Oil, Money & Power. Trump’s Iran War is NOT a “Just War”

Trump hops from one lunatic thing to another so fast it’s hard to remember what he did a few weeks ago. 

But let’s get into the not-so-wayback machine and remember the last time Trump used our military to take over a foreign country. 

A few months ago, Trump was blasting Venezuelan fishermen out of the water and pretending he thought he was killing drug smugglers. Republican Senator Rand Paul tried his best to make the point that this wasn’t true. “Killing people willy-nilly is against the law,” he said. 

His problem — of course — was that the other Republicans in the United States Senate just plain didn’t care that it looked like Trump was murdering people on the high seas. I remember Rand Paul telling a reporter that his colleagues were supposed to be pro life, but that they didn’t care about these people being killed. He seemed stunned by that.

I remember I was amazed that Senator Paul had just now figured out that his “pro life” Republican colleagues weren’t actually pro life. I was surprised that he’d ever thought they were. 

America’s Republican Senators are just Trump’s little finger puppets. And when they’re not being Trump’s little finger puppets, they’re right wing billionaires’ finger puppets. They don’t believe anything. If you watch them in action, that quickly becomes obvious. 

But I digress. 

The point here is that after he’d killed a few dozen fishermen, Trump used our military to go into Venezuela and take it over, then install his puppet as the head of their government. And of course, the Republicans in the Senate backed him in doing it. 

As soon as the dust had settled, Trump announced that he was taking over Venezuelan oil. It took a couple of months, but it’s since come out that an executive from Chevron Oil was “advising” Trump in his use of our military to take over Venezuela. 

Now big oil is cashing in. 

I’m going back over this not-so-ancient history of Trump, using our military to attack another country in order to take control of their oil for his buddies because it goes directly to one of the questions I’ve heard Catholics ask lately.

That question: Is Trump’s war against Iran a “just” war?

Trump decided all by his little self to go to war with Iran. He did it against the warning of his top generals. It’s a war started by one man, acting on his own initiative, who has flooded the field with a firehose of phony justifications which do not add up.

It turns out that Iran is not falling over as easily as Venezuela. Trump has killed a lot more people in Iran than he did in Venezuela, and this thing isn’t over yet. 

But Iran is a much bigger prize than Venezuela.

Iran has the third largest reserves of oil in the world. It also has the Strait of Hormuz.

The Strait of Hormuz is a narrowing in the Persian Gulf, right before it flows into Gulf of Oman and into the Arabian Sea. It has the coast of Iran on one side and Bahai on the other. A huge percentage of the world’s oil supply and other shipping has to go through the Strait of Hormuz. That is the flash point where Iran can put a choke hold on the economy of the entire world.

And, as it turns out, Iran is not Venezuela. They will fight. 

Trump used the simplistic lie that he was taking over Venezuela because of the drug trade. It all went fast because Venezuela couldn’t/didn’t fight back against the US military, and because there were people in Venezuela who cooperated with the American takeover.

Trump got away with grabbing Venezuela’s oil without any big challenge, mostly because he didn’t endanger any other world powers by doing it. Venezuela couldn’t defend itself, and it was done. 

It appears that this easy kill fed Trump’s megalomania. To an outside observer, it looked like somebody mainlined a freight load of high quality cocaine into Trump’s insatiable greed for power, money and dominance over other people.

Trump has given all sorts of conflicting and nutty reasons why he decided to start this war with Iran. They are too many to list and too wacky to explain. They make so little sense that even Trump’s attaboy media and his braindead MAGA followers are having trouble getting it straight. 

They try to repeat his lies, but he changes them so fast they can’t keep up. 

I’ve been in politics most of my adult life. Here’s one thing I know. When a politician does something that seems stupid, but they won’t stop doing it, and they keep changing their reasons for why they are doing it and it doesn’t make any sense, look for who’s getting money out of it. Then you’ll understand it.

I don’t think any of the reasons Trump gave for starting this destructive and stupid war with Iran have anything to do with why he did it. I think he thought he could do a smash and grab on Iran like the one he did on Venezuela. I think his motive was to control Iran’s oil and the Strait of Hormuz and with it, most of the oil and much of the trade of the world. 

I think his motivation for this war is the same one he has for his excessive tariffs. He’s trying to take control of the world economy. 

He’s not doing this for America. He’s for sure not doing this for you and me. I think he’s doing it to feed his insane need for dominance, and to line his pockets and the pockets of his billionaire buddies.

The coup Trump enacted on Venezuela was basically a smash and grab. 

I think that’s what he wanted to do with Iran. But Iran is fighting back. 

At first Trump dissed our allies and told them that the USA didn’t need their help.

Then Iran started attacking ships in the Strait. When that happened, Trump demanded that our allies help the USA patrol the Strait to get shipping through. 

They answered with diplomatic crickets. When that happened, Trump switched to a threat about what he was going to do with NATO if they didn’t pony up and get into the war for him. 

Trump seems to forget that a short while ago, he almost went to war with Norway, France, Great Britain and the rest of NATO over his stupid plan to seize Greenland. He’s lied, bullied, threatened, broken promises, tariffed and insulted these countries. 

Now he’s demanding that they send their citizens into harm’s way to help him take over Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran is turning this on its head by going from a total blockade to a blockade of selected countries. They are negotiating deals with various countries to let their oil through.

Let’s get back to the original question: Is Trump’s war with Iran a “just war?”

Absolutely not. 

I think he intended it to be another smash and grab like Venezuela. 

Trump’s attack on Iran was unprovoked. 

I have no idea how many people he’s killed with all his bombing in Iran. But I would guess that it’s more than a few. 

I believe everyone who has died on both sides in this war so far was a human sacrifice to Trump’s insane greed for money, power and dominance. 

Trump is evil. I don’t say things like this lightly. In fact, before Trump, I’ve never said this about anyone. But I think his whole regime, from top to bottom, is Satanic. 

I don’t think he cares how many people he kills. 

Is Trump’s war on Iran a “just war?” 

Of course not.