If you have children in the American armed forces or children considering joining the American armed forces, just know that they are not stepping into harm’s way for America. They are doing so for a foreign flag. 🇮🇱

Today’s U.S.-Israel joint attack on Iran has nothing to do with keeping America safe. Iran poses no credible threat to the United States. They do not have long range missiles that can reach the United States. Their missiles can’t even reach halfway to the United States. And despite the decades of scaremongering from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Iran perpetually being months away from developing a nuclear weapon, Iran has never developed one. Unlike Israel (which to this day denies it has nuclear weapons… despite having roughly 200 of them), Iran is a signee to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. They had opened their nuclear energy program to international weapons inspectors for years... until the joint U.S.-Israel strikes this past summer that is. And if Iran were to try to develop one, both American and European intelligence organizations have estimated that it is at minimum a year away but more likely closer to two after last summer’s U.S.-Israel strike on their nuclear facilities. And that estimate is only IF they went all out to try to develop one.

So, in short, Iran doesn’t have a nuke. They’re not even close to getting a nuke. And even if they were to somehow avoid international scrutiny and make one a year or two down the road, they have no long range missile to send it.

And then even if they were to somehow develop both a nuke and an effective ICBM that could avoid radar and not be shot down, what would be the point of attacking America – so they could hit possibly the closest U.S. state somewhere in Alaska and then be subject to utter annihilation in the inevitable U.S. Counterstrike? Even if you wish to argue that the Iranian regime cares absolutely nothing about their own people, surely they care about themselves.

Speaking of which, the other war propaganda talking point that’s often raised as a backup to the “existential threat” war marketing is that America needs to intervene for humanitarian reasons. And while it’s true that Iran has an oppressive theocratic government under which I would never wish to live, it’s also far from the most violent/oppressive country on Earth. There are many other countries that treat many of their people worse than Iran. North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Laos, China, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Libya and Syria (both made far worse after American and Israel respectively “liberated” them), are just some that come to mind… and that’s to say nothing of the U.S. taxpayer funded horrors that the Israeli government has unleashed upon the Palestinian people they have occupied and ruled for over 60 years. None of this is to minimize the suffering of many Iranians under their own government. It’s just to offer some perspective that if your mission is truly humanitarian, there are many other worse places that deserve our attention first… some of which can be reduced without firing a single shot but instead by cutting off American bombs and American funding of bombs that hurts people in the first place.

And even if the Iranian government were the worst regime on Earth (which again, they’re not), it does not automatically follow that the United States must reflexively act as world policeman. Attempting to “police” the world is how empires die. It never fails. And that’s to say nothing about how the “policing” efforts can often yield far worse results for the people we are supposedly trying to help. Vietnam? Afghanistan? Libya? Iraq? War is a bloody, horrific, unpredictable business… as seen just today by the 50 or so Iranian young girls who perished in an Israeli-U.S. missile strike on their school. I think of my children and I don’t even want to imagine the utter agony their parents are currently experiencing. War should always, always, always be considered an absolute last resort when there is literally no other option to defend oneself. That is clearly not the case here. 

What this all really is about is yet another naked regime change effort on behalf of “our greatest ally” Israel. Iran represents the final major regional regime that supports the Palestinian cause. The other six – Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan – have been toppled either directly or indirectly by the U.S.-Israel alliance and generally discarded as “failed states,” broken up, and now engaged in varying degrees of civil war… exactly how the Israeli government is hoping to leave Iran. 

For those not familiar with a bit of the history, in 1996 a Zionist neocon American political advisor named Richard Pearle lead a study which published a report for then Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu entitled: A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm. The “realm,” of course, was not America’s but rather Israel’s. And the point of the study was to change Israel’s tactics with regard to the Palestinian question (that long-time thorn in the establishment and expansion of a Jewish state over land that was barely 1/3 Jewish at the time of Israel’s creation). Instead of trying to solve the Palestinian question through direct carrot and stick efforts, Israel would instead cut off their outside support… by U.S. taxpayer funded bribes if necessary (as with Egypt and Jordan) or by working to topple the regimes as happened with the aforementioned 6 other countries. Once support for Palestinians is largely eliminated, the Zionists can be free to fully execute the necessary ethnic cleansing in order to officially incorporate the occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank into Israel proper… and then move on from there. The new strategy was so fully incorporated into both Israel and America’s gameplans that American four star General Wesley Clark was shocked to learn shortly after 9/11 of a classified Pentagon memo outlining a plan to overthrow the governments of seven countries within five years.  The sequence was set to be: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan… and [drumroll] Iran. And while the disaster of the Iraq War caused a major slowdown in ultimately fulfilling the entirety of the plan, it never left Netanyahu’s agenda as can clearly be seen from his decades of endless war drum beating. And so, finally, with the help of American politicians (both R and D) always at the mercy of the Zionist lobby (many of whom are probably now also implicated in Epstein blackmail efforts) Netanyahu and his allies will finally get their way.

How much money will be spent in this latest disaster? How much blood spilled and lives lost (American, Iranian, Israel, Palestinian and others)? I don’t know. I guess my only hope at this point is that enough Americans speak out to their representatives (and vote them out if necessary) to try to keep this latest undeclared foreign war as brief as possible. Though the train may have already left that station. And it certainly won’t help to bring back those 50 or so Iranian school girls who were just slaughtered today. 😔