“The truth does not matter anymore”.
Power is always part performance. Military power is threat plus capability. Political power is the power of belief in the promises you make.
The US has issued many threats but is incapable of carrying any out apart from the most significant one: the total destruction of Iranian civilisation.
Mr Trump has this power but he does not have any other it seems. This is dangerous, as this is precisely the power the Israelis seek to use.
Trump’s political (domestic) and military (foreign) decisions are effectively taken from the Israeli playbook, and the culture of the US from the top down has changed accordingly.
The promises of security and prosperity, to make America Great Again, cannot be carried out now. Neither can the promised “regime change” in Iran, nor even a military victory in the region.
The US has lost its diplomatic and military position in the Middle East, can no longer guarantee the passage of seaborne world trade, and has broken its long standing “alliance” (which was dominance) with Europe and the Anglosphere.
To the literally minded Mr Trump has gone bonkers. He has been consumed by sin in fact, which is destructive to a man in every state in life.
He has been impelled into the creation of mass destruction by pride, vanity, vainglory, greed and dreams of adulation, and tempted into this by appeals to his appetite for all the above. The war is evil, it is doing evil to the world, and Mr Trump and his America are rightfully despised for what they have said and done to us all.
The US has lost the war and cannot admit it as this would be devastating to Americans generally and Trump in particular.
