The Bad Guy is dead, yet the President is outraged that his lack of knowledge and support for Europeans and NATO is resulting in his own teeth being kicked in:
President Donald Trump has berated and threatened America’s NATO allies. Now he wants these same countries to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz — and their response has not exactly been enthusiastic.
“This is not our war, we have not started it,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters Monday.
That appeared to sum up the mood among U.S. allies, with leaders from Berlin to London expressing reservations about Trump’s demands and indicating they had no immediate plans to provide military support to reopen the crucial waterway.
Iran effectively closed the trade route in response to the American-Israeli assault launched last month. This sent global oil prices surging and threatened an international economic shock, something economists had warned about before the war began. [NBC News]
Considering how poorly Trump treated the Germans, the Danes, the Brits, the Ukrainians, he shouldn’t be surprised that he’s getting no support in what amounts to his hour of need. But there’s more to this than a spat that pleases President Putin.
Think about it: Our abused allies are suffering roughly the same material pain as are the Americans due to the Straits of Hormuz being closed, yet their assistance is not being eagerly thrust upon us. Why? What we’re seeing is what separates professional politicians and leaders from arrogant amateurs like Trump and his minions: The ability to think more than a quarter of a year ahead.
Our allies are deadly tired of the foolishness and bullying of President Trump, and, looking ahead, they want their big North American ally, the Arsenal of Democracy, to return to the wisdom that has made Western Civilization the leading form of government throughout the world. The refusal of our allies to come running is a message to 300 million Americans, and the message is simple: Get rid of your amateur-hour piece of kitsch. Get rid of the whole crew. It’s time to find some adults who are willing to do the work to find our way out of this mess.
Khamanei is dead? Great. He was a theocratic bad guy. But the reverberations of his assassination, all the accompanying American government lies, waste of munitions, deaths of innocents, and the satisfaction of the romantic delusions of President Trump’s hunt for military glory – so long as he’s not in the line of fire – will ring ill for America long after Trump and Hegseth and Rubio and that entire crew of idiots is gone. The professionals had figured out that muscling our way in would not result in a peaceful, friendly, and prosperous Iran. That’s where wisdom begins, in realizing that being a brute in Iran will not work.
Cleanup begins by removing the old cleanup crew that can barely wipe its own nose.
