This won’t become an all-Iran-all-the-time blog. In fact, I’m working on a lengthy article about how the Israeli’s are listening to you in your smart-car. Hopefully, I’ll have that ready for in the next week or so. But for now, let’s following the sounds of the falling bombs and the imploding Trump administration.

I thought I didn’t have much more to say about Iran. But then I read an article by Morris van de Camp on the ever-interesting Counter Currents website called The Israel Lobby, Paperwork Americans, & the Dark Cloud that is the Iran War, and it touched on a few aspects of the ongoing kerfuffle which I had not thought of. Specifically, the Arab role in all this. I wrote recently about Trump’s predilection for kissing Arab backside, but missed the connection to current events primarily because I don’t care. This is not a war of the United States against Iran. This is Trump’s war for his butt-buddy Netanyahu and his other Israeli led handlers like Lindsey Graham and Jared Kushner. He’s simply using our tax money and our military to do it. So, I haven’t paid much attention. It’s like stepping in a dog turd: once you’ve ascertained it is, in fact, a turd, you don’t need to know much more than that.

But van de Camp raises some interesting points which caught my attention and highlights some of the other agendas and actors at play. He says:

“…the breakout of the Iran War is a frustrating disappointment. It appears the Israelis have gotten us into yet another desert disaster. “Appears” is the key word here, exactly how the path to war played out won’t be fully clear until the mid-grade members on the staff of the Trump administration’s national command authority publish their respective memoirs. The people in such staff billets will have intimate knowledge of the various courses-of-action proposed and what could or could not have been done without needing to personally justify and defend the final decision and its consequences.

Another War for Israel (and the Gulf Arabs)

Israeli influencers are certainly aware of American frustration with the Zionist Entity, as well as [growing] American Isolationist ideas. Caroline Glick, a prominent Israeli journalist and member of Israel’s Netanyahu government, knows about the suspicions that many Americans have of the Israel Lobby, but she rejects the concerns as unfounded. Glick is disinforming. It is both true and broadly known that American foreign policy is heavily influenced by the Israel Lobby.

Full understanding of the Jewish Question includes knowing the limits of Jewish influence. Israel is just one of several groups seeking to involve America in vicious quarrels abroad. The Gulf Arabs are also involved in bringing about the Iran War. There is a fog of clashing rumors regarding how much or how little the political elite of the decadent Petro-Sheikdoms have worked to bring about the conflict, but it is certain that the Saudis and Iranians have been bitter rivals since 1979. Additionally, the Gulf Arabs have very carefully wooed American policy makers to position US troops in their respective nations since the early 1990s. They want the Americans in to keep the Iranians out. The Gulf Arabs have known that war between Iran and the United States was possible long before now and they built the bases anyway. They are not innocent victims caught in the crossfire.

The Danger of Paperwork Americans

Another group pushing for action against Iran in some form is the large Iranian diaspora which left Iran following the Iranian Revolution of 1979. At the head of this group is Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. He and his family have lived in the United States since the Iranian Revolution. Pahlavi is not an American citizen; he’s a king in exile. However, many of his Iranian followers have gained US citizenship. The Iranian diaspora is highly supportive of this war regardless of its enormous risks and costs. They embody the problem of paperwork Americans—those who have US citizenship but no real connection to the heritage Americans whose ancestors founded Jamestown and Plymouth and then expanded westward.

Paperwork Americans use American citizenship to push their own ethnic agendas, and they are often hostile to heritage Americans.”

van de Camp then explores the problematic nature of radical Islamists in our country, and the long history of the on again, off again, luke-warm war with Iran going back to the Islamic Revolution in 1979. But he points out that, however malicious the Iranian regime has been, regime change by bombs—as opposed to containment by honest and open negotiation—at the behest of the Israelis is problematic in a Muslim dominated region and it will likely not be the “one and done” little “excursion” that Trump imagined. As van de Camp says:

“there is a big chance that what will come afterwards will be a disaster. The Israelis have no ability to act justly. That’s one of the reasons why they are such a worthless ally. Consider the ideas of Dan Schueftan, the chairman of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa. His view on Middle East Security matters is, “The only thing you can do is violent maintenance.” There is no attempt to win hearts and minds, clear hold and build, or even a strategy used to great effect in the Philippines by the Americans centered upon “schoolbooks [improvement] and Krags [security].”

