Monday, April 13, 2026

“It wasn't a depiction. I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor.”

Yeah, probably it has. ๐Ÿค”
Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people and the killing of children I and our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts with actual bombings and targeting of people for the purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are. We are better than this."
Actually the message of the Hebrew Scriptures, too. There is a through-line from Genesis to Revelation. But  I digress.

And then Trump got in front of a camera, and the day just fell apart.
  What does he think doctors do? Leo needs to trade the Popehat and Popemobile for Batman cowl and a Batmobile. Preferably one that shoots missiles. Unless it’s us. Words  just fall out of his mouth with absolutely no connection to each other, with no sense of context or coherence at all. If this were a family member, you’d just make sure they were pointed at the TeeVee, and check the schedule on their meds.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Trump is having a mental health episode right now. He’s been posting on social media all night. He posted at:

9:49pm (Ai Jesus photo)
9:50pm (Trump tower on moon)
10:10pm (dumb meme)
10:32pm (news clip)
10:53pm (news clip)
12:43am (announcing Hormuz blockade)
2:35am (article about Biden)
2:36am (article on naval blockade)
2:37am (article on Rep. Swalwell)
2:37am (posted the same article about Biden again)
2:38am (article on his ballroom)
4:10am (article on Iran)

He’s not sleeping, he’s pretending to be Jesus, and he’s posting all night. He’s not well.
On Orthodox Easter, President Trump attacked the Pope because the Pope is rightly against Trump’s war in Iran and then he posted this picture of himself as if he is replacing Jesus. This comes after last week’s post of his evil tirade on Easter and then threatening to kill an entire civilization.

I completely denounce this and I’m praying against it!!!
In the past week, Donald Trump has threatened nuclear war against Iran, called for the genocide of 93 million Iranians, publicly attacked the Pope, and compared himself to Jesus Christ.

Recall July of 2024 when every pundit and reporter in American media were urging President Biden to step down due to concerns over his cognitive health.

Where are those voices now? Where are the demands for Trump to be removed? Where is the flood of op-eds and cable news panels and social media posts calling for the 25th Amendment to be triggered?

Why are you all so silent on this?
Where is George Clooney when we need him?
In response to a personal attack by President Donald Trump the night before, Pope Leo told journalists on the papal plane to Algeria:

“I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do, what the Church is here to do. We are not politicians. We don’t deal with foreign policy with the same perspective he might understand it, but I do believe in the message of the Gospel, as a peacemaker.”
The Pope is TOTALLY WEAK on Immigration. He lets people just walk into the Vatican, right into Saint Peter's Square, and his Guards, who for some reason are Swiss (and come from a Country that has only Snow and not ICE), just stand there and do NOTHING, even though the Vatican has a Wall. If I was Pope, I would close the Vatican for renovation, and build a much LARGER and more beautiful Wall, like the one I built for America. People would come to My Most Holy Wall in Rome and say "Sir, Holy Father Donald, Vicar of Mar-a-Lago, you have a magnificent Wall, like no one has ever seen," but they wouldn't be allowed in without paying a Toll. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
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Having A Normal One

The U.S. was so anxious to defray the economic impact of the war that it actually unsanctioned not just Russian but Iranian oil to help stabilize global markets. Now its apparently going to impose a blockade on that same oil which will accelerate the crisis and may even trigger an even more devastating Red Sea blockade. This won't even affect Iran in the short-term since they still have large numbers of tankers already offshore that can sell oil for the next 40 days but it is going to extend the blockade on all the other Persian Gulf states while annihilating every other country on earth that relied on maritime energy shipping from the region. The whole U.S.-led international order based on protecting maritime transit is going to be a smoking crater at the end of the massively unforced error that was this war, and for what purpose exactly?
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France and the UK will hold a conference of nations willing to participate in a multinational coalition “aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the [Strait of Hormuz].” President Macron called it a “strictly defensive mission, separate from warring parties.”
I’m a little surprised that isn’t more widely understood. Nope. No bottom at all. I dunno about the general public (who does? They’re the ones who elected Trump, twice.), but that post didn’t go down a treat:
I don’t know if the President thought he was being funny or if he is under the influence of some substance or what possible explanation he could have for this OUTRAGEOUS blasphemy. But he needs to take this down immediately and ask for forgiveness from the American people and then from God.
The post was deleted from Truth Social, but: the horse was out, and the barn had burned down. Little too late to be think about closing the door.
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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Blasphemy And The Political

