When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
President Donald Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu as the Israeli prime minister signs the guest book at the White House, Sept. 29, 2025. (White House / Daniel Torok)
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Common Dreams
Here is Donald Trump’s Easter message to the world:
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
Donald Trump and his partner in war crimes, Benjamin Netanyahu, are jointly waging a war of murderous aggression against Iran, a nation of 90 million people. They are in the grip of three cascading pathologies.
The first is personality: both are malignant narcissists.
The second is the arrogance of power: men who possess the power to command nuclear annihilation and feel, in consequence, no restraint.
The third, and most dangerous of all, is religious delusion: two men who believe, and are told daily by those around them, that they are messiahs doing God’s work.
Each pathology exacerbates the others, so that together they put the world in unprecedented danger.
The result is a glorification of violence not seen since the Nazi leaders.
The question is whether the world’s few grownups — responsible national leaders who remain committed to international law and are willing to say so — can restrain them. It will not be easy, but they must try.
Let us start with the underlying psychological disorder. Malignant narcissism is a clinical term, not an insult. The social psychologist Erich Fromm coined the phrase in 1964 to describe Adolf Hitler, as a merger of pathological grandiosity, psychopathy, paranoia and antisocial personality into a single character structure.
The malignant narcissist is not merely vain. He is structurally incapable of genuine empathy, constitutionally immune to guilt and driven by paranoid conviction that enemies surround him and must be destroyed. Already back in 2017, psychologist John Garnter and many other professionals were warning of Trump’s malignant narcissism.
When power faces no limit, the only remaining internal check is conscience. And the psychopath has no conscience.
Several respected psychologists and psychiatrists have evaluated Trump for psychopathy using the standardized Hare Scale and have come up with scores well above the diagnostic cutoff. See, for example, here. Psychopathy is best characterized as a lack of conscience or compassion for other human beings.
Both Trump and Netanyahu fit this profile with precision. Trump’s psychopathy was on full display when U.S. forces destroyed a civilian bridge in Tehran, of no military significance, with at least eight civilians killed and 95 or more injured.
Trump did not grieve. He gloated and promised more destruction. Netanyahu’s Passover address similarly contained not one word for the dead. No pause. No shadow of doubt. Only the triumphant catalog of enemies he has destroyed.
Paranoia drives the threat that Trump and Netanyahu have manufactured.
Trump’s own director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified in writing that Iran’s nuclear program had been “obliterated” and that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency stated flatly there was no evidence of a bomb. Trump’s own counterterrorism official resigned in protest, writing that “we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
The paranoid does not need a real threat. He will make one up if he must, to match his feelings of exaggerated fear.
The Machiavellianism operates without shame. Trump told the world that diplomacy was always his “first preference,” while boasting in the same breath about ripping up the nuclear deal with Iran: “I was so honored to do it. I was so proud to do it.”
He destroyed the diplomatic framework with his own hands, then blamed Iran for the wreckage. He then admitted, casually, that the war has no self-defense rationale: “We don’t have to be there. We don’t need their oil. We don’t need anything they have. But we’re there to help our allies.”
Under the U.N. Charter, self-defense is the only legal basis for force. Trump has confessed that no such basis exists.
Trump overseeing attacks on Iran at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 28. (White House / Daniel Torok)
There is a particular deformation that power inflicts on certain personalities, and it is especially acute when the power in question is unbounded or seems to be so.
With the command of nuclear arsenals, Trump and Netanyahu do not experience the world as others do. The availability of nuclear weapons, for these malignant narcissists, is not a burden of responsibility but an extension of their grandiose selves: I can do anything. I can level anything. Watch me.
There will be no self-restraints by Netanyahu and Trump on this delusional grandiosity.
Trump has completely internalized this sense of impunity. On April 1, he stood before the cameras and promised to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.”
The phrase “where they belong” is the verdict of a man who feels divinely licensed to judge the worth of 90 million people and dehumanizes them without hesitation.
He has repeatedly threatened to destroy Iran’s civilian electrical infrastructure — a war crime under the laws of armed conflict, announced openly as a negotiating position, to a global audience that mostly changed the channel.
Netanyahu commands a state with an estimated 200 nuclear warheads, has never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and operates under no international inspection regime. He has watched Trump wield American military power with unchecked aggression and concurs that there are no consequences.
The second madness feeds the third: when power faces no limit, the only remaining internal check is conscience. And the psychopath has no conscience.
The lack of conscience is the most dangerous pathology of the three, because it is the one that removes the last possible internal brake. The strategist who wages an unjust war may eventually calculate that the costs exceed the gains and stop.
