Renee Parsons

While a majority of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 may be attributed to America First positions espoused during the campaign or in the belief that as a Peace President, Trump promised no new interventionist wars.

There might also be the assumption that Trump would abolish neocon globalist domination or be a stalwart supporter of the US Constitution or that as President, he would address stability of the US Dollar as it relates to the decline of US global hegemony.

There was, however, no expectation that foreign policy would become significant elements in the Trump administration as he became a co-belligerent in the Gaza Genocide at a cost of $21.8 Billion in addition to its  annual ‘gift’ of $3.8 billion or the indiscriminate bombing of fishing boats in Venezuela or the unprecedented bombing of seven nations or the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife.   

Almost immediately after Inauguration in January, the American public began to witness President Trump as a gratuitous acolyte for Israel’s designated war criminal in his quest for a Greater Israel throughout the Middle East.  The President’s  totalitarian agenda surfaced in a series of inexplicable policies that either challenged the First Amendment or are contrary to Trump’s previous policy commitments (read ICE) thus undermining the US  as a Constitutional Republic.    

Most recently Trump’s renewed his threat to initiate war against Iran by activating the US deployed fleet including two aircraft carrier strike groups building a formidable US naval armada surrounding Iran in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

Of special note is a Presidential strategy of issuing threats; thereby forcing consideration of stringent negotiations in the expectation that the threat will be ultimately adopted as a ‘deal’ or warn Iran of the consequences of not making a deal.   In addition, the US is being represented in negotiations by two real estate agents rather than professional, experienced diplomats may be indicative of the lack of solemn consideration regarding any negotiation.

The President’s ad nauseum opposition that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon may bring negotiators to the table until a red line of resistance approaches as Trump delivers demands to Iran that originated with Netanyahu.

How is it that Trump is able to ignore his war criminal buddy as the root cause yet remains immune from any remorse for the multiple misery triggering violent deaths on Palestinian children and their families, never receiving any censure as being the source of multiple brutality and savage attacks.

It is a sorry state of mainstream media that no insightful, no brave reporter ever dares to challenge Trump to justify his support for Israel’s sadistic behavior toward the Palestinian people or his limp justification for war with Iran.   

It appears that not one reporter has ever dared ask why Israel can have hundreds of nukes without endorsing the Nuclear-Non Proliferation Treaty, and how it is that Zionists have the right to decide if other nations are allowed to develop nuclear technology?

While Trump appears daunted by Netanyahu who instructs the President on how to respond in sync with Zionist theology.  What is especially revealing is the box that Trump has built for himself regarding war with Iran as every opinion poll shows Americans do not support another war especially when there are no national security threats to the United States.

And again, there is no explanation as to why the US would ever initiate war with Iran as it appears clear as mud that Trump does little more than follow Netanyahu’s dictates.

In the interim, it can be expected that senior military advisors have provided Trump with the accurate background of potentially devastating results of Iran’s military drone and hypersonic missile upgrade since last June, including offensive assistance from Russia and China, as well as severe economic impacts of a closed Strait of Hormuz.  Especially noteworthy would include devastation to American troops stationed at US bases throughout the region, estimated at 30-40,000 personnel.    

Given Trump’s diminishing public approval polls and with mid term elections on the horizon, the bottom line is Trump needs to find a quick, convenient exit, with Iran’s acquiescence, out of the tight corner he has constructed for himself by following Netanyahu’s lead.

And yet for all his insistence, Trump has never provided any explanation articulating why Iran should deny themselves nuclear research material with the specious view that ‘we’re not going to allow that’  or “You can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon.”   Both responses provide insight into Trump’s limited thinking process which, in case you have not noticed, is a less than thoughtful intellectual capacity.

As the world awaits Netanyahu’s most recent pronouncement that “all enriched material has to leave Iran” and “there should be no nuclear enrichment capability”  without one iota of explanation as to why Iran which is a considerably more modern civilization, more ethnically and politically diverse than portrayed by western media with a significant professional engineering industry.

During Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sixth visit at the White House, he is said to have presented President Trump with the following ‘necessary conditions’ for Iran’s acceptance during negotiations:

*  All enriched uranium removed from Iran’s territory.                                                                                                                                                                                    

*   Removal or destruction of all uranium enrichment equipment and facilities so Iran retains zero enrichment capability.

*   Iran’s ballistic missiles capped at a maximum range of 300 km.                                                                                                                                                            

*   Full dismantling of Iran’s “axis of terror” who resist Israeli aggression like Hamas and Hezbollah

*  Effective, substantive with no lead time inspections covering all of the above, in perpetuity.

Trump’s response to Netanyahu is unknown if there was a response.

It is not difficult to imagine that Iran will reject all five ‘conditions’ as inappropriately inclusive eliminating Iran of its basic rights of self defense and stripped of its sovereignty.

Renee Parsons has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representative in Washington, DC. Before its demise, she was also a member of the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter.