The question ahead of the latest summit with Netanyahu on Tuesday is what the U.S. president will lose — either a war, on the one hand, or on the other, the global economy and the American electorate.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump talking in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025. (White House Photo /Daniel Torok)
By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News
I was talking to an investor friend the other day, asking whether I should get into one of these price-lock arrangements with the people who supply our heating oil. He usually has sound answers to these kinds of questions, but this time I could practically hear him shrug over the telephone as he said in anxious tones, “How’s Trump going to end this!? He has no way out. It’s rattling the markets now. What’s the way forward? Nobody can see an exit plan.”
Donald J. Trump can’t either, it seems.
Obliging the Zionists who own him, Trump wandered into a war there was never any chance of winning, and the military option seems to be collapsing as we speak. He has betrayed the Iranians so often they have shut down all diplomatic channels. The Trumpster doesn’t even know how to lose this reckless war: This is the net of it, so it seems to me.
I have seen Washington pols out on limbs before, usually having got there by way of their own foolish machinations and miscalculations. Rarely, if ever, have I seen a political figure crawl out on one and turn to saw it off as he or she sits there.
All last week Trump continued to threaten a major escalation of the war he let Bibi Netanyahu talk him into starting last February. “Next week it gets really bad for them,” Trump said in a Fox News interview broadcast in mid–July, “next week” being the week just passed. “We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”
Last Friday, with no one at the table, Trump told Barak Ravid, the White House’s Zionist mouthpiece at Axios, “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision.”
A day later, following a conference with military advisers and members of his cabinet, Trump’s decision turned out to be no knocking out of anything. It is coming out now that the U.S. military is running low on weapons — air-defense systems, “stand-off” missiles, etc. — and running very low on petroleum reserves.
The New York Times, in the cotton-wool English it has perfected over the decades, reported as follows in its Saturday editions:
“President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran, with particular concern that intensifying the war could dangerously drain the Pentagon’s already diminished stockpile of Patriot antimissile interceptors and other air-defense munitions in the Middle East.
The threat to interceptor stockpiles is one of many considerations that have made a return to major combat operations a hugely risky endeavor, administration officials say. Mr. Trump and his top aides are also uneasy about the prospect of a widening war in the Middle East, the alienation of key Gulf allies who are vulnerable to Iranian attack, a global economic crunch, and growing energy and refugee crises.”
This is not what I’m reading other than in the Times. I’m reading that senior Pentagon officials with heads on their shoulders, which excludes Pete “High–T” Hegseth, the defense secretary, are clamoring for the White House to bail out of the war with Iran because the U.S. military finds itself perilously out of its depth.
Barak Ravid — him again — reported in Axios last week that Brad Cooper, who heads the Central Command, has told the White House it is time to stop the bombing campaign “because it has reached the limit of its effectiveness.”
A Major Moment
This is a big moment. Reporting out of Washington has it that the Trumpster has abruptly discovered the limits of his power and this sits very badly with him.
This is true on both counts but not the half of it. It is the late-phase imperium that has slammed into the limits of its potency, and it would be hard to overstate the world-historical significance of this new reality.
In the way of limits, the United States has relied on drawdowns from its Strategic Petroleum Reserves to control oil prices and defer the crisis to come in available supplies, but this finger-in-the-dike strategy now reaches the point it is no longer tenable. Releases from the S.P.R. since the U.S.–Israeli aggression began on Feb. 28 come to 172 million barrels. This leaves the reserve at about 300 million barrels, against a legally mandated minimum of 250 million barrels.
You do the math, as they say: This is simply not a sustainable circumstance.
I am reminded of that old, bitter line in The Sun Also Rises. “How did you go bankrupt?” one of Hemingway’s characters asks another. “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” The Trump regime seems headed from the first way to the second.
Karl Miller, a conservative commentator on economics and geopolitics — the Washington Examiner, the Manhattan Institute — added a telling detail to this arithmetic in a report that comes to me via Larry Johnson’s Sonar 21 website.
Miller describes a Pentagon operation to purchase fuel and send abroad a good deal of what it purchases. This is covert and therefore unaccountable, as so much of what the U.S. military does, turns out to be. From May to July, Miller writes, the Pentagon sent overseas some 160 million barrels of product, distillate and jet fuel, to keep its operation in West Asia running.
