The US and UK governments continue to ignore their parliaments and public opinion, on the most important issue, going to war. Again Australia is on the wrong side.

Non-drinker President Trump returned from Beijing with a glass an eighth-full at best, with China refusing to join him in the Gulf. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Trump to revive bombing of Iran, and to push for a ground force invasion, ostensibly to seize nuclear fuel. Netanyahu knew that Trump was wedged between on the one hand, his Jewish-American financial and political backers who would not countenance peace with Iran, and on the other, Trump’s need to safeguard his own and his family’s investments against the looming global recession brought on by his unprovoked attack on Iran.

Trump doesn’t need another ‘forever war’ if he hopes to win the mid-term election in November, let alone a Nobel Peace Prize. But he does need a perpetual distraction from the Epstein files to which Mossad reportedly has access and could threaten to release.

So Trump, to oblige the Zionist regime in its determination to destroy Iran, has committed the United States to a war it cannot win. The attack Israel wants may resume soon, even though ⁠the US Constitution states that only the legislature, not the president, can declare........

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