April 10, 2026
The finest military modern thinker, Maj Gen. J.F.C. Fuller, stated that the true object of war is not victory but the peace that follows the conflict. By that standard, the Trump-Netanyahu war against Iran and Lebanon is an embarrassing political failure and an economic disaster.
Trump rushed into the Mideast where wiser angels dared not tread, propelled by the blandishments of his Israeli partner, Netanyahu. Trump claimed a great victory over Iranian-Saracens even modestly allowing his minions to compare him to Jesus.
Meanwhile, Trump and his cabinet still claimed they launched war against Iran to prevent it acquiring nuclear weapons. None have so far been found. This, says the White house on the hill, is because the tricky Iranians have been hiding the weapons. Iran admits to having some mid-range enriched uranium, created for civilian power uses, but denies having any nukes.
Trump claimed to have ‘obliterated’ Iran’s enriched uranium last year using B-2 stealth bombers, yet this year he again claimed to be ‘obliterating’ Iran’s previously blown to smithereens nuclear arsenal.
Amidst all the manufactured hysteria over Iran’s nukes, no mention had been made of the only real nuclear power in the Mideast, Israel – the cobelligerent in this war. Israel’s influence over the US and British media have kept this issue out of the news. Trump might call it `invisibleness.’
Israel has more than 200 nuclear weapons that can be delivered across the Mideast by strike fighters, short and medium-range missiles and a growing number of submarine-launched medium-range missiles, courtesy of guilt-ridden Germany.
We are watching a re-run of the 2003 Gulf War news. That clearly imperialistic war pitted the US and its Arab satraps against Iraq. The conflict was based on US claims that Iraq was producing nuclear weapons aimed for the USA and had to be stopped before using them.
In fact, the G.W. administration was being pushed by the ultimate neocon Dick Cheney and a cabal of pro-Israel supporters into war against Iraq. Iraq had no nukes, it turned out. While covering the war from Baghdad, I discovered that the US was actually supplying Iraq with poison gas and germ weapons to use against Iran.
If Iraq had possessed nuclear targets at that time, the 309,000 US and British troops that were massing to invade Iraq would have made a perfect target for Iraqi nuclear weapons – but Iraq had none. It was all a big lie. Today, US forces massed around Iran offer a fine target for nuclear weapons. Of course, Iran would be struck back with nuclear devices.
Today, the same lie factories are churning a steady stream of falsehoods. Iran may have basic nuclear materials – but only for civilian power use. The late Ayatollah Khomeini issued an edict (Fatwah) against all nuclear weapons. While demanding other nations scrap nuclear weapons, the US has made a significant reduction in its own nuclear weapons arsenal. 30% would be a good number for starters.
Copyright Eric S Margolis 2026
What I’ve never understood is why it’s ok for Israel to have nuclear weapons, but not ok for Iran or any other Middle Eastern country to have them. It’s been well known for many years that Israel has nuclear weapons, but the Us and other western countries have turned a collective blind eye to this fact. Even though Iran has said, repeatedly, that it does not have nuclear weapons and has no intention of making them, the US and Israel are determined not to allow that country to have any enriched uranium at all, even for peaceful purposes. Obama’s agreement with Iran, made in 2015, gave all of the necessary assurances that the country would not have the means to make a nuclear weapon, but Trump abrogated that agreement and, therefore, paved the way for this war against it.
Israel and America have been telling us that Iran was one week from having nuclear weapons since 1980. How anyone STILL believes this baffles me.
George Orwell wrote that the purpose of war isn’t to win the war but keep the war endless for domestic purposes. Endless wars keep the populace scared, obedient, and compliant. They keep the profits of business rolling. they keep the work force as submissive wage slaves. Endless wars are an endless class war of the wealthy and powerful upper classes against the working classes.
In addition its the poor who serve as cannon fodder fighting the war and are most vulnerable to enemy attacks in every war, while the rich and powerful upper and middle classes profit in many ways and gain power in many ways.
It’s no coincidence these last 25 years the gap between the super rich billionaires and wage slaves grows bigger and bigger..
as well, wars produce millions of war refugees. They are an endless source of cheap labour, conflicting with other workers, making health care and housing more difficult to get. xenophobia is also an efficient source of conflict among workers, always losing solidarity. And always losing the class war.
That was the whole point of the US and its wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Interestingly, the PBS series about the Vietnam War chose not to pursue this angle and the real reasons for the US to continue that War, long after then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara knew it was unwinnable for the US.
With the proposed blockade by the Americans; it’s gotten a lot worse. Time to advance the clock of the Atomic Scientists; there are only a few seconds left.
Ellen Brown makes the point in her “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame” article on Sheerpost that wars are now mostly fought with borrowed (printed) money.
To pay for wars, governments can draw from reserves, which few have, raise taxes which few have the backbone to do or print money. In a corrupted system, governments let private banks print the money and pay them for this service.
So, along with asset inflation and foreign exchange transactions, funding wars enables the transfer of massive amounts of wealth from those who produce it to those who acquire it.
Expensive wars with lots of ordinance expended which drag on are a money printer’s bonanza.
The mentality of the Israeli leaders is so vulgar, evil, demonic and vile that it is unmatched in the world. They want to kill the Palestinians, the Iranians, the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Yemenis. And they received billions of American tax dollars and weapons to do the slaughtering. It’s a regime and society filled of hate – with wealthy sponsors in the US, who are equally evil and desperate. And so they want to own as much media to hide the evil the world is witnessing. The international order doesn’t exist anymore. So weaker nations have to arm themselves!
“The mentality of the Israeli leaders is so vulgar, evil, demonic and vile that it is unmatched in the world.”
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The Americans are of the same ilk… The US started with Hiroshima… I think they are worse.
There are a huge number of structural shifts stemming from the Iran war.
– mid-tech can fight high-tech to a standstill.
– missiles are not 100% unstoppable
– is the report true that Iran was able to game the Israeli F35 GPS systems to make their bombing wildly inaccurate?
– are 2 US carriers out of action? – never mind the reasons.
– in Ukraine, 95% of casualties are being caused by drones, not artillery etc.
– how does this affect the defence industries and the ability of the US to deter China?
– the fear of criticizing Israel and its hold on American politicians and media has seemingly evapourated.
– Are we witnessing peak Zionism and will new alliances take hold to bring peace to the Middle East?
– did US military commanders tell the White House that after Trump’s destruction of civilization speech that they would not be party to war crimes and that caused Trump to back off? As one general commented, “that speech would be Exhibit 1 at the Hague.”
These are military issues but the domino impacts of energy and commodity supply interruption could also have a dramatic effect on alliances and who can actually afford to fight a war.