TRUMPIAN GLOBAL WAR: A NEW FRONT?
(Initial posting made on the Linked In network two days ago.) There's clearly a pattern here: Venezuela, Iran, Cuba. The first was an apparent success, but much too easy, bloodless on the American side, and with most of the old Venezuelian government apparatus still in place. Trump is hoping to transform his 'possession' into a 51rst State, but it is doubtful in the long-run. The second is more ambitious, more destructive, and even more doubtful. Trump made a major blunder there, with the Hormuz Strait now under a double blockade, while Iran is certainly reconstituting its arsenal as fast as possible and pushing for more overt and covert support from Russia and China. The U.S. is in a lose/lose situation. A retreat will look bad, a new series of air attacks will be futile, a ground attack will be disastrous. Trump is screwed, everywich way, but he probably care more about his new ballroom-toy than about anything less, a bit like the Sun-King and his Versailles. Après moi ...
