Trump Makes Good On His Gangster Threat Of Violence Against Iran

 Trump pretended to want a "deal" with Iran. What he wants is submission to his terms. So he has unleashed B-2 bombers carrying 14 30,000lb bombs on Iran, with a submarine attacking with Tomahawk cruise missiles for good measure. Trump brags that his violent aggression "has completely, totally obliterated" Iran's entire nuclear program, which is far from true. (As indeed is so very very much of Trump's obnoxious blather far from true.) His alcoholic rapist War Secretary, Peter Hegseth, crowed that "Iran's nuclear ambitions have been obliterated." Really? Their ambitions? Probably not.

Trump had tried to fake-out the Iranians, having said he would make a decision about attacking in two weeks. But there are reports that the Iranians prudently removed some enriched uranium and equipment from likely target sites before the bombs and warheads struck.

Trump is solidly in the tradition of U.S. imperialist aggression. The history of the U.S. is a history of expansion and domination through violence. Starting with the subjugation and near extermination of the native Americans, the invasion of Mexico in 1846, ultimately stealng half of Mexico's national territory, the subjugation of Hawaii, the war with Spain in 1898, seizing Spain's "possessions" including Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and grabbing a chunk of Cuba for a naval base (and later prison and torture center) at Guantanamo Bay, the occupation of Haiti and the installation of the nightmarish Duvalier regime, the numerous coups that installed fascist (often times military), dictatorships, the war on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Obama coup in Ukraine in 2014, laying the ground for the eventual Russian invasion and war there- hey this is a long sentence and it is far from all inclusive! The point is, starting from day one, the U.S. has been an empire. Understand what empires are: they are criminal enterprises. Like the Mafia, they use force, violence, intimidation, and threats to extort wealth from others. In the case of imperialism, the labor and resources of other countries are unjustly exploited or outright expropriated.

Trump claimed he offered Iran a "deal." That is not true. He put forth an ultimatum. Iran is allowed NO nuclear program of ANY kind, AND must dismantle its ballistic missile program and destroy its missiles. It is already defenseless against constant Israeli aggression and war crimes. Iran was to be stripped of even its very weak means of retaliation against Israel's attacks.

"God Bless You All!"? What is up with the sick, phony piety? It's like Mafiosi attending Catholic mass. Wrapping criminality in the sham moral virtue of religion.