https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/04/karen-kwiatkowski/what-do-pirates-eat/
The US-Israel war on Iran is an air and naval onslaught of destruction, by the side that expected a few days of bombing would prevail against a country known for thousands of years as the place other empires go to die. The “enemy” is a country filled with scientists, mathematicians, teachers and philosophers, in addition to being renown defenders of Islam and of Iran proper. While past and present US administrations were assaulting the Middle East and the rest of the world, riding on the fraying US dollar and a lot of political hot air, the Iranians were learning, studying, preparing. It is a wise path for all of us, in a post-US imperial world.
The wars of Trump and Hegseth are however serving valuable purposes, despite the bloodshed, global economic strain, and waste of our national credibility.
First, as the Trump Squad actively destroys both US military capacity and command discipline, we Americans will have an unparalleled shot at truly altering the composition and design of the US military from an unaffordable expeditionary colonial force to a defensive people’s army. The new composition will be designed, in part by those Trump is currently failing to rescue, arm and feed right now. In other words, the new Pentagon will be able to pass audits, and its budget and its mission will be spare and tight.
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Second, Trump’s wars, and his social media presence, is forcing the very decentralization of global power and finance he fears. His systematic attacks on and seizures of global oil production, and intended control of waterways and military markets are all aimed at preserving dollar dominance, in a world that knows better. The dollar era is over. Trump is inadvertently sharing this news with the world by the minute.
Third, future war with China is unlikely, rather than imminent. The current and future condition of the US – its overweening and expensive bureaucracy, impossible-to-pay national debt, and massively consumer-oriented economy – means we need China and we like China, notwithstanding the latest National Security Strategy.
Fourth, Israel as the cheerleader and contriver of regional wars, is now seen by most Americans as a danger to the US, a lying murderous country that expects support that it refuses to earn. What Israel has done and is continuing in Gaza, and now in southern Lebanon, is criminal devastation funded by an unpopular president and more unpopular US Congress. It is inevitable that Israel will be cut loose from both US politics and military co-dependency in coming years. As things get worse for the average American, he and she will seek savings and scapegoats, and treating Israel like every other ignoble country we deal with gives a lot of bang for that buck. Netanyahu and Trump deserve an award for doing what no previous President and Prime Minister could do – and even a well-timed assassination here or there will not change the future in this regard.
I’m still concerned about what our pirates will eat, until Trump channels Vizzini, and realizes his dream of US and Israeli empire in Asia is a dead end. I’m thinking that raid of the cargo ship seized off the Coast of Oman will be focused on edibles and drink, and they will find very little.
Someone wrote a book on what the Buccaneers of America ate back in 1678. It might be a good read for what is left of our Navy leadership in its new role as global buccaneer. And we already know what the DC pirates eat – shorts bought 20 minutes before the next Trump tweet.