{"id":52480,"date":"2026-02-28T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=52480"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:23:04","slug":"holy-molytrump-brazenly-commits-treason-by-sacrificing-american-blood-and-treasure-for-the-apartheid-zionist-state-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=52480","title":{"rendered":"

HOLY MOLY!!! Trump brazenly commits treason by sacrificing American blood and treasure for the apartheid Zionist state Israel<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Starts a Major Regime-Change War with Iran, Serving Neoconservatism and Israel<\/h1>\n

This is the definitive war of choice. It is the exact type of war that Trump and his movement spent a decade vowing to end. And the potential for destruction is infinite.<\/h3>\n

By Glenn Greenwald<\/p>\n

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For decades,<\/strong>\u00a0Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American neoconservatives have\u00a0dreamed of<\/a>\u00a0only one foreign policy goal: having the United States fight a regime-change war against Iran. With the Oval Office occupied by Donald Trump \u2014 who campaigned for a full decade on a vow to end regime-change wars and vanquish neoconservatism \u2014 their goal has finally been realized.<\/p>\n

Early Saturday morning, the United States and Israel began a massive bombing campaign of Tehran and other Iranian cities. President Trump posted\u00a0an eight-minute speech<\/a>\u00a0to social media purporting to justify his new war, dubbed \u201cOperation Epic Fury.\u201d Trump\u2019 war cry was filled with the same slogans and clich\u00e9s about Iran that Americans have heard from the carousel of bipartisan neocons dominating U.S. foreign policy for decades: Iran is a state sponsor of \u201cterror\u201d; it is pursuing nuclear weapons; it took American hostages forty-seven years ago (in 1979); it repressed and kills its dissidents, etc.<\/p>\n

As if to underscore how fully he was embracing the very foreign policy dogma he vowed to reject, Trump invoked the Marvel-like \u201cAxis of Evil\u201d formulation that White House speechwriter David Frum wrote for George W. Bush at the start of the War on Terror. Iran\u2019s government, President Trump proclaimed, is one determined to \u201cpractice evil.\u201d This is how Bush \u2014 speaking of Iraq, Iran and North Korea \u2014\u00a0put it<\/a>\u00a0in his 2002 State of the Union address: \u201cStates like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump left no doubt about the scope and ambition of his new war. This will not be a quick or targeted bombing run against a few nuclear sites, as Trump ordered last June as part of Israel\u2019s 12-day war with Iran. There is nothing remotely constrained or targeted about any of this. Instead, this new war is what Trump called a \u201cmassive and ongoing\u201d mission of destruction and regime-change, launched in the heart of the Middle East, against a country of 93 million people: almost four times the size of Iraq\u2019s population when the U.S. launched that regime change war back in 2003.<\/p>\n

That Trump claimed to have \u201ccompletely and totally obliterated\u201d Iran\u2019s nuclear program last June \u2014 just eight months ago \u2014 was not something he meaningfully acknowledged in his new war announcement, other than to vaguely assert that Iran somehow resumed their nuclear program. In fact, Trump seemed to delight in repeating the same triumphalist rhetoric that he used last year when he assured Americans that Iran\u2019s nuclear program could no longer pose a threat as a result of Trump\u2019s triumphant Operation Midnight Hammer.<\/p>\n

In lieu of outlining any clear mission statement for this new war, let alone a cogent exit strategy, Trump offered a laundry list of flamboyantly violent vows. The U.S. will \u201ctotally obliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program (which Iran could not use to reach the American homeland but which Trump\u00a0admitted<\/a>\u00a0last June caused Israel \u201cto get hit very hard\u201d in retaliation). Trump also promised that the U.S. would \u201cannihilate\u201d Iran\u2019s navy. And he told Iranians: \u201cthe hour of your freedom is at hand\u2026.bombs will be dropping everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also attempted to prepare the nation for caskets and body bags of American soldiers returning to the U.S. \u201cThe lives of courageous American heroes may be lost; we may have casualties,\u201d the President said. But, said the man who did everything to avoid military service including during the Vietnam War, mass death of American soldiers \u201coften happens in war.\u201d<\/p>\n

In sum, Trump just launched the exact war that most of his MAGA movement professed to oppose. That included one of Trump\u2019s most influential supporters, the late Charlie Kirk, who repeatedly\u00a0maligned<\/a> the neocons\u2019 drive for war with Iran as \u201cpathologically insane,\u201d and warned that grave disaster of historic proportions would be the result:<\/p>\n

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Charlie Kirk, X, April 3, 2025, warning against a regime-change war in Iran<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n

The false claims behind this new war with Iran are ones we have extensively documented. In Trump\u2019s war announcement this morning, he claimed \u2014 as he did at Tuesday\u2019s State of the Union address \u2014 that Iran refuses to promise that it will not obtain nuclear weapons. The exact opposite is true: Iran has stated this clearly, unequivocally and repeatedly, and did so as recently as this week. \u201cIran will under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon,\u201d\u00a0proclaimed<\/a> Iran\u2019s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi.<\/p>\n

The consequences of this new Trump\/Netanyahu war of choice cannot be predicted with any degree of certainty. Already, Iran has launched numerous retaliatory ballistic missiles at Israel, as expected, and has also attacked U.S. military bases in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.<\/p>\n

