Tenured insanity is set to return after the midterm elections in the United States.  In October, US President Donald Trump seemed to ice the ongoing conflict against Iran with the dismissive promise that it would be dealt with after 3rd November.  This could involve the renewal of force so far shown to be woefully incapable of bringing Tehran to heel.  “Somebody asked me before, when will the war in Iran end?” He stated during a campaign stop in Lubbock, Texas last month.  “I said, ‘Whenever I want it to end.’  It’ll be very quick, but we have to have it end properly, with total and complete – a total statement they will never have a nuclear weapon.”

The Pentagon is certainly adding to the military complement in the Persian Gulf, having deployed the USS Theodore Roosevelt, with various amphibious landing ships with Marines, from San Diego, in late September.  Towards the end of October, Associated Press reported that the latest deployments would inflate the number of US sailors and marines to over 20,000, including hundreds of aircraft.

To this can be added the incessant prodding of the Israelis.  The New York Times on 21st October cited US officials, among various appraised sources, that US-Israeli military drills had been taking place for “a short but intensive operation”, including flyovers over Iraq to simulate strikes. Proposed targets include energy sites, nuclear facilities that were supposedly so thoroughly eliminated in previous attacks, and the usual operations against the missile and drone arsenals that always seem to diminish without any notable effect.

On 2nd November, however, the schizophrenic leader of Freedom’s Land........

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