War as distraction
Donald Trump’s inability to give a consistent or even coherent rationale for his war on Iran is confounding. Is it for regime change? Preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon? Preventing an attack on the U.S.? For their oil? Or is it because he wants to be a “war president” to shore up his flagging polls?
I think it’s far more likely that there is another, much more important reason for his atrocious and illegal act. To wit: the military buildup and subsequent attack on Iran suspiciously coincided with the release of credible allegations that, during his association with Jeffrey Epstein, Trump forcibly raped at least one and perhaps two 13-year-old girls. Although these allegations are uncorroborated, the desperate efforts of Trump’s personal law firm, the Department of Justice, to withhold the remaining Epstein files and fight any additional investigations is damning.
It would seem that Trump was willing to upend the international order, cause chaos to the energy market, take a sledgehammer to the world economy, impose skyrocketing price increases on Americans and cause the deaths of (so far) 13 American soldiers and hundreds of innocent Iranian women and children, all to push allegations of child rape out of the news cycle. I can’t help but wonder, why would he be so desperate to do that if the allegations were not true?
Trump’s Operation Epic Fury should more appropriately be called Operation Desperate Distraction.