The war in the Middle East is a senseless act that only two leaders like Trump and Netanyahu could have orchestrated, leaders far more desperate than some would have us believe. Desperate to evade the consequences of their own (allegedly) criminal behavior: Netanyahu's presidency, including the genocide in Gaza, is a continuous flight forward to avoid facing trial for various charges, primarily corruption at multiple levels. For his part, Trump has truly succeeded in creating a distraction from the Epstein papers and his involvement in the pedophilia ring of the powerful in the West. The only Atlanticism Trump has ever known was the kind that brought together extremely wealthy pedophiles from both sides of the Atlantic on Little Saint James, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the pimp Epstein and his friends, guests, clients, and victims (often all four at once) committed their crimes. Just days before the Israeli-American attack, media outlets worldwide were reporting on a global earthquake in politics and high finance that had already led to the arrest, and a degree of public disgrace, of a Windsor, Prince Andrew. From February 28th onward, the date of the first US-Israeli attack on Iran, the trail of Epstein and his empire of depravity goes cold.
Trump and Netanyahu lead governments filled with fanatics who address masses of fanatics to inflame them, but they are far more cynical than fanatics. The benefit they seek has little or nothing to do with any homeland, any faith, or any cause: it is strictly personal. The list of economic favors and gifts the Trump family has received from the Persian Gulf monarchies, enemies of Iran that the US is now destroying, speaks for itself.
In less than two weeks, the attack on Iran has escalated into a war across virtually the entire Middle East, clearly beyond the control of its instigators. Despite the claims made by their leaders, along with their affiliated media and networks, to the contrary, neither Trump nor Netanyahu has the slightest clue where the fire they themselves ignited might lead. Nor do they care, as long as they remain unharmed. Meanwhile, the conflict exacerbates, underscores, fuels, and brings to the surface the internal tensions and fractures of many of the actors involved: from the MAGA movement and the Republican Party to a fragmented and internally divided European Union, contradictions and tensions are even evident in the clash between Donald Trump and Pedro Sánchez. The bills are divided between those that no one pays much attention to (more than 1,200 deaths in Iran alone, at the time of writing) and the one that truly worries everyone: the bill of the soaring price of oil, which could also become a popularity bill, and who knows if electoral, for the orange pachyderm.