One of my seminary professors liked to put pictures on the wall outside his office. Most were in the vein of one I remember best, because it was so familiar. It showed a very white Jesus (you know the one, as surely as you know what “Batman” looks like) playing baseball with very white (of course) young children.

I’m inured to this crap, IOW. Maybe I shouldn’t be. I have a high regard for sacred imagery, and a low regard for humbug. I grew up on pictures of “white Jesus.” I find them silly, now.  But public figures as Jesus? Outside of actor portrayals, I can appreciate the offense of anyone presenting themselves as equivalent to the Christ.

Trump should apologize for a lot of things. 
I have to admit the picture is offensive to the concept of the divine; it also offends and abuses the concept of religion. It is as unchristian a picture as can be imagined. Crudely manipulative, to say the least. And there’s the offense of Trump making himself the Christ. Especially in this picture.

What political benefit does Trump think this gives him? Does he believe it? Or does he just think it’s useful to him? And do those questions matter? This is the POTUS we’re talking about. Isn’t that what matters?
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The Vicar of Christ v. The Fool of the World

Because "#Peace"?
Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace
Funny, Trump doesn't mention this: He does mention this: Leo owes Trump! Whose motto now is “Le monde, c’est moi!” Or maybe he’s stolen James Bond’s family motto: “The World Is Not Enough.”

Or maybe he’s just completely deranged, and thinks people give a wet snap what Trump thinks of the Vicar of Christ. Or that Vatican City worries about its relationship with America. Over…tariffs, maybe? I mean, look what he did to the penguins! ๐Ÿง 

Interesting that Leo never mentions Trump; or America; or Iran. He speaks as a Christian pastor/priest should speak, and Trump can’t stand it.  ๐Ÿค”

(By odd coincidence, I’m watching the newest version of “The Count of Monte Cristo.” The Count and two guests are watching a public execution, when a rider stops the proceedings to deliver a pardon from the Pope. (They had more power in those days.) The Count has paid the Pope for the pardon; all part of his plot for revenge. An admixture of fiction, history, and the contemporary, but with very different players. Life is full of such ironies.)
Because…of course he did. (I used to wonder if Trump believed this shit, or if he’s just using it to shill the rubes. In a court of law, the distinction might matter (change the facts, change the outcome). But whether he’s demented or just that manipulative hardly matters anymore. Either cause is aimed at achieving the same end.)
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So…

Iran’s Ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam, says in a post earlier on X that this weekend’s peace talks in Islamabad were “not an event but a process,” providing a much more optimistic view of the recent talks than U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other Iranian officials, stating that the talks “laid the foundation” of a future peace agreement with the United States.
Let’s blow that up!
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the situation, U.S. President Donald J. Trump is considering resuming limited strikes inside Iran as a method to break the current impasse in the peace talks process with Iran. Per the report, a less likely scenario, that is also on the table, is resuming high tempo strikes on Iran as well. Should such measures be employed, they would be in addition to the blockade of maritime traffic from Iranian ports announced earlier by U.S. Central Command.
Nothing says “we’re serious about peace!” like dropping more bombs (which we are running out of). And Trump has (again) promised “obliteration” (or just threatened it), but now he wants “limited strikes.”

(Notably, he still doesn’t want boots on the ground. He also doesn’t want to bomb Iran into the Stone Age. He really is a paper tiger. Could it be more obvious?)
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The World’s Supply Of Copium…

... comes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Draw your own conclusions.
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Meanwhile, In The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave….

