Is Trump completely unhinged?
I think you know the answer to that: a resounding YES! First he launches a massive war on Iran because of its (nonexistent) imminent threat to produce nuclear bombs, or to produce regime change, or to stop it producing long-range rockets, or something – the supposed threats keep changing so no one really knows what the aims of the war are, except for the aggrandisement of President Donald J. Trump...
Then when the regime reacts with its only effective countermeasure (which anyone with a brain in the White House should have predicted), to close the Straits of Hormuz, he walks away saying he didn’t care, nothing to do with him, and someone else should clear up the mess he’d just made.
Now he’s been issuing ultimata (several times postponed!) to bomb Iran into the stone “ages” [sic] by bombing its energy sites and, by implication, its desalination plants – a war crime in itself.
Finally, we get yet another postponement: in an expletive-laden rant he has threatened Iran with “hell” if it doesn’t back down – to which the response is likely to be to destroy the desalination plants of the Gulf allies, which would render life there unsupportable.
You don’t have to be a supporter of the vile regime in Iran (and I’m certainly not one) to regard this as completely unhinged, the behaviour of a frustrated toddler, lying on the ground and kicking his legs in a temper - except that it is much more serious than that. Time to invoke the 25th Amendment I think, if anyone in Congress has the bottle to do it.
Richard Carter ● 1d40 Comments ●