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Shkruar nga Gjergj ZefiWhen ambassadors are inspired by Hiroshima and leaders compare themselves to Truman, the world is not moving towards peace, but is returning to 1945, only this time with more weapons and less sense...
America in the hands of atomic ghosts...
At the height of an unprecedented global confrontation between Iran and Israel, when countries with nuclear arsenals are approaching with frightening steps the logic of catastrophe, an American ambassador in Tel Aviv thought it was the right moment to remember... Hiroshima.
Not to reflect on it, not to condemn it as a barbaric act of the 20th century, but to propose it as a "presidential inspiration" for Donald Trump.
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador, former Republican governor and Baptist pastor, spoke not as a diplomat but as a fanatic. In an open letter to Donald Trump, he invites him to be inspired by Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945. In his words, "no president has been in your position except Truman."
In another context, this would be called a mere historical misunderstanding. But today, in 2025, it is dangerous propaganda.
When bombs, not diplomacy, inspire you
What does Harry Truman represent in history? A president who, in a questionable act from every moral and strategic perspective, dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paving the way for the era of nuclear fear.
And the irony? He didn't do it to stop Japan, which at that point was almost surrendered; but to intimidate the Soviet Union and show the US's "muscle" as a new world power.
But Stalin was not afraid. On the contrary, he had built the bomb long before. Instead of fear, Truman's bombs opened the nuclear race. The Cold War. Vietnam. Afghanistan. Iraq. And now, Ukraine and Gaza.
And this model, Huckabee proposes to the world again.
When diplomacy dies and the diplomatic service becomes arsonist
Instead of being a voice of reason, the American ambassador to Israel is blowing the war horn like a fanatic who seeks spectacle and not solutions. He doesn't talk about peace. He doesn't talk about stopping the bloodshed. He doesn't mention the hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties in the Middle East.
It speaks of presidential manhood measured by "big decisions." And with this logic, it promotes Trump as a new Truman. Someone who can set another apocalyptic precedent, this time perhaps over Tehran, or some other geographical point where "the situation demands it."
The problem is not just rhetoric. The problem is that such rhetoric is organized, deliberate, and preparatory to something that may come.
From Truman to Trump: When History Is Misused to Legalize Disaster
Like Truman, Trump has an elite around him that whispers in his ear that "real men" leave their mark with bombs, not with agreements. That there is no need for diplomacy, but for show. For spectacle. For "great victories."
But the reality is that the world doesn't lack another Truman. It lacks another Eisenhower. A general who stopped the industrialization of war and who understood the madness of the nuclear race.
Today, the world is run by monsters who are not interested in victims, but in targets. They do not think about the consequences, but about the speeches they will give after the attack. They are not afraid of history, because they do not know it, or worse, they use it as an excuse to repeat the worst. Woe to us, who are returning to 1945, but with many Stalins and Trumans
Once upon a time, World War II ended with a horror that was supposed to happen “never again.” Today, we are heading towards a “now again,” but this time with more technology, less reason, and more pastors who want to proclaim the bomb as a divine blessing.
In this upside-down world, fiction is strategy, extreme is normality, and barbarity seeks glory.
And while Huckabee pleads with Trump for "big decisions," the people of the Middle East, Ukraine, and the entire world wait in fear to see which bomb will come next./ Pamphlet
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