As you have perhaps heard, US ally Israel attacked US-declared regional adversary Iran on Friday. This has touched off a conflict that could end up anywhere on the spectrum between "a very short war" and "World War Three" in light of how many powerful countries on Earth have a vested interest in ensuring the survival of either Israel, or Iran respectively. The situation is tense, delicate, and while the purpose of this blog isn't to talk about global foreign policy decisions, I still feel pretty comfortable saying the United States is already on the wrong side of history here given Israel's illegal aggression; to say nothing of the ongoing US-enabled genocide the Netanyahu government is conducting against Palestinians in Gaza. We are, by virtue of our alliance with Israel and our government's open and even material support of Netanyahu's desperate gambit, as close to being at war with Iran as possible without actually declaring a war.

Truly, this is a moment that calls for a clear-headed, elite negotiator style of President who can deescalate the situation before the conflict draws in global powers, and most importantly of all keep the United States out of yet another unwinnable forever war in the MENA. Of course, we instead have Donald Fucking Trump; a man who apparently does not seem to realize that Israel is incapable of reaching the war objectives of a conflict it started *without* direct American intervention, and are thus actively trying to draw the US into Netanyahu's war, even as Israeli political officials openly admit as much.

How do I know Trump is that stupid? Well, he keeps saying the quiet part out loud - like Sunday for example, when he told ABC News that he was willing to commit US forces to the conflict; which would officially be joining Israel's objectively illegal war on Iran.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-iran-war

Trump Says US Forces 'Could Get Involved' as Israel Expands Deadly Assault on Iran

"U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Sunday that American forces "could get involved" in the intensifying military conflict that Israel started late last week with a barrage of attacks on Iran, prompting large-scale retaliatory strikes and warnings of a prolonged and catastrophic war.

Trump told ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott that the U.S. is not currently involved in the conflict, which is false. The U.S. has helped Israel shoot down Iranian missiles, and American fighter jets are reportedly "patrolling the sky in the Middle East to protect personnel and installations." One Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post that "there was full and complete coordination with the Americans" on Israel's early Friday bombardment of Iran, which set off the conflict.

But Trump's remarks Sunday signaled the potential for a deeper U.S. role in the war, setting off alarm among lawmakers who have warned that such involvement would be illegal as well as disastrous."

Look, I don't want to get all libbed up here but, are you fucking kidding me with this dipshit? Literally any other US President in the entire history of this country would be telling Israel to shut this shitshow down because the US empire doesn't get dragged into wars to save the careers of politicians running our client states, we drag client states into wars the US declares at a time and place of our warmongers' choosing. I do not give a single rat's ass about American "national security" and the Pig Empire's international racket to enforce capitalist extraction at bayonet point, but Trump trying to hitch our wagon to Netanyahu's desperate hail mary so he can look tough is a profound display of political weakness and yet another example of why this absolute fucking muppet should not be the guy in charge of an American war machine that can turn the whole planet to ash multiple times over.

To put it fucking politely, Israel is an ethnonationalist colonial outpost for the Pig Empire in the MENA, that is currently conducting an ongoing livestreamed baby holocaust in Gaza, and the only fucking thing keeping them from being a pariah state is the support of the US government as embodied by the Trump regime. Netanyahu needs America, way more than Trump needs Netanyahu; for the Swine Emperor to even be considering committing US troops to Israel's ongoing assault, which almost certainly started with an actual fucking war crime, is the most Dunning-Krueger effect shit I've ever seen a US President do; and I survived the George W. Bush presidency.

Look folks, I don't know how this story ends; recent reports indicate that Iran is inexplicably still willing to negotiate for peace with us, so I think we should take their offer. But make no mistake, there will be no winners of a war against Iran, and the fact that Trump is toying with embroiling us in one, again, speaks to why this man must go. So much for the "anti-war" President, amirite?