{"id":3239,"date":"2026-03-18T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:00:18","slug":"shit-here-we-go-again-war-by-cartoon-sociopaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"Shit, Here We Go Again: War By Cartoon Sociopaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/funeral-held-for-students-and-staff-killed-in-school-in-southern-iran.jpg?id=65160811&amp;width=1200&amp;height=400&amp;coordinates=0,240,0,428\"><\/p>\n<p>In the second week of an inept narcissist&#8217;s spiraling war &#8211; not even of choice but of whim &#8211; that&#8217;s killed over 2,000 people and wreaked widespread havoc, almost as grotesque as the witless carnage itself is the &#8220;slopaganda&#8221; issuing almost daily from a White House evidently run by 14-year-old gamers who splice real combat footage with Call of Duty-esque video games to create banal war porn celebrating &#8220;JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.&#8221; Millions of us wanna know: &#8220;What the fuck is wrong with you people?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under Trump we will have no more wars &#8211; I am peace,&#8221; once intoned the hollow reality-show specter now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVhD3AEEf7b\/?utm_sourc...\" target=\"_blank\">spreading <\/a>mindless death, terror and economic mayhem across 12 countries. To date, US and Israeli airstrikes have<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/3\/1\/us-israel-...\" target=\"_blank\"> killed <\/a>at least 2,000 people across the Middle East, mostly civilians, and over 1,100 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/iran-lebanon-chi...\" target=\"_blank\">children,<\/a> including infants and toddlers, in what the UN calls &#8220;a catastrophic&#8221; situation. In Tehran, bombs have struck at least four schools, strikes on oil refineries and storage facilities have blanketed the city in dark smoke and black rain in what many view as a Gaza-like genocidal attack on infrastructure, and historic heritage sites have been bombed in what experts call &#8220;a declaration of war on civilization,&#8221; with no end in sight.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear from Trump&#8217;s flailing rhetoric he didn&#8217;t expect or plan for a war, just a fast, hard, &#8220;kill their leader and they fold&#8221; move like Venezuela (which is def not Iran) so they could pick a pliable new leader. But everything he touches dies: After sloppily killing all their own choices for successors, they instead got the far more extremist, angrier son Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, a hardliner with close ties to Iran&#8217;s most ideologically rabid, repressive clerics &#8211; and, after Trump&#8217;s blithe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/iran-war-us-israel-trump-2026\/card\/trump-open-to-khamenei-being-killed-if-he-doesn-t-cede-to-u-s-demands-hl9KqawqqO2pCCWODSej\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">assertion <\/a>he&#8217;ll kill him too, with nothing to lose. The outcome, deemed &#8220;the blueprint for a generational blood war,&#8221; also pissed off rich Gulf states who&#8217;ve been courting him with investment pledges. One Dubai oligarch &#8220;at the heart of a danger (we) did not choose&#8221;: \u201cWho gave you the authority to drag our region into a war?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The slapdash incompetence of his &#8220;little excursion to keep us out of a war&#8221; quickly exposed an erratic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/611e8f6f-18c7-4886-a733-9e8aac2fceda\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">take <\/a>on what he actually <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/f1864af3-3ee2-472b-b362-51bdfcab0d35?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">called <\/a>his &#8220;performance&#8221; not governance, more improv than strategy. The rationale kept shifting &#8211; no nuclear weapons, people free, regime change &#8211; as did the language: A &#8220;47-year-conflict&#8221; became an &#8220;imminent threat.&#8221; (&#8220;Words, what are they for?&#8221;) The promise Iranians&#8217; &#8220;future is yours to take&#8221; became a demand for imaginary &#8220;UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!&#8221; He bounced ideas off journalists, didn&#8217;t expect the resulting energy debacle and spread to neighboring states, ignored likely consequences &#8211; what oil? &#8211; had no contingency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duckworth.senate.gov\/news\/press-releas...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">plans <\/a>and rebuffed allies: To the UK&#8217;s offer of help: &#8220;We don\u2019t need people that join Wars after we\u2019ve already won!\u201d Despite all his professed &#8220;reasons,&#8221; most voters still <a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/%24s_!e7sU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85afa424-9faa-4383-99fa-1bb6cac7aca7_1600x1143.png?