lives. Both figures are so preposterous one must ponder where he pulls them from.

Funny, if drugs arrivals are down 97%, one might conclude that border drug seizures would be similarly down. Yet, Customs and Border Protection note that seizures at U.S. borders and along coasts have increased from 38,000 lbs. to 44,000 lbs. (16%) in the 7 months following Trump’s mass murder spree compared to the 7 months before it began. In drug crazed America, usage is up, prices are stable and supply is plentiful.

But with Trump stiring the Ship of State, state sponsored murder is up, prices of everything legal are escalating, and display of decency, morality and common sense is nowhere to be found.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition

Trump’s ‘Epic Fury’ has morphed into ‘Epic Flop’

 Trump’s ‘Epic Fury’ has morphed into ‘Epic Flop’

It’s impossible to unpack the deranged logic of Donald J. Trump. He launched his criminal war on Iran with criminal Israeli war buddy Benjamin Netanyahu on February 28. Netanyahu promised quick victory within 100 hours based on assassinating Iranian leader Ali Khomeini.

A thousand hours later, after Iran inflicted tremendous damage to all 13 US Gulf States bases, war partner Israel and the world economy, Trump essentially surrendered by implementing a ceasefire without a hint of achieving a single war objective.

But defeat is not an option for Trump so he immediately broke the ceasefire by declaring a blockade on Iran’s blockade of oil and critical world goods traversing the Strait of Hormuz. Iran retaliated by withdrawing any negotiation to reopen the Strait. In Trump’s disintegrating brain, the path to victory is speeding up collapse of the world economy by stopping all Iranian oil shipments to friendly nations like India and China not trying to destroy it.

Problem is Trump’s blockade on Iran’s blockade will no more collapse the Iranian regime than his thousand hour bombing campaign. Dozens of Iranian ships have skirted the US blockade by hugging the Iranian coast line. US ships dare not get closer to Iran than about 150 miles or risk being rerouted to Davy Jones Locker by Iranian missiles and drones. Even if they could the US simply does not have enough ships nearby to adequately choke off sufficient Iranian tankers to achieve Iran’s collapse.

Meanwhile Israel and its American Lobby are pounding on Trump to unleash a new, more vigorous bombing campaign. That could happen any day. Iran is ready and poised to destroy the remaining Gulf States oil infrastructure they missed in the war’s first thousand hours. Then watch the world economy collapse faster than Trump can claim at 3:00 A.M. on Truth Social ‘AMERICA WINS AGAIN…SEND NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO TRUMP C/O MAR-A-LAGO.’

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

Nice going Mr. President

 Nice going Mr. President

Trump's failed, criminal Iran war just threw 17,000 Spirit Airlines employees on unemployment. That is just the beginning unless Trump surrenders to Iran's sensible terms:

1. Renounce war on behalf of Israel to destroy Iran

2. End all economic sanctions on Iran

3. Pay reparations for damage caused by thousands of US bombs that killed over 3,000 Iranians including 1,500 kids

4. Get out of the Middle East since all 13 Gulf States bases are damaged if not destroyed

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL

Not a judicious use of our tax dollars and galloping debt

 Not a judicious use of our tax dollars and galloping debt

As our national debt soars to $40 trillion, one would surmise we’re borrowing against our future to lift up the Commons and our 340 million folks.

Nope, we’re squandering our tax dollars and borrowing into unsustainable debt to wage relentless war in the Middle East on behalf of Israel. Trump launched his criminal war on Iran 63 days ago, squandering nearly a billion bucks daily, tho Defense Secretary Hegseth lied that it’s less than half that.

That $60 billion plus has been a spectacular failure from the air and sea, with a land invasion ruled out as insanely impossible. All 13 US bases in its sycophantic Gulf States allies are either destroyed or badly damaged. The Gulf States view the US so unreliably they may tell Trump to pack up and go home…forever.

As wasteful as that is on US military, he’ also lavishing billions on his tag team partner Israel in this monstrous war that is inexorably crashing the world economy. The Israeli Defense Ministry announced Thursday that Uncle Sam gifted Israel with 6,500 tons of criminal war weapons within the preceding 24 hours. That brings the total military gear to Israel since the war began to 115,600 tons arriving on 403 planes and 10 ships. Israel got so much they’re using some of it to wage a Gaza like genocide on Southern Lebanon.

Trump is left with two options. Quit his criminal war to accept Iran’s sensible demands to renounce further war, end all senseless US sanctions, and get the hell out of Iran’s neighborhood. Option two is restart the bombing in the hope of collapsing the Iranian regime. All that will accomplish is strengthen he Iran’s resolve and resume their own bombing which will likely destroy the entire Gulf States oil production infrastructure. Say hello to $10 a gallon gas and much more for everything else.

