The American war plans that are currently being executed go back decades. General Wesley Clarke told us this in 2002 when he revealed that there were plans to attack seven countries in five years, ending with Iran. All the other targets have already been taken out. All were countries not yet vassalised by the Rothschild-controlled financial system and/or had resources that the empire wished to co-opt. Iran is the last man standing on the list, which has taken much longer to execute than originally planned. Iran has both an independent central bank and energy resources, but doesn’t present an easy target at all. In fact it appears that the US/Israeli military machine has grossly under-estimated the scale of the task.
Iran is more united than ever before, and both far better protected and far better armed than had been assumed. Iran is essentially an unconquerable fortress, with military assets protected deep under mountains where they’re safe from all forms of bombing, and the empire’s military machine appears to be stuck in the past, failing to understand the dynamics of the new forms of assymmetrical warfare. Missiles, drones, satellite surveillance, and instant communications are the the new weapons that matter. These lessons should have been obvious from the war in Ukraine, where all of this has been on full display for years, but hubris has evidently prevented those lessons from being learned. The US is now bogged down in a war it cannot win andcan ot seem to extract itself from. Doing so is urgent for them due to the fact that their stocks of air defence interceptors and missiles are running dangerously low, and the empire lacks the surge capacity to produce more in any timeframe that matters.
The war plans have a progression beyond the current target. The ultimate target is China, which has been the empire in the ascendancy for some time, as the American empire enters terminal decline under an avalanche of debt combined with severe military over-extension. A multi-polar world is emerging, and the old empire is doing its best to maintain its former global hegemony. To do this, it must disable the rising power in the east and do so by tackling its allies and support system. Any resources it could potentially claim and use as collateral for its debt burden in the meantime would be a bonus. It’s already failed to balkanise Russia and prevent its energy exports to China, and its clearly failing in Iran as well, which is the critical pivot point for the multipolar world, connecting the land routes required to circumnavigate naval blockades.
Iran has full control over the Strait of Hormuz, and the US has imposed a naval blockade in the Gulf of Oman, out of range of Iranian missiles. It is also bombing land routes, such as railways and pipeline, for export of Iranian oil eastwards. The blockade has managed to reduce exports of Iranian oil by about half, but is unlikely ever to be more successful than this, given the paucity of ships required to police it and the area of ocean that they required to cover. The US is also boarding ships bound for China in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, which is clearly an act of piracy. It isn’t only Iranian oil blocked from reaching China, but most oil and gas from the whole of West Asia (ie the Middle East).
China has, of course, long since seen this coming and been preparing for it. They have months of strategic reserves, and some alternative sources of supply. They’ve also been electrifying everything in sight as quickly as possible, in order to run on coal and ‘renewables’ instead of oil. The ‘renewables’ (which are not really renewable to to dependence on oil, concrete, and mined minerals) bet won’t work out any better for them than it has for Germany in the long run, due to very low energy returned over energy invested and short lifespan, but may help temporarily. Coal is the workhorse they’re betting on, but unless they can do coal to liquids at scale quickly, they’ll still have a liquid fuels problem if the effects of the war cannot be substantially reversed.
The US appears to be thinking that if it can’t out-compete the Far East, and it can’t, then it will cripple the world economy in order to be the last man standing. If it can’t rise, then everyone else must fall in order for the old empire to maintain relative superiority. The result will likely be billions of casualties in collateral damage, but the empire doesn’t care. It has no regard for human life at all. This is the American version of Israel’s ‘Sampson Option’, which says that if Israel is about to be strategically defeated, it will take the whole world down with it with its nuclear weapons. Russia also has a system like this, called the ‘Dead Hand’, which will fire their arsenal if the central government is taken out. Other powers may also have a similar mindset. This doesn’t bode well for a world caught up in a war cycle, as someone is going to be strategically defeated. The US is imploding and heading for civil war, so it’s the most likely candidate. Its legacy will be one of utter destruction and the beggaring of the world.
