Where We Are Today
The world is currently in the midst of a great transition away from the former post-Cold War American-dominated unipolar system of relations towards an emerging multilateral system of relations where the American-led bloc remains an influential pole, albeit with a smaller share of the global pie. As of 2026, new rules of engagement in the emerging era are not yet defined, we find ourselves in a world of agony, as the globe shows great signs of entropic acceleration: fragmentation, disruption and war. Technological innovation today is unprecedented and is re-defining the very nature of peace and war itself. War is often mankind’s “reset” button between global power re-configurations, accelerating entropy on Earth while re-shuffling the geopolitical deck of cards. Sometimes erstwhile winners become losers in the new power balance, other times erstwhile losers become winners. A truly mature and balanced system will pursue game theory in a way as to maximize gain for all players in the prisoner’s dilemma through cooperation. Game theory and entropy become crucial frameworks for modelling the complexity of a world fragmenting into higher uncertainty amidst multipolarity. But reality is far from ideal and hegemonic self-aggrandizement comes at the expense of other players, pushing sub-optimal outcomes onto everybody else. Hegemonic players are less inclined to conduct fair negotiations with other players, pushing other players to pursue self interest or cooperate among themselves. Over the longer term, the dust will settle from the transition era towards a more ordered global configuration defined by relative peace, trade and a slower rate of entropic diffusion. However, that too will be transient. There is no impermanence in geopolitics and history. There are cycles of peacetime and wartime marching towards ever-increasing entropy. When peacetime configurations run their course in the eyes of powerful elites which no longer serve their interests, they are systematically transformed often by war, which on the surface appears as a purely destructive force, waged by those very elites. War has served mankind with a brutal tool of enacting geopolitical transformations when there is no consensus on the future among superpowers. World wars do this on a global scale.
Today, the US imperium is in decline, but its legacy on world affairs will remain influential for generations to come and the USD has decades left before debasement destroys it. Empires begin their primary decay at the core but the first manifestations of secondary effects appear at the imperial periphery, working their way to the imperial core and reinforcing the primary decay in a positive feedback loop. Empires can effectively be regarded as failed states, since the state originally hosting empire no longer functions as a true state. The resourcing required to address normal nation-state functions are crowded out and grossly mis-allocated towards foreign entanglements. No examples are clearer than this in the current American empire than the Israel-first infestation eating away at the American state to serve the foreign liability known as Israel well over and above that of American interests, thanks to a powerful Christian-Jewish, American-Israeli religious nationalist Zionist faction. We already see heavy-handed peripheral imperial tactics showing up on imperial core American streets, killing Americans in cold blood. America, Britain, Israel and various Western European states are facing a historic erosion of civil liberties and growing domestic Fascism and civil discontent from increasingly militant and paranoid regimes that no longer feel secure with their own legitimacy in the eyes of the majority of their own populations – if disapproval ratings are anything to go by. Western ruling elites are facing the most serious challenge to Western hegemony in centuries. There always exists an imperial peak era which immortalizes the pinnacle of imperial glory. The imperial decay era is defined by decadent monsters vying tug-of-war factional battles over the imperial steering wheel, while the mainstream is mired in backward looking nostalgia, longing for bygone eras of glory. The US is wobbling into a future where Western hegemony is finally meeting its long overdue comeuppance, while the Global South continues with its struggle for decolonization into the 21st century.
Due to the highly financialized nature of Western power, in order to understand its war-fighting, it is of great usefulness to look at war through the prism of finance. Bear this perspective in mind as you read the rest of the article. War can be likened to a restructuring exercise for a distressed system that no longer generates anticipated or expected cashflows to its prime beneficiaries. The restructuring is required to fix distressed national balance sheets, made up by the sum of too-big-to-fail corporate balance sheets. The “fix” is never immediate however. The restructure is always fraught with risk and it takes time to play out, as assets are plundered onto balance sheets, toxic assets offloaded while liabilities destroyed or delayed. Wars also present opportunities to renege on and exit existing contracts by force majeure. The complex interplay in the international arena of trade may no longer serve certain moneyed interests. Empires are not monolithic entities: they are influenced by a constant interplay of powerful factions vying for control of the steering wheel. As such, wars present an opportunity to shift pieces in the grand chess board, offering new opportunities in mergers and acquisitions, investments and contracts, by the dominant faction in control at the given time. The American Neoliberal system of Globalized trade born in Bretton Woods, re-configured by the 1971 Nixon shock and upgraded by China’s accession to the WTO in 2001, is being dismantled by an anti-Globalization Israel-first Trumpian faction, a faction which has deceived the American public with a very persuasive “MAGA” movement. With former Neoliberal factions pushed aside temporarily, the very few remaining vestiges of American diplomacy have given way to unapologetic and crude displays of hard power by the Trumpian faction, feeling the fragility of American manhood threatened by peaceful powers like China. The reason is simple: America’s soft power has run its course and can no longer achieve global buy-in. During peacetime, China beat the US at its own game. There is no soft power mechanism to compete with China with what the Trumpian faction is demanding. The Israelification of the US by Zionism mandates the ritual Gazafication of societies standing in its way. Israeli Apartheid tactics are showing up on American streets in the form of ICE, a paramilitary goon squad that recruits from the MAGA pool and trains in Israel. Outright disregard for international law, adoption of deception and ambiguity mimics the Israeli settler Apartheid colony. The Trumpian faction is Israelifying America at the highest levels, sadly to its own detriment. The sadistic displays of raw power not only highlights the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the empire, but proves that Zionism is now a threat to the entire world. Global problems ultimately require global solutions and in the absence of consensus between the West and the Rest, we find ourselves in a world of war.
Under the Trumpian faction, the ambitious plan for America is to wreck the old world order so the US can come out on top of the one which emerges from its ashes. The restructuring allows for the laying of groundwork for essentially the Petrodollar Redux, with hopes of buying more time for US influence to persist throughout the 21st century, given the US is lagging behind China in supply chain cost-effectiveness and industrial capacity. Serious challenges facing the US are its growing debt mountain and the limits to its magic money printer, unable to print commodities and industrial capacity at the same rate it prints derivatives and greenbacks. These hard limits are repelling many Global South buyers from deepening ties with the increasingly marginalized US-led bloc beyond transactional relations. By attempting to illegally seize real collateral in Venezuela, Canada, Greenland and Iran in the form of commodities and energy deposits, the US is pinning hopes on invoicing a significant chunk of future commodity and energy sales in USD thus maintaining artificial demand for USD in the face of weakening demand from BRICS+, a doubling down on the Petrodollar: the Petrodollar Redux. Foreign policy has become the armed wing of the Treasury yield curve, with stablecoins in American jurisdictions collateralized by investments in US Treasuries as stipulated by the Genius Act. The broad plan is demand persistence for US debt and US dollars. Tapping into Christian Zionism and Israelifying the US with Jewish Zionist templates is one particular way war-fighting can be waged during the transition era, at least during the tenure of the Trumpian faction. The only problem however, is that the trajectory is alienating friend and foe alike, with so many moving parts unlikely to work in favor of the US over the longer term. American imperial strategists have shown a consistent inability to foresee second and third order effects from their actions. Only a fraction of the original plan will work out as intended. Therefore, it is safe to bet whatever bombastic plans the US lays down, expect only a fraction of them to ever materialize as intended.
The Israel-US war against Iran in 2026 has exposed some key limitations to American power in West Asia, with implications to US power in the wider world. In reference to my prescient article written in late 2024, Key Challenges For The Anti-Imperialist Resistance, let us briefly explore how things have stacked up since then for Iran, where I offered some constructive criticism on areas of improvement. The first thing to immediately note is the inefficacy of Israel’s favored tool – the leadership decapitation air strike. The war against Iran in 2026 has finally proven Iran’s “Mosaic Defense” strategy as decapitation-proof. Iran has demonstrated a level of resilience outdoing the best Israeli and American intelligence on the ground, which expected a popular backed regime change to happen within weeks. The under-estimation of Iranian resolve and its culture of defiance was not a bug but a feature of the supremacist American-Jewish system. The “Mosaic Defense” strategy was adopted not to win decisively but to endure. And endure it did: with each Israeli assassination, the Iranian decentralized chain of command maintained continuity. In the cyber and psychological domains, Iran has surprisingly been on the front foot, with high profile hacks of Israeli officials and Israeli companies tied to critical infrastructure forcing the DOJ and FBI to shut down websites on behalf of Israel. Iran’s savvy use of AI propaganda in conveying simple but effective social media videos has shown it has made substantial inroads among the media-savvy international audience. Iran has done further homework regarding one of its Achilles Heels: anti-air defenses. There were many documented cases of American aircraft shot down – F-16, F-18, F-15, A-10, drones, various helicopters and one documented case of the holy grail of American stealth, the F-35, being hit. That in itself is a world first combat casualty for the mythical F-35. The failed operation of April 2026 in Isfahan, reminiscent of President Carter’s Operation Eagle Claw, demonstrated Iranian preparedness and disproved American-Israeli claims of dominating Iranian skies. The American and Israeli air forces pride themselves on operating with impunity in the region but Iran has finally shattered that aura of impunity. The capture of unexploded American ordinance on Iranian soil, including the advanced GBU-39 glide bomb and the Lucas drone, will lead to intelligence and weapons design wins for Iran and its allies – the reverse is also true for its adversaries. Air defense capabilities remain much to be desired however, Iran requires additional work to develop an integrated AA system and air force. Plugging holes in the net with distributed manpads can add further headache for low flying Zionist missiles, helicopters and planes. On the intelligence front, Iran has done well in neutering most militarized assets within Iran. Evidence mounts that additional work remains to be done by domestic intelligence services, namely against civilians providing air strike tipoffs to Mossad in exchange for crypto payments. Unlike militarized intelligence assets which require more sophisticated communication channels and logistics support, lone wolf civilian traitors remain more elusive to track down, with the burden of financial sanctions driving an inevitable portion of the population willing accept payments from the enemy. On the whole, the Israeli-American intelligence and psychological operations aimed at convincing the Iranian population to revolt against the government has spectacularly failed, more so by the shocking brutality of attacks against the Iranian nation. Any hopes of relying on pro-Western blocs within Iran have effectively been squashed by Zionist savagery: the pro-Western cause inside Iran is a shambles very few are willing to go near, including the beleagured Pahlavist movement. Iran’s use of combined drone and saturation attacks by MIRV type ballistic warheads have effectively exhausted Israeli-American air defenses interceptors within weeks, leaving the settler colony and various US outposts in the region highly exposed. Finally, the nuclear issue remains in Iran’s hands, having withstood attempts to steal or destroy its 450kg 60% enriched uranium stockpile. Iran thus remains a latent nuclear power and there are ongoing discussions in the parliament regarding a repudiation of the NPT and IAEA. I did say that Iran ultimately requires a nuclear deterrent to level the playing field with Israel. Israel could have catalyzed the nuclear decision in Iran by the assassination of the late Khamenei and his fatwa against nuclear weapons. In the eyes of Iran’s government hower, the nuclear file remains first and foremost a bargaining chip with the West. Only time will tell if the policy actually shifts towards the realization of nuclear deterrence.
The Iranian political heirarchy is easily misinterpreted as extremely centralized by outsiders, especially by haughty Zionists. However, the internal structure is highly democratic and consensus-driven, resilient and above all, decapitation-proof. Two rounds of the Iran-Israel wars have demonstrated sacred mosaic defense an effective strategy in enduring Zionism’s imposed wars.
The curvature of the Earth limits radars. Ballistic missiles give radars the earliest notice while low altitude projectiles such as drones, hypersonic and cruise missiles give radars late notice, if any at all.
