This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I guess it only stands to reason if they fouled up the war. Now, they’d probably foul up the peace. Peace? Maybe peace. Maybe ceasefire, maybe the end of a disaster is in the offing? But we know now, no explanation is really necessary. Bumbling from one fiasco to the next. The US agreed, the US didn’t agree. The agreement included Lebanon. The agreement didn’t include Lebanon. Israel has agreed, Israel hasn’t agreed.

Even when they try to make it better, they only make it worse. For Iran, it makes negotiations difficult. The US agrees to a ceasefire, violates it, and then says it never agreed. Clearly, everyone, including the US, wanted a ceasefire. Everyone lept at the opportunity for a ceasefire. Said ‘yes’ and then had buyer’s remorse. When someone with comprehension skills scanned what they had agreed to and began to make revisions. They agreed, but not to that.

Iran announces on the Marine band radio the Strait is now closed again! The US reneged on the deal so Iran closed the Strait again. Mr. (patient) Trump is back to making threatening tweets about destruction and apocalypse. At this point, Mr. Trump has become cartoonish with his threats. Tuesday at eight o’clock. Boy, are you going to get it! Then comes the time extension, and then the new threat.

It’s a sad world where I feel sorry for Wall Street. But Wall Street soars up a thousand points on the peace news. And then? The peace deal falls apart. Wall Street fights a losing battle, trying to retain market stability in the land of Godzilla and hail. The markets are sown with uncertainty. They, like the rest of us, can’t imagine what Trump will do next. And, like the rest of us, suspect it will probably be the wrong thing. No matter what they do. For immediately the administration will say or do the opposite.

The Administration can no longer hide Mr. Trump’s disability. If the administration is trying to play the “He’s crazy” angle with the Iranians. Hoping we could get a better deal if they think he’s crazy, it’s a poor look because Mr. Trump is too good at it. But Mr. Trump’s audio expectations have deteriorated severely. Through repetition, recurrence and delay, Mr. Trump has become the big bad wolf who’s going to blow your house down. I’m going to end your society! Tomorrow, no wait, Tuesday at three! No, I mean, a week from next Thursday at midnight!

Mr. Trump becomes a clown. Someone who is not taken seriously. And his staff have become clownettes, because they can neither wrangle Trump nor silence him. Someone sent a drone into Iran immediately after the ceasefire had taken effect. Was that an accident, a miscommunication or a provocation? Somebody not spreading the ceasefire gospel message to all departments. Very possibly, it was a miscue, but when added to Trump’s fiery rhetoric, it looks more like a provocation. It looks like contempt. Ceasefire or no ceasefire, we’re sending in our drones. America speaks with forked tongue.

Mr. Trump bellows about conquest! As he exclaims that we’re all going to be rich. We should just take the oil and steal it! And clownettes pretend such is normal and acceptable statement when clearly, it is not. It’s a fucking crazy thing to say and incredibly irresponsible behavior. No one knows what will happen. Even the brightest minds are stymied because the Trump regime is in shambles. JD Vance opposed the war and so he gets the thankless task of trying to solve it. It is interesting Trump would  put JD in charge over his regular bag men of Kushner and Witkoff. Sending the Vice-President, very nice and very prestigious. But do the VP’s words count for anything?

Mr. Trump has a chance at an escape here. Will he take the opportunity or will he spurn it? Will oil reach $200 per barrel or return to $75 in a year or two? Will the economy drift into a global recession because of it? No one knows the world is in flux. The world is in the hands of Donald Trump and he doesn’t have all of his marbles.

Mr. Trump is still railing about NATO not coming to his rescue to do the impossible. This was during Trump’s plan when we would patrol the Strait of Hormuz by ourselves. It was a completely unworkable plan, and NATO told him so. But he’s still angry, weeks later. Rambling from subject to subject. NATO today and Iran tomorrow. From we’ve archived all our military goals to “open up the Strait you crazy fucking Iranian bastards!” What seems to be the problem? What seems to be the impediment to peace here?

The administration had admitted it themselves. That shady JD was all alone in opposing the war. So the rest of them couldn’t wait to start shooting. Now they send JD? If JD was all alone in opposing the war before, he’s still all alone. Maybe JD appointed himself to head the peace talks? The administration wants peace, but they also want victory. They want it both ways. They’re willing to surrender if Iran lets them declare a victory.

From the moment Donald Trump has taken office, it has been an endless series of catastrophes. Each, increasing in size and seriousness, until we find ourselves here on the ledge. The clownettes aren’t going to call the 25^th Amendment on Donald Trump for the same reason military pilots follow illegal orders. They don’t want to mess up their lucrative careers by rocking the boat.

We need a constitutional amendment for the removal of a corrupt and or incapacitated president by a vote of the people. That is, if we survive this one.

“At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.” ― Albert Speer,