Letter
Is Donald Trump simply a boomer-era grifter?
The article mentions Trump’s need to safeguard his own and his family’s investments, and that need influencing how he brings to an end the war he and Netanyahu started against Iran. It is possible to come to the view that, for all his protestations of grandeur, Donald Trump is simply a boomer-era grifter, the spoiled son of a rich man from New York City. The Greek myth of Icarus comes to mind. The gift of a Wedgetail reconnaissance aircraft was likely to compensate the US forces in West Asia for the loss of their ground-based radar systems to Iranian missile attacks, launched in response to Trump and Netanyahu’s acts of aggression. At least we are in good company. Reports have it that missile systems have been taken out of both Japan and South Korea to further this unnecessary and illegal war of aggression.
— Hal Duell from Alice Springs