Donald Trump is finished.  No matter what he does with his foolish war in Iran, the situation just gets worse for him and for everyone else.  Zugzwang, as Pepe Escobar says, ~ a situation in chess where anything you do makes your position worse.  There is no Off-Ramp for Trump that is within his own discretion.  His situation is exactly comparable to that of Vladimir Putin in Russia, who also underestimated the determination and resilience of the people of Ukraine.  

     There is nothing that Trump can do now, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution.  To continue the off-ramp metaphor, there is no way Trump can navigate his military vehicle off the path of war, but Trump’s military vehicle has crashed, and now it is up to a tow truck to haul the wreckage off the road.  The best thing Trump can hope for now is to secretly encourage the War Powers Resolution to pass, forbidding him to continue the war.  He can then shrug his shoulders and screech his usual litany of inanities, while the rest of the world can begin the arduous task of reconstructing the world after his mad “excursion.”

     An even better Final Solution to the Trump Problem would be either a quick impeachment or a 25th Amendment solution ~ one way or another, the stage manager has to get Trump off the stage before he ruins the show.  

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     This would also be the same solution for Vladimir Putin ~ he could be voted out of office (or impeached, or “otherwise removed”), and a new regime in Moscow could declare the “Special Military Operation” to have been a big mistake from the beginning.  The same solution looks like the only way the rest of the world is going to get any relief from Benjamin Netanyahu ~ he is not going away under his own volition, so all these clowns must be removed, whether with a stage manager’s hook, a tow truck, an impeachment, or some other more forceful event which I cannot recommend.

No More Clowns !

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