US President Donald Trump is playing a sort of transparent good cop bad cop routine with Iran, according to Daniel Patrick Welch, an American writer and political analyst.

In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, Welch said that the United States drunk on power is heading for trouble in Iran.

Trump is reportedly angry with his National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who are pushing the United States into a military confrontation with Iran.

According to several US officials, Trump prefers a diplomatic approach to resolving tensions with Iran and wants to speak directly with the Islamic Republic’s leaders, but certain hawks in his administration, particularly Bolton and Pompeo, are preparing for war, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Last week, Trump grew angry and about what he sees as warlike planning that is getting ahead of his own thinking, according to a senior administration official with knowledge of conversations Trump had regarding Bolton and Pompeo.

Iran hasn't done anything but assert its sovereignty

Welch said that there is no deal to be made because Iran hasn't done anything but assert its sovereignty.

“This latest ruffle in the feathers of the Trump regime is interesting, though I’m not sure how much it means. It first surfaced in Venezuela that he was mad that Bolton was trying to get him into a war in Venezuela which of course was exactly what he was trying to do, and now it’s happening with Iran on a much larger and much more dangerous scale,” he said.

“The question is why Trump would not have known that he hired the two craziest people in the whole imperial stable to run his foreign policy. And, he is desperately trying to do two things: 1) to please his base, which is America is great with the best military and everyone does what we say, 2) and that these foreign wars are costly and dangerous and regime change is a stupid policy,” he stated.

“But it really doesn’t matter. I kind of long ago had given up the idea of analyzing Trump’s behavior as a human being. As it turns out he is a just another puppet like all other US presidents, just that he is yanking kind of clumsily at the strings whereas Obama kind of turned the string pulling neatly into part of the dance. You couldn’t tell who was who,” he noted.

“But the real important thing here is whether it’s a good cop, bad cop routine, Trump says, ‘Oh you'd better call me or my advisers will go crazy. I have no control over them.’ As if there has been an actual policy debate, it kind of underlies the fact that there is no actual difference of opinion in the whole spectrum of imperial elite on both sides of the political aisle, both fake capitalist parties, all the candidates running for president. None of them except for Mike Gravel, the only one who actually thinks war is bad. It’s incredible how stupid and dangerous the American political elite is, and how out of touch Americans are,” the analyst said.

‘White supremacy has gone crazy’

“From Venezuela to Iran, this idea of white supremacy has gone crazy: nobody has the right to challenge US exceptional power. It also leads into the revival of the Yellow Peril, another racist trope against China, this clash of civilizations and all that, you know, this old old racist rhetoric that just won’t die, because the system is ruled by this ten percent. They absolutely cannot tolerate the 90 percent getting any control or any dignity or any power at all. So they are doubling down on US hegemony,” he said.

“The real problem is that Americans don’t suffer from the wars they initiate and prosecute. There is an interesting statistics about the Russian generals who were in the battle of Moscova. The Russians lost 70 generals in one day. In WWII, and on the US side since the beginning of World War II all throughout those wars only something like 20 or 25 generals on the US side had died in action. It just doesn’t kill Americans,” he pointed out.

“And so they will keep doing it. And it’s quite scary but I think that the world is waking up to it. Certainly Iran cannot do anything. They haven’t done anything except assert their sovereignty. And at some point Europe might be itching to get away from the yoke of the United States. Spain took back its destroyer. One British general said this is crap. There is no threat. But you know the bottom line is this: When Trump is the voice of reason, you know we are in very deep sh**,” he concluded.