Accomplishing with Stupidity What You Couldn’t Do with Threats
Political Editorial Opinion
The United States of America needs to give itself a reality check. Donald J. Trump has, for the last year attacked his ‘former allies’, denigrated the military mutual self-defence organization that America used to actually be the backbone of, — NATO, and which Trump has, for the last year essentially taken every possible action to ensure its diminishment, including the United Nations and all of their associated and ancillary organizations. Trump wants to destroy the United Nations so that he can have a fee reign in Project 25’s hegemonic fascist plan.
Trump is going about this with the specific aim and intention of dissolving the organization in order to further America’s self-interest and its plutocratic and kleptocratic objectives, — like the ‘Peace Board’, an oxymoron for stealing resources from supplicants and weaker nations, economically and militarily.
In the last eleven months, the US has attacked eight nations as well as attacked and murdered an indeterminate number of nationals in boats at sea in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, – more criminal acts.
So much for never starting another war, and so much for peace, honour, truth or the rule of law by the US. The United States has unilaterally attacked nations without a declaration of war or by seeking the approval of same from Congress. US actions, unsupported by the United Nations do not comply or adhere to International Law or the Geneva Conventions.
In fact US current actions in Iran, are international war crimes.
At the same time while taking these ‘illegal international attacks on other sovereign nations’ Trump has the temerity, the arrogance and ignorance to suggest that if NATO, which according to its charter is neither required nor compelled to assist America in its illegal actions, does not assist America, there will be ‘dire consequences’.
Send your navy’s ships into the Straights of Hormuz and be struck by any manner of cheap, but highly effective munition, be they mines, drones or missiles.
This is incredibly arrogant and phenomenally stupid, even for Donald J. Trump. No NATO country is likely willing to become not just an accomplice to murder and war crimes in Iran, but to possibly have one or more of their own naval ships attacked by Iran in return.
In its arrogance and its hubris, America has chosen to unilaterally attack nations without even informing the United Nations of their impending actions.
Pandora’s Box, is chock full of unintended consequences. Yet Trump and his stellarly stupid God of War, or whatever childish name he now uses, simply cavalierly flipped it open to illustrate that America had the capability to ‘shock and awe’ a nation with its air power, while that nation had not taken any offensive actions against it.
None.
Iran did act against Israel because Israel, retributively decided to utterly destroy Hamas in Gaza due to its killing of approximately 1,195 Israelis on October 7th, 2023.
Defence was one thing. But what Israeli’s exercised was simply genocide. Israel chose to absolutely and indiscriminately level Gaza, starve its people, assassinate its leadership and without mercy, kill approximately 83,000 Gazans by the raining of death upon them from the air, land and sea.
These were not ‘precision weapons’, unless the precise intent was to indiscriminately kill Palestinians.
In retribution for the murderous actions of Hamas (as determined by the International Criminal Court in The Hague), Israel then took advantage of Iran’s support for Palestinians through actions designed to utterly destroy Iran’s ability to defend itself in an overwhelmingly response. They then convinced Donald Trump to destroy any and all nuclear enrichment, air defence and Iran’s offensive weapons by massive joint air assault.
But in order to destroy what had only been a civil nuclear energy program, one where an agreement existed between the International Atomic Energy Association and Iran to ensure that its uranium enrichment program would not exceed 60%, and to as well ensure that Iran would not acquire or be capable of enriching nuclear fuels and making nuclear weapons, — America tore up the signed agreement created by President Barack Obama and the IAEA.
This asinine decision, one that previously contained, monitored and controlled Iran’s actions was now no more. Israel and the US subsequently joined in a unilateral decision to destroy Iran’s capacity to attain any form of nuclear program in the future while focusing on regime change and the installation of a puppet government. This was to be accomplished by assassinating the leadership of Iran by the use of the United States Armed Forces.
Again, another war crime.
And without reiterating the entire sordid, illegal and inhuman actions taken by Israel and the United States, they find themselves in the unenviable position of Iran not only not collapsing but actually standing up to the US by widening the war to involve America’s friends and commercial interests in the gulf.
And of course, this included the Achilles heel for western nations, that being oil shipments to the world through the Straights of Hormuz.
Arrogance and Hubris in Equal Parts
And so it is that America has created a situation where the Straights of Hormuz is now effectively closed, shutting in 20% of the world’s oil supplies for an unknown period of time in the future, which is likely to have significant implications for global supply chains, the global economy and for America’s already almost non-existent reputation as a rational actor, not to mention so-called superpower.
What this unequivocally illustrates is how ill informed, arrogant and hopelessly ignorant this administration actually is.
And now America has freed Russia, through American support, to sell oil, which furthers its Imperialistic aims in Ukraine, and enables Russia to prolong its aggression there.
Stupid is as stupid does, and in America…it does it a lot.
But the stupidity doesn’t end there, no… of course not.
America’s actions, simply illegal and criminal, have now, once again, doubled-down on their stupid behaviour by ‘threatening NATO members to assist or face ‘dire consequences’.
You absolute dipshits.
NATO’s members already knew what America was likely to do in relation to NATO and America’s support, even in relation to the US remaining in the membership of NATO, before the US attacked Iran.
Donnie has been threatening leaving for over a year.
And so it is, that America will likely leave NATO, to no one’s surprise, as America’s hegemonic interests will not and cannot be supported by any of its members within NATO, in any event.
NATO Without the US
Actually, America’s actions over the last year have been so dangerous, self-interested and overtly stupid that NATO will likely be glad to see the back of the US.
Rather than protect, they have put the west at risk and created opportunities for China and Russia.
And while the EU, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the additional members of the coalition of the willing will have to face Russia alone, it also has one major benefit in that it makes rational actions against Russia un-interfered with by the US, probable going forward.
A Simple Truth
The US is no ally, no friend, and no partner to either its neighbours or to its former defense partners. And should America leave NATO, likely what will be felt by NATO’s membership will be relief, and a new determination to drastically improve its military capabilities while increasing its support of Ukraine, without American interference and what has been US acquiescence to Russia.
It will then be up to NATO and the coalition of the willing, to support Ukraine with boots on the ground and a guarantee that Ukraine will see integration into the EU and to NATO in the future, subsequent to ending the conflict.
America’s Contraction, Loss of Influence and Military Power Projection
The actions of the current administration are likely to create the conditions very soon whereby America is told to remove its military bases from what were former allies around the world within the democratic nations.
Even in the Gulf, animosity is rapidly growing against America’s unilateral stupidity, that has resulted in significant damage and risks to their economies, tourism, and to the oil and petrochemical installations which underpin the economies by which these nations thrive.
America keeps talking about ‘our allies’.
You don’t have any fucking allies anymore, you simply have nations that are seeking to fuel the engines of their technologies as quickly as possible to take part in ‘free trade’ together while leaving the orbit of American interests.
You initiated this shit storm America. You solve it. The rest of us are going to grab some popcorn, a lazy boy and watch our 8K screens to see how you manage to do so.
The world has had enough of American hubris, arrogance, threats and strategic incompetence.
If America implodes, — while those of us outside the US will suffer, at least it will end the reign of fascist terror that America clearly has become.
But inside America?
It will become fugly faster than an F22 Raptor America.
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