Donald Trump's niece has explained what the long-term effects of the US going to war with Iran will be.
The President announced on Monday (2 March) that he aims to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, missile capabilities and navy, while also 'ensuring' that the Middle Eastern nation 'cannot continue to arm, fund and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders'.
This comes just days after Trump said that the US had assumed 'major combat operations' against Iran, leading to a number of missile strikes hitting the nation, as Israel also targeted them.
Iran then retaliated by firing back at Israel, also targeting UK and US military bases in Gulf countries nearby.
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Oil and gas prices have skyrocketed in the wake of the war, but according to Mary Lea Trump, the President's niece, there are a number of other factors to be more concerned about.
Mary is the daughter of Trump's late older brother, Fred Trump Jr., who died in 1981 of a heart attack.
She has been critical of her uncle in the past, with her first book, released in 2020, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, described him as a 'fraud' and a 'bully', according to the BBC.
Mary, who claimed that her uncle has primarily targeted Iran despite not caring 'about the future of the Iranian people', said there was 'no plan' from him to help the nation become free or support efforts to create an alternative regime.
The Red Crescent has reported that 787 people have died in Iran so far, with no signs of either side letting up, even after the US announced the death of the Ayatollah and other powerful Iranian figures.
Trump's niece, who makes content opposing her uncle's policies, has now revealed in a blog post titled 'What Is It All For?': "This war is going to cost untold lives and untold billions of dollars. And it's going to cost us something else as well: whatever is left of our reputation.
"Our allies are already suspicious of us, and we will no longer be able to be perceived as a nation that can be trusted or taken seriously.
"The Middle East is a tinderbox, so there is also the distinct possibility that the situation will spiral completely out of control because the idiot who started it in the first place understands nothing of what is required to contain it."
She said on Tuesday that Americans will not economically benefit from the strikes on Iran, insisting that there was no credible threat against American interests to back up what they're doing.
"On some deep level, though, he clearly recognizes that this could benefit him politically or financially, and that is enough," she claimed.
She previously said in a video on her YouTube channel 'Mary Trump Media', that her uncle 'declared war to save himself'.
"You might know Donald Trump as the authoritarian conman wrecking the country from the Oval Office. Mary Trump just knows him as her f***ing loser uncle. This channel is where fake news goes to die," the channel's description reads.
The psychologist and author pointed out that the President didn't keep to the promises he made before taking office, such as replacing the Affordable Care Act and ending Russia's four-year invasion of Ukraine.
Regarding his 'true' motivations, she claimed: "For Donald, there is one reason and one reason alone. He's in trouble, and he knows it. This isn't simply about changing the subject. That, of course, would be bad enough.
"This is to keep himself and the world from knowing what an inept, depraved, compromised fraud he is. This is about his unfathomable desperation to avoid being humiliated."
Mary Lea concluded by explaining that the President is a 'desperately weak man' who must distract people from this fact, adding: "That is a difficult tight rope for the weakest man I've ever known to be walking.
"And yet, somehow, he has been allowed to walk it for his whole life. His whole miserable, useless, selfish life."
Topics: Donald Trump, Iran, Politics, US News
Joshua Nair