They Need Ideas

Posted on August 4, 2026 by Muller

CNN has the following.

“The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.

‘We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,’ an officer in US Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote in a message sent Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts, according to a source familiar with the message. A second source also said that a senior US military officer sent the message last week soliciting new ideas for how to deal with Iran.”

Over the past weeks I was, sometimes unconsciously, wondering whether Donald Trump and his administration of experts is hiding something. Is he really so clueless? What is the deeper meaning, a strategy, of signing such a vague Memorandum of Understanding which almost everybody considers a frank surrender? Iran won the war.

The above leak, which military officials said was unusual over email, seems to prove that there are no reasonable options available to Trump to force Iran into a deal on his terms.

Of course, there is always the nuclear option for any American president, God forbid.

The Iranians know that Trump has run out of ideas. They appear to have the upper hand in the endgame. They have a clear aim: Force Americans out of the Gulf region.

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How a Toxic Narcissist Deals With Cognitive Dissonance

Posted on August 2, 2026 by Muller

I have written about the above before, when American President Donald Trump had signed the worthless Memorandum of Understanding with Iran in Versailles. Contrary to what Trump thought (but maybe sensed), it was—as political commentators worldwide observed—a document of capitulation signed at a site of great historical significance. Stupid.

Worthless it was as the hostilities soon resurfaces with tit-for-tat attacks which became for increasingly impatient Gulf monarchies, previously strong allies of the Unites States, unbearable. The ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz threatens their business model: oil, tourism, shareholder capitalism.

Even their citizens are increasingly threatened by Iranian missiles and drones mainly targeting U.S. military bases but maybe soon also desalination plants.

Trump’s air war, his one-off attempt to deploy ground troops, his own naval blockade after Iran had closed the Strait of Hormuz–all of that had failed.

Now tit-for-tat. What alternative lays on the table? When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited, despite an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court, the White House this week, alarm bells rang.

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Abraham Accords Forced on KSA

Posted on July 23, 2026 by Muller
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Bahraino Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, September 15, 2020.

Donald Trump later posted a minute-long video with a false suggestion that he won the Nobel Peace Prize. The video showed the Nobel Peace Prize medal photoshopped in front of a clip of the White House ceremony for the Abraham Accords, in which Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize relations with Israel,” as Matt Stieb of The New Yorker explained. That photoshopped picture has miraculously disappeared from the net, unfortunately.

Later that year, Morocco and Sudan, and most recently Kazakhstan have joined the Abraham Accords of September 2020 which sole purpose was to normalize relations with Israel, a pariah state in much of the the Arab world, and not only after recent genocidal activities in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and South Lebanon.

The Abraham Accords – doomed to failure from the start, just like Trump’s “Board of Peace” and so many of his other undertakings.

In conference calls on May 23 and 25, Trump nevertheless called on Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey to participate. According to reports, Trump’s presumptuous manner was met with laughter and condescending silence on the other end of the line.

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Blockade with 20% on All Cargo

Posted on July 14, 2026 by Muller

President Donald Trump had a good idea in all his despair. Although Iran has so far not installed its suggested tollbooth in the Strait of Hormuz but insists of paragraph 5 of the infamous Memorandum of Misunderstanding, see Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf’s tweet,

“The era of one-sided deals is OVER. We told you: keep your word or pay the price. Reality is knocking,”

with a reminder for those in the U.S. who have signed the 3-page document:

See UPDATE below.

So, although Iran just plays fair, Trump will now adopt a new role in the drama, The Guardian of the Hormuz Strait.

He announced yesterday, to everybody’s consternation,

“The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World. The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP” (Bold emphasis added.)

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מנא מנא תקל ופרסין

Posted on July 11, 2026 by Muller

Daniel 5:18-31 tells us about the fate of Belshazzar, son of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar,

18 “Your Majesty, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendor. 19 Because of the high position he gave him, all the nations and peoples of every language dreaded and feared him. Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he spared; those he wanted to promote, he promoted; and those he wanted to humble, he humbled. 20 But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory. 21 He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like the ox; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over all kingdoms on earth and sets over them anyone he wishes.

22 “But you, Belshazzar, his son, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this. 23 Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honor the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways. 24 Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

25 “This is the inscription that was written:

mene, mene, tekel, parsin

26 “Here is what these words mean:

Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

27 Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

28 Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

29 Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.

30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain, 31 and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two. (Emphasis added.)

It is said that Donald Trump doesn’t sleep well. Apparently, for quite some time now, he has been using the early hours after midnight to feverishly post content on his own broadcasting channel, the platform Truth Social. By now, his war against Iran—waged without a defined objective—is being explicitly labeled as such in various quarters, including by the media and politicians like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

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