U.S. aircraft on the flight deck of USS Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 28, 2026, in support of the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran. (U.S. Department of Defense /Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
I cannot confirm Miller’s numbers. But unless I am missing something, by his research and calculations the U.S. war machine’s consumption in just these past three months is the equivalent of 90–odd percent of the S.P.R.’s drawdown since the war began.
I am not surprised to read that Trump, as of his retreat from his “massive attack” last Friday, is now talking about negotiating a new ceasefire agreement with those he recently referred to as “scum.”
An Axios report over the weekend (and what would the Trump regime do without Axios?) quoted Trump saying, “We’re talking to [the Iranians] right now. I think they’re getting more and more serious as the days go by. We’re locked and loaded and ready to go, but we’re talking to them.”
Locked and loaded, we’re talking to them: This makes two bits of nonsense in one sentence. As it now develops, the United States is neither locked and loaded because it does not have enough in the inventories to lock and load, nor, certainly, is it talking to the Iranians for the simple reason they have point-blank declined any further negotiations with the Trump regime.
From The Hormuz Letter’s post on “X” after Trump announced his retreat last Friday:
“The cancellation came despite Iran comprehensively rejecting any negotiations with the U.S. throughout this week and confirming it is not talking to the U.S. under any circumstances, and came directly after Trump claimed Iran is talking to the U.S. and that major progress is being made. The decision also followed an Omani delegation arriving in Tehran for talks on a new arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with Trump claiming additional progress there, though Iran denies any talks are taking place.
Additionally, a source close to Iran’s [Mohammad Bagher] Ghalibaf assesses the operational silence of the past 15 hours as a prelude to an intensification of attacks and not a new attempt at negotiations, with the U.S. military still preparing plans for a return to major combat operations.”
This is the price the Trump regime pays for the president’s insistence that two greed-head New York landlords, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the one a friend from property dealings the other his son-in-law, are qualified to conduct diplomatic negotiations with Iran, Russia and who knows who else. I always knew Trump’s vulgar contempt for expertise and his primitive understanding of statecraft would come at a cost.
Now he is paying it.
Treading Water With Zionists
Trump overseeing Operation Epic Fury at Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 28. (White House photo by Daniel Torok / Public Domain)
Trump cannot even conduct a war, to say nothing of winning it, and the adversary refuses to speak to him because his serial betrayals have devastated the trust that is essential to effective diplomatic contacts. Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, it seems.
Trump is stuck, even, with the Zionist regime. As Bibi Netanyahu’s latest summit with Trump drew near, the speculation was that the Israeli PM would persuade the ever-manipulable Trump to restart the military operation and the Israelis would rejoin it.
Trump preempted Bibi with his retreat last Friday, the timing of which was surely calculated to anticipate Netanyahu’s arrival Tuesday.
Trump should listen to Zo, as The New York Post delightfully calls the mayor of New York, and arrest Bibi when he steps onto the White House portico Tuesday. But for the moment, the regime seems to be treading water with the Zionists. This in itself looks to me a subtle turn in U.S.–Israeli relations, about which more in a moment.
What will the Trumpster do? This is the question on many minds just now. In brief, Trump is going to have to decide what it is he will lose and then figure out how to lose it — either a war, on the one hand, or on the other the global economy, the American electorate and the midterm elections.
My immediate answer: While Trump does not like to lose anything, he will lose a war that has so far remained regional but appears on the brink of enlarging.
As of this past weekend he seems to accept that he cannot win this one because he can no longer fight it, and the economic consequences of continuing it are about to become unmanageable. Trump’s larger war — in his mind, where everything that matters to him takes place — is for a “legacy” he seems to think merits him a place on Mount Rushmore. This is the war he will wage now.
Accepting defeat in the Iran war will be a messy schmear the American public cannot read for what it is, and it will never be called a defeat. In my view we are in for some variant of “peace with honor” — another name for the other side’s victory, as coined after Vietnam’s triumph in 1975. When and how this is presented remains to be seen, but I do not see any alternative open to Donald J, Trump.
