However, the gang of thugs from Tel Aviv and Washington are little if any better than was Khamenei, and the legality of their attacks on the sovereign nation state of Iran are at best questionable. For Trump in Washington being a criminal breaking international law daily is no different to the professional house breaker plying their trade every night, it comes naturally. In Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu learned the art of genocide in the West Bank, Gaza and earlier in Southern Lebanon which he is attacking presently. This is not to mention charges of corruption levelled at him in Israel. Trump has made it clear, as he did in Venezuela, he will decide who takes over government in Iran after the Israelis and themselves have finished. It should be the Iranian people who decide their future, not Donald Trump.
It is my albeit qualified opinion Donald Trump is unstable, clinically or even criminally insane. One sentence he tells the Iranian people, in that unstable deranged sounding voice, to take control of their country. The next sentence, having told the people to take to the streets, he bombs the shit out of those same streets. The man is clearly unstable, for fucks sake get him locked away.
The Israelis have made it clear they want ‘regime change’, something the Americans deny is one of their goals. The following day that story changes as Trump starts ranting about who will take over the “government of Iran” and how he will “have a say in deciding who is the next government.” The thugs who assist Trump in his genocide - similar to Himmler, Goering, and Bormann assisted Hitler commit mass murder - are Vice President, J.D. Vance, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, Jared Kushner - Trump's Son in Law - who has nothing to do with government but still goes on official government trips discussing state business, who is a businessman and one of Trump's right-wing propagandists. This may show how close the relationship is between big business and government in the USA.
The question is, given this corporate relationship, is the present US regime a neo-fascist administration? One thug, Pete Hegseth, boasted; “all the Iranians will see as they look up to the skies will be US and Israeli airpower picking targets until they decide something different”. The Iranian people looking up to the skies are those Trump, on a good day, is encouraging to “take back their country”. Maybe Trump could drop bombs on them while they are attempting this task!!
The Iranians were in discussions with the Americans sorting out a deal over Iran’s nuclear programme when, while still in talks, the US and Israel struck. These talks were evidently a trick! It was the first Trump administration in 2016 who pulled out of a deal they were signatories to agreed back in 2015 under the previous Obama administration with Iran to curb their nuclear programme. The Iranians, the Europeans, Russia, China, and the USA were all in agreement with this deal when Trump, after taking up residence in the White House in 2016, just pulled the plug on the deal. No discussions with the Europeans or the Russians, let alone Iran, he just unilaterally decided it was a “bad deal”.
Scott Lucas of the University College Dublin (UCD) Clinton Institute stated:
The Iranians were in discussions with the Americans sorting out a deal over Iran’s nuclear programme when, while still in talks, the US and Israel struck. These talks were evidently a trick! It was the first Trump administration in 2016 who pulled out of a deal they were signatories to agreed back in 2015 under the previous Obama administration with Iran to curb their nuclear programme. The Iranians, the Europeans, Russia, China, and the USA were all in agreement with this deal when Trump, after taking up residence in the White House in 2016, just pulled the plug on the deal. No discussions with the Europeans or the Russians, let alone Iran, he just unilaterally decided it was a “bad deal”.
Scott Lucas of the University College Dublin (UCD) Clinton Institute stated:
I think we can establish the Israelis want regime change whereas the US want the leadership in Iran to accept two conditions then they can survive. One, they must give up their nuclear programme, civilian as well as military. Two, they have to agree to discuss Iran’s ballistic missile programme, in other words, the limits on numbers and size.
Trump claims the Iranians are or were close to developing a nuclear bomb. He has no evidence to support this apparently ludicrous claim as Scott Lucas stated, “Iran does not have a nuclear bomb, they are not even close to having a nuclear bomb or are they planning a nuclear bomb.” Has Trump made the whole nuclear bomb thing up? The Israeli and US airstrikes have hit a school killing many children making either Trump or Netanyahu, or both, child killers. Neither of these tyrants will lose sleep over this act of pedocide. Trump has ranted, in one of his worse moments; “we’re knocking the crap out of them” he told viewers on US television just after the school was obliterated! What kind of a monster is he, another Hitler?
Trump has been reportedly “scathing” with British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. According to Trump Starmer has been “unhelpful” because he, Starmer, for once had the backbone to stand up to Trump, or so it seemed! Trump claimed the “UK has been very uncooperative” simply because Starmer questioned the legality of these attacks on Iran. Eventually Starmer relented, or gave half way, by ambiguously allowing the US to use British airbases for “defensive actions” which covers a ‘multitude of sins’ and can have many interpretations.
Trump has been reportedly “scathing” with British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. According to Trump Starmer has been “unhelpful” because he, Starmer, for once had the backbone to stand up to Trump, or so it seemed! Trump claimed the “UK has been very uncooperative” simply because Starmer questioned the legality of these attacks on Iran. Eventually Starmer relented, or gave half way, by ambiguously allowing the US to use British airbases for “defensive actions” which covers a ‘multitude of sins’ and can have many interpretations.
The US President – of sorts – has (at the time of writing) told PM Starmer who is considering sending two Aircraft-Carriers to the Middle East; “we don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won”. Keir Starmer instead of shitting himself at this rebuff by Trump should be dancing in Downing Street, at last shaking off the dictatorship sometimes called the “special relationship”, which it is not, with the USA!
