"They don't want to cry uncle, but they will."
------President Donald Trump, on Iran
As Carlos Fernandez Vega observed yesterday in the Mexico City daily La Jornada, any serious attempt to solve what's almost proverbially called the current crisis in the Middle East would have to start by locking up Donald Trump in an insane asylum and dispatching Benjamin Netanyahu to a maximum security prison for life.
The unaccustomed public humiliation of the reality TV vulgarian in being unable to win the unprovoked war with Iran he and Netanyahu foolishly launched on February 28 has taken him to the point of thrashing around like a drowning man while pretending to walk on solid ground. His "victory in two days" prediction was quickly revealed to be laughably wide of the mark, and since then he has behaved increasingly like a crazed lunatic, issuing contradictory announcements and appalling snap judgments that not only don't open up avenues towards peace, but actually re-inflame the already highly combustible conflict.
Among recent statements, for example, Trump said, in relation to the possibility of a cease fire (which Teheran flatly rejected), that "it's possible we'll
reach an agreement, because Iran wants one more than me," while leaving others in charge
of re-opening the Strait of Hormuz, "because we don't need the oil"
that passes through there. That was followed by an expletive-laced rant on Easter ("open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy
bastards, or you'll be living in Hell") promising to wipe out all the power plants and bridges in the country if Iran doesn't surrender, an apparent re-iteration of his threat to bomb the country back "to the Stone Ages," where he says the Persian nation belongs. ("Vile on every level," said Tucker Carlson in reaction.)
In the midst of contradictory messages and unhinged rants Trump fired the highest ranking official in the armed forces, bombarded a nuclear plant (dedicated only to legally allowed electricity generation), and bombed schools, private homes, food factories, bridges and the rest of Iran's civilian infrastructure, achieving nothing strategically, but reinforcing his status as an international mass murderer, the same as Netanyahu in Gaza and now Southern Lebanon.
Iran's response to all this arrived promptly: the Foreign Affairs Minister condemned the American attacks on the civil infrastructure of his country, and affirmed: "You will not make the Iranian population give in. Those attacks only communicate the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy submerged in chaos; each bridge and building will be re-built stronger than before and the true loss will be borne by Washington; which will never recover from the damage done to the prestige of the United States." In addition, he went on, "the Strait of Hormuz is still open and is only closed to those ships from enemy countries, and there is no reason for them to pass through the Strait; we have permitted passage to those we consider friends."
Trump's threats, he emphasized, "are an indication of a criminal mentality and
are tantamount to an incitation of war crimes and crimes against
humanity; to threaten with attacking the critical infrastructure of a
country, the energy sector, would mean that he wants to put the entire
population at risk; this is criminal." In case there's any doubt, the
Armed Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Iran warned that the
Strait of Hormuz "will never go back to being what it was, especially
for the United States and Israel; it's the true arm of Iran; we are
completing operational preparations for a new order in the Persian
Gulf."
In other words, international peace can't be left in the hands of chaos agents like Trump and his Israeli puppet-master, and as long as there is no, "until when?" in the picture, global instability can only continue to grow. Until when, then?
Obeying the capitalist imperative, Trump socializes the costs and privatizes the gains in his aggression against Iran. The oil companies are feasting on gains provided by a near sixty percent rise in the price of crude oil since the war began, the largest upturn in history. According to experts, the beneficiaries are tycoons that supported Donald Trump for president.
Par for the course.
Meanwhile, Trump held a press conference last night, during which he (1) celebrated robbing Venezuelan oil while suggesting that he could be the next president of that country due to the popular support he imagines he has there (2) said that Putin is afraid of him (3) threatened to jail journalists that refuse to reveal their sources.
Insane, or Trump being Trump, or both? You be the judge.
Here's his complete tweet from this morning:
"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World, 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!"
-----Donald Trump, April 7, 2026
Sources:
Carlos Fernandez Vega, "México, Inc." (Spanish), La Jornada, April 6, 2026
"Trump, 79, Drops F-Bomb in Unhinged Easter Morning Threat," The Daily Beast, April 5, 2026
Owen Jones, "Trump Threatens Nuclear Attack on Iran," You Tube, April 7, 2026
Aaron Bastani, Novara Live, April 7, 2026
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