{"id":51129,"date":"2026-02-18T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=51129"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:25:52","slug":"war-criminals-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=51129","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">War Criminals in the White House<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Will Trump Go to War in Iran for Israel?<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->Renee Parsons<\/p>\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/us-israel-iran-400x209.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/us-israel-iran-400x209.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/us-israel-iran-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/us-israel-iran-768x402.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/us-israel-iran-1024x536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/us-israel-iran.jpeg 1080w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"209\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>While a majority of the 75 million Americans who voted for <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> in 2024 may be attributed to America First positions espoused during the campaign or in the belief that as a Peace President, <strong>Trump promised no new interventionist wars. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There might also be the assumption that Trump would abolish neo-con 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.<\/p>\n<p>There was, however, no expectation that foreign policy would become significant elements in the Trump administration as he became a co-belligerent in the <a href=\"https:\/\/afsc.org\/gaza-genocide-companies\">Gaza Genocide<\/a> at a cost of $<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/article\/3f9fd929b989\">21.8 Billion<\/a> in addition to its<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/articles\/us-aid-israel-four-charts\">annual \u2018gift\u2019<\/a> of $3.8 billion or the indiscriminate bombing of fishing boats in Venezuela or the <a href=\"https:\/\/seasia.co\/2026\/01\/04\/7-countries-bombed-by-the-us-in-2025-while-trump-claims-president-of-peace\">unprecedented bombing<\/a> of seven nations or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/1\/4\/how-the-us-attack-on-venezuela-abduction-of-maduro-unfolded\">kidnapping<\/a> of <strong>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro<\/strong> and his wife.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately after Inauguration in January, the American public began to witness President Trump as a gratuitous acolyte for Israel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cpi.int\/defendant\/netanyahu\">designated war criminal<\/a> in his quest for a <a href=\"https:\/\/mepei.com\/greater-israel-an-ongoing-expansion-plan-for-the-middle-east-and-north-africa\/\">Greater Israel<\/a> throughout the Middle East.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>totalitarian agenda surfaced in a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/10\/nx-s1-5424450\/ways-trump-administration-is-going-after-colleges\">inexplicable<\/a> policies that either challenged the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibanet.org\/Trumps-assault-on-the-First-Amendment#:~:text=In%2520what%2520many%2520experts%2520have%2520challenged%2520as%2520a,he%2520believes%2520attacked%2520him%2520unfairly%2520in%2520the%2520past.\">First Amendment<\/a> or are contrary to Trump\u2019s previous policy commitments (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/21\/nx-s1-5674887\/ice-budget-funding-congress-trump\">read ICE<\/a>) thus undermining the US<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>as a Constitutional Republic. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/greater-israel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5879922 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/greater-israel.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/greater-israel.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/greater-israel-300x241.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>Most recently Trump\u2019s 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.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018<i>deal<\/i>\u2019 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/trump-issues-stark-warning-to-iran-ahead-of-high-stakes-nuclear-talks\/ar-AA1WvMh9\">warn Iran<\/a> of the consequences of not making a deal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>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.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s ad nauseum opposition that Iran can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/articles\/2025\/06\/president-trump-has-always-been-clear-iran-cannot-have-a-nuclear-weapon\/\">never have<\/a> 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. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>How is it that Trump is able to ignore his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/2026\/02\/16\/netanyahu-reiterates-israels-stance-in-advance-of-us-iran-nuclear-talks\/\">war criminal<\/a> 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. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s sadistic behavior toward the Palestinian people or his limp justification for war with Iran.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/netanyahu-trump-white-house-2025.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5881394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/netanyahu-trump-white-house-2025.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/netanyahu-trump-white-house-2025.jpeg 762w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/netanyahu-trump-white-house-2025-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/netanyahu-trump-white-house-2025-400x300.jpeg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a>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. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s dictates. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the interim, it can be expected that senior military advisors have provided Trump with the accurate background of potentially devastating results of Iran\u2019s 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.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Especially noteworthy would include devastation to American troops stationed at US bases throughout the region, estimated at 30-40,000 personnel. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Given Trump\u2019s 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\u2019s acquiescence, out of the tight corner he has constructed for himself by following Netanyahu\u2019s lead. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018<i>we\u2019re not going to allow that\u2019<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i>or<i> \u201cYou can\u2019t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>Both responses provide insight into Trump\u2019s limited thinking process which, in case you have not noticed, is a less than thoughtful intellectual capacity. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the world awaits Netanyahu\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/2026\/02\/16\/netanyahu-reiterates-israels-stance-in-advance-of-us-iran-nuclear-talks\/\">most recent pronouncement<\/a> that \u201c<i>all enriched material has to leave Iran\u201d<\/i> and \u201c<i>there should be no nuclear enrichment capability\u201d<\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>without one iota of explanation as to why Iran which is a considerably more modern<i> <\/i>civilization, more ethnically and politically diverse than portrayed by western media with a significant professional engineering industry. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During Israel\u2019s<strong> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s<\/strong> seventh visit at the White House, he is said to have presented President Trump with the following \u2018<i>necessary conditions\u2019<\/i> for Iran\u2019s acceptance during negotiations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>All enriched uranium removed from Iran\u2019s territory. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Removal or destruction of all uranium enrichment equipment and facilities so Iran retains zero enrichment capability.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Iran\u2019s ballistic missiles capped at a maximum range of 300 km.<\/li>\n<li>Full dismantling of Iran\u2019s \u201caxis of terror\u201d who resist Israeli aggression like Hamas and Hezbollah<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Effective, substantive with no lead time inspections covering all of the above, in perpetuity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trump\u2019s response to Netanyahu is unknown if there was a response.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is not difficult to imagine that Iran will reject all five \u2018<i>conditions<\/i>\u2019 as inappropriately inclusive eliminating Iran of its basic rights of self defense and stripped of its sovereignty.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Renee Parsons\u00a0<\/i><\/b><i>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\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/war-criminals-oval-office-trump-war-iran-israel\/5916320\">https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/war-criminals-oval-office-trump-war-iran-israel\/5916320<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Trump Go to War in Iran for Israel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}