Does Trump Represent America or Israel?

April 28, 2026

The account of the Iranian situation by Simplicius is reasonably accurate. Trump has revealed time and again that he took us to war against Iran for Israel. Trump thinks no oil price is too high to pay to protect Israel from an alleged “Iran threat.” It was Israel, not Iran, that started the war. It is Israel that has nukes with which to threaten Iran. Why doesn’t Trump think this is bad?  It is Israel that is the aggressive state with nukes, not Iran.

The Coup: 1953, the CI... Abrahamian, Ervand Buy New $14.23 (as of 12:26 UTC - Details) Why can’t Trump focus on representing Americans? What drives Trump to put America’s military, budget, lives, and weapons to the service of Israel and to risk collapsing GDP and soaring inflation from interruption of oil and fertilizer shipments? Trump really makes no sense. Perhaps he thinks he is president of Israel.

Iranian nukes are just another lie like “Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction” that allegedly threatened America. It is amazing that Americans fall for these lies.

Hermann Goring said it is easy for any government to take a country to war. “All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism.” But what is the explanation for Trump taking America to war because Israel wanted the US to attack Iran for Israel, as the US State Department has admitted?

Why don’t American conservatives consider these questions? Why do they take for granted that a joint attack with Israel on Iran is justified and complain when the facts do not coincide with their war propaganda?

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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week’s first outside columnist, columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, contributor to the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and columnist for the main French and Italian newspapers, and for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. He served in numerous academic appointments in US universities and was  appointed to the William E. Simon Chair for Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies where his colleagues were Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James R. Schlesinger (one of his former professors), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer. His article, “How the Law Was Lost,” was published in the January 1999 Cardozo Law Review.