The Madness of Trump. What’s his next criminal outrage gonna’ be?
· Michael West
The Trump regime goes from madness to madness, ignoring any and every international law. Michael Pascoe writes Trump’s latest threat looks like a promise.
Make no mistake, there is no easy or early end to the Middle East quagmire Donald Trump has dumped the world into, encouraging the mad king to float another adventure to change focus from the mess he has created.
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“I do believe I’ll be … having the honour of taking Cuba,” Trump announced. “Whether I free it, take it – think I could do anything I want with it.”
In a just world with anything like a “rules-based order”, the US would have long been sanctioned for the economic warfare it has waged against the impoverished nation for most of the past six decades.
It’s worth remembering what a sore loser America has proven to be. Castro’s was a popular revolution at the time, forming a legitimate government. Obviously, Castro’s communism wasn’t popular with the ruling class and the Mafia, whose assets were confiscated, or the US, which likes dictatorships that do as they are told and are friendly towards American businesses, not other communist countries.
Communist police states tend to develop their own problems easily enough. Add America’s decades of illegal sanctioning and embargoes, never mind the odd failed assassination and invasion, and it is not a happy economy.
What rules-based world order?
Trump doubling down on strangling the nation and now adding the explicit promise to “take it” is happening without comment from the various lickspittle governments that used to mouth “rules-based order” platitudes with wild abandon.
Consider for half a moment the outrage if China were to do to Taiwan what the US is doing to Cuba.
Is Australia at ease with Trump’s Cuban policy?
In Canberra’s echoing silence, I must presume we are as happy with Trump torturing and “taking” Cuba as we are with a military state that murdered survivors clinging to wreckage in the Caribbean. A state that sinks rather than captures ships because “it’s more fun”, that bristles with crusader Christian nationalism, shows no remorse for killing civilians and is joined at the hip with the genocidal Netanyahu government.
That’s Australia. We know our place.
The Iran “excursion”
Trump might just be starting to realise his Iran “excursion” has not only failed but may be making a bad Iranian state worse.
For all that has been written about the war, perhaps the best was posted early on, purportedly by an anonymous Iranian:
“As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it’s existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.
“Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here’s the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we’ve watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan.
Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.
“So no, we don’t trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.
“Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.
“A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to “help.” In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbours. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more.”
Continuing to assassinate Iran’s leadership is leaving the US with nobody to negotiate “a deal” with. Instead, there are 31 decentralised commands, each capable of continuing to inflict damage on any target within reach.
Beheading the Iranian snake hasn’t scotched it.
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Florida’s Cuban diaspora – cue Marco Rubio – still looking to regain what was lost six decades ago has nothing on the longevity of anger and resentment sown in the Middle East. There is no peace there, only lulls in fighting.
The Peter Ustinov quote
Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich.
will continue to be acted out.
But, hey, Donald Trump won’t care. He’s off to Cuba.