American war planners may have realized that maintaining so many bases in the West Asia region leaves them with a high attack surface exposure, something that makes defending them very challenging with prolonged high intensity warfare. Too many bases translate to too many targets, stockpiles and production rates of Western anti-air defenses simply cannot match the production rates and stockpiles of relatively cheaper Iranian missiles and drones that destroy them. In barely one month of high attrition war, many years worth of THAAD and Patriot interceptor stockpiles have already been exhausted. Approximately 100 THAAD interceptors are produced per year at the war’s outbreak, costing $12 million each. Desperate shuffles of THAAD and Patriot stockpiles from Asia and Europe to West Asia reinforces the real depletion problem at play. Iran has destroyed a significant stock of AN/TPY-2 and AN/FPS-132 radars in West Asia, which are important in providing THAAD advanced warning of missiles. The consequences of their destruction is tangibly reduced times for air raid shelter sirens in Israel, never mind the ramifications for Arab monarchies which are expendable to the Zionist settler colony. American bases in the Middle East are largely legacy setups from the Cold War, built for keeping eyes on the Soviet Union and keeping Arab monarchies under the thumb, not for withstanding prolonged projectile assaults. The bases were built lacking significant bunker infrastructure, and Iran’s pinpointed destruction of said bases has further highlighted how much current designs are past their use-by dates. The physical bombing of collateral means balance sheet losses for firms with Gulf investments and their business partners, including many American AI and tech companies hosting infrastructure in the Gulf region. Infrastructure is an income generating asset – when it is physically destroyed en masse, losses translate from future expected corporate cashflows wiped out in paper markets to physical supply shocks in delivery markets. A stagflation era redux of the 1970s is likely in the aftermath of the Hormuz crisis of 2026, but unlike the 1970s, the scale of physical infrastructure destruction in the region, which is of key import to the global economy, has been far worse and therefore, inflationary pressures due to supply shocks are expected to eventually give way to a global recession as demand destruction outweighs the supply shock. Famine, starvation and energy rationing will affect the poorest, least prepared countries in the world. Even superpowers like Russia and the US are significantly challenged by drones and saturation attacks by lesser adversaries. The war of 2026 has seen the US lose record numbers of radars, planes, THAADs and bases, since the Vietnam War. There are few doubts about the implications from the 2026 war against Iran being significant for the global power balance: Iran’s standing elevated at the expense of Israel and the US. There will be a shakeup in SOF agreements, capital flight into jurisdictions which are seen as less entangled with US imperialism, new ways of managing the Strait of Hormuz and multilateral initiatives aimed at ensuring food and energy security for all major power nodes. The violent birth pains of the multipolar world are unfolding.
The first 2 rounds of the Iran-Israel wars in 2025/2026 has seen Iranian cyber and psychological operations dwarf Unit 8200 operations.
The 47th President of America will have to eat his words, – perhaps it was internal projection all along
The Psychological, Spiritual and Evolutionary Dimension
At a psychological level, humans are beasts that ultimately arbitrate disputes with brute force and violence when minds cannot compromise and tongues fail to find common ground. When newborn generations of humans repeat the mistakes of their elders by re-living the human experience in their own unique lifetimes and Zeigeists, psychonomic historians will understand why history tends to rhyme. Only with time do some things coalesce into human wisdom. There is no simple answer as to why we war so often. There is the possibility that war is an unfortunate burden on human nature we have not yet evolved to shake off. But to leave it at that would be irresponsible and fatalistic. If we look to the animal kingdom, we can indeed see overwhelming evidence of war and competition. Every day is a raw battle of survival to an animal. Animals are not totally bereft of social safety nets however, they have sharp instincts and cooperate within packs of their own kind. Animals have social intelligence and emotions. But they do not build complex societies nor plan very far ahead. There are exceptions of course, intelligent hive minded societies are found with the ants, termites and bees. On the flipside, slavery is not normalized to most animals, unlike humans in complex societies led by an unshakable apex human farmer class. Slavery and subjugation is much more common in human society than in animals. Subjugation is the price humans pay for having creature comforts, wrapped up in the unspoken pretend-play of the social contract, which keeps societies “civilized”. Humans intuitively understand the need for polite society: they do not intuitively understand why hostile organisms require them to be subjugated while hostility continues unabated by those driving the subjugation.
Once you peel away the pretenses of society, there is only naked savagery left staring us in the face. If every country on Earth behaved like Israel, basking in remorselessness, shamelessness and ruthlessness, the world would not be a place worth inhabiting. It would be a world of beasts. If everything is to be violated at will, would there be any purpose left for universal morality? What is the point in man if we aspire to be mere beasts? There must be a higher spiritual purpose grounded in common sense, mutual respect and a deep reverence to the Earth and the non-judgemental forces of the multiverse. Some things should never be violated within the human experience – trust is one such sacred entity, life is another. Any entity that violates trust and human life at will, is a malignant force. There is none more depraved and Lucifarian than those who violate the life of the most innocent and vulnerable: life’s infants. From the Aztecs, Canaanite Moloch worshippers to the Epstein class, child sacrifice is a Lucifarian force that must be resisted and extinguished. If we look to the plant kingdom however, the picture paints a very different story. We see overwhelming evidence of symbiosis and cooperation in forests. Trees are social, they communicate through roots and help each other in need. Mycelium networks and trees have been conducting win-win diplomacy for eons: trees provide up to 30% of their sugars to mycelium and in return the mycelium probes subterranean rocks and crevices for the nutrients that plants require. What have fungi and plants figured out that animals have not? Are fungi and plants wiser than animals with a higher intelligence? Is their intelligence even comparable to that of animal intelligence? Do animals stand to learn from plants or do plants stand to learn from animals? Man is part animal and part plant. War has been as much a constant in human history as has love. If love is the evolutionary glue that binds man with woman to raise offspring together, then war is the force that unglues relationships between polities.
Insects can appear sadistic, – the praying mantis for example. However, animals rarely kill for fun, and those that do tend to be more intelligent, like orcas, which are the apex predators of the oceans. Therein lies a hint; with intelligence comes a downside. The higher the intelligence, the higher the capability for cruelty. The vast majority of animals kill for bestial urges, namely safety and hunger. There are no animal ‘serial killers’ with complicated motives driven by a perverse pleasure that leave scores of uneaten prey in their wake. Why would such behavior be of any utility to an animal? But in the realm of humans, why do they commit heinous atrocities, going so far as to whitewash and deny them? Welcome to the curse of higher intelligence. If fungi and plants are the Earth’s wisest elders, then animals are its children and humans are most definitely its problem children. Humans have evolved to live in symbiosis with planet Earth like plants but the Agricultural Revolution changed the relationships humans had with nature permanently. Human DNA contains a higher proportion of viral DNA than plants, some estimates putting the figure at ~ 8% viral DNA. Through recent epigenetics, the human farmer class and its parasitic institutions have hijacked humanity in a stranglehold since at least 5000 years, and these behaviorisms do not live in symbiosis with the Earth. The human farmer class lives inside an onion structure: the inner layers use the outer layers for protection. For the most part, the outer layers may know of the inner layers but they do not know how to control them. The inner layers know the outer layers and exactly how to control them. If the entire world was an onion, the 0.01% would be the billionaire classes, living off the backs of the 99.99% through aristocratic inheritances and insider nepotism. They use the 99.99% against the 99.99%, with a Pareto system of subjugation: 20% oppresses the 80%. The 20% constitutes the institutions and their employees while the 0.01% constitutes the human farmer class. The human farmers are hostile organisms. The 99.99% are their tools and victims. This has been human history for at least the past 5000 years since the Agricultural Revolution. It was not always so. Prior to the last ice age circa 10,000 years ago, in the Paleolithic Era, human “society” constituted small, cooperative, egalitarian nomadic tribes. Living off the abundant land for “free”, hunting and gathering one’s own food supply and building one’s own dwelling with freely available tools, these notions eventually became crimes and taboos in modern society. That is how human farmers rose to prominence: money became the over-arching rationing mechanism for resources in complex sedentary, gated societies. It was predominantly psychopaths and sociopaths who tended to revel and excel in human farmer roles: religious clergy, financiers, politicians, military leaders, propagandists and entertainers. They evolved to be masters at not only farming humans, but killing them through war.
The Overton window is the spectrum of politically ‘acceptable’ ideas or allowable discourse in the public domain during any given time, set by the media and entertainment arm of government. The window shifts over time influenced by the current Zeitgeist and evolution of ideas, however this sort of sterilisation raises an important point pertaining to perceptions of wars. In swathes of Asia, the Overton window is highly conservative, with ideas of gender, sexuality, religion and political affiliation regarded strictly as private affairs. The golden rule is an unspoken principle widely understood. A culture of collectivism triumphs over individualism. What people say is taken very seriously: flippancy, faking, sarcasm and dishonesty, common across the Anglo West and Israel, are behaviors that are looked down on in the Orient. A sense of honor and saving face are important matters. If one does not follow through with one’s word and merely uses words as empty platitudes, one will lose social standing. The Indonesian idiom of “your mouth is your tiger” highlights how impactful words can be, while the concept of “Gotong Royong” encapsulates the spirit of putting the individual aside and working together for the greater good. In Filipino culture, “Pakikisama” has a similar ring of going along with the group even if you disagree, while “Hiya” instills a sense of dignity and shame in avoiding personal embarrassment. The Overton window in the modern Western world is shaped by the world’s most relentless and industrial-scale propaganda machinery in history. This is a big deal because the influence acts in very important ways when it comes to manufacturing and selling wars to the public. The lowest common denominator understandings of the Western public and instilled ignorance of foreign cultures, plays very well on the Western cultural preference for extroversion, adversarial confrontation, sarcasm, dishonesty, flippancy and pettiness. It is why said populations will be last to wake up when the final Western empire in history falls from grace, Zionist America. The Overton Window in the West is streamlined to manufacturing and selling wars like consumer products. I have previously outlined in my book that studying circumstances preceding armed conflicts is vital to understanding how wars break out. The media-entertainment complex exists to obfuscate these facts from people by controlling the Overton window. It is well known that American culture for example glorifies violence, chauvinism and war: it is a war-like culture. The effects of this within America itself are evident: rampant school shootings, gun crime and a belligerent foreign policy. A government is ultimately a reflection of the society it brainwashes, given its society is the faucet with which the government is able to drink from. Moreover, the implications go beyond America in normalizing belligerence on a global scale. Hollywood studios are well known to be deeply linked to CIA and Pentagon advisors who frame and approve all war films to reflect national security objectives and perception management. It is no coincidence that Arab and Russian bad guys are very common in American films. Whatever the public enemy happens to be at any time, American film studios will pander to the military’s requirements. In the broader scheme, it gels perfectly within the cognitive framework of public psychological operations.