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">think <\/a>he made a war to deflect from a pedophile bestie.<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, said Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian, who warned their enemies \u201cmust take their dream of the Iranian people\u2019s unconditional surrender to their graves.&#8221; Then he apologized to neighboring countries for strikes against their U.S. bases. In response, Trump crowed they were ready &#8220;to cry uncle&#8221; and declared it &#8220;the first time Iran has ever lost in thousands of years.&#8221; MAGA voted for an isolationist America First leader; they got a raging, idiotic, ignorant warmonger who launched more military attacks on more countries in a year than any president, and who doesn&#8217;t give a shit about Americans. Asked if we should be worried about retaliatory attacks from Iran, he shrugged, &#8220;I guess&#8230;When you go to war, some people will die.\u201d Aka, whatever. But lookit these cool, macho videos celebrating Epic Fury!<\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"ce2196359c0177e7c195f34a53d73315\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2lRLmZl6T8?rel=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=6&amp;v=V2lRLmZl6T8&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2F&amp;source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<p>Within days, the White House, or the puerile gamesters running their social media account, moved on from simply glorifying the violence to transforming it into <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/video-games-war-white-house-video-campaign-cb4a546a4cfcfdc6083f89b059a8eb32\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">video games<\/a>, \u201cgamifying&#8221; it by seamlessly merging video <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/d9311a81-fca6-411a-b6bc-ee870739930f?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">footage<\/a> of actual U.S. strikes and explosions with bellicose clips from <em>Call of Duty<\/em>, <em>Grand Theft Auto<\/em>, <em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>. They also interspersed real kill-footage with popular action flicks and TV shows &#8211;<em> Braveheart, <\/em><em>Gladiator,<\/em> <em>Top Gun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/bryan-cranson-says-he-wants-play-donald-trump-watch-his-t100700\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Man,<\/a><\/em> even Saul Goodman and Walter White: &#8220;I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zAjJYkUnTEs&amp;t=101s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">am <\/a>the danger&#8221; &#8211; complete with relentless, churning techno music to get your jingoistic heart racing. The result, both cringey and chilling, is to render real-life pain, blood, death, grief, terror, destruction, displacement mere cartoon entertainment, stripped of humanity, unworthy of empathy.<\/p>\n<p>In a rare move, the <a href=\"https:\/\/statuskuo.substack.com\/p\/gaslighting-over-atrocities?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61e6f602-424a-43cf-aa5a-df80a26fc92e_1327x1123.png&amp;open=false\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">gaslighting <\/a>profanity of the videos prompted a &#8220;call to conscience&#8221; from Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archchicago.org\/statement\/-\/article\/20...\" target=\"_blank\">decried<\/a> the &#8220;profound moral failure&#8221; they represent. Seeing &#8220;real war with real death and real suffering treated like a video game&#8221; was &#8220;sickening,&#8221; he wrote, war and its brutality become &#8220;a spectator sport&#8221; and a moral crisis. &#8220;Our government (is) thrilled by the destructive power of our military, addicted to the &#8216;spectacle&#8217; of explosions,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;The American people are better than this.&#8221; Maybe, some of them. But the malignant narcissist with a puerile, warped, self-serving world view and fanboys marveling at the capture of Maduro as &#8220;the most gangster thing I&#8217;ve seen in my life&#8221; are still hideously, obliviously &#8220;locked in&#8221; to the atrocities. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"2029953667600646655\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2029953667600646655\"><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So are, of course, his loyal buffoonish <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mgkljfxigl2r?ref_src=embed&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">minions, <\/a>strutting and gloating over America&#8217;s bloody, illegal &#8220;victories.&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;re marching through the world,&#8221; declared giddy, craven lickspittle Lindsay Graham to a laughing Maria Bartiromo on <em>Fox. <\/em>&#8220;We\u2019re clearing out the bad guys.&#8221; All praise to &#8220;Ronald Reagan plus,&#8221; &#8220;the greatest commander in chief of all time.