Trump posted this on his social media platform yesterday:
I am not sure whether he was trying to prove that he is deranged, deluded, in denial and evil, but that is what he succeeded in doing.
The style is deranged.
The gloating over death is evil.
The denial is with regard to facts. If the Iranian forces are in the state he claims, how can they still be fighting back?
The delusion is in believing his own denial.
But what, most of all, I thought when reading this was that in August 1940, Goering told Hitler that the RAF had been destroyed. As a consequence, they change tactics. They then lost the Battle of Britain because they were also deranged, deluded, and in denial, as well as being evil.
The similarities appear remarkably uncomfortable, but remember, it took nearly 5 more years to beat fascism in Europe at that time.
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The biggest problem with polarising statements like this one is that those seeking peace get marginalised. That’s part of the intent. Don’t let that happen, everyone.
Although this is horrible, I’m hopeful the war will pass. However, this https://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10445/Global_Water_Bankruptcy_Report__2026_.pdf in conjunction with a developing Super El Nino event in the Eastern Pacific is perhaps of greater concern (with thanks to Bill Blain).
Thanks, Mark. I may turn this into a blog. It’s truly frightening.
It really is Richard; very sobering. But it’s OK if you are running Shell “The chief executive of Shell saw his pay jump more than 60% to almost £14m in 2025 despite a slump in profits at the oil company and prospects of rising pump prices related to war in the Middle East.” (Source: Guardian Business 12/03/2026)
I have hope that the next generation or two will lead a more sustainable, useful life in a more localised way than today.
If they aren’t, we are in big trouble
Whenever reading about anything done by the current US administration or spouted by Trump on social media, I always think “what would Putin want”? Start a war that shuts down oil production that requires you have to buy oil at an inflated price from Russia who will then use those funds to (a) back the enemy you’ve just attacked, (b) rearm to continue the war in Ukraine and (c) marginalise and disconnect Europe from the US. Yes Trump is evil, stupid and delusional but I think someone else is pulling his strings.
Trump does not want peace. Trump wants to win and be seen to win.
Peace in any normal sense is not likely as the US wants to emasculate Iran. The pre war negotiations where the US made no serious attempt to negotiate will seriously hamper any future talks.
The economic fall out is starting. India is facing serious gas shortages, small businesses an important cog in the Indian economy are facing shut downs.
As for the Gulf states all that money paid to the Trump businesses and what happens? You get your economies utterly messed up. Will the Saudis move towards nuclear weapons? Or spend more on weapons?
Peace in the Middle East looks a lost cause in the short term.
Yes – agreed.
And Trump and the American Republican party – the party that presided over the end of slavery (well official slavery anyway) has normalised all four.