In case you haven't noticed, things are going pretty bad for Donald Trump in the Middle East lately and they just keep getting worse. At the behest of his Zionist masters who have played that child molester like one of his own victims, Imperator Trump has dumped the entire weight of the greatest military industrial killing machine in recorded history into the Persian Gulf over the last six months.
We're talking 50,000 troops, multiple carrier strike groups with dozens of guided missile destroyers and warships, not to mention the iron ring of high-powered air and missile assets already encircling the Mullahs in the region, all firing off in a collective chorus of mass destruction. One great big, colossal, coordinated bombing bonanza that began with the assassination of the Ayatollah and most of his ranking henchmen and has continued right down to civilian overpasses and elementary schools. With all of this mayhem adding up to just over 13,000 targets and over 3,400 dead, nearly half of which appear to be civilians.
And yet it is Donald Trump begging for mercy at the peace table right now while Iran smokes a cigarette and cracks its knuckles. The Donald is desperate to have the world believe anything otherwise but his desperation reeks even louder than his squealing bravado. While his Administration has fallen back on amplifying already existing economic sanctions and declaring this to be unprecedented escalation, there are signs of massive military retreat in the Persian Gulf unlike anything we've ever seen, with many of the colossal American bases in the region already battered to ruble and largely abandoned.
Meanwhile, key stockpiles of the advanced ordinances once used to protect these citadels of American exceptionalism are dwindling, with the Center for Strategic and International Studies reporting that nearly half of the empire's stash of THAAD interceptors are long gone along with 60% of Patriot air defense missiles and nearly all of our ATACMS and precision strike missiles. All used to bomb the shit out of an impoverished enemy that just keeps fucking coming.
In fact, US intelligence assessments indicate that Iran still retains roughly 70% of its pre-war missile stockpiles and mobile launchers, stashed away in crude but impenetrable underground mountain bases that have sustained months of bombardment with little lasting impact. Iran has also regained access to many of its damaged launch sites and appears to be producing new drones at a shocking rate.
Far from being the picture of decimated defeat that Donald Trump keeps painting on Truth Social, if anything, these motherfuckers seem to be just getting started. In fact, if I didn't know better, I could swear that those bloodied Mullahs were toying with the orange bastard, inviting him back to the peace table and then shooting holes in another tanker in the Strait of Hormuz the moment that feckless egomaniac starts taking a victory lap for ending a bloodbath he started.
Stories have even escaped the Situation Room of the soiled, dayglow Ceasar shrieking at his own advisors like a petulant toddler, demanding loyal goons like Pete Hegseth to pull more missiles out of their asses and "sweep the leg" like the cheesy 80s movie bad boys they play on Fox News.
How in Lucifer's black dick can any of this be possible? The Trump junta may be packed with slack-jawed meatball heroes but anybody who has read a lick of vintage Rothbard or pre-Eppstein Chomsky can tell you that the imperial deep state which any given administration represents on TV has been thoroughly idiot-proofed for just such an episode.
Donald Trump has certainly made a huge mess, but he also appears to be receiving plenty of help from the same kind of State Department insiders who effortlessly foiled his novel attempts to build casinos in North Korea during his first term.
No, this is something far more significant than one fools folly. America as a whole has overextended itself in the Middle East on one too many occasions and exposed the fact that their domination in the region is built on little more than a convoluted house of cards. Not that this is anything new.
Any first-year student of Machiavelli can tell you that power itself is largely dependent on mythology and illusion. The only thing Trump did in the Middle Eastern theater was allow his desperate hubris to expose the authoritarian charade that has shackled the Middle East to one western radiator after another for over a century.
Basically, to break it down, under the influence of Jeffrey Epstein's ghost and a borderline hysterical pathological ego, Trump took the empire's long plot to unravel the Islamic Revolution and pushed it too far, too fast, too soon, awarding a very sly enemy the opportunity to expose a hemorrhaging empire's filthy tricks as little more than outdated old wives tales.