The malignant narcissist who wages war for ego may eventually exhaust the ego’s demands and stop. The psychopath escalates because there are no limits.
And, if you can believe, it gets even worse. Both Trump and Netanyahu are would-be messiahs. They are self-proclaimed agents of God. For them, stopping the war on Iran would mean God was wrong.
And the self-proclaimed messiah cannot be wrong, either, because the messiah and God have become, in the grandiose psyche, effectively the same.
Both Trump and Netanyahu have claimed this messianic identity explicitly. Trump has called himself “the chosen one.” Regarding the assassination attempt on Trump in 2024, he declared, “I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”
Netanyahu, in his address on the eve of Passover, did not merely invoke God. He appropriated God’s role in the Exodus narrative — enumerating 10 “accomplishments” of what he calls the “War of Redemption” and naming each one a plague.
The killing of Ayatollah Khamenei he named the “Plague of the Firstborn.” He then warned the world:
“After the 10 plagues of Egypt, I remind you that Pharaoh still tried to harm the People of Israel, and we all know how that ended.”
In the Book of Exodus, that ending is the drowning of Pharaoh’s entire army. Netanyahu was threatening the annihilation of Iran, on television, in the language of holy scripture.
Surrounding each of these men is a court of flatterers and fanatics whose function is to sustain the delusion and prevent reality from entering their consciousness.
Trump’s Court: Hegseth, Huckabee & the Christian Nationalists
U.S, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth during a Pentagon press briefing on the U.S, unauthorized war on Iran, March 4. (DoW/Alexander Kubitza)
Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, has turned the Pentagon into a theater of holy war. He sports a Jerusalem Cross tattoo on his chest and the words “Deus Vult,” “God Wills It,” the battle cry of the medieval Crusades, on his arm.
He hosts monthly Christian worship services in the Pentagon’s auditorium. He has asked the American people to pray “every day, on bended knee” for military victory in the Middle East “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
At one of these services, he prayed aloud for U.S. troops to inflict:
“Overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy … We ask these things with bold confidence in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ.”
At a press briefing on the Iran war, Hegseth said the United States “negotiates with bombs.”
He described Iran’s leaders as “religious fanatics” seeking nuclear capability for “some religious Armageddon,” while presiding over monthly prayer services at the Pentagon and declaring that “the providence of our almighty God is there protecting those troops.”
He appears to have no awareness of the mirror he is holding up. A defense secretary who prays for “overwhelming violence” in the name of Jesus, while calling his enemies religious fanatics, has defined the word “projection.”
U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee visiting the Western Wall, aka Wailing Wall, on April 18, 2025. (US Embassy in Jerusalem/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, provides the theological architecture. A Baptist minister and avid Christian Zionist, Huckabee believes the Israel-Iran conflict is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy — a necessary step toward the Rapture and the second coming of Christ.
He sent Trump a message — which Trump then posted on social media — comparing the moment to Truman in 1945 and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan, urging Trump to listen to “HIS voice,” meaning God.
In an interview, Huckabee was asked about the biblical land grant stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates — encompassing Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq — and whether Israel had a divine right to it all.
His answer was direct: “It would be fine if they took it all.”
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, for his part, posted on social media: “I? Huckabee.”
Christian Zionist pastor John Hagee, whose organization Christians United for Israel has been a major driver of U.S. evangelical support for Israel’s wars, looked at the Iran war and said simply: “Prophetically, we’re right on cue.”
Franklin Graham, at a White House Easter prayer service, fed Trump’s messianic delusions:
“Today the Iranians, the wicked regime of this government, wants to kill every Jew and destroy them with an atomic fire. But you have raised up President Trump. You’ve raised him up for such a time as this. And Father, we pray that you’ll give him victory.”
Netanyahu’s Court: Ben-Gvir, Smotrich & the Messianic Settlers
Itamar Ben Gvir in November 2021. (Alexander Khanin /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0)
On the Israeli side, the inner court is composed of two figures whose radicalism is so extreme that they were considered political pariahs until Netanyahu used their votes to stay in power.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the National Security Minister, is an admirer of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach party was designated a terrorist organization.
Bezalel Smotrich, the Finance Minister, draws his ideology from Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook, who taught that Israel’s 1967 military victory was divinely mandated and that the settlement of Palestinian territory is the will of God.
Together, they hold 20 seats in Netanyahu’s 67-seat coalition. They do not merely advise the prime minister, they share in his messianic beliefs and vision.
