Of course it's a victory for Iran

Iran has weathered a brutal attack by one of the world's biggest bullies and its proxy in the Middle East. How can that not be deemed a victory? Furthermore, the United States... or at least the U.S. Government has been exposed as having genocidal intent, framing both this war of aggression as fundamentally unprovoked and tending to justify anything that Iran now does (including the acquisition of nukes and retaining control over the Strait of Hormuz) as prudently defensive. Though an elderly, radical-religious government in Iran was deposed (brutally), a younger (but probably no less radical-religious) government has come in its place. And meanwhile, Iran retains a similar and proportionate military strength in the region, temporarily degraded but certainly not destroyed. So where is there any victory for Israel or the United States? Bibi and TACO Trump have only done the world and their own countries an obscene disservice.

Well duh!

Baby Trump writes: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will." Even a 5-year old can work out the ethics of such a proposition. If something you intend to do is likely to destroy an entire civilization, then you simply don't do it. It's a no-brainer. Hopefully, the American military will demonstrate a greater moral compass and more common sense than their Commander-In-Chief.

Talk about low energy and dementia!

And this Bozo has another 3 years in the cockpit.

Against my better judgement I watched Trump's speech on the state of his war. Boring! The scripted part and all the rest too. Scripted: This war lasted so many days, that war lasted so many days, and yada-yada. Unscripted: We've got more oil than anybody needs, and we'll be leaving Iran soon... but not before I commit this war crime and that war crime... all delivered in a tired, old voice.

But the greatest absurdity of that 20-minute, more-than-he-could-handle speech was: Donald failed "epically" to achieve the implicit  goal of his address. Clearly, he wanted to calm America's fears about rising prices and lost income; but instead (due to his demented rant), oil prices surged and the stock market tanked as soon as he dropped the mike. Somebody bring back Biden!

Long live Iran

In case anyone is wondering, in the current conflict my support is for Iran in a similar way as I have supported Ukraine (after the Russian invasion). There can be no doubt that the USA and Israel are the aggressors in the current war and that any threat to world peace lies primarily at the door of Israel and the USA. I give no credibility to the notion that Iran is an imminent existential threat to Israel, much less to the USA. Hence the attack on sovereign Iran and the assassination of its political leader and others (no matter how bad any of them were) cannot be justified. Neither Israel nor the USA was acting with the welfare of Iran's 92 million people in mind.

US Supreme Court rejects Trump tarriffs

Demonstrating a major shift in SC policy, by a 6-3 ruling the USSC has outlawed the Trump tarriffs. Given the fact that legal rulings are often more the product of naked self-interest than legal logic or reason - with the current Supreme Court possibly more flagrant than any predecessor - this ruling suggests that Trump's days of political dominance are now numbered. It may be that a significant majority of the SC justices have realized, at long last, that they've hitched their future to an aging and ailing donkey.

Sharks have begun feeding

 The price of flights out of Tel Aviv are now about 10 times higher than normal... and TACO Trump has already scheduled a trip to Oslo for receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

An end to the 8-day war?

Make no mistake about this. The ceasefire between Iran and Israel announced today is the very same one that was on the horizon 4 days ago... before TACO Trump intervened out of bloodlust and a pathological need for attention. The main difference is only that the current ceasefire is somewhat more fragile due to Baby's megalomania. Let's not forget - and certainly Iran won't forget - that TACO Trump left the G7 meeting, allegedly going back to Washington to get an "unconditional surrender" from Iran. When asked about Macron's remark about a potential ceasefire, Baby insulted Emmanuel, claiming that the French President generally gets things wrong. So has TACO Trump himself now gotten things wrong by proudly trumpeting as a great achievement the very ceasefire that he actually delayed?