All things considered Trump should choose option one. While that will destroy his presidency and consign him to everlasting infamy as a failed war criminal, it’s a bit better than destroying the world economy.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL

King Charles still locked in 1950’s obsession to weaken, destroy Russia

 King Charles still locked in 1950’s obsession to weaken, destroy Russia

King Charles offered some wise advice to Congress and the American people Tuesday in his Congressional address. But he sure whiffed on the most important issue.

In a not too subtle reference to President Trump’s wildly expanding presidential powers and stifling efforts to check his authoritarian governance, Charles stated “The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances,”

In an ominous reference to Trump’s covering up the Epstein files which mention Trump over 38,000 times, Charles alluded to Britain’s courageous, forthright example which included stripping away Prince Andrew’s royal title and duties. "In both of our countries, it is the very fact of our vibrant, diverse and free societies that gives us our collective strength, including to support victims of some of the ills that, so tragically, exist in both our societies today."

But Charles, unlike the Trump administration which sensibly bailed on the lost proxy war in Ukraine we provoked, remains all in for continuing the proxy war to weaken Russia. "Today, that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine and her most courageous people. It is needed in order to secure a truly just and lasting peace… keeping North Americans and Europeans safe from our common adversaries,"

Charles simply mirrored the entire British government under Prime Minister Keir Starmer which endlessly funds Ukraine’s inevitable collapse that the UK helped the US provoke. Britain’s economy last year grew by an anemic 1.4%. The UK has squandered 22 billion pounds on Ukraine, not “to secure a truly just and lasting peace” in Ukraine, but to guarantee Ukraine becomes a failed state.

Unlike Starmer, the British people reject such nonsense, pinning a 70% disapproval rating on Starmer and his Russophobe advisors, including King Charles. UK drivers are paying more for petrol because their government stupidly cut their purchase of cheaper Russian oil to zero with no end in sight.

Congress gave the King a standing ovation with his ‘fight the Ukraine war to the last Ukraine soldier’ pitch. But that was political theater. President Trump and his idolatrous Republican Congress have moved on from squandering our treasure on the senseless proxy war against Russia. They’re completely obsessed with squandering a billion bucks daily to lose their criminal war on Iran and crash the world economy in the process.

Instead of lecturing Congress and American people to spend billions prolonging Ukraine’s agony, King Charles should sit down with Starmer and advise him Job One is détente with Russia to end the war in Ukraine on Russia’s sensible terms.

Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition

In poker game with Iran’s unified, determined, winning government, Trump is playing 52 Pick-Up

In poker game with Iran’s unified, determined, winning government, Trump is playing 52 Pick-Up 

Trump loves to bleat the US is winning his criminal war on Iran. The opposite is true. Iran is holding all the cards. The US, not Iran, implemented a ceasefire because Trump’s bombing campaign was a catastrophe. It didn’t collapse the Iranian regime within 48 hours. It didn’t cough up Iran’s enriched Uranium. It didn’t destroy Iran’s missile capacity. It didn’t force Iran to beg for negotiations.

It did however, so damage America’s 13 Gulf States bases they are largely uninhabitable. It caused the worst destruction in Israel’s 78 years. It caused the US to nearly run out of defensive missiles. It closed the Strait of Hormuz, initiating a global economic crisis that will take months to resolve if the war ended today on Iran war day 60.

Trump is so discombobulated he’s making up fairy tales about Iran’s begging for negotiations to end their impending loss. He announced his negotiating team of golfing buddy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both representing Israel’s, not America's interests, were heading to Pakistan to seal America’s victory.

One huge problem. Iran won’t negotiate while Trump is continuing the war with his senseless blockade of Iranian ports…a war crime. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reminded Trump there will be no negotiations “as long as hostile actions and operational pressures by the US persist. Recent US actions, including intensified maritime restrictions against Iran, are major impediments to trust-building and diplomacy. While messages about negotiations are conveyed, the simultaneous escalation of naval blockade and operational pressure undermines the environment needed for mutual trust.”

Trump quickly pivoted, cancelling Witkoff’s and Kushner’s planned visit to Pakistani last weekend. "I said nope, you’re not making 18-hour flight to go there. We have all the cards. You’re not going to be making any more 18-hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.”

Trump has all the cards all right. It’s just that there on the Oval Office floor after President Pezeshkian tossed them at Trump and exclaimed “52 Pick-Up.”

Walt Zlotow Glen Ellyn Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL