Is Trump the mad emperor who will bring the empire crashing down? His increasingly erratic behavior certainly doesn’t inspire confidence.

Any of America’s adventures could ignite a worldwide conflagration. Ukraine-Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan-India and Israel’s genocide in Gaza and West Bank pogroms, are just some of the hotspots. And with Trump and his merry-band of accelerationists, who-the-fuck knows what they will do next.

Especially now that leading members of the Trump Administration, including Secretary of State/National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, top presidential aide, Stephen Miller and Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristie Noem, are bunking-down at military posts, in housing reserved for military officers.

Of course, it’s not just Trump. There are other more powerful forces and larger issues at play. Wall Street, private equity, big-oil and tech all have “skin in the game” too. Some of the Trump donors are also part of the Wall Street faction who, besides being pro-Zionist, have massive, world-wide investments at stake. The crisis is that U.S. financial system requires enormous amounts of new collateral, as in, natural resources like oil, natural gas, water, etc. to underwrite the over-leveraged U.S. shadow banking system.

What’s worse is that the rest of the political class, who would normally be an effective opposition, is useless. A large part of the discourse of the political class is the equivalent of tweets and posts, seeking “likes” from each other, with no obvious connection to reality. Trump is in a class by himself with his almost total disconnection from the real world but it’s a general problem. Politics has become performative: the actual result don’t matter, as long as it hits the PR high-points and is appealing to your fellow professional/managerial/caste (PMC) members. Killing “terrorists”/civilians and imposing austerity make you look strong and improve your status with the group.

More pernicious is the influence of Zionists on US foreign policies, where their parasitic behavior and stranglehold on Congress is making a bad situation way, way worse. In the US, the all-powerful Israeli Lobby has produced a series of presidents terrified to object to what Israel declares to be its interests, plus a Congress that has been bought and black-mailed into subservience, where they clap like trained seals for war-criminal Netanyahu.

It’s been getting worse. On Friday, speaking before the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Summit, closet-homosexual and noted chicken-hawk, Senator Lindsey Graham said “Trump is my favorite president” because “we’re killing all the right people and we’re cutting your taxes”.

How nice. Maybe that could be Trump’s campaign slogan when he runs for a third term?

But Senator Graham is correct in his ardor. During his first presidential term Trump used to at least posture as an America-First, anti-interventionist. In 2019 Trump said during a press conference, “Lindsey Graham would like to stay in the Middle East for the next thousand years with thousands of soldiers and fighting other people’s wars. I want to get out of the Middle East.”

Trump’s transformation, I believe, rests on two assumptions of influence: 1) The Epstein Tapes of Trump fucking under-aged girls. 2) The Zionist mega-donors, for whom fulsome military and financial support for Israel must be preserved at all costs.

Israel cannot exist without it. Furthermore, many, if not all Team Trump, have been imposed by these same donors and likeminded Zionist billionaires. Even as the corporate media neglected to cover it, Trump was characteristically candid about this reality during his address at the Knesset last month.

I guess Miriam Adelson is getting her 100 million dollars worth with Trump giving the Zionists everything they desire. He bombed Iran. He bombed Yemen. He’s poured massive amounts of weapons and ammunition into Israel to incinerate Gaza and to bomb Lebanon, while aggressively stomping out free speech that is critical of Israel’s war crimes. It’s been a stunning transformation. Trump has duped his base into believing he’d make peace, then turned out to be the biggest neocon since Shrub. It’s no wonder Lindsey has a boner for Donald.

People have noticed. Americans, especially young people, are souring on Israel, and Trump for his complicity in their ongoing genocide extravaganza. Even conservatives are in revolt over Israel. A major MAGA civil war erupted into the open in the last week, because Tucker Carlson hosted Nick Fuentes on his insanely popular podcast, where they mentioned that there are America-first Republicans and Israel-first Republicans.

Needless to say, this was not received well.

Naked Capitalism has a great blow-by-blow account of the conflict. “But the mess really hit the fan when Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, put out a video on X.com last Thursday defending Tucker Carlson from the “venomous coalition attacking him.” Roberts’ statement came after changes to their web site excising mentions of Tucker Carlson inspired speculation that they were preparing to disavow him…..These divisions on the right may be pitting one loathsome crew of racist reactionaries against another, but it is extremely novel to see the American Republican party and broader right wing tearing itself apart over whether or not to put Israel first.”

Mamdani’s election is a sign that the Democrats are primed for an overdue discussion of the malign Israeli influence on US foreign policy. All the better if it causes a civil-war

Update: Socialist, Zohran Mamdani overturned the New York power structure and was elected mayor, despite fierce Zionist billionaire opposition and fulsome spending. Mamdani angered them by criticizing Israel while sharing his pro-Palestinian views with supporters, who have become radicalized by videos of the deaths and destruction in Gaza. His election reflected a changed common perception of Israel.

Update 2: “Israel is a losing issue, signified when NYC, the most Jewish city in the nation, chooses a Muslim Mayor promising to arrest Bibi if he steps foot into the city. Israel is rapidly becoming a political pariah in America, and no amount of whining about it from the pro-Israel community will change that; only a reversal of policy by Bibi can mitigate this. Ackman understood this, which is why he spent the election panicking.”