BY PETER SESAY

As Trump panics over losing his illegal, $1-billion-a-day war on Iran, so does opposition to the war grow, both at home and overseas, notably in countries that are traditional U.S. allies.

“Israel and Pedophile Trump Bombs Iran Over Lies Now Your Family Struggles As Food & Gas Goes Up!” was just one of several large banners held by demonstrators who took to the streets by the hundreds in Montreal, Canada over the weekend. Another banner showed Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu wearing aprons soaked with blood.

If one remembers Trump calling Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez a “loser” because of the Spaniard’s refusal to let the United States use bases in Southern Spain for U.S. war planes to strike Iran, Sánchez’s compatriots took to the streets over the weekend by the thousands—4,000 according to official count—to protest Trump’s war.

In Edinburg, Scotland, and Amsterdam, protesters used the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination—a holiday designated by the United Nations following the killing of 69 peaceful anti-apartheid protesters in 1960—to state their outrage over a war that has killed thousands of innocent civilians in the Middle East.

The criticism of the war by European citizens and most of their leaders’ reluctance to get involved, with German chancellor Friedrich Merz saying publicly, “this is not our war,” was expected of a Europe that the erratic current U.S. president has bullied since day 1 of his second term.

Typically, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday, “Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER! They didn’t want to join the fight to stop a Nuclear Powered Iran.” It was nothing new to the ears of Europeans and the world.