As we finish up the four weeks of Trump’s war on Iran, it’s time to offer some key observations from Southern California.
- Trump is lying about the pace of “negotiations” with Iran in order to garner more time to accumulate more US troops in the region; this is all his “art of the deal” — confuse your opponent, make them believe you’re about to “walk away” from any talks on resolution. In this case, Trump has confused the American people, the mainstream media, European allies — even his own staff at the White House. On Thursday, he stated he didn’t care about the negotiations.
- Trump earned his TACO nickname, and changed his deadline for Iran, again for the third time. Trump Always Chickens Out.
- Despite Trump’s claims the “war is already won”, Iran and Israel continue to shell each other — even escalated attacks — and more deaths and injuries mount. Iran says 1400 of its people have been killed in the strikes over the last 4 weeks.
- The Straits of Hormuz are still closed to Iran’s adversaries. Trump couldn’t get any NATO or other ally to help free the fiery zone.
- Troops, marines, sailors are on their way; there’s reports that Trump has ordered another 10,000 soldiers to the region; there’s two ships filled with sailors and marines on their way to the Mid-East; there’s a brigade of the 82th Airborne Division on its way.
- America is on the verge of experiencing the largest protest — No Kings — in history, tomorrow March 28th as over 7 million people will be marching and protesting. Thousands of San Diegans will be protesting at the 22 events just in San Diego County. (The Rag will host an all-day liveblog about the events.)
- San Diego is about to enter the war big time: thousands of Marines from Camp Pendleton have been mobilized to go; many of their families live in the San Diego region, and if there are boots on the ground, expect to see many locals on casualty lists.
- Long lines at the airports are still visible; supposedly TSA agents will get paid very soon.
- The world is in its worst oil crisis ever. Gas and oil prices are continuing to rise.
- Who wants this war? Let us count them:
- Israel is bombing and invading southern Lebanon and have caused a thousand deaths; they have their own agenda — and it’s not ours; they want “regime change” in Iran.
- Saudi Arabia keeps urging Trump to step up the war.
- American pundits and talking heads from “think tanks” funded by war contractors keep appearing on talk shows and mainstream media channels.
- Who doesn’t want the war? The American people — recent polls show nearly two-thirds of US citizens are opposed to the war.
The constant grind from my conservative friends during the Biden Administration was their fear more United States Armed Forces members would be killed in those forsaken Afghanistan and Iraq deserts. And they screamed bloody murder when people died during the withdrawal that President 45 signed into law, but happened early in President 46’s term in office. We are on the precipice of a truly ghastly loss of humanity when Felonious 47 orders invasion of Kharg Island and other truly foolish targets. I want all my conservative friends to focus on the deaths that are about to happen due to a totally unprovoked war in Iran.