Perhaps, the most brazen exposure has been that of the myth that American military might is the best insurance that any iron sheik can buy. This is the lie that has allowed the US and the British before us to maintain an outsized presence in a region that rightfully despises us, rent free, going back to Sykes-Picot. All blown to bits by little more than exploding toy airplanes.
The American military has assets across no fewer than eight countries in the Middle East, and Iran has pelted them all with a steel hailstorm of Shahed drones, not only striking dozens of bases and military installations but refineries, pipelines, luxury hotels, glimmering skyscrapers and other empty western crap promised to the greediest tribes in the desert in exchange for letting us turn the ground Mohamed walked on into a glorified parking lot for Reaper drones and Apache helicopters.
In the process, Iran has successfully displayed the fact that not only is a military based a thousand miles away incapable of defending its proxies from a sustained local assault but that their very presence makes these countries viable targets for any force not dependent on their largesse.
Now those iron sheiks have to explain to their freshly battered subjects why it's in their best interest to continue doing the bidding of a Christian-Zionist behemoth while the skyline burns brightly behind a shattered bazaar.
What's even more damming is that Iran's stand against western imperium actually exposes the myth that an iron sheik is even necessary at all. The traditional Westphalian nation state and the brand of centralized, hyper-territorial despotism that comes with it is largely a European contagion and Donald Trump isn't wrong about his success in eliminating that disease in its Iranian incarnation. Iran lost not only its Supreme Leader during the first 24 hours of the American-Israeli bombardment but it lost the lion share of his regime's infrastructure along with him.
And yet the Iranian people still stand united in a concerted display of resistance, and they do so thanks largely to the "Mosaic" defense doctrine developed by the Islamic Guards that relies heavily on a decentralized fighting force deeply integrated with civilian Basij paramilitary units working in tandem with other militias across the region.
No one seems to want to say it out loud but this model of largely stateless martial governance, practiced by Mohammed himself and centuries of his heirs before western colonization, is the default form of governance in every section of the Islamic world too secluded to be governed centrally.
It's far from utopia but it's a hell of a lot more humane than iron sheiks and ayatollahs, and now it has been proven to be a hell of lot more effective too. This may not be anarchism but coupled with a distinct distaste for any form of colonialism, it could very easily become a gateway drug to something similar enough to empower it.
This highly decentralized method of regional resistance is also shattering the greatest myth the west has ever spun. The myth of globalist liberal universalism. The contrived notion that a highly centralized form of global state capitalism isn't simply superior to a thousand local traditions; it's inevitable, is being battered to shards by a single third world army shutting down a waterway the size of Lake Havasu.
In other words, a raggedy bunch of peasant fighters have taken a globally integrated economy by the hojos and you can too for the low, low price of a small squadron of rusty fishing boats and a few generations of knowledge regarding your local bioregion.
This exposes the oldest myth that every empire traffics in. The delusion that their sheer size alone is a strength rather than a weakness. But if Rome depends on a network of thousands of bridges to function, then burning down just one in just the right spot can bring the whole machine to its knees, especially when every motherfucker with a match in walking distance of another bridge can see you do it live on TikTok.
And so, things are going pretty bad for Donald Trump in the Middle East lately and that bad juju appears to be spreading. The EU has its eye on commandeering NATO as Trump threatens not to fund their favored proxy war in Ukraine if they won't bail him out of Iran while half the former Eastern Bloc has their eye on Euroskeptic neutrality as their economies take the brunt of another war ignited by bankers in Brussels.
Things are actually looking pretty fucking bad for the west in general, and maybe that's not such a bad thing for anyone living in the shadow of an imperial overpass.
Peace, Love & Empathy- Nicky/CH
Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post
* The National Anthem by Radiohead
* The Money Will Roll Right In by Fang
* Fur Elise by Blondshell
* Go with the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age
* I Kill Children by Dead Kennedys
* Bring on the Dancing Horse by Echo & the Bunnymen
* The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave by Butthole Surfers
* Here Comes Success by Iggy Pop
* Actor Out of Work by St. Vincent
* Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads
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