SOTN Editor’s Note: What the entire world community of nations is now witnessing is the projection of raw and unchecked military power by the U.S. Armed Forces across the Islamic Republic of Iran. Which essentially means that: D-DAY IS HERE.
As of today, March 13th, the U.S. Congress has not formally declared war on Iran as required by the U.S. Constitution, nor has Congress authorized this protracted major military operation which is officially known as the “2026 Iran War”.
KEY POINT: “The United States Constitution explicitly grants
Congress the sole power to declare war under Article I, Section 8,
Clause 11.”
But how did we get here?
Because one man—President Donald Trump—unlawfully arrogated that supreme power unto himself—THAT’S HOW!!!
The POTUS, without any enforced constitutional check and balances on the power/authority to wage full-scale war against a country that posed no threat to the United States of America, is how we got here. Which is why:
WAR CRIMINALS RULE!
The U.S. Congress is also complicit
In Trump’s own words, this is why the US military is being illicitly utilized to fight an unprovoked war of naked aggression against the people of Iran.
Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that
can stop me.” “I don’t need international law”…
What’s the really critical point here?
This current state of U.S. affairs is completely unacceptable and “dangerous to the extreme” for the American Republic, the nation of Iran, the entire Middle East, and especially the world-at-large because it now stands on the very cusp of a kinetic nuclear World War III.
Not only has the US Department of War been purposefully morphed into a massive military juggernaut bringing devastation and death to Iran, it’s violating all post-WW2 conventions and international laws concerning armed conflicts.
Deliberately attacking and assassinating heads of state and the highest religious leaders are not only serious war crimes, such egregious military conduct transgresses all human norms of morality and ethics.
Iran’s supreme leader ‘likely disfigured’ —
US SecDef Secretary Pete Hegseth
As a matter of historical fact, not even Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar, Attila the Hun or Genghis Khan, Napoleon Bonaparte or Timur, Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin wielded so much power to wreak havoc worldwide as Trump has shown his tendency to do since his second Inauguration Day.
However, the real problem, which all of humanity is now facing is this:
The whole world is now witnessing one
man’s “Narcissistic Extinction Burst”!
State of the Nation
March 13, 2026
N.B. What follows is the NYT interview in which “Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality'”. Yeah, yeah, yeah, The New York Times cannot be trusted, which is totally true. Then listen to Trump’s own speech on the matter here: FLASHBACK: ‘I Don’t Need International Law’: Trump Says Power Constrained Only By ‘my Own Morality’ (Video).
By David E. Sanger, Tyler Pager, Katie Rogers and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The reporters are White House correspondents for The New York Times.
They interviewed President Trump in the Oval Office.
Jan. 8, 2026
President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his “own morality,” brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world.
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
“I don’t need international law,” he added. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”
When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law, Mr. Trump said, “I do.” But he made clear he would be the arbiter when such constraints applied to the United States.
“It depends what your definition of international law is,” he said.
Mr. Trump’s assessment of his own freedom to use any instrument of military, economic or political power to cement American supremacy was the most blunt acknowledgment yet of his worldview. At its core is the concept that national strength, rather than laws, treaties and conventions, should be the deciding factor as powers collide.
He did acknowledge some constraints at home, even as he has pursued a maximalist strategy of punishing institutions he dislikes, exacting retribution against political opponents and deploying the National Guard to cities over the objections of state and local officials.
He made clear that he uses his reputation for unpredictability and a willingness to resort quickly to military action, often in service of coercing other nations. During his interview with The Times, he took a lengthy call from President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, who was clearly concerned after repeated threats that Mr. Trump was thinking of an attack on the country similar to the one on Venezuela.
“Well, we are in danger,” Mr. Petro said in an interview with The Times just before the call. “Because the threat is real. It was made by Trump.”
The call between the two leaders, the contents of which were off the record, was an example of coercive diplomacy in action. And it came just hours after Mr. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had extracted the United States from dozens of international organizations intended to foster multinational cooperation.
In his conversation with The Times, Mr. Trump sounded more emboldened than ever. He cited the success of his strike on Iran’s nuclear program — he keeps a model of the B-2 bombers used in the mission on his desk; the speed with which he decapitated the Venezuelan government last weekend; and his designs on Greenland, which is controlled by Denmark, a NATO ally.
When asked what was his higher priority, obtaining Greenland or preserving NATO, Mr. Trump declined to answer directly, but acknowledged “it may be a choice.” He made clear that the trans-Atlantic alliance was essentially useless without the United States at its core.
Even as he characterized the norms of the post-World War II order as unnecessary burdens on a superpower, Mr. Trump was dismissive of the idea that the leader of China, Xi Jinping, or President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia could use similar logic to the detriment of the United States. On topic after topic, he made clear that in his mind, U.S. power is the determining factor — and that previous presidents have been too cautious to make use of it for political supremacy or national profit.
The president’s insistence that Greenland must become part of the United States was a prime example of his worldview. It was not enough to exercise the U.S. right, under a 1951 treaty, to reopen long-closed military bases on the huge landmass, which is a strategically important crossroads for U.S., European, Chinese and Russian naval operations.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html#