There is a large implication here that must not be missed. If Trump chooses this way back from the limb he crawled out on, what is already apparent as a new divide between Washington and the Zionist rxegime will grow significantly wider.
I have previously argued in this space and in The Floutist that Trump would continue aggressing against Iran because he has been so thoroughly a captive of the Israelis. For Trump it was Israel über alles, as I put it earlier in the war.
But there now seems to be no more obliging the psychotic, war-obsessed Netanyahu and all the monied Zionists Trump has served until now. If he betrays them — and absent a a crystal ball or a Ouija board I expect him to do so out of sheer self-interest — we will at that moment be witnessing the making of history.
Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, lecturer and author, most recently of Journalists and Their Shadows, available from Clarity Press or via Amazon. Other books include Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century. His Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been restored after years of being censored.
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Thanks Patrick for another great report.
I will remind everyone remind James Jesus Angleton was a devout Zionist. CIA has historically employed devout Zionist and seems to be teeming with numerous Zionist and Zionist sympathizers.
Edward Teller behaved as a Zionist, very strong supporter who entertained Israeli spies. A Jew who claimed to be agnostic.
Zalman Shapiro was a leader of a Zionist group at one time.
JFK & RFK were working to have many fund raising Zionist registered as foreign agents for their ongoing activities, circa April 1962 – Israillobby Archives @ IRmep.com.
CIA stood idly by while the hit on JFK occurred because Israeli intelligence got the drop on CIA & JJA, IMO.
Fossil fuel powers armies ; no fuel, no war. It also powers other systems, of course, but they can be handled more easily with renewables.
Trump will lose the war, the midterms, and the global economy. He’s on a losing streak!
Excellent essay by PL!
“While Trump does not like to lose anything, he will lose a war that has so far remained regional but appears on the brink of enlarging.”
Very true.
Zelensky is baiting Iran right now in order to ultimately make Washington a direct co-belligerent in the Ukraine war against Russia. Not just an obvious proxy, but a direct adversary to Russia in the Donbas and all of the Ukraine.
The Jewish supremacist oligarchs in Kiev are but one side of the same coin as the Jewish supremacists in Tel Aviv. Some of them see a possible World War 3 as beneficial for them.
I’m concerned, because I believe the last time BB and bozo got together was just before they hit Iran. So, I wondering what they’ll do tomorrow.
Hi, BoB, “wondering what they’ll do tomorrow?”
…..“Many people” think, “IT’S CLEAR AS A BELL”, $ell what’s on the table, yesterday, i.e.,
*“Seek Sweeping US-Israel Defense Tech Integration” by moving on integrating US & Israeli Militaries via the 2027 NDAA Provision, Section 224 of the drafted National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): 1) “the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” would require the defense secretary to designate an executive agent to coordinate U.S.-Israel defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, integration and industrial cooperation. 2) It specifically describes the provision as covering bilateral defense technology work, integration and industrial cooperation.” 3) The core provision of the Act, the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, was incorporated as Section 224 of the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2027 in the House version of the bill; &, subsequently renumbered as Section 219 of NDAA 2027 in the House version, and Section 1217 of NDAA 2027 in the Senate version.”
…..“Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away; but, now, it looks as though they’re here to stay,” Feb 12, 2026, the United States-Israel FUTURES Act, is a proposed [ACT OF CONGRESS of 2026]; H.R. 7540, was introduced into Congress on February 12, 2026.
….. The USIFA defines “The United States-Israel Framework for Upgraded Technologies, Unified Research, and Enhanced Security Act of 2026, also known as the United States-Israel FUTURES Act, is a proposed [ACT OF CONGRESS] cosponsored in 2026 by Senators Ted Budd & Kirsten Gillibrand in the US Senate; &, Representative Ronny Jackson in the US House of Representatives, to [EXPAND] US-Israel military cooperation.
And, there’s all this weight to be lost, i.e., “SAVE America Act”, H.R.7296. Jan 30, 2026, – 119th Congress (2025-2026) Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act or the SAVE America Act. This bill requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote, and requires photo identification to vote, in federal elections.”
“Pray for Birdies” TY.
