Donald Trump’s war in Iran is so damaging to U.S. interests and to the interests of its allies in the region, as well as to allies on all continents, that in an ideal world the U.S. president would deserve to be tried by both an American court and an international court.
These are not empty words at all. In the end, the Trumpist “trip” caused thousands of innocent human casualties from America to Lebanon, Iran to Israel and the Gulf states.
And the numbers keep rising given that the warring parties are bombing every day and civilian targets are becoming the norm and the US is on the verge of putting troops on the ground in Iran.
The war has already produced more than a million refugees in Lebanon, a country of less than six million people, while some estimates say there are three million people on the road inside Iran.
To say nothing of the overwhelming blow received by the global economy and increasingly gloomy prospects.
But beyond the above, this war has masterfully highlighted the recklessness of the US president, a leader so capable of tarnishing his country’s image internationally, that its enemies don’t have to do anything and on the other hand are actually doing better than since hostilities started.
- Since the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began, it is making almost twice as much money from oil smuggling sales as before February 28 – something highlighted by The Economist HERE. For its part, Russia received a precious breath of air, getting the green light from the Trump administration to sell oil after years of sanctions. For Putin, however, the only drawback (a big one, though) comes from the vigilance and potency of the Ukrainians, who for several days have been managing to bomb Russia’s oil export infrastructure.
- Since Trump gave the order to fight Iran, Putin has woken up overnight with an unimaginable opportunity: to strike, through proxies, America’s military bases and sensitive objectives in the Middle East. That proxy is precisely Iran, which Russia helps with intelligence collected by its satellites and other specific equipment. Not only has evidence of this been published by the Ukrainian President, but Politico recently revealed that Moscow itself has admitted that it is doing so, with the Kremlin telling the White House that the Russians will stop helping Iran if the US also stops supporting Ukraine. The US has already lost soldiers and several hundred have been wounded. At the same time, America has seen precious equipment damaged or completely lost – from ultra-expensive radars, to ultra-sophisticated radar planes to buildings on military bases. Despite the fact that Russian intelligence aid to Iran has the potential to hit the Pentagon’s budget and send American soldiers back in boxes, President Trump’s silence on the subject is suspicious.
- Finally, Donald Trump managed the rare “performance” of breaking a blockade that he had instituted: the oil blockade on Cuba. A Russian tanker has just arrived in a Cuban port, transporting 750,000 barrels, at a time when Cuba’s national energy system is on the verge of collapse due to fuel shortages. In January, after the capture of dictator Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, the U.S. cut off Venezuelan oil supplies to Cuba and banned anyone else from supplying the island. Because Trump wants a change in Havana as well, not necessarily a regime change, but simply a business one run by the surviving elements of the existing regime, just like in Venezuela. It has been an ordeal for Cubans for several months – it is not difficult to understand what the lack of energy can mean for daily life, from households to hospitals. Yet, now, in Cuba, as it has been in Ukraine, and now in Iran, if the Russians really want to play with Donald Trump, they can. If they wanted to break the Trump blockade like a hot knife through a packet of butter, they managed, without Trump making aa fuss. As I have previously said and maybe the archives in the future will be able to shed light on why Donald Trump is intimidated when Moscow has urgent needs.
We labeled Donald Trump the US most reckless president and developments have only reconfirmed the diagnosis.
The fact that he has even reached a point of breaking a naval blockade that he himself imposed is just the icing on the cake.
If he now sends American soldiers into Iran, this will mark a peak in his recklessness.
Iran is showing all the signs as it did in the 1980s war with Iraq, that those who do not make a minimum effort to understand the nature of its regime that the country can quickly turn into a cemetery for them.
Perhaps the Americans should prepare a military tribunal for their president.
- PS: In the Iran-Iraq war, when Iraq attacked Iran, Iran resorted to sending child soldiers, any boys over 12 years
- In order to understand today, it is worth remembering 2-3 crucial moments from that war four decades ago.
- Among other things, it should be noted that Iranian pre-teens and teens are deeply indoctrinated, were used as human waves before the offensives or counter-defenses of the regular army.
- Elementary and high school students were sacrificed– they sent the kids for a walk in the minefield – the kids exploded and the military updated the maps.
- The toy factories were allegedly ordered to make plastic keys to be hung around the necks of the kids sent to their deaths. The brainwashed kids thought they had the key to paradise around their necks.
- The Iraqi soldiers, often just 18-19, began to cry after seeing that they had machine-gunned children even younger than them who were almost defenseless (because the Iranian soldiers, sent to their deaths, were poorly armed)
- This is the country, Trump’s America has to fight today.
