Once again, President Donald Trump has used his social media account to demonstrate that he is crazy like a fox. Or perhaps he is just crazy.
With hours to go before his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, he is doubling down by threatening military strikes that will wipe out an entire civilisation, suggesting that he may be considering an act of genocide in addition to the other war crimes that he has already posited.
Warning that “a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back”, Trump is even raising the spectre of the possible first-strike use of nuclear weapons to combat his Iranian foes. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” he says of his proposed action, without disclosing exactly what he has in mind.
He may still simply be planning to bomb civilian infrastructure targets including – as he threatened in his expletive-laden social media rant on Sunday – the country’s power plants and bridges. But on Monday, he also hinted at the possibility of attacks on Iran’s oilfields, oil storage facilities and refineries, a move that would set the country literally aflame and spark untold environmental damage.
Not since Saddam Hussein’s retreating forces set fire to Kuwait’s oil facilities in early 1991, following Iraq’s failed invasion, has the region seen anything approximating the toxic ecological disaster that Trump may be contemplating.
Any move against Iran’s oil resources would also hinder the President’s long-term goal, which remains securing control of the country’s crude for American oil companies eventually to exploit.
Like a drunk urging onlookers to hold him back from a fight, Trump is – as usual – contradictory in his latest febrile posting. He even falsely claims that the war, now into its sixth week, has already achieved “Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter and less radicalized minds prevail”, which sounds like an effort to flatter his Iranian interlocutors in the same breath that he is threatening to destroy them.
A confused American voter might wonder why an entire civilisation needs to “die tonight” if, indeed, Iran is already led by more enlightened figures. The same voter might also be quizzical about how the US leader can guarantee that his actions over the next few hours will bring “47 years of extortion, corruption and death” to a final end.
But voters souring on Trump’s war were described only on Monday as “foolish” by their President, who simultaneously conceded that “unfortunately the American people would like to see us come home”.
There is no polling on public attitudes towards the President committing either an act of genocide in Iran, or using nuclear weapons to destroy large parts of the country. We are, tragically, now at a point where American pollsters have a busy few hours ahead, after a US President indicated nothing is off the table tonight.
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