Can we rein in the latest iteration of political radioactivity?

 The British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, tells reporters that this is a pivotal moment for the world…given the precarious knife edge the Israel-Iran-United States conflict is wobbling. And, of course, at the hub of the geopolitical military and political and economic vortex is the single individual seeking to become the most ‘famous’ (infamy is also now part of his definition of fame)..the man ‘elected’ president of the United States.

With the B-2 Bombers now on their way to Guam in the Pacific Ocean, with multiple refueling tankers, signaling a possible U.S. strike on the Iranian nuclear site. The Times of Israel reports today:

According to Haaretz, between 2 and 4 stealth bombers, alongside a refueling aircraft, ascended from the Whiteman Air Force Base on Johnson County Missouri, toward naval base Guam. It is unclear whether the planes will continue toward Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago Island that serves as a  US-UK base some 3.500 kilometers (2,175 miles) from Iran. Diego Garcia is seen as an ideal location from which to operate in the Middle East….According to The Times, the Us would need British permission to attack from Diego Garcia because the Island is  under British sovereignty, but this would be necessary if the aircraft take off from Guam…

This space studiously avoids military conflict, believing, probably somewhat naively, that any and all words spilled about military conflict give the historic military option too much power and influence…However, today is very different!

There is a megalomaniac in the Oval Office with his metaphoric finger on the nuclear codes, the largest and most lethal war machine in the history of the world at his disposal (with self-proclaimed puppets at his command) and a cranium that, for all intents and purposes has been lobotomized, as far as carrying out the legitimate, legal, historic, traditional moral and ethical principles and guidelines of the Constitutions of the United States of America. Imagine it as parallel process, but this individual has moved far into the deliberate process of lobotomizing the United States identity, historic reputation and geopolitical trust, all of which took more than two centuries to design, fabricate and sustain.

Human life, for all intents and purposes is little more than a mass of digits on an envisioned digital screen, analogous to PacMan for this little man to manipulate, according to both the hard wiring of his brain and the software of his psychic debilitation. He needs the power of dominance, manipulation, extended beyond the ‘newspeak’ of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it was only the juxtaposition of opposites (War is Peace) that could be decoded. There is no process of decoding the scramblings of this man’s intentions, fantasies, worst nightmares, and over-weening fears. No psychiatrist, neurologist, political scientist, nor even those whose lives have been dedicated to the study of tyranny, and have precedential patterns to drawn on, (some of which fit here), have been able to provide convincing counter-measures to neutralize this demonic presidency.

War-lord Netanyahu obsessing over war and the relief it brings to his dark cloud of an impending prison cell, while snookering his American desperate accomplice, may have put him in a place where there is no good option. He too, when it comes to his personal political and insatiable need (not merely desire or ambition) but downright psychic need and dependence on dominance, power, and the deployment of all of the hard and soft instruments to attain it, disregarding even charges of war crimes, and using famine as a weapon of war, and killing thousands of women and children to ‘erase Hamas from the face of the earth’….echoing the Iranian fixation and obsession to remove Israel from the face of the earth.

Of course, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, all proxies for Iran have been engaged in military and terrorist acts against Israel for many months…with the impunity of ‘hands-off’ for Iran who funds, trains, arms and deputizes this terrorist groups. And, now the Israeli people, according to most reports reaching the West, support Netanyahu’s invasion of Iran itself.

Does Israel seek regime change? Or, the actual physical scorched-earth elimination of the Iranian nuclear program, as if such a program were in even the slightest way analogous to the removal of Hamas. These ambitions of ‘absolute control’ whether over undocumented immigrants who have committed no crime and are foraging a respectable living for their families, or over all of the agencies of government, including the Justice Department, (or over the whole of Ukraine, as Putin boldly declares is ‘his’), or over the eradication of an idea, embodied in such groups as Hamas and Hezbollah and Houthis, or ever over a potentially non-military fusion program in Iran….it is the ambition and the fantasy that have been fused. And the fusion exceeds capability….it also exceeds what the world can tolerate as a modus operandi for any government, any leader, or any legitimate ideology….

Elimination of whatever and whomever one considers an ‘enemy’ is the prevailing ethos in the United States of America, an ethos that, by definition, contains the seeds of its own death. The zero-sum game, applied to the whim of any individual, without appropriate, muscular and committed deterrence, is so lethal as to be radioactive, without a measuring device to determine the degree of lethality, as would be the case in a nuclear reactor’s implosion.

Launched over the southern half of the North American continent is a political, psychological, military, cyber and national security radioactive bomb, launched ironically and tragically by the very administration that was elected to protect the 330+ million Americans from such a bomb. There are no apparent effective antidotes, neutralizing forces, antibodies, inspection regimes, or even detection devices that can and will determine the extent of the lethality….in a metaphorical and political and cultural sense.

Apparently, launched over Ukraine is a similar radioactive bomb of presumptuous ‘ownership’ that defies the identity of the Ukrainian people and their chosen future as members of both the EU and NATO. Apparently launched over Gaza is another radioactive bomb to erase the millions of Palestinians who have attempted to survive there for decades.

And now, are the perpetrators of these already unleashed political radioactive bombs about to unleash another over Iran…no one in the West, or in the East wants Iran to have an nuclear bomb. Iran, itself says, it does not seek such a device. No one outside Iran seems to trust that Iranian claim….and there is some considerable reason to doubt it.

However, to unleash a real nuclear bomb potential in and for Iran, as a geopolitical goal, and a legitimate goal, is not to justify unleashing bombs sufficient to destroy a nuclear reactor miles underground under a mountain. And for Trump to declare that Europe cannot be effective in talks with Iran, and only America can, is to challenge and threaten both Europe and Iran to succumb to the inordinate, illegitimate and undisciplined and untethered pseudo-power of the self-declared megalomaniacal model….

Any bombing of the deeply buried reactor will spew radioactivity through the region…and such dispersal will kill and maim many….for what? To satisfy an illegitimate political, military, and morally corrupt movement that is sweeping the planet.

As the Secretary General of the United Nations reminds us, we must not let this conflict spread out of control, (if it is not already beyond reining in).

And Russia, alone, cannot mediate, in spite of Putin’s lofty and fantasy-based ambition.

The world community has to come together to rein in these singular, unitary-tyrants and their hegemonic fantasies, and the time is very short….just as it is for the world community to rein in the suffocating pollution that is strangling all life.