Anyone Needs Further Elaborations?

I resigned myself completely--it was a process--to the fact that Donald Trump is a hollow BSer once John Bolton entered Trump's Admin as National Security Adviser. I started to suspect that Trump was not what he tried to portray himself while running for the office even earlier. There were some signs, especially when one considers well documented emergence of "Mad Dog" Mattis as an "adult in the room". If Mattis was considered an adult in the room, one could only imagine who such a room was filled with. But now POTUS finally did it:

If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!    

What can I say, Donald Trump lives in a delusion which is carefully constructed for him by such people as Bolton and Pompeo and, obviously, Trump has no inhibitions against producing genocidal statements towards a nation which absolutely and unequivocally presents NO threat to America's national interests. Even being at the service of  his Israeli overlords, this is something entirely new, especially when, now traditionally, communicated through Twitter. Really? 

I, honestly, begin to think that in the United States' interest to make sure that people taking highest political offices have at least basic background in military and strategy, as well as some service experience on operational level. It is, of course, absolutely not a guarantee against psychopaths still leaking into the system, enough to take a look at Tom Cotton, but my record shows that since Admiral Fallon in 2008 these were primarily American high ranking officers who not for once warned against attacking Iran. Now, after the US miserably failed in Venezuela and, obviously, failed to provoke Iran (as Israel wished), Trump decides to have the last word and produces a whopper of hollow bullying. Now, folks, think: who in their own mind will negotiate anything with Trump? Certainly not Iran, Russia already knows who she is dealing with, China? Well, that is a separate topic, but something tells me that Chinese do it out of necessity. 

And then, of course, there is this purely military aspect of fighting Iran, on which I wrote not for once. Unless Trump want's to annihilate Iran with her 80+ million population using nuclear weapons--which will constitute a crime against humanity surpassing that of Nazism--the United States can not "end" Iran militarily, especially if it will decide to commit suicide and start land invasion. But here we are getting into the field of operations, operational planning, logistics and... draft? Things people in Trump's Administration do not understand precisely for the reasons of leaving reality-based global community long time ago. In fact, in some sense Trump is further development (or devolution) of America's political elite which stopped producing true statesmen long time ago. Under this conditions a big mouthed NYC real estate shyster probably will do for a president.     

Some Interesting News.

As I state time after time, while China's economic successes are very impressive, economy which boomed initially primarily thanks to Western (a lot of it American) wealth and technology transfers in 1980s-2000s, can not exist without, however stupid the arrangement is, American market. In this sense China and US are a pair, no matter how one looks at it. And here is the freshest news:

The world’s two largest economies, the United States and China have reportedly started laying out a deal to put an end to their seven-month trade dispute.Sources told Reuters the broad outline of what could make up a deal is beginning to emerge from high level talks held on Thursday and Friday in Washington.Beijing and Washington are pushing for an agreement by March 1 which could mark the end of a 90-day truce that US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to when they met in Argentina late last year.... The process has become a real trade negotiation, one of them said. The other source cautioned that the talks could still end in failure, adding, however, the work on the MOUs was a significant step in getting China to sign up both to broad principles and to specific commitments on key issues.

In layman's lingo--China surrendered and Trump pressed China (by not always diplomatic means) into negotiations with agenda defined by the US, not China. I think Moscow takes note, in fact--I know so. So, for people who try to see in Russian-Chinese geopolitical arrangements more than there is in reality, they should understand why in this arrangement the United States still separates Russia and China as two centers of power--Washington thinks that it can coerce China and such thinking is not far fetched, in Russian case the United States deals with the nation whose history is one of unparalleled and, I may add, successful fight for survival and keeping the realm. China is the largest economy in the world, but in terms of main component of geopolitical power--military--China is a novice. This is the main factor which defines a set of attitudes of Washington to Eurasian arrangement, because China can not defend most of Eurasia, Russia can and does, both kinetically and in her potential. And, while at it, for people who idealize Russian-Chinese relations, they have to remember that even shrewd Deng was a massive Russophobe and China had no problems with supplying Afghan mujaheddin with weapons and materiel. Nothing personal, folks, just business. So, let's put it this way--it is complicated.      

Colonel Lang Headlined My Post.

Here is the link to SST. It is interesting, indeed, how many military (and intelligence) professionals on both sides pretty much hover over same (plus-minus) assessments, estimates and contingencies. The problem though, we do not have time nor capacity to educate lawyers, political "scientists", journos and other utterly unqualified people in US Congress or in The White House, POTUS and Mr. Bolton included, on realities of war and what it may entail. Nor is there time to give them a short excurse into Russian history. It is really a bizarre reality when the only guy who stands between insanity and normality is, for crying out loud, "Mad Dog" Mattis. Who would have thought.

Interestingly, Colonel Douglas Macgregor  weighted in on this insanity today too. 

It is never easy for an aggressive commander in chief to resist offensive action, but any significant military action in Syria risks confrontation with these powers on strategic terms that do not favor the United States. Moreover, American military action is simply out of line with Syria’s actual importance to the United States. President Trump would be wise to heed Tom Hagen’s advice to Sonny Corleone—or risk having his legacy shattered on the causeway, like Sonny.

But let's state what I was convinced in for months now. Trump is not against Swamp, he IS Swamp--he never was away from the dark side amplified by his utter incompetence and pathetic bellicosity sold to us, deplorables, as a desire to save the country. He is a perfect conduit for insane neocon policies and, what is most important, he loves it--and that is a diagnosis.