The Partial Observer by Wriley Nelson

Iran Again: Bibi’s Last War is an American Disaster

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Author's Note: This column was originally submitted on March 2, less than 72 hours into the new round of aggression. I have elected to leave any predictions—whether they have since become hindsight or utter nonsense—as they were, to stand or fall on their own merit.

Donald Trump has done it. He has launched the United States into yet another imperial war of choice at the behest of indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. For the second time in a year, he sullied American diplomacy for all time by using fake negotiations to lull a military target to sleep before a surprise attack. He did it by secret in the middle of the night, in the face of every promise he made on the campaign trail, without Congressional or public approval and against the desperate pleading of every regional and global friend and foe. He did it despite his own military telling him they don’t have the air defense stockpiles to avoid disaster, under the pretense of striking a nuclear program that his own intelligence community said doesn’t exist and that he claimed to have obliterated last summer. Among the first acts of the new war was the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, whose single-handed opposition is the only reason Iran didn’t obtain nuclear arms 20 years ago. By all accounts, not even Trump really wanted this war. He surely must know that tens of thousands of American service members, the lion’s share of our military hardware, and a fifth of global oil production are under Iran’s missiles and drones.

Trump has started a process that will kill tens of thousands, wipe Israel from the map, and drive the American empire from its dozens of bases across the Greater Middle East. Iran poses no threat to the continental U.S.; Trump did this to protect a loathsome, theocratic military dictatorship and apartheid state that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian children in a demographic war to preserve Jewish minority rule over an Arab majority between the river and the sea. This war is not even in the rational interests of the so-called state of Israel, which will suffer more damage in the coming weeks than it has cumulatively in its 80-year history. The only person who could possibly benefit is Bibi Netanyahu, who must keep the region at full boil to maintain his political coalition, keep his wartime powers, and stay out of jail. In an America bought by AIPAC and CUFI and ruled by the Epstein class, what Bibi wants, Bibi gets.

We are deep in the fog of war. Anything could happen in the coming weeks and it seems foolhardy to venture any prediction. It is entirely possible that, before this article reaches print, Iran will fold under the first shock and Trump will go down as the heroic visionary who did what seven U.S. presidents could not do. The hundreds of civilians caught in the crossfire will not matter to the Western Zionist Empire or its Epstein-class managers and cheerleaders. Neither will Iran’s inevitable descent into a multi-decade forever war, a bleeding ulcer of instability for the entire region, and a howling wasteland of terror groups, slave traders, desperate refugees and narcotics smugglers, just as happened with U.S.-Israeli regime change efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and more. If Iran survives the next few days, however, then we have likely entered a region-wide war of attrition that will lay waste to Israel, devastate American installations and clients across the Middle East, and wipe out the global economy.