So over the first week of the new year, while we were all loathing returning to work, recovering from our hangovers, dragging our trees out to the curb (we didn’t do a tree this year) and getting ready for the golden globes, President Trump decided he was going to murder the second most important person in the Iranian government with no thought on repercussions to the decision.

Him and his secretaries claim this will have no effect on the safety of the US abroad, but in the days that have followed, this has been shown to be anything but true. Iran has vowed to retaliate against the US, US troops have been sent overseas, other troops and citizens have been advised to leave certain areas, Iran has totally removed itself from it’s sanctions we made just a few years back. Trump suggested war crimes via twitter threatening 52 attacks on 52 cultural sites and yesterday, Iran sent 12 missiles to 2 US military bases with damage and casualties under wraps. The Secretary of State says this is just “a little noise” and Trump has said, things are totally fine.

Talks of impending war actions are upon us. Trump sent military forces overseas so suddenly it’s reported that troops and their families were taken by surprise, yet he hasn’t made a statement yet. We were attacked, and no statement. Iran protests have killed over 30 Iranians over our actions, yet no statement. It’ll come, perhaps, but usually before we send troops, or when we are attacked, a president does not hesitate.

Tensions are high, very high. It’s increasingly an argument that this decision was made for reelection purposes rises, or/ in addition it might be because impeachment is underway and he wants to distract from that in the news. It’s all possible. Despite that, he has literally, put the country in danger and in a precarious situation, troops, for no reason, for “alleged attacks.” These attacks have no solid proof or background or factual evidence showing they were even going to happen. It’s Iraq all over again. The Senate was given the classified report of what and why. Apparently there’s nothing in it we don’t already know, and there’s nothing in it giving proof to the “alleged attacks.”

It will forever be argued as time moves on, whatever happens, that it was justified. It’s not an argument he was a terrorist, he was, but we had built over a decade of understanding via peaceable talks and policy, the Iran Nuclear Deal. Our allies are pissed off at us, and more so that Iran is building nukes again. We’ve pissed everyone off, we’re the laughing stock on the world stage, it’s been documented now with Boris Johnson, Trudeau and Macron being recorded making fun of him in public. This was before impeachment and before the Iran incident.

So, this might be it, the end of the American Experiment. It’s been fun world. This might be the last transmission I make, it’s been fun. But we’ve really fucked ourselves and we really don’t deserve the “power” we think we do. I mean hell, we claim we’re the most powerful country in the world, yet we’re arguably the youngest of the top powers. Sometimes it feels they just let us think so. It’s pathetic, I’m embarrassed to say I’m an American.

So farewell world stage, I’d be happy to become a Canadian, a Brit, a Swed, or a proud Irishman. I’m open to inquiries. I guess if we’ve got time enough to survive through it.

God bless those poor kids.