Iran War is just beginning? — Imperial America is in it for the long haul?

© 2026 Peter Free

 

02 April 2026

 

 

Not so fast

 

Analysts who say that the US has already lost the Iran war are probably wrong.

 

Over the long term, it is militarily and economically unlikely that Iran can fend off the still mighty American Empire with only Iranian skin in the battle.

 

Recall that the United States' aim has always been to weaken Russia and China by depriving them of militarily capable allies and, in China's case, fossil fuel energy.

 

Recognize also that the US is uniquely independent of the wellbeing of most of the rest of the world. The American Deep State believes that it can relegate much of planet to destruction, without completely eliminating itself.

 

Ergo, the psychotic American Imperium's current attacks on Iran, Russia and China occur as a means of fending off China's foreseeably soon-to-be unchallengeable superpower status.

 

 

America's conveniently Zionist camouflage

 

Satisfying genocidal Israel's geographically limited Zionist territory-taking has historically been a cover for much larger American ambitions.

 

In that regard, President Donald Trump's rambling Iran War lunacy helps to camouflage the US Deep State's global intentions. People are repeatedly deceived by Trump's Wall Street-manipulating peace babble.

 

While calling for negotiations, the American president always massively escalates every hostile measure that the Empire has taken toward the rest of the world.

 

People who lose sight of these serially pillaging American actions, are unable to grasp the global extent of the United States' exclusively parasitic direction.

 

The current war with Iran, for instance, has arguably been going on since 1948.

 

America tears people down in fits and starts. It is the accumulated damage over time that kills nations.

 

 

Iran War is probably not going to end . . .

 

. . . with a conclusive Iranian triumph. Or with a visible collapse of the US Empire.

 

In reality, there are only two things that will stop the American Imperium. Economic collapse, or nuclear annihilation.

 

If I were Russia and China, I would be planning to initiate both.

 

China has the economic means readily at hand. But Chinese leadership has repeatedly demonstrated itself too shopkeeper-minded to aggressively sell off its store of US Treasury bonds. Or to seriously embargo rare materials — and other limited source items — in strategically decisive ways.

 

Similarly, Russia has missile methods of self-defense. But the Federation has been too noodle-spined to use those in a strategically sensible fashion against its true enemies.

 

 

Placidity's result?

 

When the constantly pillaging American Empire faces these kinds of cowardice, nothing changes. The Empire rolls on.

 

 

The moral? — Assuming that Iran will become . . .

 

. . . the world's lone-acting savior against US aggression is a coward's dream.

 

Such a historically decisive outcome is not going to happen, without other people's skins physically entering the current power struggle.

 

The best way for self-defensively minded adversaries to deal with the United States, is to physically probe America's already too aggressively extended reach.

 

For example — with Iran now occupying the United States' immediate attention — a strategically competent China would be testing and targeting US bases and assets on China's encircled margins.

 

Instead, China sits quasi-placidly by. Gambling on time being on the People's Republic's side.

 

In my view, China's alleged civilizational patience and its supposedly far-sighted planning have become excuses for the kind of strategic passivity that invites last-person-standing self-destruction.

 

With such a catastrophic outcome being entirely possible, China's confident lassitude is (arguably) mistakenly applied in the current global situation.

 

One should never underestimate a psychotic opponent's capacity for initiating appalling levels of destruction. The use of American nukes is entirely possible in current circumstances.

 

Similarly, a less wimpishly cautious Russia should be physically removing NATO from the Ukraine War. For instance, bits of the Baltic nations — which have been assailing the Federation's energy sources with exploding drones — should be disappearing in puffs of smoke.

 

Patsy President Putin impresses no one with his reluctance to act in Russian self-defense.

 

 

Here, I am compelled to point out that Putin's strategic cowardice has unnecessarily sacrificed at least 1.5 million Ukrainian lives. People, whom Putin repeatedly has claimed to be brother and sisters to Mother Russia.

 

Evidently, the Russian president is morally okay with slaughtering Russia's relatives, in so far as that slaughter allows him to continue to delusionally placate the Federation's historically long-standing American enemy.

 

A better example of hypocrisy and moral cowardice in leadership is challenging to find.

 

 

Strategically last, why America's net of intelligence and information-relaying satellites has been left untouched — during both the Ukraine and Iran wars — boggles the strategic mind.

 

It is societally revealing that the only country to significantly stand up to the United States, is Iran. A nation founded upon principles of civilizational pride and religiously based personal sacrifice.

 

Iran and Yemen's Ansar Allah have thus become humanity's beacons.

 

Everyone else is, for the most part, cowardly dross floating in an oil slick.

 

To end America's blood-sucking aggressivity, some major elements among that dross are finally going to have to stand up.

 

Given how unlikely that seems, I fear for courageous Iran's future.

 

The planet's many cowards undermine its sparsely distributed heroes at every turn.

 

Ours is not an admirable societal species.