American pronouncements about the war are all about market manipulation in order to facilitate insider trading on a massive scale. The Epstein class is profiting to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, and there’s zero accountability for widespread criminality. Nothing the regime says is credible.
Colonel Macgregor’s analysis is always worth your time. The man is a paragon of integrity. His description of this conflict as being the old means of war versus modern assymmetric war based on missiles, drones, cyberwarfare etc is accurate. So are the criticality of logistics, and the need for a sound plan grounded in a good understanding of the opponent and the situation, both of which the US regime appears not to understand. All of this is evident in the Ukrainian war, and the lesson is about to repeated in the Gulf.
The war over the Straits of Hormuz is about to amount to a repeat of the battle of Gallipoli from WW1. It could easily become a meatgrinder and an utter strategic disaster. Trump, the chancer, thought the US could win easily in a matter of days, and since he’s continually upped the rhetoric and the risk in the face of failure. A ground offensive would be the culmination of this course of action – an example of the Gambler’s Fallacy.
Trump is now bragging about expanding US territory into Greenland, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba, and much if the rest of the western hemisphere, under the so-called ‘Donroe Doctrine’. This is pure imperial colonialism. International law no longer exists, because the US empire prefers the law of the jungle, where might makes right and the empire can take anything they want from anyone unable to defend it. The current operation in Ecuador, set to spread to the rest if Latin America is called ‘Operation Total Extermination’. Brazil is set to be a target if particular interest since Brazil jailed Trump’s equally corrupt friend, Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting a coup. Trump’s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has recently been praising the European colonialist era and indicating that the American regime intends to emulate it rather than manage the decline of the West. Unfortunately for the US, that decline is irreversible. Empires rise and fall, and regaining ‘glory days’ is not an option.
The US is currently engaged in a grotesque episode of collective punishment against Cuba, which Trump claims he will have the ‘honour’ of taking soon. He says he will then be able to do whatever he wants with it. The island has been blockaded to the point where the entire electrical grid has collpased and society can no longer function. All the patients in the ICU in Havana have died due to the power cuts. The complete disregard for human life is sickening. Power and profit are the only motivating factors for the imperial regime.
This is a giant step backwards from the point of view of global stability, and it will result in major increases in military spending by any party that can afford it, along with a high likelihood of nuclear proliferation. Non-western populations are referred to as barbarians, just as European colonialists did for centuries. This can only lead to crashing trust, neo-mercantilism, piracy, and the collapse of the supply chains of the highly integrated global economy. Everyone suffers when trust is destroyed, but those who prepetrate it think they’re above consequences. Unfortunately for them, and everyone else, it won’t work out that way.