... where we’ve had elections for over 200 years, where national elections are run by the several states, where Trump’s last attempt to overturn his election loss was a dismal failure, where Trump has NOT been in office for 16 years, has NOT systematically consolidated power (on the contrary, he’s been chaotically destroying his power even when the Supremes and the GOP Congress have been shoveling as much to him as they can), has NOT fixed the electoral map (he failed at that, too), HAS abused power and tried to censor media (and how has that worked out for him? The country hates ICE and his war, and white, non-college educated voters (i.e., his real base) are running away from him because of both issues.), and has lost so many special elections (his endorsements have made him our man on their side) it’s almost as big a record as the number of grand jury rejections and losses in court history DOJ has delivered….

… we’re done for in November, because Trump is going to send ICE to the hundreds of thousands of polling places nationwide, or ban mail ballots (except his?) with an EO, or just send Markwayne Mullin out to get in front of cameras and tell us more about how he beats his young daughters because he can.

Anyway, Hungary kicked Orbรกn out so decisively Orban conceded, but America is doomed because all the Cassandra wannabe election experts on the Intertoobs say so.

Our only hope is to pay attention to what those people wring their virtual hands about and to worry with the same intensity they do, because Hungary cannot happen here. 

For some reason. I dunno.๐Ÿคท‍♂️ 
๐Ÿ’ฏ 
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Don Tzu

According to Fox News, citing two U.S. officials, Vice President JD Vance’s final offer delivered to the Iranian delegation in Islamabad last night, prior to the breakdown of peace talks between the two countries mediated by Pakistan, consisted of the following demands:

1. End all uranium enrichment
2. Dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities
3. Retrieve highly enriched uranium
4. Accept a broader peace, security and de-escalation framework that includes regional allies
5. End funding for terrorist proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis
6. Fully open the Strait of Hormuz, charging no tolls for passage
And they couldn’t get all of that immediately, so they walked? Does anybody in this Administration know what “negotiations” means? Or “obliterate”? Or “decimate”? Because I’m beginning to think they don’t.

They certainly don’t know what “government” means.

Hard to understand why. Um...๐Ÿ‘† Trump to his mirror: ๐Ÿชž “FAKE NEWS!” That was then. This is now. "RIGGED!" FAKE!  AI!! (Imagining Trump trying to cope)
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Dumbest Sonofabitch On The Planet

Trump on the phone with Maria Bartiromo: "We don't get our oil from there. We have so much oil. We have boats pouring up to the United States. They'll be filling 'em up, and they'll be leaving and they'll be packed with the best oil you can get. Light, sweet, crude. We don't need the strait."
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE THIS IDIOT’S TOYS AWAY? HAS THE WORLD SAID “THANK YOU”?
Trump: "We're putting on a complete blockade. We're not gonna let Iran make money on selling oil to people that they like and not people that they don't like. It's gonna be all or none, and that's the way it is. You saw what we did with Venezuela. It'll be something similar to that, but at a higher level."
His frame of reference is still Venezuela. He has no clue what’s going on. And yet they sent your team home AFTER ONE DAY!  THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS! THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS! Funny, it didn’t keep them at the table. THEY TOOK OUT A HELICOPTER AND TWO JETS!  AND FORCED US TO ABANDON A FORWARD AIRBASE AND DESTROY TWO MORE PLANES AND ANOTHER HELICOPTER! WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GETTING YOUR INFORMATION?  NEWSMAX? "IT IS MOST UNLIKELY.” Maybe you should shake that Magic 8-ball a little harder.
Trump: "I could take out Iran in one day. In one hour, I could have their entire energy, everything, every one of their electric generating plants, which is a big deal. I hate to do it because if I do it, it takes you 10 years to rebuild. They'll never be able to. And the other thing you take out are their bridges. I took out one just to show them."
Last week you said it would take 4 hours. Now it’s down to 1 hour. And yet you said: So we’re going to bounce the rubble? “Who da fuck knows? Who da fuck cares? Know wut I’m sayin’?”
Trump: "I hear news reports about China giving the shoulder missiles. I doubt they would do that because I have a relationship and I think they wouldn't do that, but maybe they did a little bit at the beginning, but I don't think they would anymore. But if we catch them doing that they get a 50% tariff."
Those “news reports” are based on information from U.S. intelligence agencies! Where the fuck does he get his information? Twitter?!?

