by Karen Kwiatkowski,Lew Rockwell:

Just before the US-Israeli war on Iran went kinetic, I shared my thoughts onliteral “poop” deckof the USS Gerald Ford. “T-shirts and mop heads are finding their way into the pipes, and the proper explanation is sailors are attempting to declog these post-modern shit-suckers,but a bit of old fashioned rage and frustration may also play a part.

I was coy,but Colonel McGregor has not been. He assessed at the time it was sabotage “out of extreme dissatisfaction.” After 240 days at sea, the USS Ford was bound for Norfolk from the Caribbean for overdue repairs and crew changes. Most of the previous several months had been plagued with non-functioning and flooded toilets, and bad leadership. But Donald Trump decided he needed to send this battle group immediately to the Middle East, as part of a “war” buildup. Alfred Lord Tennyson spoke for these men and women: “Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.”

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Why? In Tennyson’s poem, “Someone had blundered” and the 1854 Battle of Balaclava remains instructive, in more ways than one. Ourvery model of a modern Major-Generalissimoread the headline, missed the lesson, and said “Hold my beer!”

The explosive February 28thattacks on political, religious and military targets on Tehran were meant to decapitate the regime, to induce Iran’s obedience to the US and Israel. While that objective was the first to be abandoned, removing previously obliterated nuclear material and playing ballistic missile whack-a-mole seem to remain. The first week of the war manufactured the “new” objective of restoring US allied traffic and trade through the Strait of Hormuz and within US allied GCC countries.Trump, as talented as he may be, is having trouble keeping it all straight.

As Marco Rubio blurted early on, it is a war for Israel, with US military commitment not requested, but demanded by Netanyahu. This is Israel’s war, one that Donald Trump and his Zionist team wanted to fight and Congress, like the American public, was left out, lied to, and leaned on to make it happen. AsJoe Kent, Trump’s top Counter Terrorism Advisor, stated in his recent resignation letter, the war on Iran is based on an Israeli lie, “the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women.”

What Joe Kent believes, and what he does, is important. A combat hardened veteran and MAGA team player, he represents the thinking of many former and current military members, and their civilian counterparts, who have been around long enough to understand that civilian control of the military does not mean the President can do “anything he wants.”

The United States, as a collapsing and anti-constitutional empire, faces many problems. Some are obscure, like the coming economic and monetary collapse. Some are strategic, like the decades of wastage and corruption within the defense industrial complex that have eroded the dominance of the American war machine, while encouraging politicians to seek war continuously for fun and profit. Some are moral, as seen with the war lust of both political parties, and the corruption of the elite classes, merged seamlessly in the adopted moniker of the latest war, “Epstein Fury.” Some problems are political, like the current US parasitical infection bythe Zionist horse-hair worm, which ingeniously hijacks the brain and movement of the host, culminating in the host’s suicide by drowning, water being necessary for the next stage of the worm’s life-cycle.

Unjust wars, deceitful monetary systems, elite arrogance and social disconnection are all part of late stage empire, fueling distrust among the people, and between the classes. The military is an institution where many of us have served, and many more take great pride in the service of ancestors children, family and friends. It has been a unifier of the working classes, and a link between our politicians and the people. Increasingly – in our frayed society – we see military men and women being elected to Congress, claiming in their campaigns the credibility and courage that we associate with service to country. A recent generation of military men and women, now Senators and Congressmen and among the top levels of the executive branch, have largely shown themselves to be easily compromised – no doubt MAGA classmates Tulsi Gabbard and JD Vance, and many pro-war voices in the House and Senate traded away earned credibility on war and peace, choosing to cower rather than stand up, proving themselves less patriotic and less courageous than we were led to believe.

Source: SGT Report