But the lack of predictable outcomes is, of course, precisely the point. If the U.S. and Israel succeed in their stated goals of widespread \u201cannihilation\u201d and regime change, then they will create, at the very least, a huge power vacuum in the middle of the world\u2019s most volatile region that will require U.S. resources and a sizable military presence for years if not decades to come. One of the world leaders most responsible for the Iraq War, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair,\u00a0admitted<\/a> that it was the invasion of Iraq that gave rise to ISIS.<\/p>\n

It is hard to overstate<\/strong>\u00a0what a massive fraud Donald Trump, his campaign and his political movement are. For more than a decade, Trump has ranted and raved against the evils of regime-change wars and neoconservative dogma, only to launch a new war that most perfectly encapsulates and aggressively advances both. He spent years\u00a0falsely warning<\/a>\u00a0that former President Obama would start a war with Iran because of how weak and inept Obama supposedly was at negotiation and diplomacy, only to now do that himself (rather than start a new war with Iran, as Trump predicted, Obama entered a diplomatic agreement with them which major nuclear bodies attested was effective in monitoring Iran\u2019s nuclear activities: a deal which Trump, at Israel\u2019s insistence,\u00a0tore up<\/a>\u00a0in 2018).<\/p>\n

Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump\u00a0mercilessly mocked<\/a>\u00a0Marco Rubio for receiving millions in donations from Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, money that Trump said would \u201cmold [Rubio] into [their] perfect little puppet,\u201d only for himself to become not only the largest beneficiary of Adelson funding in history, but to become the ultimate puppet of the Adelsons\u2019 agenda, one which Trump has\u00a0clearly acknowledged<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 when speaking in Israel last year \u2014 is an agenda that puts the interests of Israel atop everything, including Americans\u2019 interests:<\/p>\n

\u201cI get her in trouble with this, but I actually asked [Miriam] once\u2026 \u2018What do you love more? The United States or Israel?\u2019 She refused to answer. That might mean Israel,\u201d Trump says, smiling, while looking at the dual Israeli-American national.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it is not an exaggeration to say \u2014 in fact, basic honestly requires one to say \u2014 that the 2024 Trump\/Vance campaign is one of the most fraudulent\u00a0political campaigns<\/a> in American history:<\/p>\n

\"\"Just one week before the 2024 election, Tulsi Gabbard\u00a0proclaimed<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ca vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney and a vote for war, war and more war.\u201d Conversely, Gabbard said, \u201ca vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end wars, not start them.\u201d Other than immigration, this \u201cno-new-wars\u201d theme was the most central to Trump\u2019s political appeal and his political promises since he emerged on the political scene a decade ago.<\/p>\n

One can rehash the decades of now-trite arguments about Iran as much as one wants. But such endless debate cannot alter the facts here that are indisputable and fundamental.<\/p>\n

Iran has not attacked and could not have attacked the United States at home. No such attack was even arguably imminent. The new war that Trump just started with Israel is thus the definitive war of choice.<\/p>\n

In contrast to the lie-driven 18-month public campaign of Bush and Cheney to convince the American public to support an invasion of Iraq, there has been virtually no attempt made, as I\u00a0documented<\/a>\u00a0this week, to even explain to the American public why a new war with Iran is necessary or desirable. There has been no Congressional approval sought let alone obtained, notwithstanding the U.S. Constitution\u2019s exclusive assignment of war-making powers to the Congress.<\/p>\n

In his novel 1984, George Orwell highlighted the dangerous insanity of war propaganda with this leading example: \u201cWAR IR PEACE.\u201d Yet that is precisely the rationale\u00a0invoked by<\/a> various Trump supporters to somehow depict this new war as aligned with Trump\u2019s vows of peace (starting massive new wars is merely \u201cpeace through strength\u201d).<\/p>\n

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This is, obviously, the war that Israel and Trump\u2019s largest Israel-loyal donors most wanted and have long been pressuring him to start. Pro-Israel billionaires like Bill Ackman, long-time pro-Israel warmongers like Lindsey Graham, and Israel First activists like Mark Levin are of course already boisterously celebrating this new war against Israel\u2019s primary adversary.<\/p>\n

But this is ultimately an American war, one that Trump unilaterally started and for which Trump is responsible. Notably, of course, it is not Trump or his family, but instead everyone else in the world, who will bear the costs and burdens of the war. This was the point Trump famously emphasized shortly before the 2024 election \u2014 on November 1 \u2014 when explaining why Washington is full of sociopathic warmongers such as Dick and Liz Cheney who constantly start wars in which other people\u2019s families, but never their own, must go fight and die:<\/p>\n

As Trump\u2019s senior White House advisor Stephen Miller\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0about those comments, \u201cwarmongering neocons love sending your kids to die for wars they would never fight themselves.\u201d Indeed they do, Stephen Miller.<\/p>\n

Do not expect meaningful opposition from the Democratic Party. Some of them, perhaps most, will make\u00a0loud noises in protest<\/a>. But the party\u2019s senior leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), this week\u00a0urged<\/a>\u00a0Trump to make the case to the public about why this war was necessary, whereas Schumer last June\u00a0mocked<\/a>\u00a0Trump for attempting to obtain a peace deal with Iran and accusing him of \u201cchickening out\u201d of the war with Iran that he prosed. Some Democrats, such as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), are\u00a0effusively praising<\/a>\u00a0Trump and his new war.<\/p>\n

This new war against Iran is as pure a continuation of the bipartisan DC posture of endless war that has, more than any single cause, destroyed American prosperity, standing, and future over the last six decades at least. The only question how is how many people will die, for how long the damage will endure, and what new unforeseen evils will be created in its wake.<\/p>\n

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