Ben-Gvir has used his control of the Israeli police to enable settler paramilitaries operating against Palestinians in the West Bank. He has consistently blocked ceasefire negotiations and has openly claimed credit for delaying them.
He pushed for Jewish ritual rights on the Temple Mount in defiance of a status quo maintained for decades, a move Israeli security officials warned would lead directly to bloodshed.
In August 2023 he declared: “My right, and my wife’s and my children’s right to get around on the roads in Judea and Samaria, is more important than the right to movement for Arabs.”
The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, the Netherlands, and Spain have all sanctioned him for inciting violence, yet the United States, under Marco Rubio, defended Ben-Gvir and criticized those sanctions.
Smotrich is the more methodical of the two: less theatrical and more dangerous.
He has systematically transferred civilian governance of the West Bank from the Israeli military to his own ministry, channeling hundreds of millions of shekels to settler infrastructure while Palestinian Authority budgets are deliberately strangled.
He has directed his office to formulate “an operational plan for applying sovereignty” over the West Bank.
During the Iran war, Smotrich called for Israel to annex southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, declaring that the war “needs to end with a different reality entirely.”
His ideology draws on Kook’s teaching that the settlement enterprise is not political but sacred — a divine obligation that must be completed regardless of international law, Palestinian rights, or the opinion of the world.
The 1967 borders, in this theology, are not a temporary military reality. They are God’s unfinished business.
The world’s grownups must try to stop the madness.
Neither Ben-Gvir nor Smotrich was anything more than a fringe extremist before Netanyahu legitimized them by bringing them into government and his inner court.
He gave them power over Israeli society, and they gave him the religious-nationalist firepower to call his wars a divine mission.
Into this landscape of holy war, one voice has spoken with world-saving grace and clarity. Pope Leo XIV has consistently called for an end to the violence.
During a Holy Thursday Mass in Rome, he addressed the arrogance of power:
“We tend to consider ourselves powerful when we dominate, victorious when we destroy our equals, great when we are feared. God has given us an example — not of how to dominate, but of how to liberate; not of how to destroy life, but of how to give it.”
On Palm Sunday, the pope was again direct, saying that Jesus “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.” Hegseth followed up by holding another worship service at the Pentagon, where he again prayed for “overwhelming violence” in Christ’s name.
Professor John Mearsheimer has stated precisely that the crimes now being committed by Trump and Netanyahu are the same crimes for which the Nazi leadership was hanged at Nuremberg: aggressive war, annexation of foreign territory, deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure and collective punishment.
This is not rhetorical excess. These are legal categories.
The Nuremberg Tribunal called the crime of aggression the “supreme international crime” — the one that “contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”—because it is the crime that makes all the other crimes possible.
These men have confessed to it, publicly, in speeches carried by international broadcasters.
The institutional mechanisms that exist to prevent exactly this kind of catastrophe, including the U.N. Security Council, the International Criminal Court, the non-proliferation regime and the laws of armed conflict are being actively subverted by the United States.
And yet the world’s grownups must try to stop the madness.
The multilateral effort in Islamabad, including the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, working alongside the China-Pakistan five-point peace initiative, is an important start. It should be joined by the full weight of the BRICS nations, the U..N General Assembly, and every state that wishes to live in a world governed by rules rather than by the delusions of two malignant narcissists.
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a university professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the U.N. Broadband Commission for Development. He has been advisor to three United Nations secretaries-general, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Sachs is the author, most recently, of A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2020). Other books include: Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (2017) and The Age of Sustainable Development (2015) with Ban Ki-moon.
This article is from Common Dreams.
Views expressed in this article and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.
Prof. Sachs has broken the ceiling of contemporary intelligentsia by rather boldly branding both Netanyahu and Trump as mentally deranged leaders attempting to misappropriate Divine powers to themselves. Sachs also rightly calls upon the global grownups including the Pope to intercede with these mentally deranged or to intervene collectively along with supranational and /or global institutions to impede these super madmen. But the alleged grownups are at times self-servingly powerless. They seem to be opportunistic believers of “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” ! But allowing political madmen to also invoke God in upholding this axiom is impermissible !
The criticisms here that somehow Patrick Lawrence doesn’t know that U.S. untrustworthiness in diplomacy did not start with Trump but well predates him is totally misplaced. It is as if a chink in his armor his being sought. What is being missed is that crystal clear sentence in the middle of his article: “Washington’s trustworthiness in affairs of state has been in decline for decades — at least since the Cold War’s end, if not earlier.”
