^^^ A punny meme posted at BlueSky by Retired Admiral James Stavridis.
Last week Trump said he would annihilate Iranian civilization if his opponents in his undeclared war did not stop blockading the Strait of Hormuz. Later in the week Iranians permitted some traffic through after they paid tolls to Iran. Trump decided over the weekend that HE would blockade the Strait; maybe he's stealing a grift opportunity from the Iranians.
Meanwhile, the price of gas creeps up by just under 1¢ per day. According to the AAA, the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular in the US today stands at $4.125 per gallon.
The Trump Iran war narrative has been comically incoherent. At the New York Times, Jonathan Rauch and Peter Wehner summarize it...
The Trump administration chose to wage a war without deciding on its aims, mapping out a strategy, planning for contingencies or even being able to explain itself. The goal was regime change — until it wasn’t. The demand was unconditional surrender — until it wasn’t. Deadlines were issued and then erased. Threats of total destruction were made and then pulled back. Iran’s nuclear program was a casus belli in February, despite the fact that we were told by Mr. Trump that it was “obliterated” last June. The president called for an international coalition to open the Strait of Hormuz, then said the United States could go it alone, then said the waterway would somehow “open itself.” He claimed that the United States had already won the war, that the war would end soon and that the war would end “when I feel it, feel it in my bones.” As a headline in The Times put it, the president’s position on Iran “can change by the sentence.”
Trump is using the US military as a personal toy and he is dismissing the economic impacts of his overseas adventures. And we shouldn't forget that his bizarre and psychotic actions are being rubber stamped by Capitol Hill Republicans.
Midterm Election Day is 29 weeks from Tuesday the 14th. It's never too early to begin working on régime change on Capitol Hill. Hungary was not a fluke, it's a forerunner of things to come – provided we're up to the challenge.
