The Madness of Trump. What’s his next criminal outrage gonna’ be?

The Trump regime is going from madness to madness, ignoring all forms of international law. Michael Pascoe He writes that Trump’s latest threat appeared to be a promise.

Make no mistake, there is no easy or early end to the Middle East quagmire into which Donald Trump has led the world; prompting the mad king to embark on another adventure to shift his focus from the chaos he has created.

“I believe I will have the honor of taking Cuba” Trump announced. “I think I can do whatever I want with it, whether I let it go or take it.”

In a just world where there was such a thing as a “rules-based order,” the United States would be subject to long-term sanctions for the economic war it has waged against the poor country for much of the last six decades.

It’s worth remembering what a pathetic loser America is. Castro’s was a popular revolution that created a legitimate government at the time. Clearly, Castro’s communism was unpopular with the ruling class and the Mafia, whose assets were confiscated, or with the United States, which like dictatorships that do as they are told and are friendly to American corporations rather than other communist countries.

Communist police states tend to create their own problems easily. Add in the illegal sanctions and embargoes that America has imposed for decades, and leave aside the odd failed assassination and invasion, this is not a happy economy.

What rules is the world order based on?

Trump’s doubling down on strangling the nation and now adding the explicit promise to “take” is happening without any comment from the various insipid governments that used to spout the “rules-based order” platitudes with wild abandon.

Consider for a moment the outrage if China did to Taiwan what the United States did to Cuba.

Is Australia happy with Trump’s Cuba policy?

In the echoing silence of Canberra, I must assume we are happy with Trump torturing and “taking” Cuba, a military state killing survivors under rubble in the Caribbean. A state that sinks ships rather than capturing them because it is “more fun”, bristles with crusading Christian nationalism, shows no remorse in killing civilians, and is united with the genocidal Netanyahu government.

This is Australia. We know our place.

Iran “trip”

Trump may be just beginning to realize that his Iran “trip” not only failed, but also made a bad Iranian state worse.

Perhaps the best written about the war was previously written by an anonymous Iranian:

“As an Iranian, I can tell you that the situation is no longer just political, it is existential. We are caught between two collapsing structures: one internal, the other external. On one side, we face a deeply dysfunctional government led by the Supreme Leader and the unelected institutions of the Islamic Republic.

“Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent and brutal ideological control have alienated many generations. No one believes in reform anymore, because every initiative has either been accepted or suppressed. But the paradox is that we also fear the collapse of the regime, because we have watched the consequences of Western intervention in countries such as Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan.

Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

“So no, we don’t trust the United States or Israel. Not because we support our regime, but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

“In their language, freedom often means emptiness, fire and permanent instability. Many Iranians now live with three realities at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not salvation, but collapse.”

“An evil government can survive. No government can. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we have learned – all too well – what happens when the superpowers decide to “help”. In one sentence: Iran is a country held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are trapped in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear even more.”

Continuing to assassinate the Iranian leadership leaves the United States with no one to negotiate a “deal.” Instead, there are 31 decentralized commands, each of which can still deal damage to any target within reach.

Cutting off the head of the Persian snake did not injure it.

As mentioned here before, wars are not won from the air.

Trump’s gaffes. Air battles don’t work. Iran ignores the lessons of history

Florida’s Cuban diaspora – like Marco Rubio – has nothing on the longevity of the anger and resentment sown in the Middle East, which is still trying to win back what was lost six decades ago. There is no peace there, only stagnation in fights.

Quote by Peter Ustinov

Terrorism is the war of the poor, war is the terror of the rich.

will continue to be staged.

But, hey, Donald Trump won’t care. He’s going to Cuba.