And if China is selling missiles to Iran, the way to fix it is to punish U.S. consumers? A bag of rocks is smarter.
The slightly silver lining.

A chimpanzee could fool Trump. In order to save Lebanon, Israel had to destroy it. Petulance is not really a winning foreign or economic policy. But it is a great way to burn the world down. Europe learned that in the 20th century. Israel shouldn’t even be allowed at the adults’ table right now. Did I wake up in an alternate reality? Pretty sure it started when Trump backed out of the JCPOA, and Congress clapped like trained seals. Now Iran is “obliterated,” but we have to destroy them in an hour because they closed the Strait that we’ve now closed because NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER! Except…Baby?

And we’re going to hit ourselves in the face if China is selling missiles to Iran. But it’s okay if Russia is giving Iran targeting information.

Everything stopped making sense in November, 2024.
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Smell The Coffee ☕️

Do they look like serious statesmen?
Yep. By abandoning the JCPOA and then once again by starting this war, Trump has completely negated and inverted the incentives the Iranian regime once had to negotiate with us.

They once understood that refraining from producing HEU and interfering with navigation of the Strait would avert the cost of being subjected a large-scale air attack. But now that we've conducted that attack, and they've withstood it, they have virtually no incentive to refrain from doing the things we want them to refrain from doing.

Which is why we negotiated the JCPOA in the first place, and why no prior American administration (from Reagan to Trump I) ever decided to start the war that Trump started last month.
From my standpoint, I’ve stopped expecting the adults to take over. 
“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote.

“At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, ‘There may be a mine out there somewhere,’ that nobody knows about but them. THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted.”
"You can’t blockade the Strait! Only I can blockade the strait!” This is how we win friends and influence people? This is how we resume negotiations? We will never be extorted, so… we’ll extort ourselves?

Oh, and, we’re going to interdict shipping: That’ll bring Iran back to the table!

I’ll retire to Bedlam….
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Reversing LBJ

"...make America into a third world country.” We’ve certainly already become third-rate.
"Iran has exposed the fragility of the system that makes U.S. airpower possible: aging tankers parked out in the open, a handful of irreplaceable Airborne Warning and Control Systems, and radar networks at fixed positions visible to commercial satellites. These are structural vulnerabilities, and this is not an isolated episode."
History is starting to rhyme. And repeat itself.

But I repeat myself.
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Now They’re Just Fucking With Us

We can’t even win the propaganda wars. We left town. The nearest historical analog I can come up with are the Paris Peace Talks.  And those lasted five years, even though they ended with the U.S. just walking away after 5 more years of useless war. This fiasco is the cherry on the shitcake of this entire effort. Trump said recently that NATO is a paper tiger. The paper tiger is us. The “superpowers” are not super. Ukraine is turning the tide on Russia. Iran stood us down, and now we’ve pissed ourselves and gone home rather than just change our pants. And what’s our alternative? More useless bombing? More Tomahawks fired, at the cost of $1 million apiece? More depletion of our stockpile that made us Master of the Universe? A naval blockade of the naval blockade?

