He Threatened to Blow Up Iran's Power Grid and Then Shrugged at a Russian Ship Breaking His Own Blockade

I have a rule in this diner. You don’t make a threat you’re not prepared to carry out, and you don’t make a promise you can’t keep. I’ve had to enforce both. Usually around closing time.

He went on Truth Social yesterday — because that’s how we conduct foreign policy now, on a social network that makes Twitter look like the Library of Congress — and he threatened to “completely obliterate” Iran’s electric plants and oil wells if they don’t make a deal.

Completely obliterate.

Now, we’ve already bombed Kharg Island. We’re already in a war, more or less, depending on which hour of which day you’re asking. But he wants you to know that if things don’t go his way, he’s prepared to take the lights out for eighty-nine million people and set their oil industry on fire.

He’s also, apparently, thinking about seizing Kharg Island and keeping it. Long-term. Like a rental property. Like the United States of America is going to park itself on a piece of Iranian territory and start collecting rent. I don’t know who advised this. I don’t want to know.

But here’s my favorite part. The part that really makes the whole picture complete.

A Russian oil tanker broke his Cuba blockade. Just sailed right through. And when somebody asked him about it, he said he had “no problem” with it.

No problem.

You put a blockade up. The blockade has a hole in it the size of a supertanker. And you have no problem.

So to summarize: he will obliterate the power grid of a nation of ninety million people, but he’ll look the other way when an ally of our enemy ignores his own rules.

Consistency is not on the menu here, sugar.

You want the check or you need another minute? Take your time. The news’ll still be a disaster when you’re done.

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Sweetpea Diner, Somewhere in West Texas — Rules posted on the wall. We mean them.