Today, the news is that the United States has "obliterated" Kharg Island, which is Iran's major oil export terminal. What is likely to happen next? Iran is likely to obliterate the oil exporting and storage and other related facilities of U.S.-allied states in the area, which could and likely will trigger a global disaster as economies – including ours – begin to collapse.

Trump has also apparently sent "boots" to the area, too – soon to be put on the ground. A Marine expeditionary force of 3,500 is on the way, to fight for Israel and Trump's ego.

The worse this war gets, the worse we can expect Trump to get. Having already claimed victory, he is now in the position of not being able to sound the retreat or even deal with what is likely a situation something like that experienced by the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad. The Greatest Field Commander of All Times – so said one of Hitler's lackeys about the Fuhrer – had told the German people the war was won. Except of course it wasn't. The Germans eventually discovered this for themselves. All the while being assured that final victory was just around the bend.

Americans are being assured similarly. And yet, the war goes on – despite our having "won" it.

Who will stop it? Perhaps the better question is: How can it be stopped? Trump will not stop it because he can't. Not unless he gets the "win" he has to have in order to not look like a loser – the worst thing in the world for a guy such as he. The man cannot stand to be made to look ridiculous. He lashes out, like an enraged child. See, in this regard, his demented attacks upon former allies such as Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, whom he describes in the most puerile terms imaginable – shy of literally flinging his feces at them.

It was said the Greatest Field Commander of All Times would chew the carpet when things went awry at the front. What does Trump do?

What are we to do?

Things spiral out of our control – not that we ever had any, really. That is the most defeating thing about what is going on. We – many of us, at any rate – voted really hard last time, thinking it might actually get things back under control, or at least some semblance thereof. It has done not just nothing but the opposite. The last two weeks already feel more ominous than the first year of the "Joe Biden" interregnum.

God only knows how we'll be feeling this coming week – or tomorrow morning, perhaps – when the news breaks that the Iranians have successfully destroyed more of whatever's left of the Middle East's oil-producing/exporting infrastructure.

In the wake of the U.S. attack on Kharg Island, crude oil is now over $100 per barrel. If the Iranians hit back – which they must – it will surely be more than that by Monday and that will be felt at the pump and at the grocery store, too.

But what can be done? Trump – like a spray-tanned geriatric Frankenstein – is unbound. One cannot reason with such a creature.