Empire’s Big Gamble

As the west invites wars on three fronts, China will certainly help rebuild Iran’s damaged refinery infrastructure, and rogue regime attacks will perhaps prompt China to supply Iran with air defense and aircraft, where that eventuality is of course down the road. But in an immediate sense, tensions with China will be greatly exacerbated by the west’s aggression versus Iran, since China relies on Iran for a significant percentage of its oil imports.

Considering the possibility of cooperation between Russia and China on the Iran issue, the US has potentially invited wars on three fronts; being regional wars in the Middle East, in the Ukraine [1], and with China.  While the US-sponsored Israeli aggression versus Iran has yet to play, it’s quite possible that Israel has attempted to take a bridge too far — even with US dollars and weapons support. And the CIA-run major media is once again alleging very loudly that Russian forces are facing big setbacks in its Special Military Operation – allegations that are patently false.

As such, it seems impossible to imagine a more reckless path than that which the collective west has undertaken, and the dire strait (literally) that the west now finds itself in. Europe is “in tatters” where its feckless, incompetent leaders are only outdone by the US president, who has shown himself to be the antithesis of the candidate people voted for. Now an all-out war in the Middle East, with Russia in the Ukraine, and with China, is something that the politicos in Washington cannot possibly manage or avoid.

For Iran and Ansarullah, the next move might be to shut down shipping lanes so that cargo cannot traverse the Red Sea or Strait of Hormuz. Local private military companies (PMC’s) may potentially be mobilized to strike US units in Syria, Iraq, and the Kurd region. Iran could play the Turkiye card, and entice that country into a potential alliance that could transform west Asia. Although Turkiye’s Deep State is of course the most dangerous of all, Turkiye might consider such a power play to be irresistible. If so, that will re-define the region’s alliances, and perhaps even topple a corrupt and perverse hegemonic long in need of toppling.

Meanwhile, US Americans will be in deep trouble with their energy costs. Trump can “drill baby drill” this baby all he wants, but cannot turn around a lagging US oil industry quickly enough, to satisfy US demand. Inflation will bound ever higher. And even if Trump installs Greer or some other clueless lackey in the Fed, 0% interest rates will only fuel the demise of the US dollar to a far greater extent than it has already fallen.

In fact, the US will not be able to fight a war on three fronts. Trump will look a fool for falling for the Neocon mischief, and worse than doing nothing that he promised to do, Trump will appear to be far more misled and incompetent than his demented predecessor was. Likewise, the US’s murderous vassal and proxy – Israel – will be seen for what it is, and in part the source of this coming woe for US Americans. No amount of evangelizing in a Texas church by Mike Huckleberry – or propagandizing on behalf of the CIA by  MSNBC/PBS — will cover for that.

In other words, Trump has initiated perhaps the biggest gamble of his entire life. That gamble appears to be based on bad advice, as well as falling for his own hubris… just as Biden did during his term. The American people will be outraged when their grocery bills double again, when businesses fail, and decline takes the form from of a new great recession – more dramatic than the collapse of the financial system in 2008-2009. And wars on three fronts, that the US cannot possibly “win”.

Perhaps then the people of the US will realize that their political system is not only corrupt and broken, but inimical to the interests of all people. The people of the United States have been continually fooled by their politico masters for many decades now, and will continue to be, until the Empire crumbles and falls by it own hand just as it promises to do.

Beside all the high tech and bluster of the west, there is such a thing as imperial overstretch where the west is now over-extended, in the many wars that it has provoked over many years. The Fed can only print so much, and US industry can only produce a finite amount of weaponry. In other words, it appears that the west may be over-extended right now, and perhaps the mounting tide of world opposition may finally and effectively turn against it, and soon.

[1] That US proxy war is now in progress, of course.

Steve Brown