Trump's Stone Age rhetoric against Iran and the colonial mindset

Trump's rhetoric to bomb Iran "back to the Stone Age" stems from an uncouth and nakedly colonial and imperialistic mindset. There is no doubt that Trump is a product and embodiment of that colonial and imperialistic mindset. He sees and examines the world through this lens  -- though I doubt he even possesses such intellectual capacity. But what is deeply confusing and somewhat invisible is that the rhetoric of returning Iran to the Stone Age does not come from the mind of a modern human being, but rather from the mind of a Stone Age human.

In other words, Trump, Pete Hegseth, and his apparatus operate within a Stone Age structure. In this structure, everything is trampled. There is not an ounce of humanness left. All human and moral standards are crushed. There is not even a trace of decency; worse, they speak of these things with utter shamelessness and even boast about them. Such people, within such a structure, are bound by nothing except filling their pockets through theft and plunder, by using their brute force always at their reach. We have seen with our own eyes what has happened recently to Venezuela.

In a broader context, Trump and his circle are part of a flawed and sick neoliberal and neoconservative structure, greedy, run by tycoons, billionaires, and plutocrats, all wrapped in a veneer that is called "democracy."

Thus, it is not surprising to hear from Trump and his entourage that they want to return Iran, or any other country, to the Stone Age in which they themselves mentally reside. This is the colonial mindset. Trump declares it openly, but historically, most American rulers and the West in general have held such a mindset toward the East, and especially toward the Islamic world. We saw examples of this in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. No surprise.