In the scheme of things this one was easy to figure. Trump is getting more and more desperate to come up with ways to keep the nation distracted from the Epstein files. We know he loves to blow shit up. And as we found out during his State of the Union speech he has a macabre fascination with gruesome death. So much the better if he can evoke sobbing anguish from the mother of a murdered child with his prolonged, insensitve, blood curdling description of her demise. So it’s no surprise starting a war is a logical step up in public diversion. Lots of explosions and carnage and Trump is certainly hopeful America will find all the televison viewing just as entertaining as he does.
Originally I thought his build up of U.S. military might in the Middle East was just another Trump bluster, his over reaction to the media reporting about an Iranian mother pleading with him to save her son from execution after he was arrested for demonstrating against the government. Trump to the rescue. “Help is on the way,” Trump posted on Truth Social. After a couple weeks of military staging that presumably gave the administration time to develope some kind of justification for an invasion, it turns out his messianic complex is overpowering. It’s bombs away!
In the aftermath of the destruction we can’t get a consistent reason for it out of the administration. Among many, there’s fear of Iranian nuclear bomb development (I thought that was obliterated months ago), fear of long range missle development (nothing is out there to back up that claim) and regime change. Regime change is the one thing that makes sense. After all, not long after the bombs started dropping, Trump was out there instructing the Iranian people to rise up. “The hour of your freedom is at hand,” he declared. “This will probably be your only chance for generations.”
That last sentence indicates he must have given some thought to the ramifications of his demolition. Sadly, it seems that was the point at which the ruminating stopped. Aerial bombing is great theater, but it has a terrible record fomenting regime change, anywhere. Trump is asking the Irainian peoiple to rise up. The people there who are incentivized to do that have a big problem however, and that is, the people there who are most opposed to regime change have all the weapons. Then there is Trump’s paradoxical advice to the Irainians to hold off on anything confrontational and take cover until after he’s through bombing the shit out of their country. “Strike while the iron is cold” is a phrase you don’t hear much. It seems unlikely Trump will get a regime change to his liking without sending in U.S. ground troops.
On top of that, I saw a photograph today that brings to mind the main reason why all the wars we have been involved in since World War Two have failed to produce desired political results. It’s a picture of a massive number of Irainians protesting the killing of their Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Yes he was a bad man, but for unfathomable reasons there are many instances of good people of a nation becoming attracted to a bad man. The gathering in that photo was far larger than those in the photos I had previously seen of people celebrating his death, and even those earlier February photos of Iranians demonstrating against the regime. It’s hard to believe we have not learned anything from all of our futile overseas conflicts. Hubris and hegemony consistently fail to win over populations and cultures we neglect to understand.
We are at war on the whim of a panic stricken narcissist who is lashing out because he feels the threatening walls of scandal closing in on him. It is glaringly obvious he is guilty of something heinous he commited in the past. He has been callously proud of his examples of sexual exploitation. “Grab ’em by the pussy” was his mantra during his days romping with Epstein. To take the extreme measures Trump has taken in order to cover up whatever that is is a condemning indictment. The salaciousness has to be far worse than the conspicuous inference of guilt created by his obstruction. Those complicit with him in that endeavor should pay the consequences. Nixon’s AG John Mitchell served jail time for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. What Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche are doing is far worse.
What’s in store for us if U.S. ground troops get involved in Trump’s sensless regional conflagration and his poll numbers continue to spiral downward? The Epstein files are still front and center, so what is the next horrible thing he thinks of that might work as a distraction? What’s worse than war? Two wars? He’s been contemplating an invasion of Cuba, but a second war seems redundantly unfulfilling if one isn’t productive. Perhaps something domestically devastating? Make all of us pay for his misery. I can see a totally unhinged Trump. The entrenched MAGA world is still clutching to their king, but instigating a foreign war on top of his handling of the Epstein files? Will they keep jamming square pegs through the round holes of the MAGA political platform? Surely there will be some withering on the vine. Then red as well as blue states are fair game. And what if Trump gets plastered with some real crazy pedophile shit. Oh Boy. We’re really in for it then. Maybe he starts to work on enlisting memebership in a 2028 military coup? Will he decide to finish the job and completely level the Capitol Building? Rivers of blood and plagues of locusts? Don’t count anything out.