Wind in the White House Willows

Why do American Presidents, of whatever Party or Promises, end up killing people in droves? It is a fundamental question that deserves an answer.

19.3.2025:

Middle East Eye 

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In this opinion video, David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, examines how Israel’s Ramadan massacre in Gaza, carried out with Washington’s approval, marks a new era in global politics. At 2:20 am on Tuesday, Israel launched mass attacks on 100 targets, deliberately timing them during suhoor, the pre-dawn meal of Ramadan, to inflict maximum civilian casualties. More than 400 Palestinians were killed, including 170 children.

US President Donald Trump not only gave Netanyahu the green light for these attacks but also shattered the credibility of any ceasefire or treaty brokered by the West. Hearst argues that Netanyahu’s brutal resumption of the war on Gaza proves that US-backed ceasefires are meaningless. With air strikes also hitting Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, Trump has abandoned his pledge to end wars, instead positioning the US as a rogue actor on the global stage.

For Netanyahu, this war is about more than Gaza. It is about dodging corruption charges and clinging to power. Meanwhile, Religious Zionists, now the most powerful group in Israel, see the Gaza war not as a military operation but as the army of God’s vengeance in action. Britain and Europe remain complicit, unwilling to confront Israel’s massacres, illegal sieges, and violations of international law. While European leaders denounce Trump’s plans to carve up Ukraine with Russia, they turn a blind eye to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, exposing the selective nature of their so-called moral leadership.

But Hearst warns that this is far from the end of the story. Neither Hamas nor the Palestinian people will disappear. And just as Tony Blair’s war in Iraq destroyed his legacy, Keir Starmer’s complicity in Gaza’s genocide could lead to his own political downfall. Whoever inherits the wreckage of the Trump era must face one undeniable reality: the West’s claim to moral leadership is gone - permanently. https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1195847925402653

The moral degeneracy of Starmer, the Labour Party and the whole of the political establishment over Trump and Netanyahu massacres in Gaza is mind-blowing. Not content with the mayhem and destruction on epic scale, Trump is now shaping up for the long- awaited confrontation with Iran by another bombing campaign in Yemen and by sinking the pride of the Iranian fleet. Of course Western media either ignore this or paint it in Zionist terms. In every move Trump contradicts his stated aim of reducing the slaughter, bringing us ever closer to a war that could end Western civilization and a lot of others. In so doing he has revealed himself not only a Zionist toady but also as a total fraudulent lickspittal. Starmer is much the same. Nothing much has changed in several thousand years: "Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths." (Isaiah. 59:7)

21.3.2025: According to ex MI5 officer David Shayler, the most likely people behind Princess Diana's road 'accident' and subsequent death, was MOSSAD. They certainly had a hand in most of the notable european terrorist events of the last decade or more, as I have shown. But then given its long and multiplicity of assassinations at home and abroad, why should this come as such a surprise? Nor should it be surprising that a jewish thread runs through the Kennedy assassinations and 9/11. It has long been recocognised that some of the worst American mobsters were jewish but somehow, including the current Israeli barbarism,  somehow all is cleansed or expunged. There can only be one reason for this: they are in control!

CLEARLY TRUMP HASN'T TOLD NETANYAHU TO STOP BOMBING CIVILIANS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-IKfEhwvRg

19.3.2025: I'm afraid israel has become just a glorified killing machine. It's jewish population has learned nothing from the Third Reich, yet paradoxically learned everything. It is European fascism and brutality recreated. In the end Hitler and his cronies had to be defeated militarily and so will Netanyahu and his. The question is who will finally have to do it? The fact that America and the West have failed to condemn and control that rogue state, and prevent it from carrying out its atrocities on a daily basis over decades, only illustrates how far the West it has lost touch with its former view of right and wrong, opposing violent bullies and protecting innocent women and children. The fact that European countries and politicians can't even bring themselves to condemn Israel for its barbarism reveals what a parlous moral state we find ourselves in. https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/2025/

“The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.”― Henrik Ibsen"

There can't be many in the world unfamiliar with the classic children's book by Kenneth Graham called 'Wind in the Willows'. It's longevity lies in it's ability to charm both children and adults. Children are entranced by the adventures of a group of wild animals on or around the river bank, whilst adults are no less intrigued because the creatures are given human characteristics to which they can relate.

