Only recently, of course, “my” president launched a war more or less out of the blue against Iran. And talk about learning nothing from the past, how totally mad that my country — theoretically still the greatest power on planet Earth — should start yet another war thousands and thousands of miles away, given that it hasn’t actually emerged victorious from a single one of the wars it’s fought since World War II. After all, there was nothing repetitious about Donald Trump (not until his second term in office anyway)! But perhaps that shouldn’t be considered even faintly strange, given what the American military has been unable to do — win a war — across this planet since World War II. in the midst of the most stunningly dangerous “war” of all time, our war on the planet itself (all too mildly and pleasantly labelled climate change, rather than climate catastrophe, climate explosion, or climate hell) and led by — yes!