Indeed, several Leaders and Responsibles in diverse organisations are or become progressively foolish and violent, and they act or
behave like crazy persons, supported by some egoistic partners and actors, looking for their egocentric interests and glorification, by
mass-destructions on many resources, revenues, reserves, and values, in the short and middle term.
Thank you for this useful Contribution. We must stop all Wars in every Region of the World. After the Nash Model, all Parts will lose in
Wars, when you neglect or reject the Positions of your Internal and External Opponents, People and Partners, Protagonists and
Antagonists, Rivals and Stakeholders. Nowadays, we must openly evaluate soberly and truly, via a Special International Commission,
the key Leaders, Responsibles and Managers of some Organisations, every 3 months, so as to reduce information and data poisoning.
But for now, it seems, the God of War has called for Peace. And what kind of Peace can that be? Only more continuous war, without anyone calling it out for what it really is. This is a long war, in the same sense that the Ukraine War is a long war. In four years, we’ll be asking what happened all over again. And yet, this is a very well-done essay, Mr. Sachs. It is true to that truth which we still seek to ignore.
Western civilization is founded on empire stealing g a religion and weaponizing it to eventually join Roman and Viking worship of warfare and dominance. WWII is the biggest example of weaponizing countries against the communist country arising from WWI and attempting conquest of oil for military use. And the communist threat in China to dominance in Asia.
Weaponizing countries and leaders with dream of the supreme weapon that for world wide control that arrived just too late to prevent the Cold War only enough time to calibrate.
Destruction of civilian infrastructure for urban renewal with war crimes only addressed for the losers making them the new normal for over and covert use. Now we pretend to be the deciders whose weapons for the deciding and define reality for our western based system of religious biased warfare often helping arm all sides at once.
“these two madmen.”
Thank you Jeffrey D. Sachs for reading the minds of these two madmen.
… spot-on analyses of who we are dealing|saddled with in the highest places.
given that int’l bodies like the UN [security council] and others have all lost
their power to influence events, if they ever really had any: do i have any other
choice but to hope that [wo]men high up in the USraeli army will in_deed find
the courage to disobey the illegal orders they keep receiving?
or are they really all brainwashed into human blindness … “beyond belief”?
i know, disobedience isn’t easy when you have families to feed. but looking at
what is at stake, objectors might show what the psychopaths high up are lacking:
a conscience.
You are absolutely right madam. If Muhammad Ali could establish himself as a consciencious objector and stood vindicated in U.S. history, why can’t contemporary top brass too develop similar conscience and follow suit ?
With respect, I would suggest that if we focus on th epathologies of Trump, others in his administration, and Netenyahu et al, we avoid examining what might be called the cultural pathologies that created the structure of the UN, a so-called ‘democracy’ in the US that gives all power to a ‘majority’ who rule the ‘minority’ … embraces capitalism like a religion, fears any exploration of alternatives.
The path that led to Trump is filled with examples of horrendous and never accounted for actions by prior Presidents, the CIA, etc.
I would suggest that any focus on pathologies is enticing as it helps us to avoid the continued repeated revelations of immoral and illegal actions undertaken by former Presidents, the military, the CIA etc.
This essay by Sachs should be shared to millions before it is too late, and the madmen succeed to destroying the world.
If only there were some brave insiders who could assassinate these devils and if dying in their attempts would be regarded as heroes. Who could have believed that in the 21st C we would have monsters like these in control?
Asking them to be nice now, will for sure not help.
They must be arrested and held accountable for their crimes.
Not “only” the two most deranged and their close co- gangsters, but also all those from behind the scenes pulling the puppet strings.
Speaking of Tulsi Gabbard and conscience, why has
she not diplomatically renounced Trump’s nationally
destructive policies and joined Joe Kent’s public
renunciation of anti-Americanism?
Could be she wants the 2028 Republican nomination and needs Trump’s endorsement.
Thanks CN, I guess like love, (song lyric, “what’s love
got to do with it?) conscience has nothing to do with it
either
When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. We will all be the victims of Netanyahu’s plagues and Trump’s bombing of Iran to the stone ages, unless other leaders place limits on these two madmen.
For 10 years I’ve suggested Donald was a psychopath.
It is likely to get worse as Trump and minions continue to buy up large warehouses to imprison US citizens.
Man’s invention of gods continues to drive the insanity of war.
“,,, the same crimes for which the Nazi leadership was hanged at Nuremberg. –Jeffrey Sachs”
He who sayeth
I only worship Two Gods
Name one who ?
