Putting aside the messy details of the armed conflict with Iran, two high level concepts have eluded the deluded American planners. Firstly, is it a war, operation, conflict, operation, excursion or even ‘just a little journey into Iran’? Secondly, and more importantly what are the strategic objectives and possible consequences. The initial casus belli according to the Trump administration was that Iran was on the cusp of visiting nuclear holocaust on their enemies. When that didn’t wash there were mutters from Trump about the Iranians being nasty people. Then, after initially denying that regime change was an objective, these words have gained currency more recently.
The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth with his pomaded hair, proclaimed a few days ago that the regime has changed. Sure they permanently deposed the Ayatollah against his will, but his son, who is apparently more hardline, was voted to be the new Ayatollah without all the conclave rigmarole that the Catholics go through. That he is supposedly more hardline could be moot as he is presently being kept on life support. However, the people that act in his name are definitely hardline and will probably keep him as an inspiration for their jihad and the only unconscious head of state.
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Back in the US of A, even the MAGAlytes have wearied of Trump’s incessant bombast and his erratic and contradictory statements. The Epstein fallout continues and many think Trump sought the war as a distraction. However, the war brought into sharp focus Trump’s lack of strategic planning and the consequences of the ill-conceived war for the world economy which America is inextricably part of whether it likes it or not. He looks every one of his 79 years. He is exhausted, doesn’t have a clue how to extricate America from the stalemate and resorts to his overused hoary chestnuts of Biden, fake news, hoaxes, conspiracies, Obama etc to deflect. The mutters from his voter base are becoming more strident while he attacks and insults friend and foe alike in his midnight rants on Truth Social. He has even resorted to swearing and people are increasingly talking about his cognitive decline.
Experts observing his interactions and outbursts say that it’s probably frontotemporal dementia which exhibits as changes in social inhibition, empathy, and executive function – his own personal form of Trump Derangement Syndrome which he accuses his critics of.
Talk of using the 25th Amendment – the process to impeach the President – is slowly becoming more mainstream. In fact, the loyal but stupid Majorie Taylor Greene, who was a resolute Trump supporter and voted three times for him, demanded on 7 April that Congress invokes the 25th Amendment.
In delicious irony, it’s looking increasingly possible that Trump might end up being the subject of regime change himself.
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