KW: Driven to war

Ah, memories…

That was then, this is now: This morning the president tweeted at Russia to “get ready” for missile strikes on Syria — in areas where Russian troops are stationed and Moscow controls the airspace. Not surprisingly, the Dow plunged 200 points on the open.

The United States is about to carry out an act of war even though no attack on the United States is imminent, no obvious American interest is at stake and no authorization by the legislative branch has been given. And all this on the basis of allegations every bit as shaky as those of “Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction.”

Trump’s best promise was to “get along” with Russia — the only other nuclear-armed superpower. As we said a few weeks before the election in 2016, U.S.-Russia relations are the paramount issue: The markets and the economy become rather secondary matters if the Earth is pockmarked with smoldering radioactive craters.

For having made that promise, Trump was labeled by Hillary Clinton as a “puppet” of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Guess Trump’s showing her now, huh?

As Hillary said in a different context, what difference does it make?

[Creepy Photoshoppery posted by Twitter user David Deeble.]

And now at this moment in history, the power elite — the self-styled #Resistance Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans — are embracing two contradictory ideas at once. 1) Trump is too unstable and erratic to be trusted in the role of commander-in-chief. 2) Trump must launch a war in Syria yesterday. Hate it!