Operation Epstein Distraction II is underway. The “very stable genius” and the man who ended seven… no, make that eight, wars, has now destabilized the entire Middle East. Because allegedly Iran was a week away from nukes. Even though the aforementioned very stable genius claimed that he “totally obliterated” their nuclear program about eight months ago. Those Iranian scientists are quite industrious — maybe we should get them to work on lowering the price of groceries, or the cost of U.S. healthcare, or on releasing all of the Epstein files.
Here are some great questions:

There’s not a plan. There’s never a plan. Only greed, revenge, ego trips. Elect a person with the impulse control of a toddler and this is what you get. This is what we get. This is what soldiers are dying for…
Here are some more points to ponder:

#5 is the most salient. Wars are easy to start and hard to stop.
Have we learned nothing from Afghanistan? Iraq? Vietnam?
Kudos to the folks who spun up the DraftBarronTrump.com website after the very stable genius started dropping bombs (other than the ones in his diaper).

The very stable genius creates a mess, and we have to clean it up. (Now we know how the White House staff feels after he hurls another ketchup bottle.) This mess will go on for years, if not decades. Why? And now what?
(The tweets above and the link to the DraftBarronTrump website are courtesy of Jeff Tiedrich’s daily Substack posts, which are “The Emperor has no clothes” on steroids. Equal parts profane and profound.)
I read your post Damian and I like it very much. As we move from a Saturday morning headline of U.S. Attacks Iran to just this morning we become aware of the complete morass we’re in, and again, as you wisely point out. The why we’re bombing Iran is not very clear. Some justification but most importantly not a determined objective. We are wandering again. DJ and company run on bravado, ignorance, lies, half truths and bruised ego’s. We live the mess.
The real test of answering clearly why we’re bombing Iran is trying to give answers to a young person. Our brains go semi-liquid as we plumb all the reason and are unable to answer with clarity. Someone has FUBR’d .. again.