Examples of covert and overt Western propaganda narrative shaping and psyops
According to Pentagon documents, the framework for cognitive management readies the public for war according to the following methodology. Before any violence and mass imperial atrocity is executed, conflict begins insidiously by softening up the public mind. First, the public must be made to believe that there exists another group of people who are a threat to them. Fear and suspicion must be broadcast repeatedly, working on the age-old principle of “repeat a lie enough times and it will be perceived as truth”. Given most human beings wish to be left alone to live their own lives, this seldom arises organically and is almost always manufactured. The appeal must be a reptilian-brained fight-or-flight response peppered with heavy emotive appeal, stripped away from any complexity, nuance or context, especially any honest discussion of historic circumstances. No appeals to rationality or reason are to be made – this is off-limits since having people using their frontal cortex and questioning the narrative will nullify the entire exercise. The perspectives of the other group are not to be discussed or explored: they are irrelevant. The sin of omission is central: over time, the sense of the intractability and severity of the problem is intensified, by withholding evidence to the contrary and exaggerating flimsy or fabricated evidence. The polarization stage imparts the individual to feel part of the broader “victim” group under threat. Interviews and panel discussions are “performed” to lend credence to the “us versus them” polarity. As a person begins to identify with the “victim” group, they are shown the “problem” group repeatedly. The dehumanization and normalization stages then set in. Public perceptions are massaged towards feeling negative emotions, particularly feelings of hate and disgust are normalized, while human dignity is taken away from the problem group. Dehumanizing language is introduced and normalized over time in carefully curated performative interviews and discussion panels. Palestinians are described as “animals”, Russians as “orcs” and so on. The Overton window widens into extremist territory, gently at first, then under the cover of the usual mind-numbing and haughty Western supremacist tropes (“its bad when they do it, not when we do it”). This is when the colonialist mentality becomes acceptable again, dusted off from the attic. Any prior insincere slogans of “diversity and inclusion” are gently swept aside, – but only momentarily. The show will go back to the usual programming after the problem group gets bludgeoned and is made an example of. It is indeed very common in English culture to make an example out of somebody, a whipping boy, summed up by “the beatings will continue until morale improves”. Worry not however, all will be back to kumbaya once the beatings are over. By this stage, Western war preparations are already under way, people no longer given any alternatives. Violence is inevitable and the only choice left in dealing with such an intractable group of people that cannot be negotiated with. People are finally steered into believing that killing and stealing by their own government is in their own interests by a cold machinery which only knows how to march in lockstep with itself, by imposing the fait accompli of violence as not only justified, but necessary. This has been the psychological pattern adopted by Western governments since the end of the Cold War, when selling their interventionist wars to the public. Depending on the scale of war plans by the elites, the entire performance can be manufactured within months, usually years for more significant strife. Public “buy-in” is always a manufactured endeavour preceding wars. The most outrageous aspect of the psyop is the attempt to convince people that wars are in their best interests. No normal human being when left to their own devices would ever “buy-in” to Zionism or imperialism once they understand its true nature. Imperial subjects able to maintain willful clarity and deny the imperial mind rape, will ensure the real estate in their mind is never colonial occupied territory, pitting them ahead of their more gullible compatriots. The rest of the Western population is unfortunately set up for colossal embarrassment and failure. For the Global South, hundreds of years of oppression by the colonial West has not been forgotten nor will it ever be forgotten. It rages like a Zoroastrian fire deep in the psyche, stifled only by deeply embedded inferiority complexes. These wounds will take time to heal, until the Global South learns to huddle together and march in lockstep towards true independence. A cascade of global supply chain crises triggered by a flailing imperial beast system will serve to accelerate the need to do so sooner rather than later.
Finally, let us not forget the often overlooked spiritual battle that accompanies war. Each side appeals to its culture, religion and history to invoke a higher spiritual struggle which then filters down through its media narratives and psychological operations. The spiritual battle is generally Manichean, defined by forces of good versus evil. Appealing to a spiritual battle is intended on consolidating a population beyond fog of war vicissitudes. Unfortunately in the present era, there is very little the American-Jewish-led West can do to hide the fact that it has become a ghastly and malevolent, spiritually bankrupt force on the globe. The moral inconsistencies have become too big to ignore: selective outrage and the hypocrisy of the “rules for thee, none for me” sense of exceptionalism. The normalization of Moloch child sacrifices in the form of indiscriminate bombings against densely populated civilian centers and “Gazafication” tactics. The optics of Israeli Epstein kompromats on depraved Western politicians, many tied to pedophilia and psychopathy, is something which cannot be swept under the rug any longer. Neither can their blatant disdain for human decency, diplomacy, international law and the sanctity of trust. Israel’s policy of no-limits assassinations and the Western settler proclivity for violence as a first-resort, using duplicity to tarnish diplomacy through completely fake “peace” talks have deeply vandalized moral standards in our world today. The Jewish psyche is sadly tainted with a level of remorselessness, ruthlessness and shamelessness that has infected America, and Zionism will ultimately be the spiritual and moral downfall of the West. In the case of the spiritually bereft cosmopolitan West, built through dishonorable plunder and genocide, then as empire through brain drain immigration, the lack of cultural homogeneity and the fixation on material wealth has seen war-time appeals rely on flashy and sophistic talking points and Western exceptionalism. In the case of the American-Jewish machinery, constant appeals to messianic Zionist Judaism and Christianity ring true only to a minority of the non-secular Western population. The Jewish tendency to monopolize the “Anti-Semitism” trope for justifying aggression whilst ignoring Palestinian plight is a level of gaslighting that does little to inspire true introspection yet is almost as powerful as a spiritual rallying cry, given the parasitic Jewish stranglehold over America. Milking the eternal victimhood claim and god’s chosen fallacy are frequently invoked by ADL and AIPAC lobbyist locusts. Spiritual appeals to fighting “Amalek” and “Haman” when confronting modern day Iran are especially tied to Likudnik and Religious Zionism factions in Israel, where the bulk of their support lies in the endogamous Haredim. The Christian-Zionist faction headed by the Trumpian administration appeals to messianic Scofield Bible talking points to rally its diehard MAGA base, whilst appeals to American primacy are a boisterous bipartisan way of compensating for a general lack of moral purpose, substituting the void with juvenile American arrogance.
While the West’s spiritual tank is empty, for the more ancient civilizations of the world, the spiritual battle rings very differently from the settler West and bears far more weight during times of war. Cultures which have endured far longer periods of humility and suffering than the West value the spiritual battle more than mercenaries waging wars of privilege for corporations like the East India Company, Blackrock and Royal Dutch Shell. When the Western empire battles China, the Middle Kingdom appeals to its 4000 year old lineage of continuity and wisdom and confidence in fostering trade alliances. The scars of Western hegemony during its century of humiliation and unequal treaties are never forgotten, while the unmatched power of the Chinese collectivist work ethic can mobilize the nation against any obstacle, including the inevitable return of Taiwan to the mainland. For Russia, the spiritual battle against the West is rooted in centuries of facing off and crushing Western colonial projects invading Russia from the west, in an attempting to subjugate her vast riches and resources. From the Swedish empire, the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, Napoleonic France, the Third Reich and NATO, all attempts to subjugate Russia have failed in their quests, often at great suffering and sacrifice to the Russian people. Russia is the ultimate Western colonialism killer, she will never start a war but once invaded, she will mercilessly crush the aggressor. The Western establishment has refused to learn from its failed historic infatuation with seizing Russian resources: the old adage of “never fight a land war with Russia” seems forgotten. The Russian sense of patriotism and martyrdom for the motherland has a very powerful effect on the Russian people, and Westerners seem to always under-estimate the tenacity and tolerance for hardship which Russians are willing to endure in order to win. The Russian bear has chewed up many Western colonial projects, going so far as to burning down Moscow to prevent it from capture by Napoleon to the suffering 27 million deaths during WWII against the Nazis. Iran on the other hand, is another proud and ancient civilization with its legendary spiritual appeal to martyrdom and the inherent Shi’ite sense of persecution at the hands of Yazid. The presence of the spiritual battle in any war Iran engages in, cannot be overstated. Every announcement by the Sepah (IRGC) is littered with Islamic symbolism and Koranic parlance. The 1980s Iran-Iraq war saw many families volunteering to sacrifice sons for the war effort in the spirit of martyrdom, to defeat Saddam Hussein, viewed as a Yazid-type figure by the revolutionary government. The resolve of the Russian, Chinese and Persian spirit of defiance in the face of aggression and arrogance is persistently under-estimated by hollow Western policy-making, much to their detriment.
The Spiritual battle is always present with the Axis of Resistance
Crosses For Zionism & The African Front
I have previously outlined the ideology of Zionism as a homeland for the Jews, an idea first incubated by British Protestants well before the idea caught on with Jewry, pre-dating Theodore Herzl. The idea is essentially a self-serving theological justification for the continuation of the crusades and Protestant eschatology, aligning with the geopolitical aims of British imperial foreign policy over control of the Holy Land. The founding fathers of America were pilgrims from the British Isles, many self-identified as fervent Christian Zionists. Thus Christian Zionism was already a consolidated movement well before Jewish Zionism caught on later in 19th century Europe. Before we proceed, it is necessary to take a short detour on Christian Zionism. The broadest umbrella of “Christian Zionism” is Protestant Dispensational Christianity, departing from Catholic Christianity in fundamental ways. Catholicism is Christ-centric (New Testament), placing emphasis on the church as the “New Israel” in fulfilling man’s covenant with God. Thus according to Catholicism, Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament, placing much less emphasis on forward guidance eschatology than Dispensational Protestantism. Catholic eschatology does not require a 1000 year Jewish kingdom in Israel as a precondition to Christ’s second coming. David Neuhaus, the former Vatican advisor on Jewish affairs has gone so far as to say: “Christian Zionism is a heresy. It makes an idol of the state of Israel and turns the Bible into a real estate deed”. Dispensational Protestantism on the other hand teaches that God deals with humanity in different “dispensations” over time, and lends itself to be the comparatively more unfulfilled branch of Christianity. Christian Zionism is Israel-centric (Old Testament), placing emphasis on the state of Israel in fulfilling man’s covenant with God rather than the church. Thus according to Christian Zionism, Israel is the fulfillment of the Old Testament, placing much more emphasis on forward guidance eschatology than Catholicism. Dispensational eschatology requires Christ’s second coming as a precondition to a 1000 year Jewish kingdom in Israel, fixating on tribulations and Rapture. Some notable books in the Old Testament that Christian Zionists draw from are ones which focus on the literal restoration of Israel: Deuteronomy, Ezekiel and Genesis. Catholics have a different (more metaphorical) interpretation of those same books.
Protestants seem to have many “versions” and translations of the Bible for themselves. This is in part due to the many denominations within Protestantism, each requiring their own interpretations. The original reason however, was the Reformation era when the second schism, or fork from Catholicism occurred, birthing Protestantism. Martin Luther in 1517 published an intellectual rebuttal of Papal authority, marking the Reformation of the church. The first schism occurred in 1054 when Papal authority was rejected by the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine empire. After the second schism, King James of England commissioned a translation of the Bible to serve the newly minted Anglican (Protestant) Church, first published in 1611. This has been known ever since as the “King James Version” (KJV) of the Bible, the main version among Protestant circles. But it is not the only exegesis of the Bible. Another version of the Bible exists, first introduced in the early 20th century. This version has been updated several times throughout the 20th century, coinciding with “biblical” events in Israel. The Bible in question is of course the Scofield Bible, based on the KJV. First released by Oxford University Press in 1909, the Bible includes added annotations in favor of Israel and Zionism. The next update was released in 1917, the year of the Balfour Declaration. The 1917 version is taken as the most common version of the Scofield Bible. The version after that was released in 1967, the year of the Six Day Arab-Israeli War. There were a series of subsequent minor updates throughout the 1980s and 1990s, inserting additional annotations and footnotes. It is worth mentioning that the 1967 edition specifically added the reference: “For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgment”. Little did its editors elaborate on the fact that the Israeli settler colony is perhaps the most “Anti-Semitic” state in modern history. Palestinians are Semites, but their attempted ethnic cleansing and persecution by Zionist Jews and Christians strangely does not count as “Anti-Semitism”, only the one-sided Jewish interpretation of “Anti-Semitism” counts. Cyrus Scofield, the man behind the Scofield Bible, was a man with a checkered past – charged with fraud, forgery and having abandoned his own family prior to his burgeoning religious career as a pastor in Texas during the 1880s. It bears mentioning some of the influence on Scofield himself. Henry Frowde, a publisher at Oxford University Press, took immediate interest in Scofield’s work. That was in part owing to his affiliation with the cliquish Plymouth “Exclusive Brethen” club, a fundamentalist Anglo-Irish Christian dispensational sect deeply influenced by the teachings of the Christian Zionist missionary by the name of John Nelson Darby. Darby was a central figure to the development of modern Protestant Dispensationalism.
