The president earlier this year suggested he could seek a defense budget of $1.5 trillion, which is about 50% more than lawmakers greenlit for this fiscal year.
In real life, people are being mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies. The uglier this gets, the more aggressive the trolling about “anti-semitism” becomes. Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s Newsletter Whenever Israel is killing tons of civilians the Western media always start churning out articles about “anti-semitism” and Jewish feelings. “Jews […]
During Donald Trump’s speech on Iran this week, he revealed too much. In a line that sounded partly ad-libbed, he declared that the Strait of Hormuz “will open up naturally. It will just open up naturally.” This should be read as a straight-up admission that Trump has no idea how to fix the colossal mess he’s made, and that he’s just washing his hands of it entirely. That’s utterly damning. Meanwhile, Politico reports that Republicans privately fear the speech did nothing to help them politically; as one put it: “What the hell did he just say?” Those things are related: The worse this war gets, the more it will hurt Republicans in the midterms. We talked to foreign policy writer and podcaster David Rothkopf, author of a good piece about the speech. We discuss Trump’s implicit admission of failure, the deeper reasons this is developing into such a fiasco, why it’s a trap for Republicans, and what the post-Trump Democratic Party should look like. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.