Dr. Jim Ellsworth

The President of the United States is, in effect, openly threatening #genocide.

I can, if I try hard enough, understand how the professional leadership of America's national security enterprise could balk at removing a duly-elected POTUS who is clearly dismantling our democracy and imposing fascism, in fulfillment of their Oath "to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC."

But when, IN ADDITION TO that, he vows to add us to the roster of the worst war criminals in history -- those who have sought to erase entire civilizations through industrial-scale #CrimesAgainstHumanity -- isn't it time...?

https://aje.news/9k7fl9

Iran war live: Trump says ‘whole civilisation will die’ in threat to Iran

Pakistan’s PM has asked Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks and for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Al Jazeera
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Show threadJorisBohnsonPM🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸6h ago

@EINS_Institute

Call it what it is - The #EpsteinWar

Show threadDr. Jim Ellsworth5h ago

@JorisBohnsonPM There's AN ELEMENT of that to it, to be sure. But it's more than that. There's also the 'wag the dog' piece that's about saving the congressional midterms for #Trumpublicans so he can continue his fascist project (although for him personally, the Epstein connection is intertwined there in the same way the fear of ending his life in prison is there for Netanyahu). And both of those played a dominant role in getting the war STARTED.

But this bit here that we've been seeing recently--the escalating, unhinged RAGE--is almost entirely his malignant narcissism talking: he is simply LIVID that no amount of force, from the most powerful nation on the planet, has been sufficient to make Iran bend the knee to the #Donjjal. To Donald J. Trump, THAT is the ultimate offense, worthy of wiping them off the planet--and why its entirely plausible that he may be considering ordering a nuclear strike.

Ironically, in the moment--because we ARE dealing with a deeply disordered personality here--that is likely overriding even rational consideration of his own self-preservation, and COULD finally provoke his removal from office, whether by constitutional or extraconstitutional means.