Furthermore, during the late 19th century Cyrus Scofield was befriended by a wealthy Jewish Zionist, Samuel Untermyer. What is known about Samuel Untermyer was his fervent public support for Zionism and his Jewish sense of supremacism, which comes bundled up with the Talmudic worldview. Untermyer likely financed Scofield’s work. The friendship can only leave the reader wondering on the type of influence Samuel had on Cyrus in slipping through some very pro-Zionist and pro-Jewish footnotes into the Scofield Bible. On aggregate, given the background of Scofield himself and the nature of the Scofield Bible being continually updated with very pro-Zionist and pro-Jewish footnotes over time, the Scofield Bible can be viewed as a piece of insidious propaganda rather than historic religious text. By giving special preference to Israel and the Jewish people over and above others in the Old Testament, the Scofield Bible justifies a racism intrinsic to Zionism and serves to exacerbate tensions between Jews and Palestinians, and undermines any spirit of finding peaceful solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Talmudism rebels against the “Goyim”, in its inferiority complex. In the democracy of nations, Dispensationalism is the tyrant who wishes to use the Jews as weapons. It likely goes both ways between Israel and America and no wonder then, why the Scofield Bible is tied intimately with Pentecostal and Evangelical churches and pastor networks. If Christian Zionists are so easily duped by the Scofield exegesis of the Bible, it is no surprise that they would grovel to Israel no matter what even if a genocide was presented in front of their eyes. The Scofield Bible acts as their blinds, putting Jews on a pedestal, despite their obvious shortcomings in their failure to build any semblance of civilized societies throughout history. The very same people voted overwhelmingly for Trump multiple times, falling head over heels with MAGA and Qanon psyops. Christian Zionists are thus very good candidates for useful idiots prone to being duped in America by the Republican wing of the bipartisan War Party.
The march of Christian Zionism has seen a mental mobilization emanating from Bible Belt America unto the globe. The intent is the holy evangelization of sympathy for Israel and the mass numbing of minds in preparation of planned crusades in Al Qods by the American-Israeli Zionist Armageddon apparatus. We are referring to the alarming growth of two broad firebrand Protestant sects: the Pentecostal and Evangelical churches. From 2015-2026, the average population growth has been 1.1% but slowing down. Pentecostal and Evangelical Christianity have been the fastest growing Christian sects, outpacing global average population growth, 1.48% and 1.63% respectively. Globally in 2015 there were 500 million Pentecostal adherents, by 2023 the figure rose to 700 million. The most impacted continent by this growth has been Africa – where the two sects have grown not only by birth rate but through conversions. In 2015, combined Pentecostal and Evangelical adherents numbered 383 million. By 2026, it rose to 641 million, a 67% increase. Key countries driving this growth are Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The implications of this are strategic: both sects firmly lionize Israel, put Jews on the pedestal and believe in New Testament Eschatology, namely, the Rapture and Armageddon. It is absolutely no coincidence why the Israel-first Republican factions in the US empire are paying close attention to these countries and shaping policies with them: many Pentecostal and Evangelical churches are funded by American Christian NGOs with ties to Israel. Many African preachers and pastors are educated and trained in America. This is a mass brainwashing campaign to shore up support for the globally isolated pariah Zionist state of Israel, with the US acting as its bouncer and lawyer on the world stage. Uganda has had a rocky relationship with Israel. Originally Uganda was considered as a potential homeland for the Jews alongside Argentina by Theodore Hertzl. In 1976, PLO activists hijacked a French airliner bound to Paris from Tel Aviv and diverted it to Uganda, then ruled by strongman Idi Amin who had sympathies with the Palestinian resistance. Israel’s Mossad launched a covert raid dubbed “Operation Entebbe” to rescue Israeli passengers by landing commandos in planes with transponders spoofing Ugandan military planes. The raid rescued most Israeli passengers from Uganda, with a few fatalities. The only commando fatality during the raid was Yonatan Netanyahu, brother of Benjamin Netanyahu. In the aftermath, Uganda severed diplomatic contacts with Israel, Jews were banished and Judaism banned. Under Idi Amin’s rule, many Synagogues and Pentecostal churches were shut down for subverting society. This is not without merit, however. The rise of Pentecostal and Evangelical sects across Africa has seen growing alarm and resistance from nationalist governments concerned with social stability and internal subversion. Any nation has the right to be concerned about Israel-first and Rapture-promoting trojan horses planted inside its borders. Notable African nations which have banned, shut down or are actively monitoring and controlling the rise of Pentecostal and Evangelical churches include Algeria, Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Rwanda and Burundi. Fears arise not only from the ideology at hand but pragmatic reasons such as defrauding adherents with financial scams, unsafe and socially harmful practices. Rwanda in particular has recently shut down over 10,000 churches and prayer houses, its President calling them “dens of bandits”. Uganda on the other hand, has flipped from the days of Idi Amin’s suspicion of Pentecostal churches and Zionism, to one of a fervent embrace of Israel. Pentecostal and Evangelical churches have been making significant inroads in Uganda, prompting some leaders (Muhoozi Kainerugaba) to offer military support to Israel in its recent wars of aggression against the Muslim world. Uganda has been hit with a double whammy of internal destabilization, also undergoing an active Judaism conversion blitz. Some villages in Uganda are being converted to Judaism, the village of Putti being a notable example. In the grand scheme of things, such mass conversion efforts ultimately go into shoring up support for wars of Zionism and its anticipated crusade against Al Qods and the Islamic world, whereby a global holy war is being engineered by a minority of highly influential and vocal “Armageddon alliance” of Christians and Jews in Israel and America in preparation of the attempted destruction of the Haram Al Sharif and Al Aqsa mosque. The demons of Zionism will need all the allies they can get, and they will take what they can get out of their mass proselytization efforts in Africa. These developments shed light on the vastness and depth, to which certain war-like tribes are willing to go.
Crosses For Zionism are growing fastest in Africa: Dispensational Protestant Pentecostal and Evangelical pro-Zionist Christian sects are on the rise, thanks to American-Israeli meddling
The Military Dimension
The US since WWII has been waging its protracted wars not to win, but to profit. It may not have been the original intent of its war planners, but a corollary of the way its revolving door MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank) complex has evolved over time. The bulk of the fighting force throughout history’s wars has traditionally been infantry and cavalry. Infantry has the cheapest per unit cost. Today, drones have replaced infantry as cheapest per unit cost. The most expensive fighting forces are the navy and air force. They have the highest per unit costs. Wars of attrition are traditionally infantry dominated but drones are changing assumptions. The US and its Israeli surrogate have an inverted structure whereby they rely excessively on air and naval power projection, not infantry. This gives rise to racketeering incentives: high per unit costs associated with naval and air power lead to a preference of pursuing lucrative contracts with an over-financialized Corporate Fascist system favoring nepotism, cronyism and revolving door careerism. As such, US over-reliance on highest per unit costs – naval and air power – incentivizes its captured political system to manufacture wars to sell weapons and aim for windfall profits, with corresponding echo chambered thinking that believes in winning wars predominantly through naval and air power. If the US military was an efficient and effective war fighting machine, it would be winning its wars decisively, but it doesn’t. Other reasons could be attributed to a Kakistocratic political system geared towards making bad decisions and a think-tank-policy complex which consistently over-estimates its own abilities while consistently under-estimating adversarial abilities. Moreover, another contributing factor could be that the US does not have political or social appetite for stomaching heavy losses in its wars, something that changed since the unpopular Vietnam War. An extremely low tolerance for casualties forces its government and propaganda apparatus to cover up its real losses or use accounting chicanery like relying on private military contractors (PMCs) to suppress the official death toll of uniformed soldiers. When fighting adversaries like Russia or Iran, which have extremely high tolerances for casualties, aided by their culture of martyrdom and Generals leading troops from the front lines rather than the back office, it becomes clear why the US wages war in the way that it does, given its total-system constraints.
Under the cover of peacetime, it may be easier to sneak agents and intelligence assets near or inside enemy territory when the guard is generally lower than during wartime. But under the cover of wartime, every war is an opportune testing laboratory for the military. Arms races between states happen across all time: it is during wars where they accelerate into sprints. Intelligence assets positioned during peacetime can be activated. Wars are the laboratories where new weapons are fielded, tactics and strategies refined and valuable data collected on existing and emerging weapon systems. It is also a time to understand where the cracks and gaps in the military are. War presents an opportunity for each side to sniff out the other side’s capabilities and chain of command reactions. Real-world data then goes into updating assumptions about future war planning, war games and simulations. War is the ultimate catalyst for military innovation and all the investment and financial benefits that come with it. There are many cases when participants in wars are compelled to innovate or lose, stress-testing the resilience and adaptability of core systems, chains of command and networks of alliances. Sometimes things go wrong and classified technologies fall into the hands of adversaries, forcing programs to be scrapped abruptly and different designs to be laid down. The case of the Serbian downing of the American F-117 stealth bomber during the NATO war against Serbia is a stark reminder of the type of risks that wars can bring upon even superpowers fighting a far less powerful foe. In what was a regular nightly bombing raid, an F-117 was flying low under dense cloud cover, revealing a radar signature when the bomb bays had opened, allowing outdated Soviet SAMs to lock on. The F-117 programme was quickly axed soon after, after the Chinese obtained its remnants. The event was soon followed by an “accidental” bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
The US military’s greatest supply chain weakness in a world where rare Earth minerals are dominated by China
For a long time, the great Persian Achaemenid empire dominated many battles with its infamous scythed chariots, striking fear into the hearts of its enemies with their galloping speed, disorienting and slicing through infantry. At the height of the Persian-Greco wars, Macedonian Greek war strategists were planning how to blunt this effective Persian weapon and turn the tide of the battle in their favor. The Greeks upgraded their signature rectangular phalanx unit formations to be equipped with longer spears. The basic idea of the phalanx would later be appropriated and customized by the Romans in the form of legions. Coupled with longer spears at the front of the unit, the sides of the unit would form a wall of armored shields. The middle of the phalanx would be protected by shields and spears. The longer spears at the vanguard would intimidate charged chariot attacks, and quick phalanx re-formations would form to envelop chariots, picking them off from the main charge. Greek cavalry would flank the phalanxes to provide cover, given that the weakest link of the phalanxes were its sides and back. What would be termed “hammer and anvil” tactics of long speared phalanxes with cavalry flanks. The Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC was the laboratory where Greek innovations blunted Persian scythed chariots for the first time decisively in battle. History is replete with new military technologies, tactics and strategies being tested, tweaked and improved during wars.
During the 2011-2019 attempted Western regime change operation in Syria known as Operation Timber Sycamore, Syrian forces were backed by Iran’s Shi’ite ground proxies from Afghanistan (Liwa Fatemiyoun), Pakistan (Liwa Zainabiyoun), Lebanon (Hizb’allah) and Iraq (Harakat al-Nujaba & Khata’ib Hizb’allah) alongside Russian ISR and air power. Against them were arrayed a formidable alliance of rag tag foreign mercenary groups backed by Qatar, Turkey, UAE, KSA, Jordan, France, Britain, USA and Israel funneling small arms from NATO’s eastern flank states of Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania using Qatari, Saudi and Azeri airlines as conduits, then into Syria through staging bases on the borders with Jordan and Turkey. Notable Russian tactics emerged in flushing out Western-backed Jihadists from civilian centers, most prominent being the Russian “cauldron” and “pincer” movements, squeezing a siege onto a city until remnants were cut off from supplies. Jihadists were then presented with an ultimatum of death or laying down their arms. Those who laid down their arms were pardoned by the Syrian state and evacuated on green buses to the province of Idlib, a break-away hotbed province where many Arab and Turkic mercenaries backed by Mossad, MIT, CIA and MI6 festered. The lessons learnt from Syrian cauldron tactics showed up again during the Russia-NATO war of 2022 where Russian cauldron tactics took an even greater prominence in flushing out NATO Fascist mercenaries and OUN Banderite paramilitaries from the many towns and cities in the pro-Russian oblasts of south eastern Ukraine. There were no options for green buses however. Options available to captured mercenaries were death or POW. The greatest error by the resistance during the Syria war was the green bus evacuation of Jihadists to Idlib province. The decision ultimately proved the undoing of Syria where Idlib became a hotbed of agitation activity, festering until Jihadist mercenaries quietly re-stocked themselves and launched a surprise assault towards Damascus in late 2024, finally toppling the last Baath government in the Middle East. Syria flipped into the Turkish and Western influence orbit, allowing Israel to finally gain an unobstructed air corridor over Syria, able to bomb Iran directly. The consequences from the loss of Syria and its integrated air defense system for the resistance was quickly felt, with the outbreak of the first direct Iran-Israel wars. Just as the Russians were sharpening cauldron tactics from the Syrian laboratory in Ukraine so too was the West able to show how effective sanctions and subterfuge could still be in crippling weaker states. In Ukraine, Russian cauldron tactics proved highly effective while Western sanctions proved dull against Russia, a resource-rich superpower. But Western subterfuge had better successes against Russia than sanctions ever did, given Russia’s long track record of falling repeatedly for Anglo-American skullduggery masquerading as peace talks.
