Self-destruct / A change has come over Trump |
Geostrategists used to fret over the “Eastern Question” or the Maginot Line or the Missile Gap. Today there is no doubt that the overriding geostrategic question of our day is whether the President of the United States is playing with a full deck. With the US-Israeli war on Iran failing, and depleting much of both countries’ non-nuclear defenses, with the Strait of Hormuz closed and western economies spiraling toward depression, Donald Trump greeted the world on Easter morning with a message to Iran’s leaders to “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards,” then threatened the next day to wipe out Iranian civilization.
He then denounced the Pope for having imparted Catholic teachings on just and unjust war. As a kind of grand finale, Trump posted an image of himself dressed up as Jesus Christ and appearing to heal the dead, with light glowing out of his palm where Jesus’ stigmata would be. The writer Matthew Walther, besides describing the post as, for Catholics, “the most profoundly offensive act imaginable, a grave public sin that brings shame to, and invites God’s judgment upon, our nation,” also noted that in the long annals of western government, replete as they are with mad kings, no leader had presented himself as Jesus in quite this way.
The overriding geostrategic questionof our day is whether the Presidentis playing with a full deck
The overriding geostrategic questionof our day is whether the Presidentis playing with a full deck
In this context, the President’s fondness........