Trump Lifts Oil Sanctions on…Wait for It…Iran, the Nation We are at War Against

To quote Dr. McCoy from Star Trek: The Motion Picture: “What the hell kind of strategy is this?”

Not wanting to see a blood bath at the polls on election day, thanks to the wrath of voters disenchanted with his policies, including his war of choice against Iran, resulting in higher gas prices at the pump, Donald Trump and his Know Nothing regime have relaxed some oil sanctions on…wait for it…Iran.

Earlier in the month, Mr. Trump relaxed oil sanctions on Russia, the country whose leadership is trying to take over Ukraine and is giving intelligence information to…wait for it again…Iran to use against us.

At first glance, these moves do not seem to come from a great thinker and military mind.

According to the New York Times, Trump’s move resulted from:

“…How little success the Trump administration has achieved in calming global markets rattled by the American-Israeli military campaign against Iran, forcing it to turn to a measure that could benefit its adversary. Brent crude, the international benchmark, settled at $112 a barrel on Friday, a roughly 54 percent increase since the conflict began.”

The Washington Post reported:

“As the cost of oil continues to soar, the Treasury Department on Friday lifted sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian crude already loaded onto vessels, which the Trump administration says will help ease prices — but which is also likely to provide revenue for Iran’s war effort…the action was met with bewilderment by many lawmakers and analysts, who said it will provide the Iranian regime a cash infusion as it actively tries to kill U.S. soldiers on the battlefield.”

Again, what the hell kind of strategy is this? By giving aid and comfort to the enemy you started a war against, and that is currently shooting at you with apparently no reciprocal move from the Iranians.

Trump’s war of choice against Iran has been nothing but one stupid move after another.

First, there was no legitimate reason to start this war. Iran posed no imminent threat.

Then, when they decided to go unto the breach without consulting N.A.T.O. allies or telling the American People, Mr. Trump’s military plan did not include immediately securing the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway through which 20 percent of the world’s oil traffic passes. Now Iran has control of the area.

Good thinking, Donald.

Trump continually says he has won the war.

To paraphrase Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, who said, when he visited Berlin and German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop in October 1940 and heard claims that Britain was defeated, “then whose bombs (drones) are falling outside?”

Now he is relaxing sanctions on the very nation that just last month, he said posed an imminent threat to the United States.

This should not be surprising.

This is the same Donald Trump who has ceded the clean energy market to another adversary, China, and who is besties with Russia’s Putin, the leader who is, again, giving intelligence to Iran to use against the United States and trying to absorb Ukraine.

He is not a stable genius.

He is a dumb shit-moron who is making this country weaker and less safe.

He is everything America’s enemies could have wanted in the Oval Office.

He is the Manchurian Candidate.