The war laboratory allows militaries to accelerate innovation
The evolution of Russian drone production 2023-2025 amidst the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine
While MediaZona is biased towards Ukraine and likely exaggerates its figures, they nevertheless stand as one of very few war casualty aggregators of Russian losses during the war. Russian war losses dramatically plunged after 2025, two years after Russian drone production had matured
The Ukraine War Laboratory
The Russia-NATO war of 2022 was, and still remains, a very interesting case study in the war laboratory angle. The US used Ukraine as a 3-pong tool: its attack dog to weaken Russia, a source of plausible deniability for doing so and a sacrificial lamb to test and improve its own military. Russia used the war in turn to drastically bring its armed forces up to scratch after years of neglect, impressively innovating itself from laggard to world leader in emerging technologies. Many game changing advances radically shifted the nature of modern war out of the clash between NATO and Russia, as the two elephants trampled Ukraine in the process. Within a few years, modern warfare had transformed permanently. While some would call it a proxy war, ‘proxy’ does not do enough justice to the underlying realities where direct kills between NATO and Russian forces have been documented, between special forces units and guided strikes. The war would mark the soft onset of WWIII, the first in a series of pitched Great Power wars within the context of the decline of the Zionist American empire. The British empire died violently after two world wars of anti-German policy had exhausted British industrial capacity, passing the baton of imperial power to its younger Anglo Saxon sibling to continue global imperialism for Atlanticism. The US became very Israelified after 1967, turning into a Zionist-first empire in the eyes of many observers. When the US goes down, there will be no passing of the baton to any other Western node of power as there simply is no other node of power left to supercede America. It is very likely the war in Ukraine may eventually escalate into a direct NATO-Russia pan-European wide-war beyond the Ukrainian ring, potentially putting NATO to the ultimate test and destroying it as an institution in the process. Its likely successor would be a more militarized EU operating with a militarized Schengen Area. The war in Ukraine was arguably the first to use AI, mostly with target selection. The war against Gaza, a joint operation between Israel and the US, would be the world’s first AI automated genocide using Palantir for target selection and automated kill chains. AI curated assassination kill chains would expand later with the war against Iran. Thus the first precedent set by the 2022 Russia-NATO war was the application of AI. The next precedent set was the obsolescence of “big arrow” offensives thanks to the rise of unmanned drones. Suicide drones dramatically slowed down armored columns and heightened risks to large infantry groupings. Another variant of drones was the rise of unmanned naval drones, bringing the Black Sea to the forefront of novel emerging threats to maritime tankers, naval vessels and port infrastructure. Finally, we had the precedent of privately run space-based LEO (low earth orbit) satellite communication systems such as Starlink and Rassvet, allowing ISR to handle higher bandwidths, ease frequency congestion and reduce jamming in traditional radios. New AI and drone weapons required higher bandwidth data links, Starlink and Rassvet stepped in to solve the problem.
Russia entered the war in a vulnerable position: it was forced by NATO to respond militarily to solve its security dilemma in Ukraine. NATO entered the war by setting a bear trap akin to the 1980s war in Afghanistan, thinking the war would be an easy win. Both powers were unprepared for what followed. The critical thing to understand about the war was that it was pre-planned and staged by NATO many years in advance, beginning with the 2014 Maidan coup. Preparations were evidenced throughout the mid-to-late 2010s with visible Ukrainian fortification and trench preparations, the pumping of Ukraine full of NATO trainers and weapons and provocative shelling (war crimes) committed against Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Donbas. The indiscriminate shelling of civilians – war crimes – escalated after the Minsk II “peace treaty” of 2015. When the US withdrew its forces from Afghanistan in 2021, it was a move in anticipation of possible Russian retaliation in what was about to follow. Provoking Russia to invade Ukraine was incredibly reckless but the intent was coming from a desperate US empire that needed to destroy energy links between Europe and the East to cushion its ignominious decline, hell bent on smashing and grabbing the European market solely for itself and away from Russia and China, as it struggles to compete with China during a time of its own industrial incapacity. For the jealous US hegemon, Europe could not to be shared with Russia, or China for that matter. And that meant destroying European-Russian relations for at least a generation, destroying all energy pipelines and trade links between Europe and Russia and creating a failed state between China’s BRI route to Europe. Ukraine in 2022 was the focal point of Great Power struggle, the forces of two vastly different futures pulling in opposite directions: the legacy American-led unipolar system attempting to maintain its former monopoly over the globe and a Eurasian-led BRICS+ project attempting to walk the globe off the colonial plantation. The war was an ugly, sadistic and malign sacrifice of an entire nation and a people, in front of the entire world, while gaslighting the Global South about its purpose. Wicked empires rarely go quietly into the night without a fight, poisoning the well for everybody else on their way down. The Global South resisted the West’s childish narratives and refused to sanction Russia. The West had actually sanctioned and isolated itself from the global majority. Russia found itself in the unenviable position of fighting against a 34 nation NATO alliance and its long tail of global vassals, the colonial machinery of the West: Russia was fighting for the free world. She was supported by huge cashflows from its BRICS+ partners in defiance of Western sanctions. Over time, industrial capacity ramped up, overtaking NATO. Russian military innovation caught up quickly after a series of reforms, untying its hands, cutting through red tape and cracking down on military brass corruption.
In terms of the war spurring on drone evolution, this was by far the most dramatic innovation and the numbers speak for themselves: in 2022, Russia fielded on average no more than 40 drones per day. In 2023, it rose to 150. By 2024, that figure hit 300. 2025 saw it rise to 500. By 2026, there were over 600 with a maximum peak of over 1000 reached during a 24 hour window – a world first in any war. There was a 2400% increase in daily drone attacks within 5 years. Russia entered the war being a drone laggard, to being a world leading drone specialist. Ukraine with NATO backing and its curated image of being the “underdog”, first adopted widespread use of cheap commercial Chinese (DJI) drones as useful weapons against a superior enemy. What initially began as pinpoint attacks against Russian logistics nodes morphed into deadly swarms and effective anti-armor and anti-personnel weapons from the sky. Pre-2022, Russia had only two major operational drones: the Orlan-10, an ISR reconnaissance drone and the Orion, a strike drone. Both were fielded in the Syrian theater and refined from various battlefield lessons. Ukraine was initially armed with two major types of NATO drones: heavy Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones and small loitering American Switchblade kamikaze drones. The Bayraktar TB2 heavy strike UAVs were able to launch missiles, like the Orion. The Switchblade loitering drones were tube launched and GPS guided by operators for dynamic targeting using real time video feeds. Russia did not have an adequate counter-response in early 2022, especially against Switchblade drones. By mid-2022, it was neutralizing most Bayraktars with the evolution of its world leading EW jamming and anti air defenses. However, the smaller Swicthblade drones were still getting through and this was a persistent problem, meaning warfare was changing. By the end of 2022, drone warfare became ubiquitous as both NATO and Russia saturated the battlespace with cost effective “first person view” (FPV) drones: cheap, small Chinese hobby drones became weaponized and customized to fit military requirements of harassing infantry and armored advances on both sides. As a result, infantry and armor losses mounted, slowing down their advances as military technicians and engineers scrambled to protect against these novel, emerging threats. FPV drones could be equipped with very rudimentary makeshift configurations at scale, such as attaching mortar and artillery rounds on them, turning them into formidable kamikaze weapons. Innovation was running hot to counter new threats with new counter-measures: tanks were outfitted with cages and additional armor, roads were covered with anti-drone nets, new anti-drone interceptor drones were developed, anti-drone EW barriers and jammers were embedded with tanks and infantry crews and hand-held anti-drone guns and missiles were invented. Completely new fiber-optic drones debuted in the war, making them unjammable. As the West tightened the sanctions screws, the Russian political establishment reacted by giving the Russian military establishment greater autonomy with decision-making in Ukraine. It allowed the military to thrive like never before, cutting bureaucratic red-tape, clamping down on corruption, boosting industrial capacity into overdrive and accelerating import substitution components from the Global South. The results were dramatic: by late 2023 Russia was catching up and matching NATO drone capabilities. By 2026, Russia was dominating drone warfare. Drones by this time had matured into a few broad categories:
FPV Loitering Drones: Rotary winged, lithium battery powered visual-range (short range), first person controlled and dynamically guided on the fly by operators using real-time feeds. Vertical take off or hand launched in most instances. The bulk of FPV drones are of the quadcopter variety. FPV drones began as cheap Chinese civilian DJI imports and later morphed into lethal custom-built flying missiles. Munitions in early designs were strapped on the underside of the drone by makeshift means: mortar rounds, artillery shells or grenades. Thus the drones became both the delivery platform and the warhead. Later designs would separate the warhead from the delivery platform by allowing the munitions to detach from the frame and be dropped and guided to their target via GPS. Ukraine initially held the upper hand in FPV drone efficacy, given NATO backing and ISR at a time when Russia was not producing any. Eventually Russia gained the upper hand by out-producing Ukraine in FPV drones and applying an efficient and adaptable domestic military innovation chain. FPV drones permanently changed warfare on both sides by rendering large dense clusters of infantrymen obsolete. Drone ubiquity led to the rise of small, sparsely clustered groups of 2 or 3 infantrymen and the use of fast motor bikes, as ways to dodge drones. Moving along tree lines across the vast Ukrainian steppe provided better protection from the drone threat than moving across open fields which prior to 2022 was standard procedure.
Fire & Forget Drones: Turboprop or turbojet driven Iranian Shahed drones built under license by Russia known as ‘Geran’ with adjusted specifications to meet Russian military needs. First generation Geran-1 (Shahed-131) and second generation Geran-2 (Shahed-136) debuted in the Russian armed forces from September 2022 as imported Shahed drone assembly kits from Iran, during a time when Russia lacked its own domestic production facilities. Geran-1 had a 15kg warhead, 900km range, 200km/h speed and turboprop engine. Geran-2 had a variable warhead configuration up to 100kg, variable range up to 2.5x the Geran-1, about the same speed and a turboprop engine. The Geran-3 (Shahed-238) traded range for speed, keeping range at 600km for a speed of 500km/h helping to evade AA missiles. The Geran-4 and Geran-5 were Russian-only variants with no Iranian couneter-parts, indicating the depth to which Russia was innovating drones. They both debuted in 2026 with the Geran-5 being the first air-launched drone in the Geran family to avoid ground fire and drone interceptors entirely, bolstered with a 90kg warhead, high speed of 600km/h and respectable range of 1000km, it was a variant which found a sweet compromise on all key specs. The Geran-3 had a limited production life, rolling out in 2025 but due to higher costs it was reserved for high value targets. All Shahed/Geran drones were rack/rail launched, providing mobility. By 2023, Russia had finished a mass production facility in Alabuga, Tatarstan and the Shahed-136/Geran-2 was its most mass produced drone within 2 years. This was at a time when the drone battle over Ukraine began to shift towards Russia’s favor away from NATO in terms of saturation attacks where the relatively cheaper Geran-2 shined. The Shahed-136/Geran-2 was by far the most mass produced variant of the family, even by 2026 with the fifth generation variant in production. It was very cost effective and had flexible configurations on offer, making it a favorite for the Russian armed forces. Russia’s surplus production at Alabuga began at a few dozen per day in 2023, ramping up to over 400 a day by 2026. Surplus production meant exports of Geran-2 could be made back to Iran, as part of a bilateral strategic defense agreement. This is seen in charts with steady supply figures: supply meets contractual obligations.
