PNN – The Guardian newspaper wrote that Donald Trump’s apocalyptic threats are a sign of weakness, not strength.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the Guardian newspaper wrote in its editorial that Donald Trump’s recent threats to bomb Iran and return it to the “Stone Age” are a sign of his moral and strategic weakness, not a sign of strength. According to the newspaper, such statements embarrass the office of the US presidency.
The Guardian points to international law and writes that under Article 52 of the First Geneva Protocol, attacks on civilian objects are prohibited. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russian officers and officials who attacked Ukrainian energy infrastructure based on this article. The newspaper says that if Trump carries out his threat, the US will be committing exactly the same war crime that Russia committed.
Words spoken as if in a delirium fever
According to the Guardian, Trump and his war secretary, Pat Hegsett, are speaking as if they are in a delirium fever. Hegsett, an evangelical Christian, boasts with a sickening arrogance that he can command death and destruction from the Pentagon. He calls the operation “Epic Fury” and says it is a 21st-century crusade to “break the teeth of the wicked.”
Trump has said even worse. Last weekend, he launched a barrage of vulgar insults at Iran on social media, saying that if you don’t open the Strait of Hormuz to shipping, Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day… You crazy bastards open the damn strait or you’ll live in hell.
Embarrassed America
The Guardian writes that these words, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of American independence, have embarrassed both Trump’s position and the government he leads. He had already disgraced America, but now he has made the situation worse. Under normal circumstances, members of his cabinet should have listened to Democratic Senator Chris Murphy and examined the constitutional ways to remove him. But the team that Trump has gathered around him is accompanying him so timidly and cowardly that this is not possible.
The world is waiting with bated breath
The rest of the world has no choice but to wait and hope that this illegal war does not escalate catastrophically. Iran has threatened to expand its attacks beyond the region in response. Despite Trump’s boastful claims that he has destroyed Iran’s military might, this threat is hollow, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz itself speaks to this reality.
NATO allies have rightly refused to endorse Trump’s folly and join the war, seeing both no clear strategic plan and no legal justification. They now hope that Trump’s apocalyptic rhetoric is an attempt to disguise his search for a quick escape. Trump said after his threats that there was a “good chance” of reaching a ceasefire agreement with Iran before Tuesday’s deadline. But hours later, Israel bombed a key petrochemical complex in Iran’s largest gas field.
Last-minute scramble
Trump appears to have no preconceived plan and is saving himself by any means necessary. At the White House on Monday, he and Hegsett spent hours bragging about rescuing a crew member of a US fighter jet that had been shot down in southern Iran.
The Guardian concludes by warning: In the coming hours, thousands of lives and the near future of the global economy will depend on the will of an unstable president, who is guided only by his narcissistic instincts and the flattering words of his advisers.