* hxxps://nonvenipacem.org/2026/06/01/why-did-congress-just-move-to-integrate-us-and-israeli-militaries/
* hxxps://www.military.com/2027-ndaa-provision-seeks-sweeping-us-israel-defense-tech-integration
“Now he is paying it.”
If not held accountable, the mass murderer trump and his ilk are personally not going to pay anything.
In the contrary-
Some kind of resume will likely happen soon.
The market indexes, after now been made to drop, must be made to rise again.
Like several times already.
Puts and calls (on oil and other assets) always placed in time (by the insiders).
This is all what it is about for the mass murderers.
Extracting multi- millions if not billions.
CONCLUDING, “If, You’re NOT @ The Table, You’re On The Menu.”
…..IMO, DJ “Binged Out, BIGLY!” Trump is cooked! See photo above: La Borrachera de Mar-a-Lago, i.e., “Overseeing” another, bender, ‘Operation Epic Fury.’ “The Bea$t, just, won’t go to sleep!” The consequences, MSM binge watches “The Donald”, the US Congress binge on “hearings” focused on Trump’s Board of Executioners, ‘overseeing’ Operation Epic Fury NOT exercising “their” right for “Operation Dump Trump-Vance, Inc.-Israel.” Save America, NOW!
Everybody, One. Everybody, Two. Everybody wants to LIVE FREE of’ Trump’s-Vance’s, Inc.-Israel’s modus operandi (MOD), “Kill, first. Think, later,” a Domestic & Foreign Policy.
“It is coming out now that the U.S. military is running low on weapons — air-defense systems, “stand-off” missiles, etc. — and running very low on petroleum reserves.” 100%. TY, Patrick
“the alienation of key Gulf allies who are vulnerable to Iranian attack” i.e., Trump’s Board of Peace w/financial contributions, from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Kuwait.
…..“Someday I won’t be here. The United Nations will be. I think it is going to be much stronger, and the Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly.” DJ “Lucifer Lives Large” Trump-Vance, Inc.-Israel. (www)
“Pray for Birdies!” TY.
I can see security is really airtight at the Command Post at the Alligator’s Nest in the Florida swamps. Curtains separating the top-secret command post from the rest of the luxury house, with onlookers peering in from between the curtains. I guess everyone wanted to get their Prediction Market bets down correctly.
Patrick Lawrence’s thoughtful article is exactly on point, but it contains one inaccurate and disturbing sentence: “Obliging the Zionists who own him, Trump wandered into a war there was never any chance of winning.” The Zionists referred to are despicable, but they do not “own” Trump and they did not “oblige” him to enter an illegal, immoral war. It is thoroughly misleading to picture Trump as a hapless tool of some Zionist elite, when he and his oligarchical backers are the true global elite, responsible for millions of casualties in their endless imperial wars. Mr. Lawrence, I greatly admire your work, but we can’t end this vicious system unless we understand the U.S. and European oligarchy’s role in sustaining it.
American economic and political elites do not belong to a single official state religion or unified church structure; rather, historical and sociological data show that America’s top wealth holders span Mainline Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, and the religiously unaffiliated:- Wiley Online Library
Years ago, 1978 in fact, almost 50 years ago, a book was published in the Danish language, which was later officially published in English as ‘Revolt from the Center’.
Being that the US today is a Duopoly, between Right or Wrong, from both sides, how much more appropriate it would be if the revolt occurred from a third Independent Middle Ground
[Core Ideas
• Compromise: Finding a shared choice that takes small parts from both opposite sides.
• Neutrality: Standing apart from extreme groups so you can remain fair and open.
• Balance: Mixing two different styles or ideas into a new, milder option.]
From “parallel processed” data collation.
Obviously, the Blame Game is a poor excuse for where we are at today!
Sir, can you explain to me how it is possible the Zionists do not own Trump! The Israeli Zionist didn’t seem any problem having the U.S. Zionist, President Donald Trump or President Joe Biden signing on and materially supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
I’m of the opinion some Zionist elite, some of the most wealthy of the global elite are Zionist. Or do you not consider Musk, Gates, and a good many others Zionist.
Spotting leopards among human animals!
Question to ChatGPT:
Are American Plutocratic Christian Zionist Elitist goals – such as those of “Musk, Gates, and a good many others, including the U.S. Zionist Trump, and his autocratic regime”, as well as his predecessor Biden, and his ‘democratic’ clique – equivalent to the goals of purported Radical Secularist Israeli Zionists?