Fiber Optic Drones: A new innovation that bypasses EW heavy environments through the repudiation of any GLONASS or GPS guidance, relying solely on a razor thin fiber optic cable connecting the operator to the (mostly) FPV drones for control and visual feeds. Russia released fiber optic drones as a way to skirt around jamming in 2024 with impressive long operating ranges of over 50km in some cases. Fiber optic drones are unjammable, raising their lethality against the adversary.
TPV Loitering Drones: Tube, hand or rail launched for the most part. Beyond visual-range (medium range), third person screen controls and dynamically guided on the fly by operators using real-time feeds: larger than FPV drones. Some of these drones could be quietly landed in a field, waiting for targets to approach, rather than constantly loitering in the air. The Russian Lancet family of drones fall under this category, fixed wing loitering drones with UAV and strike capability, using AI for autonomous target identification in GLONASS-poor environments. Some variants use AI for target identification but still rely on human operators for optical guidance. The American Switchblade drone falls under this category.
MALE Drones: Fixed wing, medium altitude long endurance ISR or strike drones, used for reconnaissance or strike capability. Large variants use runways to launch, smaller variants are hand or catapult launched. Before the war, Russia’s two main drones were in this category: the Orion and Orlan. The Orlan was a family of reconnaissance drones used for artillery spotting, relay communications and EW jamming. The Orlan-10 had a 16 hour endurance and 5000m ceiling, but vulnerable to SAMs. The Orlan-30 was a heavier variant. The Orion family of drones had a strike capability, 24 hour endurance, 8000m ceiling and less vulnerable to some SAMs. As the war progressed, the Orion was armed with newly developed weapons such as the KH-BPLA laser guided missile, guided by ground forces with lasers to their targets from afar. The missile allows the drones to no longer fly overhead their targets, able to approach from afar and launch stand-off missiles, reducing exposure to AA defenses. Production of the Orlan and Orion drones surged as the war progressed, demonstrating the speed at which Russian industrial capacity had ramped up to levels outpacing collective NATO throughput, one of the many unintended consequences of the war for Western interests.
When major wars break out and advances are made, many militaries around the world are paying very close attention particularly those engaged in wars or potential wars with their adversaries. These are war’s professional spectators and students. Those which fail to learn and apply lessons from advances made run the risk of their adversaries gaining that advantage before them. With AI, Russia entered the war with virtually no viable product. After a few years it was leading in fully autonomous AI powered loitering drones, – Lancets. In terms of ISR, NATO had the overwhelming ISR advantage. Starlink was the world’s first LEO privately run staellite communication system able to deliver Internet connection from space in any nation state hosting terminals, bypassing state controls – a violation of sovereignty. It was an ambitious and successful project. When Ukrainian forces obtained Starlink terminals, the higher bandwidth provided upgraded data link layers for transmitting video feeds and control signals to drone operators, helping to ease drone operations in a very noisy environment. The US currently leads in ISR infrastructure, while Russia is playing catch up in space-based LEO satellite communications, with no Starlink analogue of its own – that is, until 2026. It took until March 2026 for Russia to finally launch its first batch of satellites (16) under the Rassvet constellation into space, aiming for a constellation of 300+ within a few years, with an eye for hundreds of thousands over the longer term. While not on the scale of Starlink, nor on China’s Guowang and Qianfan constellations, it is nevertheless a step in the right direction for lessening dependence on Starlink and utilizing the advantages that come with independent GLONASS-assisted space-based satellite communications. The Russians found ways to work around the problem. First, there was the fallback option of traditional communication relays: towers and radio. More novel solutions innovated the use of fiber-optic drones – unjammable drones using thin fiber optic cable stretching over 50km in some cases, away from the operator. There was the innovation of drone swarms acting as relay nodes. Finally, the comical solution: Russian troops physically seizing Starlink terminals from Ukrainians and piggybacking off American satellites to attack Ukrainian positions. This worked until Starlink’s CEO Elon Musk shut down Starlink terminals in late 2025. NATO war planners are using the war laboratory in Ukraine to prepare for a future of unmanned warfare, as are Russia and China. Unmanned aerial and naval drones, humanoid robots, unmanned tanks, unmanned bombers, unmanned submersibles and ships manned by unmanned humanoids are all coming to the future, with unmanned drone-centric warfare here to stay for the foreseeable future thanks in part to the war laboratory in Ukraine.
Iran’s world famous Shahed-136 drone has revolutionized drone warfare, copied under license by Russia as the Geran drone and copied by the US as the Lucas drone
The Geopolitical Dimension
A strategist may tell you war is the failure of diplomacy or the continuation of politics by other means, and he will stand to be correct. But that is not the full picture. Intuitively, a psychonomic historian will understand the cyclical nature of history: time ebbs and flows between periods of war and peace.
Throw in historical and cultural burdens spanning ancient collective national psyches and all scars and pains that come saddled with it, combine with combustible religious beliefs prone to inflaming past wounds and the outlook for permanence of peace becomes very brittle. When empires show up, drunk off the hubris of their political machinery, incentives tend to skew towards rewarding militarism. “Use it or lose it” becomes self-fulfilling prophecy – a nation building up a gargatuan military is ultimately forced to use it. Settler, colonial cultures are prone to “defending themselves” in other people’s lands all too often, militaries are spread thin and the legions are always away from home. The chickens eventually come home to roost, and that is when the trouble begins. Sunk cost fallacies preserve an image of strength, brute force is lashed around to make an example out of victims in order to cower the crowd into submission. Things veer away from peace-seeking behavior once that very behavior becomes normalized. All empires contain the seeds to their own destruction, like ticking timebombs. Wars present opportunities for Great Powers to “flip” countries out of the orbit of their adversaries into their own orbital pull, in the absence of any such successes during peacetime.
Since empires go to war more often than regular non-imperial countries, let us take the US as an example. Various power factions within the imperium will have their own strategists and objectives for what war can do for their factional interests. “Caeserism” is common in late stage imperialism, where very little is seen for the greater good, instead personal enrichment is rampant. Empire is their vehicle for imposing war onto the world, given the vast self sustaining resourcing of imperial machinery, able to borrow debt from the world in order to war against it. These factions wait for the “right” candidate to show up and be bought off to do their bidding. It is said that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyau waited over 40 years for the right fool to show up. It must be remembered that not every selected presidential candidate is able to be “rented” by power factions interested in war. Much depends on their strength of character and political acumen. The 47th president of the United States was reckless enough to go to war with Iran after 47 years, an ongoing, long running project by a certain Zionist-imperialist faction with strong influence within Israel and the US. President Trump was the “right” tool for this faction. He refused to go to war with Russia unlike the 46th president, who was the “right” tool for starting a war with Russia for the more Russophobic power faction within the imperium. In the future, there will be a candidate that shows up, just the “right” tool for exacting a war with China and be willing to fall into the Thucydides trap for the anti-China wing in the imperium.
At this point it is worth asking – how many years since the US was founded has it not gone to war? If the answer to that question is closer to 10% rather than 90%, Americans may well be living in a failed society. If the reverse were true, they may be living in a normal country. The US been at war closer to 90% of its lifetime. War is a feature, not a bug, in American life. When Great Powers go to war with each other, wars tend to be very deadly, due to the self-sustaining nature of their powerful industrial capacities. War tends to boost economic output, rallies society and spurs on military innovation. War is the ultimate catalyst for military innovation. War can be a catalyst for breaking Great Powers too. Sometimes, a Great Power is able to break another Great Power using war as the lever, in a way that it is able to recover from a far better position. Take the Brzezinksi-inspired Republican wing of the US empire goading the Soviet empire into a bear trap in Afghanistan. That war broke the Soviet Union. Some are hoping the war in Ukraine does the same thing to Russia.
If the people who died during WWII fighting Fascism were alive today in Israel, the EU, Britain or America, would they still believe dying was worth the cause? What happens when the collective conscious has been wiped and the last living survivors of the previous world war are no longer living? Elites in the current Western system were raised on a diet of spoon-fed industrial scale American-Jewish propaganda, they did not experience any horrors of wars directly. We must remember the West is privileged enough not to experience a direct threat to its homeland, not since WWII. Instead, it has been waging wars relentlessly upon other’s homelands. Many in the West have no idea how to sympathize with the suffering of the oppressed. Sadly those who successfully hijack the narratives are the ones with the loudest megaphones and sociopathy. The American-Jewish system mass produces these monsters on an assembly line. The American Goyim have been bombarded with non-stop pro-Jewish Holocaust era guilt trips since 1945. By the 2020s, many people are waking up and beginning to question the narrative of the automatic assumption of forever victim by a certain tribe. Germany considered the Jews as problematic, the considerations were not trivial matters. There were valid reasons for the suspicion, but living in a bubble non-reality ultimately killed the Third Reich. Today, the Fourth Reich lives in Israel, Britain, EU and America. Suddenly, it became fashionable for the Soviets to be considered worse than Nazis in Europe. Soviet achievements are suddenly forgotten and ignored. Historical revisionism is a recipe for marching towards war. Another sign is the deliberate manufacturing of hatred and dehumanization. This is brewed and simmered by belligerent machinery for many years prior a major war. The populace must be softened up with ample fear mongering, pandering not to rational minds, but to mammalian and reptilian impulses. This is systematic and cynical, but a necessary pre-requisite for public “buy in” prior to war.
As the last Western empire in history goes down in ignominy, Western elites can play a very cynical move to consolidate their power further over their own subjects in the imperial core and any peripheral remnants loyal to the Anglo-American core (think: Japan, Australia, Britain etc). The idea is as follows: under the cover of successive crises of (crony) capitalism and democracy, it is no longer feasible to attempt to fix the outgoing post-Cold war “liberal democratic” order, the system itself is fundamentally broken but not in the way that most people anticipate. The system of Globalized trade between 2001-2016 worked quite well for the most part, and I do believe some reversion back to this system’s framework, albeit with a multipolar flavor, is inevitable after the honeymoon phase with various Western conservative populist movements wears out. Movements such as “MAGA” will be exposed as shams, hijacked by self-serving Trumpian oligarchs, their fates fizzling out into the night in terms of grassroots support once the burden of blowback taints every aspect of modern society. Only then, will it present itself as the opportune time for the West to roll out a proxy of China’s superior system, but with Fascist and Colonial characteristics. Recall that in the eyes of Western elites, the only way for the West to be able to compete with China is to become more like China. But first, life must be made miserable, unbearable and unaffordable for most plebians in the empire and its periphery. The time then will be ripe enough to roll out the next iteration of modern feudal enslavement under the colonial system. When disorder becomes the norm, people will be clamoring for order again. Amidst the chaos, new institutions will emerge from the shadows “just in time” and offer people some “hope” again. The classic hoodwinking will involve economic carrots possibly UBI or income protection from the new architecture, cushioning small businesses and unemployment. In return, the system will demand obedience and compliance, that certain injustices be tolerated for the “greater good”. That is how crises are exploited for great resets between eras.