Should a new ruler of Iran emerge which is acceptable to the Americans and our burdensome Middle Eastern “allies,” he will have come to power on an armed flying carpet provided by the Israelis and Americans. This will be the new regime’s original sin—its founding one that relied entirely on Jewish and Anglo-Saxon flying robots that cruelly bombed Persians.”

So we have a couple of important points worth remembering:

1) Trump’s attack on Iran largely benefits Israel as they invade Lebanon and now have free reign over their part of the Middle East,

2) The Iranian diaspora is all for using White Americans to put the Shah’s son back in power. It just so happens that Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has very close ties to Israel. In fact, one of his daughters is married to a Jewish Israeli businessman. He himself has traveled to Israel, prayed at the Western Wall, met with Netanyahu, and advocates for expanding the Abraham Accords between Israel and a future Iran, describing the two nations as the “only two countries on this planet that can claim to have a biblical relationship.” Indeed, because of his pro-Israel stance, some of his detractors frame his potential leadership as aligned more with Western and Israeli interests than with those of the Iranian people.

3) The oil-rich Arab states are all for using our troops to fight their enemy. Based on money and founded on inbreeding, they fear a neighbor focused on religion and faith. But they would never go to war with Iran themselves: their Muslim populations would never allow it. Better to have the Americans spill their blood to save their oil.

These deeper reasons for Trump’s attack on Iran furthers the argument that this is not going to end well. This is not going to be a simple matter of arresting a leader and foisting a puppet into the royal mansion. It is becoming increasingly clear every day that Trump and his handlers did not think this through. If the Iranians can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, the consequences are going to be felt broadly and deeply, and soon. Not because of the oil (although the rise on gas prices here will likely slow our economy even more, and some analysts are already talking about a possible recession), but because of the other goods, commodities, and rare minerals that ship through that narrow waterway. A recent paper from the Modern War Institute at West Point put it quite succinctly:

“The cascading effects of disrupted maritime chokepoints are no longer the subject of simulations; they are an active crisis. As the US-Israeli military operation against Iran and Tehran’s regional military response continue, missile attacks, drone swarms, airstrikes, and maritime threats complicate commercial shipping across the region. The ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz affects about 20 percent of global petroleum and 20 percent of liquid natural gas transits. It is also the subject of decades of wargaming for just this occurrence. But a lesser-known chemical also is being halted: 41 percent of global sulfur is exported. While the United States produces significant sulfur domestically, the near-total disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for approximately 50 percent of global seaborne sulfur trade flows, has compounded an already tight market. US sulfur prices have increased 165 percent year-over-year to over $650 per metric ton; and now the price has surged by 25 percent just since the Iran war began. This makes domestic procurement fiercely competitive, while also threatening the import of specific ultra-high-purity grades required for advanced manufacturing. It is squeezing one of the most consequential inputs to modern industrial power.“

Sulfur and sulfuric acid is used in the extraction of phosphate ores for the production of fertilizer, oil refining, wastewater processing, and mineral extraction. In other words, the basics of industrialization. And that is just one example. Another would be helium: Helium is a vital gas for semiconductor manufacturing. It helps cool delicate equipment, powers M.R.I. machines and supports research labs and defense technologies. One third of the world’s helium production takes place in Qatar- and is currently unable to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump is living up to his promise to put America first: We are first to serve Israel, first to do the bidding of the Petro-Arabs and Big Oil, and first to drop bombs when and where we are told and to ask questions later- if at all. This is Trump’s War and legacy. He owns it. Unfortunately, it is looking increasingly likely that we are all going to have to pay for it.

It is one thing to lament the gradual erosion of our culture. It is quite another to watch America decline in real time and see its founding principals disappear in an exploding cloud of Persian dust.

Amerika Erwache!

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