The Speaker of the House in the US is introducing legislation that would effectively combine American and Israeli security forces, and eliminate any form of oversight of the military relationship. Israeli security forces would be fully integrated into the American security complex as if they were the same country. IDF veterans would be treated as American veterans, and likely better, with full access to veteran benefits. The IDF is already training ICE brown shirts and police forces in the same brutal techniques they use against Palestinians. The administration and the Congress are fully Israel first. Anyone who opposes this agenda will be primaried, as Thomas Massie recently was, with unlimited amounts of money given to the opponent to buy the election. The neocon warmongers in charge appear to believe that American and Israeli interests are identical, but they are not. Israel is a strategic liability for the empire.
The combined forces of the two aspects of empire are attempting to complete the 2002 list of seven countries to be taken down. Iran was the last country on that list, as all the others have already fallen. This time the empire has drastically underestimated its opponent, and its allies, and has bitten off far more than it can chew. Central Asia, Russia and China are supporting Iran, and their support is formidable, if not obvious to most observers. Israel is being defeated in southern Lebanon, where it’s threatening to level southern Beirut in a fit of pique, as it’s already doing to the regions south of the Litani river. Netanyahu seems to be about to lose an election to even worse Israeli warmongers. The US is mostly out of conventional weaponry, cannot make more without Chinese rare earths, and so is resorting to a war of threatening words. The risk is the potential use of nuclear weapons, by either Israel or the US.
There is a growing realisation among the regime that the war has been lost. Even notorious warmongers like Robert Kagan (husband of the even more notorious warmonger Victoria Nuland) are going public with their condemnation of the conduct of the war, although in Kagan’s case he thinks they didn’t try hard enough. Trump is flipflopping almost every day, making up stories about imminent deals in order to manipulate the markets. There is, however, no deal to be had. The two sides are as far apart as ever, with Iran’s demands being quite reasonable, while the US is insisting on complete capitulation and full surrender of sovereignty. It can insist all it wants, but since it has no means to enforce such demands, humiliation awaits. In the meantime, Trump and his inner circle are making billions of dollars thanks to their market manipulation and other forms of obvious corruption.
Apart from losing the wars in both the Gulf and Ukraine, the Trump regime is also continuing to murder people in small boats around South America. It makes no attempt to acertain what those boats are carrying or where they might be headed. Many are likely just fishermen trying to earn a living. It’s extremely unlikely that they’re drug dealers, given the distance from the US, the size of the boats, and the amountof fuel they could carry. Even if they were, taking out those boats has done nothing whatsoever to diminish the flow of drugs into the US, or the demand for drugs. When the boats are bombed, survivors of the initial strike are then bombed again, so as to leave noe mbarrassing witnesses. These activities are obvious war crimes, but under Hegseth the laws of war have been revoked in favour of pure and unlimited barbarism.
The likely next step will be an invasion of Cuba, to distract from the losses further afield. The energy blockade of the island, which amounts to collective punishment and is a crime against humanity, has already caused major problems for the country’s power grid, killing people as a result. The US has already indicted 95 year old Raul Castro for shooting down a CIA plane thirty years ago, and he’ll probably get the Maduro treatment. Everything this regime is doing is a travesty. The empire is wreaking havoc around the world while asset stripping its own country and stealing from its own people. Trump has even said that he doesn’t care at all about the financial situation of Americans, or the other impacts his policies are having on people.
A economic depression greater than that of the 1930s is already guaranteed, even if the war were to definitively stop tomorrow, and that is not going to happen. So far the world, and especially the US, is burning through oil reserves, but this will not continue for much longer. At some point in July or August, the bottom of the barrel will be reached, and oil price will spike, and the rug pull will be complete. Expect severe rationing, particularly of diesel, as a best case scenario, and quite possibly a complete lack of fuel. Expect a new round of lockdowns and restrictions of all kinds, followed by a digital financial reset.
