We have learned from our wildly ranting president that “only the military defense” of the USA matters in terms of the American budget. Trump explicitly dismissed federal responsibilities for Medicaid, Medicare, and childcare, even calling them “scams.” Since we already have the most lethal and most expensive military forces on earth, it’s difficult to comprehend his new demand for a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget — unless we think of the war crimes we’ve already committed against Iran and the Queens developer’s plutocratic American background.
Long ago, there was a brief period after World War II when some German apologists asserted that there were indeed a host of "good Germans" who had disagreed with Hitler, didn’t know about the Holocaust and other Nazi war crimes, and therefore weren’t culpable for their country’s blatant war crimes. (The Geneva Convention defines “war crimes” as grave breaches of international law committed against protected persons or property during an armed conflict. On February 28 a U.S. missile strike hit an Iranian elementary school in Minab, killing more than 100 children — certainly “protected persons” — and more than 68 others, mostly teachers.
The appalling costs of Trump’s unconstitutional and vicious war on Iran include more than documented atrocities and “war crimes” — the devastating costs to our own soldiers ordered to carry out a war of conquest without congressional approval, the impact of these munitions on the earth herself, the depletion of our armaments for future conflicts versus China and Russia, and the erasure of international good will toward the USA. We haven’t yet begun to endure the enormous economic penalties of anti-Americanism throughout the world.