Referring to Chat GPT, for elucidative clarification:
The short answer (to the above question) is no. That framing combines several distinct categories and attributes that don’t reliably go together, and there isn’t evidence that these individuals share a single unified set of goals.
A few distinctions help clarify the comparison:
• Christian Zionism is a religious movement, primarily among some evangelical Christians, that supports Israel based on (mythological) theological beliefs.
• Zionism is a broad movement supporting Jewish self-determination in (Palestine)/Israel. It includes secular, religious, liberal, conservative, and nationalist currents.
• Plutocracy refers to political influence by the wealthy.
• Elitist is a value-laden term rather than a precise political category.
• Radical Zionism is not a standard analytical term. If someone uses it, they usually mean a more nationalist or expansionist form of Zionism, but the term lacks a universally accepted definition, (yet it is, in fact, a precise political category, therefore, the term Plutocracy is a category of class; definitely as precise a political category as Elitist).
With Hegseth invoking God to bless his American warriors raining Death and Destruction beyond Iran’s reach from the sky, the evidence points to God being on Iran’s side!
Putin and Pashinyan argued, what is happening between Yerevan and the Kremlin? Friends, today, July 28, at 21:00 (G +4),hxxps://www.youtube.com/live/z-VcOxbr2Xs ?
Armenian-Russian relations are in a deep crisis. What is the way out? Trump’s attack on Iran is inevitable. The US is withdrawing from the Middle East. Trump will attack Iran on the order of Bibi Trump will burn his fingers on Iran’s Mount Pickax. Trump is ready to continue implementing the Zionist plans to destroy Iranian civilization. Expert assessment by the Academy of Geopolitics. At the beginning of this article, we presented the Trump administration’s actions in the Middle East: see here — «Why do Bedouins need nuclear weapons?» — Nevertheless, Washington’s overall rhetoric demonstrates its intention to maintain an active presence in the region and continue implementing a strategy aimed at deterring adversaries and expanding diplomatic ties with allies. The main theme of manipulation for the CIA and Mossad’s nuclear security chiefs is the possibility that Iran will allegedly use its existing uranium, enriched to 60%, and increase it to weapons-grade levels—90%—using a relatively small number of surviving centrifuges. Before the 2003 attack on Iraq, the CIA and Mossad chiefs, along with the British MI6, managed to «convince» the UN that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and would soon attack Zionists in Israel… But Iran is not Iraq.To replicate the effect achieved at Fordow, several conditions must be met simultaneously: American industry must replenish its stockpile of GBU-57 heavy bunker buster bombs; The US Air Force must complete preparations for a highly complex operation comparable in scale to Midnight Hammer….«Trump will use B1 aircraft in the coming days to attack Iran’s Pickax-Kirk Mountain nuclear centrifuges. Armenians of the Persian Gulf states, beware.» «Israel, England, and Turkey will join Trump’s barbaric attack on Iran» —
The day has come: the Israeli Prime Minister will attend Lindsey Graham’s funeral in the United States. Official memorial services for US Senator Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly in early July at the age of 71, will be held on July 28 and 29. For more on the assassination of the extremist Graham, see here: «Have you discovered oil, gold, copper, lithium, or uranium in your country? Don’t be too quick to rejoice, because Trump’s archers (head eaters) Witkoff and Kushner are rushing to you right now» — h
.. . Lindsey Graham was well known as one of the most staunch supporters of Israel in the US Congress. Following the news of Senator Graham’s death, Netanyahu expressed his deepest condolences, emphasizing Graham’s role in strengthening the strategic partnership between the two countries. Arayik Sargsyan, Academician, President of the Academy of Geopolitics of Armenia, Former Honorary Consul of Macedonia in Armenia
This article mistakenly assumes a conversation between sane human beings.
The important moment will be when Trump’s Rasputin, the crazy preacher lady who speaks in tongues and says that angels are coming to the rescue makes her recommendations. The modern Rasputin will of course say that she is talking with Gawd Awful himself.
The unconditional release of Iran’s frozen assets would be a good first step toward negotiation and resolution of the conflict.
