No Forever Wars, Eh?

 

     As we speak, our orange venomous toad masquerading as an actual head of state is sending the USS Gerald R. Ford, a huge, state of the art aircraft carrier, toward Iran. The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, another massive aircraft carrier, and three guided-missile destroyers have already arrived.

     It shouldn't surprise anyone that Donald Trump has conveniently jettisoned yet another campaign promise. Just as he promised in 2024 to bring back manufacturing jobs, to make life more affordable for Americans and 100 other carrots on 100 sticks, it's obvious that the only promises he's kept are the ones that have visited untold misery on tens if not hundreds of millions all over the world, particularly his fascist immigration crackdown.

     The government has just wrapped up a second round of negotiations with the Iranian government an the results were what you'd expect of a kakistocracy straight out of Mike Judge. The Trump "administration" decided to make Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program the sole focus of the negotiations. Typically, Iran dug in its heels.

     Last year, when the Iranian protests resulted in thousands of deaths. Trump rattled his saber and feigned sympathy and support for the dead Iranians. Then, in its newest round of saber-rattling, suddenly, the Trump administration isn't even mentioning the protesters and doesn't seem concerned about the state-sponsored executions that will follow later this year.

     To all but guarantee the failure of the "negotiations", Trump sent to Geneva the Three Stooges: Intellectual flyweight Marco Rubio, professional son in law Jared Kushner and the Zelig of the administration, Steve Witkoff.

     In his ridiculous and dangerous posturing as the policeman of the world, Trump tipped his hand by mentioning Venezuela in the same breath as Iran. He's said it wouldn't be like Venezuela and he's right. What happened in Venezuela was an illegal, extra-judicial kidnapping. Iran would be a lot more difficult.

     If we invade Iran, nearly every other Muslim nation in the Middle East would dogpile on us. Iran also has a sizable and potent military. It would take decades to pacify Iran, if that's even possible (Afghanistan, anyone?). It would cost trillions, just like the Iraq war that cost us over 4500 American lives.

     Trump also tipped his hand by mentioning Venezuela because at the time he was bombing those fishing boats, any idiot could see it wasn't about regime change (Maduro's loyalists remained in charge after we kidnapped him). It was about the oil because Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. We were brazenly stealing their oil tankers.

     Iran has the third largest. Do the math, people. If and when we invade Iran, rest assured, it'll be all about the oil.