An ever-expanding catastrophe over Iran is not inevitable. Trump can and must be stopped
With the deadlocked war in Iran about to enter its fourth month, loose comparisons with previous US quagmires in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam are bandied about.
When the conflict began, warnings of another "forever war" seemed exaggerated. No longer. As matters stand, the negative international humanitarian, economic and geopolitical fallout from this fiasco looks set to prove more permanently globally damaging than any of those past US-made disasters. That being the case, an urgent question arises, not least today as reports suggest the US president and his secretary of war are planning to rain more bombs on Iran: who will stop Donald Trump?
This approach certainly should be tried, but unfortunately it's not likely to work and at worst could backfire badly.
The first problem is I'm not sure you could get all the countries on board with sanctions of the FSoA that really bite. Many are quite dependent on the FSoA for more than just military aid. Food is a big export item, and it wouldn't be easily replaced.
The bigger problem though is Trumpolini's psychology. Everybody lining up against him would increase his paranoia and increase the likelihood of him ordering the use of nuke weapons. Then it would depend on the Generals refusing to follow the orders, and so far I haven't seen any indication they have enough backbone to do that.
The only plausible legal solution at this point is if the Repugnants lose both houses of CONgress and an Impeachment is successful. However even that requires the conflict to stay at relatively low level until Nov, and then probably at least 3 months for the Impeachment hearings. By the time he's out of office, the global economy will be toast and food and energy shortages will be widespread. We're probably already guaranteed millions will die, this solution just gives it a chance of not escalating to 10s or 100s of millions.
Unfortunately, there's no plausible legal solution to the Trump problem. A Coup d'Etat could work, but that also would take backbone from the Generals and might star a Civil War. It's a major Wicked Problem.
RE