Source: Antiwar.com
by David Stockman
“When it comes to the dangerous misgovernance of our tottering American Republic, there is no more deadly combination imaginable than: *The sweeping unchecked powers of the imperial presidency. * A $1 trillion per year war machine which is organized mainly for conduct of wars of invasion and occupation and the propagation of Empire and which stands at the unilateral beck and call of the POTUS. *An Oval Office occupied by a blustering Caesarean bully sporting an undersized brain enveloped in a gargantuan ego. That gets us to the stupidest thing that Washington has done since LBJ’s idiotic escalation of the war on Vietnam. We are referring, of course, to Donald Trump’s impending military attack on Iran when there is not a scintilla of justification for it based on the homeland security of America.” (02/23/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2026/02/22/iran-bunker-busters-and-empire-first