&#8221; He doesn&#8217;t want &#8220;a fair fight,&#8221; just &#8220;a quick one,&#8221; he said, joining the bully ranks, and to make lots of money. Committed to being the cringiest cheerleader on the vile team, he even brought props; he waves &#8220;inane Make Iran Great Again&#8221; and &#8220;Free Cuba&#8221; hats, and smirks, &#8220;Stay tuned.&#8221; Oh puke. Who asked America to clear out the bad guys? Who thinks what we need is a hat-based foreign policy? Idiotic hubris, thy name is. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, insufferable Press Barbie Stepford, her little Christian cross front and center, has gone full, smug, North Korea <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/2029988611337126004\" target=\"_blank\">agit-prop. <\/a>What does Trump&#8217;s imaginary \u201cunconditional surrender&#8221; mean, she is asked. She yammers at length, dragging out the titles in an effort to bolster her gobbledygook: &#8220;It means that when President Trump, as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America and the goals of Operation Epic Fury has (sic) been fully realized, whether they say it themselves or not.&#8221; And as the blessed leader of MAGA, she adds breezily, there may or may not be boots on the ground in Iran; &#8220;President Trump wisely keeps all his options on the table.&#8221; And bring on the video games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"d36aa591375562496a9e7086cc7bf715\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0UA3SqBMxQA?rel=0&amp;start=11\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0UA3SqBMxQA&amp;t=11s\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<p>Most repulsive is smarmy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/hegseth-email-text.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">abusive, <\/a>chest-thumping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeemingdemocracy.net\/p\/senators-clear-the-way-for-hegseths?utm_source=publication-search\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Christo-fascist<\/a> and &#8220;day-drunk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RfbvGBjScKM&amp;t=178s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">dipshit<\/a>&#8221; Kegseth, who finally got a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/About\/Secretary-of-war\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a> to go with his puerile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z95uGbiPJSk&amp;t=42s\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">bravado. <\/a>Preening in his greasy hair and patriotic pocket square, he vows to &#8220;unleash overwhelming and punishing violence,\u201d revels in &#8220;death and destruction from the sky,&#8221; brags, &#8220;America is winning &#8211; decisively, devastatingly and without mercy,&#8221; and gloats of the &#8220;quiet death&#8221; &#8211; and war crime &#8211; of 87 Iranian sailors killed when a US torpedo hit their <em>unarmed <\/em>frigate heading home from a training exercise the US <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/c1771ff8-671d-4beb-bb23-fd46a6380f3e?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">took part in. <\/a>A lethal &#8220;broken boy in a costume,&#8221; he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/08\/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reviled <\/a>by peers for his bombastic language and &#8220;moral depravity.&#8221; One advocate calls him &#8220;a very dangerous person,&#8221; &#8220;out of his depth,&#8221; &#8220;cavalier, obtuse and so incompetent I wouldn\u2019t feel safe leaving him in charge of a DoorDash order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite all that &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/openthebooks.substack.com\/p\/pentagon-should-focus-on-defense\" target=\"_blank\">reports of Pentagon excess<\/a> topping<em> $93 billion <\/em>spent in one month, under use-it-or-lose-it funding rules, on furniture, ice cream machines, sushi prep tables, iPads,<strong><\/strong> king crab, lobster tail, steak, doughnuts &#8211; still there he was, pig-eyed, smirking, loathsome, ostensibly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atrupar\/status\/2030099105930678697\" target=\"_blank\">assuring <\/a>us not to worry about Russia reportedly giving Iran intel on American troops, because &#8220;the president has an incredible knack at mitigating those risks.&#8221; &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s putting us in danger,&#8221; he sneered. &#8220;We&#8217;re putting the other guys in danger &#8211; that&#8217;s our job.&#8221; Then he launched into a casual genocidal rant deemed &#8220;some really dark shit.&#8221; Per Rumsfeld: You go to war with the sociopathic, bullying, self-declared Secretary of War you have, and the base war porn that goes with him. