Americans who voted for Trump must be wondering if MAGA meant MIGA, due to the president’s recent actions. Trump is arresting, sanctioning, censoring, threatening and bombing, all to advance Israel’s interests. What’s even more detestable is that Trump is doing all of it even as the “only democracy in the Middle-East” resumes its savage genocide in Gaza.

Did I mention primarying? Trump is calling for US Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, to be primaried and removed from Congress because of his lack of blind devotion to the state of Israel. Notably, Massie, in an interview, revealed to Tucker Carlson that he was the only one in Congress without an AIPAC babysitter. AIPAC stands for American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, and is a pro-Israel lobbying group that advocates its policies to the legislative and executive branches of the United States. Massie says the babysitters are part of an all encompassing effort to ensure no one in Congress votes against the complete and unconditional support for Israel. 

Including Israel’s ongoing genocide.

I hated the Biden Administration, and had faint hope that Trump would be an improvement, but the president is acting like a gangster boss, fronting a decaying criminal empire, yet obligated to provide absolute support to Israel. Recently, Trump signed off on the reignition of the Gaza holocaust. He spent weeks sabotaging the ceasefire and then agreed to the resumption of the genocide. He did this while bombing Yemen and threatening war with Iran for Israel.

I don’t know why Trump is doing this. Maybe it’s just money? He took hundreds of millions from the Adelson’s, whose sole focus is Israel. Maybe Mossad has Epstein sex tapes, depicting Trump fucking a minor? Maybe it’s because he is, after all, a real estate developer and his son in law, Jared Kushner, wants a beach resort in Gaza on top of dead Palestinians? Maybe he really believes the cover story about Israel being our best bosom-buddy?

What matters are his actions, and his responsibility.

In a nod towards bi-partisanship, Trump is picking up just where Biden, his genocidal predecessor, left off. However, Trump is proving even more zealous than Biden in his devotion to Israel. His administration is seizing control of universities and ordering them to shut down all criticism of Israel among the student body, and chillingly, abducting Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil for leading last year’s student protests at Columbia University and attempting to deport him for protesting the mass murder of children in Gaza. The White House claims that Khalil poses a ​“threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States” for taking a staunch stance against genocide.

Trump has now ordered the US military to conduct airstrikes on Yemen. The US is bombing Yemen again after Houthi leaders announced that their blockade on Israeli shipping would resume due to Israel’s siege on Gaza. While US officials have framed the bombing campaign in Yemen as a way to protect the US military and American shipping, it was really launched in response to the Houthis saying they would reimpose its blockade on Israeli shipping over Israel imposing a total blockade on Gaza, a major violation of the ceasefire deal signed in January.

Trump had a genuine opportunity to achieve a peace deal in the region that would have protected the rights of the Palestinians. But he has pissed that away and is clearly under the control of the Zionist lobby. Instead of making peace, Trump is pursuing war with the Palestinians, the Houthis and perhaps Iran.

The Houthis, or Ansar Allah, are the only entity in the world taking military action to try and stop the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. During the ceasefire, they stopped attacking ships trading with Israel. Recently, when Israel cut off all food and aid, they gave Israel four days warning: restore the aid or we start the attacks again. Then they did, and now Trump is bombing Yemen again. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, leader of Ansar Allah, made it all very clear in his March 16 speech: “Our decision to support the Palestinian people, including our move to block Israeli maritime navigation, that clearly targets the Israeli enemy and no one else, is aimed solely at pressuring Israel to open the crossings, allow the entry of humanitarian aid, and put an end to the starvation of Gaza.”

Biden deployed two separate Carrier Strike Groups (CSGs) to the Red Sea. Anyone remember Prosperity Guardian? However, the CSGs were compelled to withdraw when they ran out of anti-aircraft missiles. The Saudis tried for years to get control over Yemen and were defeated. Ansar Allah responded to the previous attacks with volleys of drones and missiles, closing the Red Sea in the process.

With the latest attacks, Ansar Allah has targeted the US aircraft carrier, Harry S. Truman, and it’s only a question of time until it hits a U.S. war ship and causes casualties. Trump has already blamed Iran for Ansar Allah’s attacks, and said there would be “dire consequences” (for Iran) if the attacks continued. It certainly appears that he’s dragging the United States into a war with Iran to repay the powerful Zionists who got him elected.

However, it is not at all certain that the US would prevail in a war with Iran. In fact—judging by the war games that have been used to simulate the conflagration—US Forces would lose. But these exercises only modeled a conventional conflict. Ominously,  behind the scenes, as the Pentagon prepares for a “major” regional war with Iran, the use of nuclear weapons is on the table.

To MAGA supporters, I ask–where are the American interests in all of this?

And, this is where we are going to talk about power relations. There are American interests in endless war for empire and I’ll bet you can think of a few? The military/industrial/complex, with all of the intertwined connections to Silicon Valley and Wall Street are key beneficiaries. In other words, the endless wars for empire benefit a small cohort of wealthy and powerful Americans.

They don’t benefit you or me.