As the Iran disaster escalates, Starmer should treat the US president as someone whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere<\/p>\n
Nine days in, the conduct of the unjustified, illegal US-Israel war against Iran<\/a> grows ever-more disproportionate, dishonourable and deranged. The torpedoing of an Iranian navy ship<\/a> off Sri Lanka by a US submarine demonstrated that for reckless Donald Trump, the whole world is his battlefield. Diplomacy, treacherously sabotaged by Washington, has been replaced by unceasing airstrikes that are murdering and maiming hundreds of Iranian civilians. Trump\u2019s White House increasingly resembles a madhouse. War aims shift daily. A clueless, rambling president insists he must help pick<\/a> Iran\u2019s next ayatollah. Meanwhile, his \u201csecretary for war\u201d, Pete Hegseth, rants manically about killing without mercy.<\/p>\n Nine days in, it\u2019s clear <\/strong>Iran\u2019s leaders, those who survive, are not going to roll over in a repeat of Trump\u2019s Venezuela coup. Their forces, though drastically outgunned, are succeeding in spreading pain across the Middle East<\/a>, inundating defences with waves of drones and missiles. That\u2019s no surprise. Iran warned of a region-wide conflict<\/a> if attacked again. Trump is now at war with US allies, too, having adopted George W Bush\u2019s crude Iraq war \u201cfor us or against us\u201d maxim. The Gulf Arabs \u2013 and cruelly battered Lebanon \u2013 just want it to stop. Britain and Europe mostly want no part of it, but are being sucked in anyway. The global economy is tumbling into crisis. In Trump\u2019s war on the world, there are no heroes, only victims. Spain\u2019s defiant leader, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, is one exception<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the Iran disaster escalates, Starmer should treat the US president as someone whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere Nine days in, the conduct of the unjustified, illegal US-Israel war against Iran grows ever-more disproportionate, dishonourable and deranged. The torpedoing of an Iranian navy ship off Sri Lanka by a US … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}