There is another peculiar case of war vis-a-vis geopolitics which warrants discussion: the Israeli approaches to war, which stand alone with no counter-parts anywhere in the world, defying both Western and Eurasian military approaches to war. Two relevant Tzahal (IDF) policies are “Dahiya Doctrine” and “Mowing the Grass”, each applied not only to within Israel proper itself including Palestinian occupied territories, but so too on the regional scale. The calculus of the Israeli “Mowing the Grass” doctrine fatalistically accepts intractable war as permanent and as fait accompli, with no bearing given to solving the fundamental root causes of conflicts the settler state is mired in. There are many reasons as to why the Zionist settler colony is unable or unwilling to solve root causes to the conflicts plaguing it, instead gearing military thought towards regular and periodic “defensive” offensives, attacking the symptoms of conflicts, not root causes. “Mowing the Grass” accepts Israel’s lack of diplomacy and soft power i.e. tacitly admitting its wanton barbarism breeds resistance groups against its Apartheid Fascism machinery. As such, resistance groups in the face of oppression become persistent threats: Palestinian Jihad, Hamas, Hizb’allah and many regional non-state actors. Therefore, the logic of waging regular and period pre-emptive “defensive” offensives and strikes against hostile groups is aimed at buying intermittent periods of illusory peace by mowing down logistics, supplies and fighters of said groups. Somewhat akin to controlled “back burning” fires park staff conduct to keep future wildfires more controllable, except in Israel’s case the fires become uncontrollable. Israel’s targeted assassinations program feeds directly into its “Mowing the Grass” doctrine, by focusing on eliminating key human assets. Again, this sets Israel apart as a pariah, from every respectable military in the world. Similarly, “Dahiya Doctrine” mandates civilian collateral damage as official retribution policy, originating with the bombing of the Hizb’allah stronghold of Dahiya, a suburb in Beirut. One can find Judaic justification for collateral damage in the Torah (Deuteronomy) and Talmud (Sanhedrin 57a). The Zionist settler state is clearly unconcerned with blowback, since both doctrines do little in terms of quelling anti-Zionist sentiment nor establishing effective deterrence in the long run. By killing and punishing innocents, collateral damage serves as an effective recruitment tool for resistance fighters and mobilizes global outrage against Israel, de-legitimizing it as a state. Pre-emptive strikes and assassinations undermine regional stability, trust, violate international law and foster a lawless environment. Tzahal strategists remain unbothered by such matters, demonstrating a parochialism in their planning. Since 2023, Israel has been a world-leading killer in journalists, doctors and humanitarian personnel. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Israel in 2024 and 2025 was responsible for 66% of all global journalist deaths. According to the UN and the Euro‑Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, between 1000-2000 medical and humanitarian personnel have been killed by Israel since 2023, mostly in Palestine and Lebanon. There is something very spiritually, morally and intellectually wrong with this approach.
One must remember that Israel is not a normal country: it is a settler colony. A colony of settlers modelled on a toxic blend of Talmudic and European notions of supremacism. Settler states commonly opt for genocide of the indigenous population, segregation of indigenous remnants (Apartheid) and second-class treatment. Settlers do not behave like they belong to the region. They behave like hostile organisms moving into a foreign environment. The difference between settler states varies. Australia was founded by racist European settlers who attempted to genocide the indigenous population, but eventually failed. As the country modernized, it eventually granted rights and recognition to its indigenous population. Contrast that to Israel, still stuck attempting to genocide its indigenous population, unable to even move towards granting them basic rights. Israel bears all the hallmarks of the very worst of Western colonial behavior but with added Talmudic vengeance and remorselessness. Which leads to one to inevitably conclude that Israeli society is very sick and institutionalized sadism by the Zionist settler colony is actually deliberate. Such policies would serve eschatological Religious Zionism by fostering hatred and injustice, in order to justify the methods and existence of a Fascist-Theocratic state apparatus and a revanchist, “Eretz Yisrael” Lebenstraum project. As of 2026, the outbreak of the reckless Zionist war of aggression against Iran has proved “Mowing the Grass” has now become its regional policy and Iran has delineated clear limits to such folly. The folly in the approach was summed up by a University of Bar-Ilan study, which concluded: ” ‘Mowing the Grass’ is a realistic strategy that could serve a model for other armies. Yet, if the non-state actors are to acquire statist characteristics and/or more powerful capabilities, ‘Mowing the Grass’ might become an outdated military strategy”. “Mowing the Grass” is not a strategy, it is a sign of a sick society failing to integrate with its surroundings. The example of Israel in terms of war-fighting challenges existing norms: the world now has an existential problem on its hands, requiring global solutions. There have been very good reasons why Jewish power has been banished from hundreds of polities over thousands of years. America continues to refuse to learn that lesson. Solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a global problem that requires global solutions.
The Socio-Economic & Financial Dimension
Wars are known to chew up the brave and the reckless, among collateral damage against the innocent. Let us begin with the premise of the “fish rots from the head”. According to this premise, when ruling classes break down, go rogue or start warring, the plebians underneath look above and instead of law and order, they witness chaos, depravity and destruction. The galvanizing effect this has on society cannot be overstated. On some levels, crime rates shoot up and vigilantism grows. Black and grey market activity explodes. The thinking becomes “If our rulers do not follow any of their own rules, why should we?”. Take the US and Israel for example. When international laws are flagrantly disregarded and openly mocked, when systematic de-humanization of Palestinians, Muslims and Russians is all but a policy decision, masses of minds are softened up, broken and primed for conflict. The intent is to grow social momentum to support the war effort of its architects. War planners do not succeed when nobody shows up to fight for them. One way they can rally fodder and negative energy is to make life unbearable, miserable and destitute enough for them, such that a reservoir of negative social energy can be tapped on demand. It is no coincidence why European living standards have deliberately been dismantled by Atlanticist elites. This goes beyond sheer incompetence: it is deliberate. New social architectures of control can only be rolled out and justified during national emergencies.
Wars boost economic output as industrial capacity cranks up. If the economy goes into total war mode as it did for many European nations during WWII for example, inflation runs red hot, unemployment falls and growth expands. But shortages and rationing are common, to manage resources for the war effort at the expense of the civilian economy. On the other hand, instead of total war mode, a state can mobilize the economy into dual mode, where productive capacity has dual-use for both war and civilian purposes, to cushion reliance only on war production by using higher production capacity for the civilian economy, exporting any surpluses abroad or stockpiling reserves. This was the case for Russia in its response to the NATO imposed war of 2022. Qualitative economic effects are very similar to total war mode, but quantitative effects are less severe. When a state produces too much surplus goods, especially armaments during a major war, like NATO unwittingly nudged Russia into doing post-2022, Russia could in turn use those excess armaments as leverage against NATO in arming its allies and various anti-NATO proxies around the world. The potential for increasing the temperature of war escalation and global conflicts rises, triggering a positive feedback loop. War can act as a catalyst for further war, just as diplomacy can act as a catalyst for further diplomacy. When economic models break, powerful elites are threatened with existential scandals. National accounts no longer balance sustainably and government promises to present and future populations are perceived as unattainable, war is often the mother of all solutions. When elites run out of building roads, they begin to destroy the ground. It is no coincidence why deities are often simultaneously paired with creative and destructive powers, take Lord Shiva from Hinduism for instance. War is ultimately a form of creative destruction, unless we are referring to a world-destroying thermo-nuclear war among the Great Powers. Ground-burst nuclear attacks would be far worse than air-burst nuclear attacks, but such details become trivial when the rubicon is crossed. Global nuclear war would be the boundary where humanity fundamentally miscalculates and fails itself. Let us focus instead on all other wars other than this edge case, for the time being.
When financial systems collapse, unemployment soars. Mass unemployment threatens the social fabric of a society, including the elites’ power structures and security mechanisms. Revolutions are sparked from disaffected youths. War is often a great mobilizer of social energy that recruits from and chews up, young disenfranchised and angry men. Elites can divert behavioral sinks towards creative destruction, attriting the unemployed (read: threats) to their power. As cynical and Malthusian as it may be, sadly most elites prefer to destroy than rehabilitate if the numbers are significant enough. Sometimes certain regions in the world have had the unfortunate (or deliberate) moral failures whereby hordes of fanatical young men have built up over time, waiting to explode like ticking timebombs: men far too brainwashed to be rehabilitated back into normal society. As such, their own “use” is found only in war. In such cases, we can view wars through the Social Darwinian prism. Ideological complexes turn minds into pulp by exploiting desperation, unemployment and social grievances. Saudi funded Wahhabi madrassas are a prime example, as are Banderite school curricula in Ukraine. These institutions manufacture disaffected youth into human weapons. Various nations threatened by that very pool of fanatical young men within their borders conspire to create wars as a means of extinguishing them, pitting them against each other until the collective threat pool is cut down to size. On the flipside, the bravest men in society who die to defend their children, wives, dignity and land are also eaten up during war, leaving behind a weaker society prone to creating the same conditions that lead to war all over again at some point into the future.
Russia as of 2026 is still going through the unenviable process of chewing up a surplus of Ukrainian Nazis and NATO Fascist mercenaries on its borders, produced after decades of mind-numbing Russophobic propaganda. During the decade long 1980s Iran-Iraq war, over a million men died. The 1979 Iranian revolutionary government, including many top Sepah brass (IRGC) and clerics were roughed up and sharpened during this war. With Iran on the defensive, the concept of sacred martyrdom in Twelver Shi’ism saw many families willingly sacrificing a son or two for the war effort. Such sacrifices could only be made possible by galvanizing the ancient spirit of defiance against Yazid of the Umayyads at Kerbala, to that of Saddam’s Western-backed secular Iraq. Iran suffered devastating casualties, but martyrdom was not an offensive posture. Thus high surplus stocks of young men willing to die to defend the motherland could be used to extinguish the enemy and with opposite effect: martyrdom in defense serves to motivate future warriors, building up a formidable surplus of human weapons. Twelver Shi’ism is unique in this case where unlike dispensable Takfiri Salafist martyrs operating on worldly Mossad and CIA paychecks, martyrdom for Iranians emboldens the spirit and does not seek worldly pleasures. Men who value worldly pleasures may not fear death but their allegiance can sway like the wind: men who do not value worldly pleasures do not fear death and their allegiance does not sway with the wind. The Iran-Iraq war was plagued by stalemate for the most part but Iranian spiritual sacrifice eventually exhausted the material sacrifices of the West and the Islamic Republic pushed Saddam Hussein out of Iran. Just over 20 years later, the very same Saddam Hussein used by the US was ditched by the US, only to be hung by Iraqi Shia Muslims sympathetic to Iran, in a grand irony. Such can be the absurdities of war.
While chewing up men who threaten the social fabric of nations is never the public broadcast for wars, we cannot discount the possibility that more often than not, it may get higher weighting within the broad calculus of strategists with pay grades above the actual war planners themselves. Wars in Ukraine, Libya, Sudan and Syria are recent examples of wars chewing up an abundance of Nazi and Salafist surplus stocks. Many suicidal and psychologically broken men, in many instances soldiers of fortune, are able to leave their host nations into the war honey trap. Most are subsequently removed from society, and never return. There are unspoken benefits from the culling. Thus, wars can be viewed through the prism of mowing the social lawn, ridding societies of their most violent, weakest and brainwashed men, instead of having those men loiter around their home countries and prison systems. In Ukraine, the West encouraged its most brainwashed mercenaries to die while Russia freed up some of its prisons. The ones who went on their one way journeys to Ukraine and Syria became fertilizers on the steppes of Ukraine and deserts of Syria. It was the veterans who came home with PTSD that led to the home wrecking.
More importantly however, is what comes after war: the constructive part of creative destruction. This can be regarded as one of the world’s most persistently successful scams since usury and monotheism. The racket of war involves destroying an economy’s capital and labor stock, only to have it rebuilt again by certain power brokers. “Destroy-rebuild” is a timeless racket. One expends less money in destroying, hoping to win the war so that it recoups more money from the rebuilding. Rolling out new economic architectures and locking in post-war realities into friendly economic zones and compliant investment clearinghouses is a long term play for the winners of war. Think of the Soviet Comecon system, the British Commonwealth system, the American Bretton-Woods system, the Ottoman Vilayat system or the Mongolian Ulus system. From this perspective, war is just another way to raise taxes, tap resources and fill the ranks. For empires, war is just another investment. A very perverse form of investment, but an investment nonetheless. Big, bloated empires engage in these investments all the time. But as history shows, all empires die by currency debasement and over-extension, when internal contradictions unravel after empires break their swords into mountains of external losses. The Spanish Conquistadors robbed the Americas of gold. The Romans robbed Iberia of silver. An abundance of gold and silver broke the Spanish and Roman empires with hyperinflation. More recently, the American-Jewish empire is showing signs of immense strain, forcing its weakest vassals to bear the burdens of imperial costs, outsourcing dirty work to most gullible and belligerent surrogates and lashing out without restraint against rebellions. These are clear signs of an empire which has lost control and has turned to war as its final saving grace, hoping to impose a reality onto the globe it monopolizes. But history will not be so kind.