Trump is not the cause of our national failures, Trump is the culmination. He is not destroying our democracy single-handedly; this is what we’ve been working on since LBJ defeated Goldwater. 

and what i
want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death
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Trump’s Genius Plan To End The Blockade…

...of the Strait of Hormuz is to:

Blockade the Strait of Hormuz?
Are the Three Stooges in charge of the country now?
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

“True Strength Is Shown In Serving Life”

Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace

What? On the first day? The better to deny responsibility. It certainly has nothing to do with serving life. UPDATE: THAT’S IT? That’s fucking it? 16 hours, and go home? Do we have no competent, qualified negotiators in the State Department? People who do this for a living, know what they are doing, and don’t have to stay in America to be sent to funerals as needed?
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How Many Different Positions Can He Take?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (Then who are we negotiating with?)
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Hot Takes (It’s Saturday. I have other things to do.)

But we can’t afford healthcare. And we need a giant arch in D.C. Didn’t Obama do that? And aren’t Trump and MAGA still screaming about it? ๐Ÿค” It’s the thoughtlessness, stupid. Speaking collectively of “Boomers” is as mindless as speaking of Capricorns or “Aquarians.” Accident of birth does not determine anything about individuals or age groups. My father grew up, not with the term “gay,” but “homos.” Yet late in life, when he learned a friend of my generation (“Boomer.” I mean) was gay and ostracized by the congregation she grew up in, he was appalled. With them, not her. He had learned to think of people over labels.

Take the lesson. Because otherwise, you just sound like an asshole.
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It’s Easier Than Thinking

But then, so many things are. I figured that out without the internet; or AI. No brag, it’s just that practicing law, and being a pastor, and being a teacher, will put you in contact with all kinds of people. You don’t need social media to encounter the variety of human opinions. 

Nor to wonder how anything actually gets done.
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Friday, April 10, 2026

Automatically

And Trump has NEVER gone back on his word! I mean, look what he promised his own voters…and what he gave them. One would expect the POTUS to be a bit more certain of his information. It's like a selector switch someone is constantly turning: “Open the fucking strait!” “We don’t need the strait.” “Europe can open the strait. Fuckers.” “The strait will open automatically.” “Iran better open the strait or we’ll bomb the shit out of them!” Sorry; that last one is no longer operative. It’s soon to be replaced by: “FUCK THE STRAIT! YOU CRAZY BASTARDS!” See? Although it may be somebody needs a plan: "Automatically.” Do you think he has no idea how any of this works? They’ve decided on the shape of the table? Or just on the size of the Triumphal Arch? I’m upset because this is how he wastes his time. This thing’ll never be more than this rendering. But it’ll always be ugly.
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The Purpose Of NATO

Before we change NATO, let us consider what NATO is.
NATO’s essential and enduring purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of all its members. It does this through political and military means, ensuring the collective defence of all Allies, against all threats, from all directions.

NATO strives to secure a lasting peace in Europe and North America, based on its member countries’ common values of individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law. These shared values unite a diverse group of Allies on both sides of the Atlantic. NATO embodies the transatlantic bond between them, whereby the security of Allies in Europe and North America is inextricably linked.
So, Senator, how does the United States attacking Iran ensure the collective defense of NATO allies? I don’t remember NATO getting involved in Vietnam; or being expected to.  How is this different?
NATO is a defensive alliance. Its core purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries and their one billion people.

The bedrock commitment at the core of NATO is that an attack against one of its members is considered as an attack against all. This is the principle of collective defence, which is enshrined in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. In a spirit of solidarity, NATO Allies will come to each other’s assistance when needed. So far, Article 5 has been invoked only once – in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.

Every day, NATO member countries consult and take decisions on security issues, at all levels and in a variety of fields. All decisions at NATO are taken by consensus. A “NATO decision” is therefore the expression of the collective will of all 32 member countries.
Can you say, Sen. Scott, when NATO was consulted about attacking Iran? Posts in Truth Social don’t count. And while I have you, a little history lesson:
It is often said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. This is only partially true. In fact, the Alliance’s creation was part of a broader effort to serve three purposes: deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration.

