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Yeah I mean, pretty obvious this is all just kind of a sick joke to him and his handlers. All of it.
Why does he do any of the things he does? Why would he base his campaign on making Americans aware of the Epstein files (knowing he's in them) and then refuse to release them?
Why would he run on being the peace time president then start so many unjust wars over oil?
Because he can. He's a treasonous little bitch, shitting on the constitution at home and making a mockery of America abroad, but he's simply playing the role he was selected to play.
It's unclear if he actually realizes the end game for himself, or if he's too much of a demented narcissist. If he is aware, maybe he just figures the ends near anyway, so he might as well just dissociate and enjoy the ride while his favorite songs play in the background.
The point is to destabilize America so that Americans do what Trump is claiming he hopes the Iranians will do now that he's taken out their leader for them.
Outsourcing regime change
Allegedly, anyway.
The truth is that even if the Iranian people do what they're supposed to do, and topple the remaining pieces of the regime, the Oligarch who will replace Khamenei had already been selected long before bombs started dropping on Saturday.
Who is Reza Pahlavi? A royal in exile, Iran's youngest pilot, and a potential successor after Khamenei's death
It's not merely a joke. This is a real and functional international cartel. Trump's doing The Five Families shit on a global stage. All of these members cooperate with the US military and proliferate US technologies. All of them profit off the exploitation of captured human labor. All of them are ravenously hungry for fossil fuels. All of them want to encroach on their neighbors' borders.
It's to destabilize local power structures within the domestic polity and consolidate more authority through the chief executive. An easier feat in a small country like Hungary or Argentina or Israel or Azerbaijan than the mega-states of India, Indonesia, the US, or Pakistan. But by cartelizing military and surveillance powers, this new Rogue UN can leverage (at least the appearance of) cooperation to bring whatever's left of the democratic interior under a new kind of martial law.
Reza Pahlavi is a useful idiot who can operate as a "legitimate" figurehead in the country. But he's not going to be in charge, any more than Abdel Fattah el-Sisi runs Egypt or Ahmed al-Sharaa runs Syria or King Abdullah II runs Jordan. He'll be on the end of a US/Israeli leash.
Have to note Iran produces as much oil as Iraq.
Not for long
I am pretty sure he actually meant to spell it Bored of peace.