Donald Trump's Greatest Act As President

     Someone outside the White House shot video of a just fired national security advisor, John Bolton.      On the phone, he calls his wife to let her know he'll be home early; or maybe he's informing Benjamin Netanyahu it's time to take a definitive step towards war with Iran.  Sure enough, yesterday a big oil refinery in Saudi Arabia was struck by ordnance fired by drones reportedly from Yemen.  The Kingdom's oil production is down, gas prices may rise, Iran gets blamed by the State Department and its chief, Mike Pompeo.  No evidence for Iran's involvement has been presented, a sure sign U.S. authorities are telling the truth.  The Trump administration insists on Saudi Arabia's "right to defend herself," a nonsensical statement attributed in the past only to Israel.
     Every country has that right, though, including Yemen.
     When Trump spoke publicly of withdrawing U.S. troops and other personnel from Syria, false flag Sarin attacks attributed to the Assad government occurred miraculously, deepening American involvement in that nation's civil war.  Trump's rash words and actions regarding U.S. foreign policy tend to produce strange results.  Fire John Bolton, a man salivating over the prospect of war with Iran for many years, and a few days later Saudi Arabia gets hit hard where it hurts them the most.  Never mind that the types of drones used in the attack don't cost more than $20,000 apiece, are small and hard to stop--or even to detect--once entering enemy airspace, or that the Houthis have been using drones in their war, including as assassination weapons, long enough to have become skilled operators.  I'm reminded of the typically racist idea that the "less sophisticated" and poorer enemy is incapable of using effective means of fighting back.  Tell that to every brain-damaged U.S. military survivor of attacks in Iraq utilizing improvised explosive devices.
     Blaming the refinery attack on Iran--supporter of the Houthis--follows on a series of lame accusations this year by U.S. officials attempting to convince the public of what would amount to truly idiotic steps taken by the Iranian government, such as shooting a missile at a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf while Shinzō Abe, Japan's prime minister, was meeting with Iran's leaders.  That provocation, not by Iran, had to have been the work of another state actor desiring war with Iran, i.e. the United States and/or Israel.
     The Houthis have taken credit for the drone attack.  If they did it, as seems most likely to me, their strategy fits with a practice of asymmetric warfare.  Attack Saudi Arabia's economic juice machine using unmanned aerial vehicles capable of reaching their targets deep inside enemy territory.  Iranian officials, supporting the Houthis, may approve of this drone attack's success, but after sixty-six years of being fucked with by the U.S., they know too about the ricochet effects of such actions against American "interests."
     The Saudi war against Yemen, it should be obvious by now, is a failure for the former country.  Four years and five months of bombing, killing, looting, torturing, blockading, and causing widespread disease and malnutrition have yielded, for America's firm oil ally nothing but an opportunity to practice sadism with U.S. corporate-made weapons.  That we Americans have linked ourselves for so many decades to this shitshow called Saudi Arabia speaks loudly of our willingness to allow mass murder and plunder for the sake of maintaining a planet-killing addiction to fossil fuels.  If the pumps in Saudi Arabia were to yield no oil starting tomorrow, Trump and Pompeo wouldn't give half a fuck about the Kingdom.  Trump would participate in no more sword dances, would rather consider bombing Mecca to satisfy his Evangelical base.
     Hyperbole, I know, but the lack of actual concern and compassion by American leaders for the people of all classes in the Middle East is real.  The same goes for how they really regard Israel, a country just caught spying on the White House.  This shouldn't surprise anyone, though it's in the news these days.  When you see world leaders assembled just realize that all those motherfuckers are using each other.
     John Bolton will land on his feet.  He insists he resigned, that Trump did not fire him.  It doesn't matter, actually, but it's important to know that the general view among Democrats and MSNBC is Bolton-sympathetic.  A man who helped cause the Iraq War.  A man who said, before 9/11, that he'd like to see a plane fly into the U.N. building.  A man who actively, just this year, tried to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
     Bolton, from the standpoint of establishment Democrats, is the norm of American political thought.  This makes these Democrats, including their current leaders Pelosi and Schumer, right wing ideologues and apologists for aggressive warfare against countries, like Iran, that are no threat to the United States, even as Israel, an ally, spies on us.  I'm not being naive--I know that spy agencies of the world, generally, do their shenanigans like horny men at an orgy.  Still, how about some honesty on these subjects?  Democrats and the mainstream news media spent two and a half years hyping a threat from Russia, supposedly in league with Donald Trump to steal the 2016 election.  Last July, Robert Mueller finally debunked his own multi-million dollar investigation, finding no links between Trump's campaign and Russian operatives seeking to influence that election, turning Hillary Clinton into a martyr most people don't give a fuck about.
     Meanwhile, Israeli operatives spy on what goes on in the White House.  Even in the official version of what happened on 9/11, fifteen of the nineteen hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, and in any case, that nation's prominent Wahhabi sect has a lot of influence over supposed U.S. enemies like ISIS, a group fought against by Iranian forces and Assad's government in Syria.  Who the fuck is the enemy?
     According to Pelosi, Schumer, and "liberal" or "left" voices in the mainstream media, the enemy is not John Bolton, whose decisions and influence have helped cause the deaths, injuries, and displacements of hundreds of thousands of people.  Bolton's departure from Trump's side has, according to these concerned standard bearers of liberty, "caused chaos," for the president's lack of self-control prevents him from maintaining an all-important continuity in his cabinet.  Having even a vicious maniac like Bolton as national security advisor, a man who can't even perceive how stupid-looking his mustache looks, is regarded by MSNBC pundits as a sign of a steady hand, someone to counter Trump's childlike jumpiness.  I guess it was a show of wisdom that Hitler kept Heinrich Himmler around for so long.
     Finally, the typically bad news media coverage of the Saudi oil refinery attack covered the aggressive use of relatively cheap drones, but failed to mention the United States as it uses drone warfare on a far vaster and deadlier scale, with the construction even now of a huge base in Niger to cover Africa's spaces, a continent not even discussed by the same news people as a battleground.
     John Bolton will continue to make appearances, no doubt, on Fox News Channel, but I expect him to also appear on MSNBC with greater frequency than in the past.  He's part of the #Resistance now.  He's serious.  He was one of the "adults" in the White House.  An adult, like General Westmoreland in Vietnam, I guess--a goddamned fool in charge of a murder machine.

                                                                              Vic Neptune