Monday, July 20, 2026

King Donald's War, Part 9. The paper tiger edition.

To me, I think it’s over, I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re liars, they’re cheats, they’re sick people.Now I’ll let our wonderful negotiators keep talking if they want, but I don’t see it.

July 8, 2026

Donald Trump, after being played by the Iranians.

US strikes resumed.

And Israel hit Gaza with airstrikes.

July 9, 2026

And the undeclared illegal war seems back on full stop with Donald Trump almost disinterested in it.

As an obvious precautionary move, an old Air Force One was sent to the UK to substitute for the Royal Omani Coach gifted by the Gulf State, which turns out not to have countermeasures.  That was not admitted, but pretty strongly leaked. Trump claimed the plane was sent to an Air Base in Germany so that the airmen would get to see it.

Um, right.

July 13, 2026

Trump announced that the United States is going to take over the Strait of Hormuz and "run" it for a period of fifty years, taking compensation as part of the occupation.

That's flat out insane.

It's also flat out colonialism.

And it would require ground troops to do it.

It's probably a stupid bluff, and it is stupid.

July 14, 2026

So apparently we fought Iran in order to become the Barbary Pirates.

cont:

Trump apparently was told its piracy, so now costs will be defrayed, he claims, by investments from Gulf States.

So, instead of pirates, we're mercenaries.

It won't happen.

July 19, 2026

Headline from the CST:


There were missile strikes in Jordan, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.

Tell me again about how we've won this war and Iran's military is destroyed. . . this wouldn't seem to support that.

July 20, 2026

If any question why we died, 

Tell them, because our fathers lied.

Kipling. 

Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, age 19, killed in Jordan. 1st Lt. Tyler James Feehan also died.  Both were assigned to Air Defense Artillery units.

Last edition:

King Donald's War, Part 8 and CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 140th Edition, 25th Amendment Watch Nineteenth Edition: L'arche De La Défaite Édition

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