An Open Letter to Donald Trump: On 'Complete' Wars and 'Ultimate Victory'
Dear Mr. Trump, We at The Piaz listen carefully to your pronouncements, even as the establishment media attempts to make sense of your contradictory statements. Regarding the ongoing, undeclared war with Iran, your recent declarations demand more than a passing headline. To CBS News on Monday, you confidently asserted, "the war is very complete." Yet, just hours later, addressing Republican
lawmakers, you declared the necessity of achieving "ultimate victory." Are we to believe the war is both over and still needs winning? This isn't just bewildering rhetoric; it's a dangerous obfuscation that serves as a thinly veiled cover for continued aggression. Perhaps you've forgotten, or perhaps you never bothered to learn, that the United States has been a full co-belligerent in Israel's
decades-long campaign against Iran. This isn't merely about sanctions or economic strangulation, which have crippled the Iranian populace for 45 years. We're talking joint military maneuvers, shared intelligence, and direct threats that escalate daily. The deployment of carrier groups and B-52s, the repeated assassinations of Iranian scientists and commanders, including General Qassem Soleimani in
January 2020: these are acts of war. To suggest the "war is complete" while simultaneously pushing for "ultimate victory" echoes the same duplicity that led to the US-backed coup in Chile in 1973, installing a brutal dictatorship that served American interests for decades. The US-Israeli collaboration is currently actively murdering Palestinians and Lebanese daily, despite any alleged 'ceasefire.'