It's Time For The Magical Thinking About The Costs Of Trump's Failed War To End

Simon Rosenberg

Greetings all. The political discourse in the US, driven by the Trump regime’s endless lying and gaslighting, continues to struggle to capture the extraordinary damage that Trump’s failed war has done to the world, and to America. Our Congress still has not held hearings on the war, or its challenging aftermath; rather this week the hollow men leading the Republican Party are focused on finding a way to fund DHS and reauthorizing FISA without making any structural reforms to either. It’s a confirmation that bodies can keep twitching after the host - or in this case, MAGA - dies.

Trump has lead America and the world into a grave, historic crisis, one which given our leader’s madness, no longer has an easy resolution - as we’ve seen in the news this morning. Iran isn’t even participating in the talks Trump announced, and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, because our military do not honor the cease fire, blocking Iranian ports and now seizing an Iranian cargo ship:

Every day the crisis drags on the damage to the world and our economy gets worse. Here’s an excerpt from a front page NYT article today, “The Forces of Scarcity Hitting Asia May Soon Spread Across the World” (gift link):

When the war in Iran started on Feb. 28, Asia expected to see serious, gradual impacts from losing access to a huge portion of the world’s oil and gas. But the conflict’s economic and social impacts have hit the region harder and faster than officials and experts expected.