Trump's arrogance
He's setting himself up here as God.
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He's setting himself that I have the power of life and death. I will decide whether Iran is deserving of complete
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destruction or whether they're going to have this wonderful future that I will allow in my graciousness.
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I promise you that's the way it came across to most everybody in that room.
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And how would it not? When when you sit there and you set yourself up above the rule of law, above the US Constitution,
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above any kind of morality, above the even the UN Security Council, above everything and everybody, individual countries, whatever you name
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it, he alone, not even not even the Congress, not even his cabinet, not even anyone.
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I will decide. I have a big decision, said he, about whether I'm going to destroy Iran. And if he goes down that
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path, then that is as illegal, immoral, and unethical as it can get.
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There is no law on the planet whereby the leader of any country can
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just decide on his own that the civilians and the citizens of another country are deserving of death because he says so.
I think Donald Trump is a bully
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who respects only two kinds of people or nations. One is the powerful and he
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faces in the United States a very powerful Zionist lobby which remains
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committed to the destruction of Iran. And he is enthralled to that lobby to
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donors from that lobby who take their cues their direction uh from the fascist
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government in Israel. And the second kind of person he respects is those who
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can blackmail him and the Israelis apparently have the ability to do that.
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The Epstein files are one of the reasons, several reasons that Mike Johnson, the
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speaker of the house, prematurely adjourned the house until after the
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midterm elections. The other reason was that it looked very much as though Thomas Massiey's introduction of a
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bill of impeachment with eight counts of impeachment against secretary of
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defense self-started secretary of wars was going to pass. But the Epstein
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trials were part of this. So were several other issues. And so you
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can see that the speaker of the house who probably is the least
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independent such person in our history is nonetheless aware of that
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Trump's control of the Republican slight majority in the House and the
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larger majority in the Senate is slipping away. So what will Donald Trump do? What
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does he do when confronted with an an intolerable reality that he chooses to
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deny? There's lots of evidence that he's capable of a vote fast and
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abandoning the threats that he made. But there's also evidence that he will
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carry out the threats. Look at the look at the decapitation of Venezuela,
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the invasion of that. Look at the wars, two wars begun by Trump against
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Iran in partnership with Israel. One last year in June, one this year in
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February 28th. So I can't rule out the possibility. What I will say is I think
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there will be enormous opposition to this from the US military.
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whether it's sufficient to produce a sit-down strike in
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effect passive resistance or mutiny of some sort or stimulated coup d'eta I do not
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know the US military despite Pete Hegseth's efforts to politicize it and
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turn it into an arm of white nationalism, Christian nationalism,
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remains deeply indoctrinated in constitutionalism and dedicated to the notion that
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illegal orders must be resisted. So I don't know what would happen, but I don't think you can
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rule out the possibility that Donald Trump's threats are both sincere
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and intended to be implemented.
the smart thing for the Ukrainians to do
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would be to cut a deal because that deal would not be a great deal. We've said that all along, but that deal would be
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better than continuing the war. And that's exactly what Julia Mandel is saying in this new article that
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she's written. But the problem is that you can't convince Zelensky of that logic. number one because he's so
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heavily invested in the war at this point in time and you can't convince Mark Rute and the other European leaders
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in places like Germany, France and Britain at this point in time. So the war just goes on and the situation as
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Mendele points out just gets worse and worse for Ukraine.
- www.theamericanconservative.com - For Ukrainians, a Bad Peace Beats a Worsening War
- www.youtube.com @JohnMearsheimer
you go back to 1914. You go back to 1940 and say, was it in anybody's interest? Why did we put that embargo on Japan?
All of this is warp and woof of the same kind of fabric that the last 150 years have produced periodically with dramatic
dramatic recurrence. And we're about at that point again, I think. Is it that the human race has to kill itself in
massive numbers periodically and some insane power has to lead the way? We are marching down a road that's leading us
to regional and then possibly global conflict. And we're going to produce the depression in the process that will fuel
everyone wanting to participate in it if for no other reason than to discharge their debt which is in colossal proportions right now both private
commercial and war is the best tool for getting rid of that debt or at least shifting it.
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