That title of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump (Trumped, Trumped)? I mean, twice already and who really knows what\u2019s to come?<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the question nobody seems to be asking right now, though: What country will Donald Trump attack next? Yes, at the moment, he\u2019s still wildly wound up in his Iran war\/truce\/peace\/or you name it (tomorrow). Yesterday, it was, of course, Venezuela, and next week it might be Cuba<\/a> or Greenland<\/a>, or who on (or off) this planet knows where? And I haven\u2019t even mentioned his military\u2019s ongoing bombing runs in Somalia<\/a>,<\/strong> which are barely noticed in the mainstream media here. And who knows what I\u2019ve forgotten or what to expect in this increasingly bizarre world of ours from the president who swore repeatedly<\/a> in his third election campaign that he would never, never, never go to… yes, of course, war?<\/p>\n Hey, only the other day, Secretary of War (a title which, of course, couldn\u2019t be blunter in the age of You Know Who) Pete Hegseth warned<\/a> that \u201cwhat happens with the future of Cuba is in the hands of the president of the United States and the leadership of Cuba. No matter what, the Department of War is going to be prepared and postured for any possible contingency.\u201d<\/p>\n Ah, yes, any possible contingency<\/em> except one, of course: victory (which, since the Second World War, just hasn\u2019t been in the American vocabulary) or, for that matter, peace. I mean what could possibly go wrong in a world that now, remarkably enough, has its first trillionaire, Donald Trump\u2019s (sometimes) buddy Elon Musk? (On that, Senator Elizabeth Warren commented<\/a> all too aptly: \u201cI want to be clear: This is not just some fluke. It is a feature of a rigged economy.\u201d)<\/p>\n What, in fact, could possibly go wrong on such a rigged planet? I\u2019m sure Donald Trump and Elon Musk couldn\u2019t imagine. What could go wrong on a world in which no American president ever seems to realize that wars are simply never to be won by this country, no matter its power and the ever-ballooning size of the Pentagon budget, now possibly heading for \u2013 ah, yes, talking about trillionaires!\u00a0\u2013 $1.5 trillion<\/a> yearly (and, no, that is not a typo), if Donald Trump has anything to say about it? And in Congress, mind you, that\u2019s still referred to as \u201cdefense\u201d spending.<\/p>\n