From a purely economic-financial perspective, disregarding the politics of who wins the wars, the creditors and clearinghouses facilitating transactions among the warring parties are always the winners in wars. These nodes tend to be transnational institutions that go beyond the borders of nation-states. In today’s world, digital landscapes and cyber dimensions are equally important spaces to be controlled and influenced, as land and physical commodities are. In today’s world, global clearinghouses that design global policies, facilitate and spread their adoption, enforce agreements and transactions, are arguably more important nodes than most national governments. In any war, one must always ask “Cui Bono?” and look to who imposes the post-war terms, who is claiming collateral, who is enforcing those terms and who is getting wealthy from war. Not all parties who become wealthy from war necessarily had a hand to play in the war, however. There are many savvy and shrewd actors that are able to position themselves effectively without sacrificing a single drop of blood in the process, allowing others to do the heavy lifting. After the US invaded Iraq in 2003, the war immediately stopped Saddam Hussein from trading Iraqi oil in euros under the previous Oil-For-Food program. The very first thing the Bremer transitional occupation government did was mandate oil trade back to US dollars, in revenue accounts based out of New York. Moreover, the US rushed to lock in no-bid contracts to American companies such as Halliburton. Those companies had the good fortune of having close nepotistic ties to Bush regime insiders. Anglo-American companies went on to win the rights to develop various Iraqi oil fields and a permanent US-NATO presence was established in Iraq with the US embassy in Baghdad becoming its most opulent and largest mission in the world. Gold, art and Mesopotamian national treasures were looted out of museums and palaces and shipped to the West in military planes. McDonalds and KFC franchises began to mushroom in Iraq, as did English language schools and American and European interpretations of gender ideology and other forms of cultural imperialism. These were classic textbook shows of imperial banditry, enriching American imperial coffers in the process. Iraq was economic prey devoured by the voracious US economic appetite. However, eventually China and Russia moved in to win contracts to develop Iraqi oil fields, overtaking Anglo-American firms. By 2026, the American-Israeli war against Iran saw the acceleration of the eviction process of all US-NATO personnel out of Iraq. Iraq in 25 years went from being a darling of the West, a subject of the West, to an Iranian ally. Western companies and clearinghouses were the major beneficiaries during those tumultuous 25 years of plunder, by dictating the terms of war and post-war realities. Iran’s ascendancy in the region was a direct consequence of the Zionist war against Iraq. Iran afterall, provides Iraq with a majority of its electricity and gas needs and both countries are culturally Shia brotherly nations with important Iranian pilgrimages and processions taking place in Iraqi Kerbala and Najaf. In Pakistan, there are over 50 million Shia Muslims, many of whom would fight for Iran. The lesson from Iraq is that wars can be imposed from afar but at the end of the day, one cannot escape one’s proximate geography. The very same can be said of Ukraine after being devastated by an imposed war from afar: Ukraine will ultimately be best served by economic, security and cultural relations with Russia – geography mandates it.
There is also the issue of diaspora communities. The diaspora effect becomes significant in cosmopolitan empires. The lure of imperial wealth and comparatively higher living standards attracts many “worker bees” – immigrants seeking better lives, to its core. As such, global empires can be viewed from the prism of brain drain sinks – siphoning brain drain capital away from the world and into its own machinery. Empires benefit disproportionately at the expense of the world in attracting human talent. This leaves the world in an immediately weaker state, but remittances, trade and cross-cultural exchanges work to offset the effect somewhat. Nevertheless, it is not only “worker bees” which are attracted to empires. The lure of wealth attracts hornets as well, people with nefarious agendas and chips on their shoulders against their home countries. Die hard patriots would not be escaping abroad in the first place. People disaffected with their host nations, holding vehemently anti-government and unpatriotic positions can escape to the West, where they work their way into top positions of influence and ultimately use the West as a weapon against their host nations through policy-making and influence lobbying, hoping to change affairs in their homelands while conveniently aligned with Western imperial interests. In many cases, Western governments grant residents of other nations special visas and incentives to immigrate to the West, where they can be recruited by Western intelligence as subject matter specialists or valuable foreign language translators. This is an unspoken reason why the US often pursues foreign policy positions against its national interest. Many instances of policies and lobbying efforts are quietly pushed by vocal and hostile diaspora communities, seeking to alter their home countries using American resources. Albania hosts the largest MeK community outside of Iran, a pro-Socialist anti-government militant group recognized as a terrorist group by Iran. Making a Faustian bargain with the US as its client state, the alliance has earned Albania ire from Iran and exposed it to Iranian cyber attacks, given that MeK uses Albania as a launchpad for cyber and psychological anti-Iran operations including but not limited to the online Pahlavist movement. The US prefers to use expendable states like Albania to bear the brunt of the consequences of hosting hostile groups, in exchange for bribes given to the compromised Albanian government. The toxic effects of the Jewish diaspora in the US are well known. Jews officially comprise 2-3% of the US population yet they are disproportionately represented in culturally depraved institutions. 20% of Hollywood management is Jewish, 25% of mainstream media management is Jewish. Jews often comprise well above 20% of US presidential administrations. This is 10x above their statistical representation in the population, a very problematic issue hardly due to meritocracy, instead to clannish nepotism and insider trading. Informed people understand the American-Jewish stranglehold over US foreign policy with Epstein kompromats, AIPAC and ADL lobbying and wealthy Zionist Jewish money movers like Ellison, Wexner and Adelson. The Jewish diaspora in the US is not monolithic: there are Russophobic factions with close ties to the Democrat party and there are Islamophobic factions with close ties to the Republican party. There are Israel-first factions who are party-agnostic. There is the Iranian diaspora in the US too, centered in California. Many of these people are secular, progressive and loyal to money and materialism which is why they despise the Iranian revolutionary government’s principled anti-imperial position. Many of them were beneficiaries under the Shah Pahlavi regime, dazzled by American bravado and its shallow liberal Jewish culture. The exiled Shah Pahlavi II residing in America finds his most vocal supporters among the American-Iranian diaspora and Zionists, for obvious reasons. If one talked only to the American-Iranian diaspora about Iranian affairs, they may wrongfully conclude that most Iranians are against their government and wish for antiquated monarchical vassalage to return to Iran through American-Israeli methods. The Iranian diaspora in the West does not reflect Iranians in Iran. This is misunderstood by the West, much to its detriment. Foreign diaspora communities embedded within US government positions are used by imperial elites to channel the expertise and hostility of the diaspora towards their home nations, serving the system in promoting its broken image against their compatriots back home whom they despise, resulting in the continuation of delusional policy, fuelling a 47 year desire to reverse a revolution that stood up to Western arrogance: Iran, the last free, sovereign nation in West Asia not under Western control. We must not discount the complexity in effects of powerfully influential, albeit delusional, diaspora communities within host nations’ influence and policy-making institutions in effecting wars.
The chart that scares the US empire – and reason for its attempted Petrodollar Redux
Tether is the largest stablecoin issuer in the world backstopping cryptocurrencies with virtual fiat cash, although not under direct US jurisdiction, the evidence clearly shows a majority of assets being US denominated. The Trump administration is attempting to create artificial demand for US assets in a world that is fast de-dollarizing
In order to breathe life into the American empire and buy more time for American global hegemony amidst an emerging de-dollarizing multipolar world and inevitable USD currency debasement, the US must offset the demand destruction of USD with demand creation. Attempting to seize energy collateral like Venezuelan, Canadian and Iranian oil, along with Greenland’s resource riches is one part of the equation. These acts of collateral piracy are to backstop future oil, gas and commodities sales in USD, – the Petrodollar Redux. The Genius Act layers in extra demand for US debt by mandating all corporations issuing USD stablecoins primarily domiciled in the US (e.g. USDC by Circle) but also foreign issuers serving US markets (e.g. USDT by Tether) to hold a 1:1 reserve requirement such that each virtual dollar in cryptocurrency is backed by $1 in US Treasuries. Coupled with a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve put together by accumulating BTC in the open market and by seizing funds from hacker accounts, the Trumpian imperial government is essentially betting on Bitcoin to alleviate its credit woes. So goes the thinking, as the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies rises, so too will mandated holdings of US Treasuries go up in proportion, and therein lies the extra demand creation. Tether as a corporation alone already holds more US debt than large nation states. I did previously write about cryptocurrency offering a potential way out of the current financial system’s fragility by locking in value within a purely virtual ecosystem thus preventing bank runs by keeping money within the system. The efficacy of blockchain in preventng bank runs rests on its adoption potential but also on controlling exit and entry nodes, which are the cryptocurrency ecosystem’s weakest links i.e. crypto exchanges. It seems that American imperial strategists have also seen the merits of blockchain cryptocurrency in this regard.
It is worth mentioning that the US government prefers decentralized Bitcoin as its primary blockchain asset while BRICS+ is looking to more centralized blockchain solutions based on Project mBridge: CBDCs in essence. The reason for that is the US already has first mover advantage with its incumbent outgoing financial system, being world reserve currency leader, while BRICS+ sees CBDCs as secure and fast ways to de-dollarize and bypass Western sanctions. Finally, in addition to the Petrodollar Redux and Genius Act stablecoin backstops, the US could potentially do a few more things to create demand for US dollars and debt. There is the 4th Industrial Revolution currently underway – AI – and with it the novel possibility of “highly creative” AI-assisted demand for financial instruments. We can leave these schemes to the imaginations of the reader. There is the Sisyphean attempt to rejuvenate American industrial capacity and boost its export capacity. There is a possible revaluation of US gold holdings, officially the highest in the world on paper but not revalued since the 1970s. A revaluation done at historically high gold prices could help boost the US national balance sheet amidst its sinking credit-worthiness. However, gold acts as a hedge against fiat currencies, especially the USD, and the general relationship between gold and USD is inversely proportional. Therefore the potential impact on USD strength remains ambiguous.
The importance of manufactured crises and wars to the US financial position is central very few people understand. The US exports inflation through its reserve currency status, printing dollars to sustain global demand – this is actually the cause for all the multi generational persistence of US deficits since the 1971. As a result, cycles of USD inflation washing in and out of the American financial system are key in understanding its boom-bust cycles. Prior to the 2008 American Financial Crisis, China and many oil exporters recycled huge sums of USD reserves into the US economy. These inflows helped overheat the US economy, spurring inflation, lowering interest rates and encouraging reckless borrowing. The inevitable crash from the reckless borrowing reversed outflows to the point of deflation risks, with non-reserve fiat currencies strengthening to historic levels against the USD by the early 2010s. American industrial capacity further eroded. The Trumpian era from 2016 until the present day can be defined as an attempt to woo back USD inflation back to the American mainland, but it faces serious challenges from a loss of trust and credibility as the world de-dollarizes into multipolarity and loses faith in America and its Israeli surrogate. Strong forces are pulling in opposite directions – money into the empire from its most loyal and blackmailed vassals versus money out of the empire and into sovereign jurisdictions. Wars are known to cause capital flight away from warzones. Wars often serve purposes to wealthy elites. Where capital flees to generally will be the beneficiary centers. One must then ask – who is attempting to recall capital from a war? With energy and supply chain disruptions, dollar shortages in a world with no mature dollar alternatives will hurt poorer, emerging markets the most with thin buffers, collapsing dollar reserves, currency depreciation and shortages. How US empire strategists capitalize on these crises will manifest in due time. Whether it will reverse the trend of USD decline by the return of “King Dollar” in Trumpian imaginations or merely remain the continuation of the dollar’s demise through the acceleration of de-dollarization and BRICS+ multipolarity, remains to be seen. Perhaps even catalyzing the rise of the RMB or an SDR-type reserve asset could very well be possible. In all likelihood, we will find ourselves in a higher entropic world with many reserve currencies, assets and poles of power. There will be more competiton for consumers (depending on national geofencing constraints and free trade) but the world overall will be more messy and less predictable. There will be a return to Globalized free trade again, once the reckless Anglo Zionist factions within the American empire are marginalized so that trust can begin to be repaired with the rest of the globe – an arduous task facing an uphill battle for Western colonialism. Current leadership in the West is simply incapable of leading such a transition without significant regime change at home.