No, I haven't yet broached the subject on our newly inaugurated Iran War.  I honestly don't think there's much to add to the obvious.

So I'll simply amplify what has been made even more terrifying with a couple of new items today.  Even on the heels of our Venezuelan adventure, where we have the very questionable legal act of kidnapping a leader of a sovereign foreign nation and declaring control of their government and resources.  That's bad, right?  But this goes well beyond the moronic 'Donroe Doctrine' where we have, however ill-conceived, a notion of hemispheric influence.  But to straight up assassinate a leader of a sovereign foreign country - one who was about to step down (the Council of Experts that was bombed alongside the Ayatollah were in the process of counting ballots for his successor) - on the other side of the globe is an entirely different matter altogether.  This is no longer some backroom CIA shit, it's right out in the open.  It's meant to intimidate.

But the more terrifying part is that now Trump is quite openly declaring that he alone should have the power to name the next leader of Iran. not only being involved in the decision but suggesting a veto option, which is buttressed by his side observation that "everyone that wants to be a leader ends up dead", a remarkably potent point from a man who just ordered the deaths of those same leaders.  This is not longer about hemispheric influence, however noxious that idea already was, but now about Trump claiming, under explicit threat of violence, to have the authority to remove and install any leader whatsoever in the world, under the most meager justification of national security.  Make no mistake about what this display of power was meant to convey to the world.

And as if anyone needed the point to be made more bluntly, we always have the conveniently tactless Stephen Miller, who took this message one step further by declaring that 'America First' was no longer a slogan of foreign policy isolationism but an assertion of American supremacy and authority over any and all foreign nations: "'America First’ means America will be the greatest, most unquestioned, unmatched power in the world".  More tellingly for this transactional administration, Miller also notes that 'America First' is a vow "not to surrender the world’s resources" and "lanes of commerce".  Funny, I wasn't aware that the resources and commerce of "the world" were ours to surrender.  

The time for bullshitting is over.  We need to start seeing some real full-throated pushback from any and all remaining sane leaders, political and cultural or military, to seize this moment and call this out for what it is before it's too late.  This is no longer a partisan game.  Maybe 'No Drama' Obama still feels beholden to the formality of a former president withholding public criticism of their successors, but "norms" do not qualify in these abjectly abnormal times.