The US President continued using the language of a failed history student claiming Starmer “is no Winston Churchill”, referencing the wartime relationship between the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and US President Franklyn D Roosevelt. The circumstances during World War Two were completely different. Churchill wanted the US involved as allies in the war against Nazi Germany, and Roosevelt could not deliver due to election pledges. He was very apologetic but he had pledged to keep the US out of any “European wars” telling the US people; “your boys will not die in foreign wars”. This time it is Trump, as US President, who wants something from Britain so he can carry out illegal acts of terrorism. Donald Trump claims the so-called “special relationship between the UK and US is not what it once was.”
The most annoying aspect about this situation apart from having to listen to Trump's lies is the response of the European political leaders. They all appear shit scared of the tyrant, just as their predecessors were of Hitler who mocked British leader, Neville Chamberlain. Now Trump seems to be courting other more compliant European leaders including Germany’s Friedrich Merz, probably telling him he can offer a ‘special relationship’ now the British have become “uncooperative” - which the Chancellor will bite his hand off for.
The most annoying aspect about this situation apart from having to listen to Trump's lies is the response of the European political leaders. They all appear shit scared of the tyrant, just as their predecessors were of Hitler who mocked British leader, Neville Chamberlain. Now Trump seems to be courting other more compliant European leaders including Germany’s Friedrich Merz, probably telling him he can offer a ‘special relationship’ now the British have become “uncooperative” - which the Chancellor will bite his hand off for.
Why, oh why, do European leaders place so much importance on being well in with a criminally insane man? Twenty-Six County Minister for Foreign Affairs, Helen McEntee, having been asked “eight times” to clarify her position on the legality of Trump and Netanyahu’s attacks, “stopped short of calling the US and Israelis attacks on Iran a breach of international law” (Irish Daily Mirror 6th march). Perhaps the reluctance of the Twenty-Six County administration to really attack Trump and his cohort Netanyahu is to a certain extent understandable. We are a small country which is already forcibly partitioned by a larger regionally powerful neighbour to the east, perhaps the administration maybe worried about antagonising an even larger power, the USA, to the west particularly with a lunatic at the wheel! Taoiseach, Micheal Martin, and Tanaiste, Simon Harris, should definitely not go – but they will – to Washington for the Saint Patricks Day festivities. Consider such an invite equal to same from Vlad the Impaler! Do not associate Ireland with a mass murderer!!
Who will stop Trump and his partner in war crimes, Netanyahu? Trump has already proved he has no regard for so-called international law and he just ignores the United Nations. Remember Hitler and his contempt for the ‘League of Nations’? Appeasement after appeasement led ultimately to the Second World War. Trump has taken Venezuela, again dictating regime change, and who would succeed Nicolas Maduro, deposed using force by the US, then threatening to invade Greenland, and supplying the Israelis with ordnance to bomb Gaza. Hitler had invaded Austria, and Czechoslovakia before Poland in 1939 in much the same way as Trump has carried out his takeovers.
Who will stop Trump and his partner in war crimes, Netanyahu? Trump has already proved he has no regard for so-called international law and he just ignores the United Nations. Remember Hitler and his contempt for the ‘League of Nations’? Appeasement after appeasement led ultimately to the Second World War. Trump has taken Venezuela, again dictating regime change, and who would succeed Nicolas Maduro, deposed using force by the US, then threatening to invade Greenland, and supplying the Israelis with ordnance to bomb Gaza. Hitler had invaded Austria, and Czechoslovakia before Poland in 1939 in much the same way as Trump has carried out his takeovers.
Were the actions of Hitler used as a blueprint by Trump? There are comparisons, very stark comparisons, between Trump in 2026 and Hitler 1939! European leaders, in sharp contrast to their reactions to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, appear to tolerate and even agree with anything Trump does. Imagine if he decides his dislike of Keir Starmer is so great it is time for ‘regime change’ in London? Or, if the ‘socialists’ won a Presidential election in France who Trump disapproves of, what then? ‘Regime change’ in Paris? What of the Dublin government if Trump gets annoyed with the Dail? Time for Irish ‘regime change’?
Liberal democracy is dead in some of Trump’s immediate satellite neighbours and now he is doing so in the Middle-East. Europe could be next and to think differently is possibly storing up trouble. A European trade embargo on the US may be costly to the middle-classes but the US bourgeoisie would feel the heat as well. War is not a suggestion but trade barriers on Trump's USA are feasible.
Something must be done and quickly before the whole world is under Trumps jackboot!! This is not a war it is the obliteration of a militarily weak country by a super power and their cohorts in Tel Aviv. Admittedly the Iranian regime are not good people, they are murdering bastards, but their overthrow is for the people of Iran not Donald ‘lunatic’ Trump! It is akin to gangsters falling out and the Saint Valentines Day massacre in 1929. The hoodlums in Washington and Tel Aviv have fallen out with the weaker but equally crooked gangsters in Tehran.
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| Caoimhin O’Muraile is Independent Socialist Republican and Marxist. |
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