18.3.2025:  As I have been saying for a long time, Britain needs to come to terms with its part in the terrible injustice and cruelty meted out to Palestinians. It is a shameful shambles of lies and deceit pretending one thing and doing the exact opposite, all fronted by our worthy politicians, spouting zionist propaganda, as if from a script. Britain has ACTIVELY supported genocide! By providing arms. By allowing American armaments flights to land. By providing Akrotiri. By flying hundreds of intelligence gathering missions over Gaza. By providing GCHQ intercepts to the Americans and Israelis. By providing covert SAS troops on the ground. By providing diplomatic and political cover for inexcusable barbarity. All this needs to be revealed as Britain sends ever more weapons to Zionist Ukraine, stoking rather than extinguishing war and its terrible human consequences. https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=israeli+injustice

ARTICLE:

Those with a deep aversion to Trump, which is understandable, support any hyperbole just so long as it is critical of him.

He certainly divides opinion - even in the Congress, where one half keeps standing and applauding and the other half couldn't bring themselves to even clap, let alone to stand.

Trump has made a performing art out of egotism. In my primary school we would have just called him a 'Big Head'. Of course it is no joke when in reality he becomes with some justification, 'the most powerful man in the world'. The danger may well be greater even than having a certifiably cognitively impaired man in the role.

His style reminds me a lot of Mussolini. Alternatively the classic 'Wind in the Willows' character,'Toad', not without a little facial resemblance also, as it happens. But despite their character flaws even Mussolini and Toad were not without their good points; it's just that their flaws outweighed them.

Trump is quite right he is in his current position by virtue of the fact that he won every facet of the popular vote. How much this was to do with the competence of the former incumbant and his putative replacement is a moot point, and leaving aside Churchill's oft-quoted aphorism that "the minority is always right"* (we all know that some of the worst dictators did not lack public support - at least until it was too late to influence them) we can agree he won fair and square, and thereby he he has democratic legitimacy and within the confines of the Constitution, can do as he damn well chooses.

That then is the danger that lurks in the wings of American political theatre, not even hidden by the curtains. His stated actions are the earnest of his intent: Dismantling NATO; mass forced deportations; appropriating Canada and Greenland; taking back the Panama Canal; renaming the 'Gulf of Mexico'; supporting every Israeli evil imaginable including ethnic cleansing of Gaza; putting Iran on notice of a devastating attack; placating Russian aggression in Ukraine. You really couldn't make this stuff up! It is the C.V. of a meglomaniac.

The British King was forced to send a grovelling invitation, whilst at the same time witnessing a naked threat to a most important part of the historic Commonwealth?

But stop! Perhaps Trump is not as bad as he appears? Perhaps this is all bravado, the necessary chutzpah of the successful negotiator. After all 'you can't make an omlette without breaking some eggs' can you? (The fact that the phrase was coined by Joseph Stalin shouldn't worry us either!)

Underneath, Trump may be just another harmless 'Uncle Joe', or 'Koba' to his friends: that 'Robin Hood' character who took from the rich to give to the poor; although something tells me Trump might be more inclined to do the opposite. We shall no doubt see.

However if his side-kick J D Vance is anything to go by, a man who can turn from biggest critic to biggest lacky; who can turn from puritanical evangelical to traditional Catholic; the man who played a supporting role in the Zelinskyy ambush and attempted humiliation; we should not be surprised by anything Trump does. It will probably be deemed either good or bad, very much dependent on whether your personal prejudices and affiliations tend to love him or hate him in the first place.

(* Credited not to Churchill but to Henrik Ibsen apparently)

Trump's administration spokesperson talks a lot about Hamas 'terrorism' - by the way still repeating the falsehoods about killing babies on Oct. 7th - whilst totally ignoring Israeli terrorism. which has been happening continuously since 1948 and beyond. This failure to deal evenly and honestly with the violence perpetrated by BOTH sides destroys the President's ethical position. He is not against killing, unless it is Hamas killing; he's against violence, but only if it's Palestinian violence; he's against hostages, but only if they are Jewish ones; he's not against protestors, only Palestinian protestors; he's against torture but not if it's done by the IDF. How can such a biased person claim to be an independent mediator and arbitrator?