Tea and Vitriol

Despite his statement that the US has already won his war against Iran, the truth is that The Donald hasn't. Far from it. Our so-called, self-appointed "Peace President" has twice in the last year has sent weapons of mass destruction against Iran, in conjunction with Israel.  In fact, it was Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu that precipitated both incidents, and The Donald was forced to go along with it in order to save face. The first incident led to "peace" negotiations, which really went nowhere, and were promptly abandoned to begin this second war. Once again, Benny was the chief instigator of the current war. Benny's political career in Israel requires perpetual wars to keep himself in power and out of jail. Any possibility of a neutralized Iran without nuclear capabilities would be a threat to him. So, Iran would have to be destroyed in a war where Israel was a major participant so he could look like a hero and cement his leadership role in his own count...

The latest chapter in the wars against Iran is on! And The Donald and Benny have seriously miscalculated this one. On Friday, in broad daylight, The Donald and Benny attacked Iran. The day before, The Donald didn't get the complete capitulation of Iran in meetings to eliminate the ayatollahs' nuclear capacity for all time, to reduce its military strike capacity and to end its support of proxies in the Middle East whose intent is the utter destruction of the State of Israel. Such acquiescence would have reduced Iran to the position of a US puppet. During these meetings there was NO mention of moderating Iran's repressive regime on its own people, nor of a change in regime. The simple fact is that The Donald and Benny don't give two shits about the Iranian people. They wanted Iran to be defanged, weakened and no longer a threat to US and Israeli interests. The Donald doesn't take rejection well, so on Friday morning he and his relatively faithful lapdog Benny attacked...

The European Union, at first glance, appears to be a powerful geo-political entity. Composed of most of the "democracies" of the Western European continent, including the economic powerhouse of Germany, it has tried to pose as one of the world's superpowers. Only it isn't. Comprised of frequently quarreling member states, possessed of a complicated and cumbersome constitutional framework that reveals its impotence daily in the European Parliament, its much-touted successes have always been dependent on the military might of the United States to protect it from itself and the threats to it posed by Russia and her allies. NATO was supposed to act as a deterrent to Russian aggression, at which it has failed repeatedly. Despite all of its economic and industrial potential, the European Union really only ranks as a second-rate power, although it has postured as something far greater. Until yesterday. European Union President Ursula von der Leyen surrendered unconditionally...