Trump, Netanyahu wield unchecked firepower

As death and destruction rained down from the skies over the Middle East over the weekend - when Israel and the US "preemptively" attacked Iran and Tehran replied in kind - along with the human corpses among the rubble was the lifeless body of the United Nations, next to the equally fatally injured concept of international law.

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What remains - and what is being lauded by many supporters of US President Donald Trump and of Israel - is the primitive "might is right" principle. When you have the guns and bombs, then whatever you say goes. For Trump, with his bully-boy attitude, it's the power he has always craved.

That power means he - and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu - can now be judge, jury and executioner over those they deem a threat. And Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was seen by them as just such a threat.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the killing a "cynical violation" of morality and law.

That's quite priceless coming from the man who eliminates opponents without blinking an eyelid and invades countries faster than Trump sends in the aircraft carriers.

However, he does have a point.