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"2030099105930678697\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/2030099105930678697\"><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><a href=\"https:\/\/davidrothkopf.substack.com\/p\/living-in-a-time-of-lunatics-and\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course the imbecile who last weekend attended the &#8220;dignified transfer&#8221; of the senselessly dead Americans he&#8217;s to blame for, wearing his undignified white USA golf cap because he cares more about his &#8220;hair.&#8221; He eloquently noted &#8220;I hate to do that&#8221; &#8211; see the dead, also muss his hair &#8211; but &#8220;it\u2019s part of war. It&#8217;s the bad part of war.&#8221; Truth. Later, he was asked about the murder of up to 175 girls in an Iranian elementary school. Though the investigative <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/4aabd3ca-8eb0-4023-9668-7e7ec15d17b8?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Bellingcat<\/a> and multiple news outlets confirmed a US Tomahawk missile hit the school &#8211; another war crime &#8211; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rcpvideo\/status\/2031142062536491346\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">suggested, <\/a>with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/08\/world\/middleeast\/iran-minab-school-strike.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">no evidence, <\/a>it may have been Iran; challenged why he thought so, he conceded he had no idea what he was talking about. Still, slimy Hegseth concurred: &#8220;The only side that targets civilians is Iran.&#8221; And the only side to mistakenly kill 175 children is America.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went golfing, then spoke at a GOP retreat at his friggin&#8217; golf club. He railed against Dems opposing the SAVE America Act, which would sabotage the mid-terms with new voting strictures: &#8220;It even has &#8216;America&#8217; in its name,&#8221; he whined, and Schumer is &#8220;now a Palestinian officially.&#8221; He dismissed concerns about soaring gas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/economy\/consumers\/how-war-in-iran-is-colliding-with-trumps-economic-priorities-42b7c165?mod=article_inline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prices<\/a>, &#8220;a very small price to pay (for) World Safety and Peace. ONLY FOOLS WOULD THINK DIFFERENTLY,&#8221; and warned Iran not to &#8220;try anything cute&#8221; to block the Strait of Hormuz, or &#8220;Death, Fire, and Fury will reign (sic) upon them.&#8221; And still more war slopaganda streamed from a White House that touts killing as sport. Home runs in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2030015671820509202\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">baseball<\/a>, like missiles hitting targets, are &#8220;pure American dominance.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2030051395294941427\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Football <\/a>= missile hits = &#8220;TOUCHDOWNS!&#8221;, all, &#8220;JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"rm-embed twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"rebelmouse\" data-twitter-tweet-id=\"2029741548791853331\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2029741548791853331\"><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Iran, it turns out, also seeks their own justice. Foreign Minister <strong><\/strong>Abbas Araghchi announced they do not want to harm ordinary Americans who oppose foreign wars like &#8220;Operation Epic Mistake,\u201d but they will no longer seek diplomacy and they have &#8220;many surprises in store&#8221; if America keeps attacking their oil or nuclear sites. In response to our cartoon agitprop, they also released their own <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:npcitgod6k4wldfcd2fmzctt\/post\/3mgm2wn6uqs2r?ref_src=embed&amp;ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.democraticunderground.com%252F100221084140\" target=\"_blank\">LEGO-style<\/a> video &#8211; missiles, explosions, a whiteboard reading, &#8220;My homeland is my life.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskSocialists\/comments\/1r...\" target=\"_blank\">Comments:<\/a> &#8220;Begun, the content wars have,&#8221; &#8220;Who would&#8217;ve thought a country run by religious fanatics that propagates martyrdom would not just roll over upon being attacked?&#8221; and, &#8220;Maybe I shouldn&#8217;t have wished to live in more interesting times.&#8221; Also, &#8220;Even their AI slop is killing ours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, flailing in the face of political and economic blowback to a feckless, miscalculated war\/not war against a potentially nuclear-armed nation of 91 million, is struggling to figure out how to end it, or at least randomly declare victory like in elections. We are awash in mixed messages. Hegseth on where are we now: &#8220;We&#8217;re in a very strong place,&#8221; &#8220;This is just the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hegseth-us-strikes-iran-trump-plans-60-minutes-transcript\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> beginning<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;Our will is endless.