He’s even lucky to have the one way out of his quagmire!
There is no point in continuing to flog old adages about elections, when in fact elections have zero impact on US policy, especially foreign policy, and that has been known for a decade now:
hxxps://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/news/2018/page-democracy-in-america.html
Moreover, elections, in the future, will be even more choreographed, as any real anti-war opposition, will be in prison:
hxxps://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/13/trumps-attempt-to-abridge-free-speech/
hxxps://consortiumnews.com/2026/07/24/us-house-committee-targets-non-profit-press-freedom/
So it was an oligarchy, and its moving to outright autocracy.
Best to skip the theoretics then and move to talk about where things actually stand: what comes next when the Miriam Adelson owned frontman, gets his marching orders from the other Miriam Adelson owned frontman, that is higher up than him in the puppet heirachy.
A scenario worth considering:
1. Trump and Netanyahu/Mileikowsky both realise (in private) they can’t defeat Iran militarily, at least conventionally.
2. Netanyahu is actually in Washington to urgently push Trump into using all means possible to steal Iran’s 60% U235.
3. Trump and Netanyahu fanatically, psychotically, are on a path to destroy Iran completely but have very little time to do it because the Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb Straits won’t be opened any time soon without it — in order to (perhaps) avert a catastrophic collapse of global capitalism, otherwise likely in about a month.
4. Once the 60% U235 is ‘captured’ and Iran has no chance of responding in kind, Netanyahu will urge Trump’s approval/permission to nuke Iran.
5. Trump will give his assent easily, knowing full well that Netanyahu will be his (and more importantly the US’s) fall guy for a nuclear attack that otherwise would have meant armageddon if the US did it.
6. If 4 and 5 are accomplished, the psychopath Netanyahu will definitely do it.
It would be surprising if this scenario weren’t aired at some point in the Trump-Netanyahu meeting.
With Trump and Netanyahu driving this conflict it seems plausible, even likely, that the nuclear option is being discussed.
Too bad you didn’t take a science class in school. Uranium enriched to 60% U-235 could not make a firecracker explode … no matter what Israeli and Zionist propaganda artist say on a regular basis. Which means that Iran is as defenseless now as they will be after your Hollywood fantasy commando operation that you envision. Iran does not have a bomb today, no matter how many times that Big Lie is repeated.
Beside, US-Israel already tried this once, and had several transport planes and helicopters destroyed on the ground outside the nuke facilities at Isfahan. The Greatest Liar in the world, and even the news media that pretends opposition to him, claimed that this was a rescue attempt on an American pilot who had crashed 100s of miles away.
Bibi and Israel would be Trump’s and the U.S.’s fall guy for a nuclear attack “that would otherwise have meant armageddon if the U.S. did it”? Once the nuclear genie is out of the bottle, questions of whether Israel acted in consort with the U.S. or went rogue, or whether tactical or strategic weapons were used, will become instantly irrelevant. Russia and China will be forced to respond in kind because they will know full well that if they don’t and Iran is overrun or even just successfully boxed in, they would most assuredly have “next” — Russia has already very publicly and pointedly warned Israel of this. The responses will demand immediate counter-responses and the whole situation will slip out of anyone’s control in very short order. The evangelicals will get their armageddon, but not any return and thousand year rule by Jesus because there won’t be anyone left around for Him to rule.
No way the empire surrenders to Iran. Patrick’s argument is logical. But there is no logic to what we are witnessing.
Mr Lawrence’s suggests is that is in Trump’s self-interest to betray (Lawrence’s word) “Netanyahu and all the monied Zionists Trump has served until now.”
The only way Trump MIGHT survive that politically and biologically is if he promises and succeeds in getting the 2027 NDAA passed in the senate with Section 219 intact, it already having passed the House.
That would more comprehensively bind future presidents to the warmongering Zionist entity. It would be a total horror & would ensure war with Iran into the foreseeable future … BUT it might not satisfy Netanyahu’s near-term self-interest of winning his upcoming election to stay out of prison.
Then the empire will be destroyed. That photo of the aircraft carriers shows a waste of money on death and destruction that could have been used to feed, clothe, house and provide free health care for everyone.