And the answer is a multiple choice ?
Fill this _________<blank, with a stare.
That’s all nice Mr. Sachs, but where are the world leaders you are calling on to stop these madmen? Where is Russia, China, Turkey…only words of condemnation. Words do not stop malignant narcicists. Only force, and greater force than they possess. Humanity is literally on “the Eve of Destruction,” because of the sterm words of the powerful world leaders, and the lack of ACTION.
Russia and China have so far successfully kept the American madpersons from nuking their countries ever since General LeMay. Now Americans want to say that it is somehow their fault that the Americans are now doing this to Iran?
I do love the Americans’ ability to blame others for their own lack of attention to the government of their own nation.
What is happening today is the sum total of the wishes, desires and votes of the American people for decades. Not once in this century has the American people rallied around a Presidential candidate or a party that wanted to cut the military budgets. This war and genocide machine has been happily built by the votes of about 98% of Americans who bothered to vote. There is no Peace Party in America, and there is no sign that America has even wanted such a thing for this entire century. What weak efforts there are towards a Peace Party in America are lucky to get 1% of the vote on election day.
Where are the million plus American citizens in the streets of DC today saying No? There has not been a major effort at an antiwar protest since the bipartisan war began. The big “No Monarchy” protest tended to stay away from antiwar themes, and focused mainly on the Dem campaign theme of hating Trump. There has been no General Strike in America to attempt to end this war. There is seemingly very little opposition to this war from Americans, and only rhetorical showboating from the War Democrats. But hey, lets blame Russia!
Thank you. You nailed it. Even more than these obvious psychopaths, I also blame the willful ignorance and apathy of a large section of the USAmericans populace, who either can’t or won’t (both, really) find a way to end this madness. Historically that was ever the only way to stop madmen with too much power. This will be no different. Too much entitlement and generations of sociological conditioning, convince the average decent but painfully uninformed USAmericans that when things are bad, it’s got to be someone else’s fault. Nothing less than a reckoning is on its way.
Worse, that large section of our populace seems to embrace these fascistic madmen, even live vicariously through them. I hate to think a new civil war is imminent, but there are clearly irreconcilable differences among the citizenry, keeping us from being genuinely “united” in any way shape or form, aside from the accident of birthplace.
A brilliant and frightening analysis by Jeffrey Sachs. I would add only that this madness has a structural component: empire. Even when the emperor is entirely sane, the structure that defines his role and that he is pledged to maintain generates crimes against humanity. There are such things as good emperors (e.g., Cyrus of Persia), but they are always followed by apostles of violence (e.g., Darius of Persia). We need to get rid of Trump, Netanyahu, AND the Empire.
Yes to get rid of Empire but is democracy as currently constituted sufficient?
Alon Mizrahi is a must hear on this specific subject:
hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RddXSmorxjw
He will no longer publish on YouTube, transferring his output to
hxxps://alonmizrahi.substack.com/
Power is unchecked because power owns the public “debate”. First, because the power-owned mass media and its self-referential expert bubble, inform the majority of people. This includes those with a , more or less, democratic mandate.
Smart intellectuals are brainwashed into single-sided childish caricature-defending morons, as critical thinking skills have been replaced by confident talking point reproduction, defended by fallacies. And that at all cost, because their identity of the prince on the white horse is at stake and cannot endure exposure to the double standards and intellectual atrophy.
People with scientific credentials in the mass media play along not behaving like scientists. And you must trust them, because the rest is the devil’s propaganda, of course.
Therefore I do appreciate the work you guys and your writers do.
If there are any sane men in positions of power they must act now to have these crazies removed from office before they bring the whole world down.
BRICS is not the type of group who will or can do anything to stop this madness. India is fully onside with the west as is Brazil. China and Russia don’t want to interrupt their enemies while they are busy destroying themselves. BRICS won’t do anything.
The UN is a powerless talking shop and relies on funding from the west to exist, it is compromised.
The success of Iran in fighting off the crazies is our only hope. A successful Iran will accelerate the self destruction of USrael that is IMO the only viable conclusion to this madness.
