"The US/Israel-Iran War One Month In:
‘Who Will Say Uncle First?’"
by Leo Hohmann
"The Middle East theater of World War III has officially been raging for one month. And the U.S./Israel war on Iran has taken new steps up the escalatory ladder this weekend, following a pattern of escalation each weekend since the war started on Feb. 28 with an unprovoked attack on Iranian sovereign territory.
My fear from the start was that by biting off more than it could chew with Iran, the U.S. Empire would be exposed as a paper tiger. That is now looking more likely by the day, with the Houthis now entering the war on the side of Iran and Iran showing it is far from running low on missiles like we have been told by our largely corrupted Western media.
We were told that the war would be quick and easy. That Iran was “more vulnerable than ever” and we had a “historic opportunity,” in the words of cartoonish politicians like Lindsey Graham and dishonest Fox News military generals like Gen. Jack Keane.
They assassinated the leadership of Iran and their replacements, and the replacements of the replacements, Trump told us. The Iranian military troops are all “hiding in their bunkers” cowering in fear, Trump’s equally cartoonish War Secretary Pete Hegseth told us just a few days after the war started. Without a functioning leadership structure, it was just a matter of time before they exited their bunkers waving little white flags. All of this talk amounted to the fantasies of sick men who believe their own lies about America being the “strongest military force the world has ever seen, and it’s not even close,” as Trump assured us.
Those who refused to give their minds over to the cult of Trump knew better. You can’t cut the head off the snake when the snake has a thousand heads. You can’t assassinate your way to regime change. You can’t kill your way to a safer, more peaceful world.
These are all presuppositions that need to be exploded and forever dispelled as lies leading to horrific consequences. If these axioms were true, then Hamas and Hezbollah should have gone extinct long ago. They have been pummeled by a superior military force for decades, that being the Israeli Defense Forces, and yet they still exist. They still fight back.
Rather than reflexively celebrating each new assassination by the U.S. and Israel, maybe we should look from 30,000 feet above at the overall effect of this policy. It has galvanized the Iranians against us. Even many who opposed the Islamic regime now support it. And not only the Iranians but Shia Muslims everywhere are seething in anger against the Great Satan. In Iraq, in Bahrain, in Yemen, in Lebanon, and everywhere they reside, which by the way includes places like Dearborn, Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan. All the while, U.S. government officials lie to us about why they started this war to begin with.
Financial analyst Catherine Austin Fitts explained in a 12-minute video clip recorded on March 26 the real reasons Iran had to be attacked and its regime taken out. Spoiler alert: It has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, nuclear development or freeing an oppressed people. It has to do with “leakage” in the global financial system and corresponding Western control grid.
As I reported on March 1, the U.S. and Israel made two massive blunders on the first day of the war on Feb. 28 - they killed the ayatollah, the spiritual leader for 300 million Shia Muslims, and they killed 175+ Shia school girls in southern Iran. This opened Pandora’s box by making it a religious war and, in the eyes of the Shia, an unjust and immoral war against not just their religion, but their leaders, their communities, their people. It doesn’t matter if you think the ayatollah was a bad guy, a terrorist, or whatever your favorite label of choice. It doesn’t matter if you think those dead school girls were just collateral damage. What matters is how your enemy sees it and how they respond. And what the Trump-Netanyahu tag-team’s response to the responses will be.
With major new escalations coming every weekend, we could easily be staring down the barrel of full-on World War III and potential attacks on American soil in the near future. The hornet’s nest has not only been kicked. It has been turned upside down and emptied of its decades-long resentment against U.S. power, or the misuse of power as the Iranians see it. Their memories extend back to the first economic sanctions slapped on them 46 years ago. They remember the atrocities committed against them by the U.S. ally Saddam Hussein in the 1980s, when the U.S. used Saddam as a proxy to attack the center of Shia Islam while cuddling up to Sunni Islam.
Are we prepared for the blowback of this pent-up anger? As individuals? As families? As a nation? I would submit that we aren’t. The Trump administration has destabilized the world and made it much more dangerous for Americans, especially those living or visiting abroad, but also here at home. The saddest thing is that it all could have been avoided. It’s too late for that now, however, so all we can do is prepare for the worst, which will include attacks on American cities. It’s inevitable."
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