Bannon's self-declared war is over

The war is over for former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. The political combatant has won major battles but lost his self-declared war. Being forced to hear the line "you're fired" and leave his last stronghold in Washington after his removal from the National Security Council in April, this advisor to the US president has been banished from the inner circle by the trend of history.

No doubt his startling phone conversation with Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, was the final straw that helped sink this warmonger. He would not have expected his desperate reaching-out to one more like-minded supporter to create such a stir.

The US president himself may not have liked it because Bannon's confession that there is "no military solution" to the Korean Peninsula crisis compromised Donald Trump's verbal claim that the United States would release "fire and fury" against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Other presidential aides, both his allies and foes in the White House, may have distanced themselves from Bannon as well for his revelation of the day-by-day backdoor fighting often veiled by his spokespersons.