How do you lose a war against a country with one-tenth the wealth of the U.S.?

Be the first to fire a missile. When the missile is a precision-guided cruise missile, and it hits the target it was aimed at, and the target turns out to be a school full of children, and the well-aimed missile kills 180 schoolgirls, you have already lost the war and just don’t know it yet.

Then, fail to articulate what the hell you think you’re doing by waging an undeclared war on a country that did nothing to precipitate the war other than having the name, “Iran.” Okay, Iran funded terrorist groups, but so did Syria, and so have other nations, and we did not bomb the leadership of Syria and other nations when their support of terrorism was going on. The question arises, what has changed about Iran that would make attacking it with tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons and other military materiel so irresistible?

The answer is nothing has changed except the man in the White House. Donald Trump is in his second term as president, and he was looking for something to do that would distract the public from his association with Jeffrey Epstein and his skyrocketing unpopularity. My goodness, he just fired Pam Bondi, one of his most loyal lickspittles, who wept as she begged to save her job, because she failed to protect him from being damaged by the Epstein files.

Add macho nonsense, chest-pounding testosterone driven insanity, and about eighty-nine hundred million trillion missing brain cells, and what do you get?

Forty days of war crimes, that’s what. Every missile we fired, every bomb we dropped, every weapon we deployed since February 28 has been a war crime. You could add rank, idiocity-dripping no-nothingism in there if sheer dumbness was a war crime, but sadly, the adults who sat down in Geneva and at the United Nations and made the rules of warfare didn’t think at the time that a deranged mental patient would ever attain the presidency of a major power, nor would he appoint a preschooler with vodka eyes to be in charge of the military of a mighty nation of nearly 350 million citizens.

In other words, it really didn’t take much more than a desire to lay waste to a small fortune of our national wealth to lose this war.

Here is the secret weapon hidden by Iran that brought Trump and the world to its knees. Iran had this squirreled away in an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bunker somewhere:

You know what it is? It’s a push-to-talk microphone for a single side band marine radio similar to the one that was used by the IRGC to transmit orders to all the oil tankers anchored in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman that the Strait of Hormuz was closed.

That’s all it took: A radio message sent out on the marine emergency frequency, channel 16, that the Strait is closed to all traffic, and they radioed the message again today in response to Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

That wasn’t supposed to happen! The White House, in the person of Karoline Leavitt, responding to reports that the cease fire deal to open the Strait of Hormuz had already broken down, told reporters that “The president has been made aware of those reports,” but that’s not what “Iranian officials” are “telling U.S. officials privately.”

But if you’re an oil tanker, who are you going to believe? The IRGC, or Karoline Leavitt?

Here’s the thing. It takes only one of Iran’s $20,000 drones to knock out an oil tanker, the way they did last week with the tanker sitting off the coast of Qatar. Large tankers can carry as much as two or three million barrels of oil. Crude was trading at about $90 a barrel today, so that’s $180 million worth of oil. You tell me which oil company or shipping company wants to violate an order from Iran not to transit the Strait of Hormuz on the threat of being blow up?

To the evident discomfort of Donald Trump today, his big ceasefire deal is being referred to in headline after headline as “fragile.” Now, I’m just guessing here, but that is not the word Trump wants to be associated with in any way, shape, or form.

When Trump announced the ceasefire last night, I called it fake. Nothing that has transpired today has changed my mind. The plain fact of the matter is that Trump had to threaten the use of nuclear weapons, substituting the words, “a whole civilization will die tonight,” but everyone knew exactly what he meant.

Trump wanted the world to know that he had his finger on the button, and he was willing to use it. Then he backed down, announcing that Iran had agreed to a ceasefire that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz. His announcement immediately sent stocks soaring and the price of oil down. That’s what he wanted. Money. On Truth Social last night, he claimed the deal with Iran was “a big day for world peace,” and that “big money will be made” while “We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just ‘hangin’ around’ in order to make sure that everything goes well.” He even predicted a “Golden Age of the Middle East!!!” complete with all three exclamation points. Next, his sons will be building a Trump resort overlooking Kharg Island to keep and eye on the money pipeline.

I think I’ve figured out what he really wants. Trump is waiting for Iran to offer him some kind of deal for the U.S. to get a portion of Iran’s oil revenues. He has already proposed that the U.S. will share in tolls that Iran says it will charge for passage of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Reports today said that at one dollar per barrel of oil, Iran could make as much as $90 billion in tolls over the next year.

Trump doesn’t like to wait, and he doesn’t like contracts. He will want a lump sum payment like the $500 million he got from Venezuela after kidnapping President Maduro. Remember that? He announced that the U.S. would handle the sale of Venezuelan oil and the $500 million was going into an account in Qatar that he personally controlled. Then his energy secretary, some white guy in a suit called Chris Wright, announced that the money had been transferred to the U.S. Treasury and that all future payments for Venezuelan oil would go to “an account in the U.S. Treasury,” as much as $5 billion “over the next few months.”

You’ve heard of money “sloshing around,” haven’t you? A billion here, five billion there…notice what nice, neat, round numbers they’re using. Who’s to say that in all these money transfers that finder’s fees aren’t lopped off and sent this way and that? There is so much evidence emerging of inflated Homeland Security contracts, inflated prices being paid for warehouses that have been standing empty for years that will be used to “house” immigrants on their way to being deported. It is quite clearly the way the Trump administration does business, just like it was the way the Trump Organization did business.

It’s all about being on the take and the money. Trump spent four years out of office kicking himself in the ass for not using the presidency to enrich himself the first time around. In fact, evidence recently emerged that he used some of the top-secret documents he stole when he left office to enrich himself while he was waiting to run again. So, the die was cast. He wasn’t going to make that mistake again.

I guess we have reached the sad nadir as a nation that we should be thankful Trump is an outrageous crook. The only thing that’s saving us, and the world, from Trump using a nuclear weapon is his greed, even though it’s clear after this week that if he could figure out a way to make a buck from blowing up a civilization and killing millions of people, he would.

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