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After promising during his 2024 election campaign to end the country’s quarter century of ‘forever wars’—on June 21, 2025 Trump started yet another ‘forever war’ by bombing Iran at multiple locations. He thus declared war today on Iran without a formal declaration, much like Japan did with the USA on December 7, 1941.

Also like Japan in 1941, Trump conducted fake negotiations over the past two weeks with Iran as a deception, to make Iran think a deal was possible when in fact he never intended a deal. The attack was inevitable days ago, once the US started moving two more US carrier task forces to the region, removing its naval assets out of its Bahrain and Qatar bases in the Persian Gulf, and calling on Americans in the region to leave. All indicators Trump made his decision to bomb likely a week ago.

The deception of fake negotiations this past week continued up to the very last minute. Two days ago Trump announced he was giving Iran two weeks more to consider his demands. As he said that, US air force B-2 bombers were being fueled, armed and readied for takeoff. Just another deception.

Trump’s forever war on Iran is like none of the US Empire’s previous neocon wars of the 21st century.

This time there was no attempt to provide political or moral cover by going to the United Nations, as US presidents did in previous wars in Iraq in 1991 and 2003. Nor did Trump make the slightest effort to bring US allies on board to support or participate in the attack. Nor was there any pretense of invoking the War Powers Act, that imperial fig leaf that has served as cover for Presidents violating the US Constitution. All that was bypassed or ignored this time, in Trump’s ‘forever war’.

Trump’s decision to go to war was strictly personal. It was his alone—with US neocons whispering in his one ear and Netanyahu the other. That makes Trump’s war a personal act of Tyranny per the basic meaning of that term—an act in foreign policy not unlike some of his recent decisions in US domestic affairs.

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