The aftermath of World War II saw much of Europe devastated in a way that is now difficult to envision. Approximately 36.5 million Europeans had died in the conflict, 19 million of them civilians. Refugee camps and rationing dominated daily life. In some areas, infant mortality rates were one in four. Millions of orphans wandered the burnt-out shells of former metropolises. In the German city of Hamburg alone, half a million people were homeless.

In addition, Communists aided by the Soviet Union were threatening elected governments across Europe. In February 1948, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with covert backing from the Soviet Union, overthrew the democratically elected government in that country. Then, in reaction to the democratic consolidation of West Germany, the Soviets blockaded Allied-controlled West Berlin in a bid to consolidate their hold on the German capital. The heroism of the Berlin Airlift provided future Allies with some solace, but privation remained a grave threat to freedom and stability.

Fortunately, by then the United States had turned its back on its traditional policy of diplomatic isolationism. Aid provided through the US-funded Marshall Plan (also known as the European Recovery Program) and other means fostered a degree of economic stabilisation. European states still needed confidence in their security, however, before they would begin talking and trading with each other. Military cooperation, and the security it would bring, would have to develop in parallel with economic and political progress.

With this in mind, several Western European democracies came together to implement various projects for greater military cooperation and collective defence, including the creation of the Western Union in 1948, later to become the Western European Union in 1954. In the end, it was determined that only a truly transatlantic security agreement could deter Soviet aggression while simultaneously preventing the revival of European militarism and laying the groundwork for political integration.

Accordingly, after much discussion and debate, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed on 4 April, 1949. In the Treaty's renowned Article 5, the new Allies agreed "an armed attack against one or more of them… shall be considered an attack against them all" and that following such an attack, each Ally would take "such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force" in response. Significantly, Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty had important purposes not immediately germane to the threat of attack. Article 3 laid the foundation for cooperation in military preparedness between the Allies, and Article 2 allowed them some leeway to engage in non-military cooperation.
NATO has been stalwart since 1949. NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time, after 9/11. NATO only needs to change because Trump has no clue what national alliances are, or what the national interests are. Trump’s only interest is Trump.
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On The Table

The first trial I ever worked on, in the early ‘80’s, involved the Fairchild A-10. It was new then.

It’s basically a flying anti-tank gun. It has a huge gun in the nose, angled down. The pilot sits right behind it, encased in a shell beneath the cockpit to protect against ground fire. It is meant to fly low, below radar, for NATO’s use in Europe repelling a Russian invasion. (I still remember the video Fairchild made. Contractors sell their weapons like aspirin.) 

I only mention this because, 40+ years later, we’re still flying them, though not necessarily as a tank killer. Drones aren’t quite as certainly lethal (in the video the A-10 shredded a tank like it was cardboard); but they are cheap, and almost anyone can fly them. And go home even if the drone goes down. Ukraine is also taking over that business; which, you know, gives them “cards.”
We sent our military experts to the Middle East, including specialists in interceptor drones and electronic warfare. We demonstrated to some countries how to work with interceptors. Did we destroy Iranian “shaheds?” Yes, we did. Did we do it in just one country? No, in several. And in my view, this is a success.

This was not about a training mission or exercises, but about support in building a modern air defense system that can actually work. In those countries that opened up their air defense systems to us, our experts were able to very quickly advise how to make those systems stronger. In some cases, we directly shared our experience in actual defense. In any case, all of this has had a very positive outcome, and it commands respect for Ukraine.

We also shot down drones with jet engines. This is a very good signal, I think. We showed that this works. Now it is only a matter of time before we begin mass production of interceptors that will destroy drones with jet engines.

From a conversation with journalists (2/5).

One of the problems with our military is our anti-missile systems are (by necessity) expensive. Tomahawks ain’t cheap, either. But Iran still has up to 50% of their weapons. And we need to either negotiate, or raise another $200 billion. Neither option seems to be on the table.
He already laid that gun on the table in Act I. We’re already in the final scene of Act V, and not only did the gun not go off, he took it out of the room.

We’re already anticipating the next play, regarding associated characters and new problems. But this one’s over.
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