Kudos to Steve for quite rightly concluding that BRICS, as a cohesive unit, is incapable of doing much to exert any pressure on these outstanding madmen. He is on the dot in singling out India as an unreliable agent within BRICS to even act against those imperialistic madmen as it is strategically beholden to their exploits via the Indo-Zion nexus. Brazil may not be like India in this regard. But one should not dismiss BRICS outright just because it couldn’t move multilaterally for it can also function plurilatrally as Russia and China did and do via the UN. The global Zionist have long subverted even the Security Council itself and insulted humanity at large. This is testified to even visually : the UN Security Council at times resembles an open commode with a brown blob in the very center and the creme de la creme of international diplomats are often reduced to trading their verbal protocols across this blob within that commode ; doesn’t this amount to an insult of humanity at the highest levels via Rockefeller’s New York toilet ? If responsible American residents can visualize this insult to humanity and do the needful in their home turf then something good to humanity and to the USA might emerge therefrom ! So, there is hope.
Does Satanyahu sign with a cross or skull and bones?
Perhaps …. “Genghis Khan”?
Trump suffers from profound delusions usually associated with divinities: making stuff up out of the ether, proclaiming it to be a truth, and expecting we mere mortals to swallow his fictions.
I am convinced that a) he knows what he is doing, and b) that he spouts-off this rubbish based on the very little understanding and knowledge he has of issues.
Trump has had another shot at Australia: “Australia didn’t help us,” he said.
Funny about that.
Crucial to US intelligence gathering – and probably the rescue of the downed pilot – is the Pine Gap facility.
A US spy-base located near Alice Springs that Australians have protested since the mid-1970s.
A base so crucial to US warmongering that when it looked like its presence may be in jeopardy in the 1970s, the then US government was instrumental in the overthrow of a democratically elected government.
Ever since, successive US administrations have sought assurances from Prime Ministers that Pine Gap will be left secure.
The presence of this base means that ‘Australia’ is doing much more than most Australians approve of, and a helluva lot more than Trump gives credit for.
[ hxxps://declassifiedaus.org/2026/02/19/new-empire-of-united-states/ and hxxps://declassifiedaus.org/2026/03/18/understanding-empire-us-australia/ ]
Here we have a group, of what many would describe as, the most godless men currently stomping on the vulnerable appealing to the almighty for succor and approval.
What folks must always remember is that the Jewish supremacists in Israel and the diaspora view this Iran War as existential. They’ll take us all down if need be and not blink an eye.
If it means the state of Israel survives they’ll tank the global economy, cause gas to shoot up to $9 per gallon, see massive refugee inflows into Europe and the US, and not have a care in the world ab any of it as long as Israel and Pax Judaica live on. Of course if Israel were on the brink of going under, the same glib attitude to global harms would still apply.
They’ve their man in Trump and they fully know U.S. Boomers — via their political consent– are their last best hope to cause permanent chaos in Iran. They know damn well that Millennials and Gen Zers seriously question the whole Zio project.
Boomers grew up in their formative years with the three main television networks droning on and on in their living rooms for much of their entire lives, which means that they’ve had a stunningly effective Zionist propagandist in their living rooms droning on and on for much of their entire lives.
And yet, those same Boomers, with those same 3 networks droning at them … actually stopped a war.
But all these later people can’t figure out how to do it. They can’t even copy the Boomers because they’ve all been trained by their media to hate the Boomers and the Hippies of the 1960’s ….. who actually stopped a war.
One would think that already having a blueprint before them about how to stop a war could give the Woke a clue as to how to do it? But no. They all seem convinced that they must do the opposite of what worked in the past to ….. stop a war.
Drop Out. Stop. Do not participate in the war machine. Sit down. Stop listening to them. The people have the power to crash their whole system, and yet they all keep participating every day, every year, while things get worse and worse and worse. And they always find someone else to blame for their problems, because that is the easy answer. Much easier than dropping out, starting a revolution, and stopping a war, like those hated old people once did.
So you aren’t a Boomer and think that absolves you of any responsibility. You also are buying the propaganda that everything you don’t like is a Boomer thing. Okay. Then give back civil rights, women’s liberation, the American Indian Movement, gay rights, the ecological actions.
Ignore how these people are still doing the same–as any of the recent demonstrations show. Most of all, remain unaware of actual history. Like about the formative experience of that generation–the Vietnam war. The huge demonstrations against. As the war went on, it became widely opposed, even by career military people and WWII vets, including members of Congress.
Look up the famous photo of the naked little girl, burned by napalm, running in terror. Also Sy Hersh’s groundbreaking investigation of the My Lai massacre. Both of which appeared in U.S. newspapers and on those TV networks you dismissed so cavalierly. Of course the power elite saw the error; not in conducting wars of empire, but in allowing the media to show it because the general public was horrified. Therefore subsequent generations didn’t see anything bad, weren’t taught accurate U.S. history., and don’t know how to find out. You seem a prime example.