&#8221; Trump, asked if it&#8217;s over or just starting: &#8220;You could say both,&#8221; &#8220;The war is very <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/weijia\/status\/2031086856679412042\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">complete, <\/a>pretty much,&#8221; &#8220;I can end it whenever I want,&#8221; though Iran has reportedly rejected two ceasefire offers, US intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/5e88af89-a65b-4ca4-a224-3250c2e6fa59?j=eyJ1IjoibDhod24ifQ.5jEjeLiJZS5OfHG4v_xEBlfZCsRwcX2P4Vv9vuux9BQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sees <\/a><strong>&#8220;<\/strong>no imminent collapse&#8221; of their government, and the Strait of Hormuz is (predictably) both closed and lethal though Trump is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/695846\/donald-trump-looking-things?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">looking at it<\/a> strongly.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s going great,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It is won, but not won enough.&#8221; For once, he&#8217;s right: We&#8217;re tired from so much fucking winning.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the only imminent threat was, is Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/davidrothkopf.substack.com\/p\/living-in-a-t...\" target=\"_blank\">writes <\/a>David Rothkopf, who cites &#8220;the madness&#8221; of so many people around the world &#8220;buffeted by the psychosis of a single man,&#8221; his &#8220;whims, impulses, ignorance, greed, malevolence, hatefulness, turning pique into economic pain, promoting the incompetent and monstrous to do his dirty work, seeking desperately to steal glory he does not deserve,&#8221; and by shuttering US programs worldwide <a href=\"https:\/\/davidrothkopf.substack.com\/p\/living-in-a-t...\" target=\"_blank\">causing<\/a> &#8220;the death of millions who simply had the misfortune to live in Trump&#8217;s time.&#8221; On Saturday, Country Joe McDonald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/country-joe-mcdonald-fish-singer-dead-obituary-1235527043\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">died <\/a>at 84 after a decades-long music career. Its touchstone was perhaps his furious performance, before nearly half-a-million people at 1969&#8217;s Woodstock Festival, of his <em>I-Feel-Like-I&#8217;m-Fixin&#8217;-to-Die Rag,<\/em> about another rich man&#8217;s war and poor man&#8217;s fight. May he, and too many others, rest in peace and power.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><em>&#8220;And it&#8217;s 1, 2, 3, what&#8217;re we fighting for?&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Country Joe McDonald<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><em>&#8220;Looking <\/em><em>at what we are<a href=\"https:\/\/davidrothkopf.substack.com\/p\/living-in-a-t...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> confronted with t<\/a>oday, those most likely to argue they should hold a place above ordinary people are actually, in fact, the least of us, the most contemptible among us.&#8221; <\/em>&#8211; David Rothkopf<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: <\/em>The Pentagon has barred several news photographers from Kegseth&#8217;s Iran war briefings after his aides found some earlier photos &#8220;unflattering,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/03\/11\/hegseth-press-briefings-photos-iran\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> The Washington Post reported<\/a> Wednesday. Thank goodness the purported leader of the world&#8217;s largest military is laser-focused on his priorities in these apocalyptic times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iran's LEGO-themed agit-prop\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"f776bfcfbb6fe0c9044c24be7da4a445\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" id=\"cacff\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/iran-s-lego-themed-agit-prop.jpg?id=65251428&amp;width=980\"> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">Iran&#8217;s LEGO-themed agit-prop<\/small><small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\">Screengrab on X<\/small><\/p>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"e2e569928335a0c3a1f017e12e068da7\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"auto\" lazy-loadable=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ft0vkKCadgk?rel=0&amp;start=14\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk&amp;t=14s\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second week of an inept narcissist&#8217;s spiraling war &#8211; not even of choice but of whim &#8211; that&#8217;s killed over 2,000 people and wreaked widespread havoc, almost as grotesque as the witless carnage itself is the &#8220;slopaganda&#8221; issuing almost daily from a White House evidently run by 14-year-old gamers who splice real combat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}