Reviewing my April 18, 2025 essay on why the US government’s “regime change” wars in the Middle East always fail to yield a constructive end for “We the People.”
I am sorry, but I have to keep telling you that you will be proven wrong about this. The opposite will be proven true. President Trump is dismantling the "forever war" regime that has plagued the Middle East and the United States for many generations.
I have friends in America who have escaped Iran years ago. They hope so badly that Trump will not back down from his plan. They speak to their family that stayed back, whenever Iran is not blocking the internet from them. The situation is awful in Iran. My friends would pay $10 a gallon of gas, if that is the price to pay to topple the regime before they share their evilness with the rest of the world.
I don't think you understand the fundamentals - the root cause of each war and deliberate propagation of more conflict in the middle is caused by Israel primarily, and secondly the USA - look at factual history and besides look outcome...who benefits cui bono? - its Israel (greater Israel and funding) and USA (oil and Petrodollar). Using Netanyahu similar words (a Big Lie) by him promoting USA to attack and destroy Iraq "I guarantee you if the World can unit against Israel there will be peace in the Middle East."
You said, “If the world can unite against Israel there will be peace in the Middle East.”
That is certainly not what the Hebrew Bible says.
In fact, the prophets describe almost the exact opposite.
Zechariah 12:9 says that God will seek to destroy the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 14:2–3 describes the nations gathering against Jerusalem, followed by the LORD Himself going out to fight against those nations.
Joel 4 says that when God restores Judah and Jerusalem, He will gather the nations for judgment concerning “My people, My inheritance, Israel,” whom they scattered, and because they divided His land.
And Ezekiel 38 describes a coalition of nations coming against a restored Israel in the latter days. God's response is not that this coalition finally produces peace. His anger is kindled against the nations attacking His people, and He judges them so that the nations will know that He is the LORD.
So from the perspective of the Hebrew Bible, the idea that the nations should unite against Israel in order to bring peace is a very dangerous proposition. The prophetic warning is repeatedly directed toward the nations that gather against Israel and Jerusalem.
That doesn't mean every decision made by every Israeli government is automatically righteous or beyond criticism. Biblical Israel itself was repeatedly judged by God when it sinned. But there is a very large difference between criticizing a government and saying that the nations of the world should unite against Israel. The Hebrew prophets give some remarkably explicit warnings about the latter.
Nah. This has been planned for a long time. Iranian parliament is controlled by freemasons, BUT, they're not part of the world bank so they have to play war. They are blowing up oil in both countries because destrpying energy destroys food. Get rid of foos, get rid of people. Block the hormuz and no fertilizer. Famine 2028. Part 2 of depop.
Trump bills himself as the smartest guy in the room. However, he is proving to be the dumbest.
He bought Netanyahu's sales pitch to invade and kill Iran's leader. Netenyaho is a major Neocon and cares nothing about the world. He only cares about violence. Trump stupidly listened.
Iran knows they can affect both Israeli and American elections this fall. They know that high fuel prices will flip the House to Democrats, who will start impeachment proceedings. Netenyaho also needs a win in Iran to stay in power. He's so crazy that I would not be surprised if he used a tactical nuke.
Mixing an election with war, and you never know what comes out.
I think you are absolutely correct, John; this is Trump Waterloo. And the American people will pay dearly for his stupidity.
No Martin. They are all the same. Neocons controlled Obama and Biden just as they are controlling Trump. Trump stated he would not let that happen; he would stop useless and endless wars. However, that was a lie, as usual. All Iran has to do to win against American power is survive. Even Rome got its ass kicked when invading Persian territory. Trump must insert American troops to control Hormuz, which is political suicide. Iran needs to survive and manipulate oil prices. No president can survive that tactic.
Martin, how is Trump different? Netenyaho got inside the situation room to pitch his insane plan for the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader. No leader of another country has ever been invited into that room. Yet, Netenyaho got his wish. He's using American power to bomb Iran, with little success, just as killing their leader did nothing. So the question to you is: how is Trump different? What has he done that is different from any other president? The fact is, we are at war, and it's a war that we will lose, just as we lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, et al. Neocons have zero history of winning anything.
Something happened to Trump between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0. Perhaps blackmail. Perhaps threats of assassination. All he had to do is follow through on most of his 2024 stump speech promises and he would have been the best Pres in recent memory.
He was installed for this very reason. It was even foretold in a series of childrens books from the 1800's. He'll destoey the dollar and be the last president as the countey collapses. That's why bessent is there, it's what he does.
President Trump is making the same mistake as Bush and for the same reason. He has around him many of the same neo-cons that drug us into the First Israeli War in the early 2000's, so they have now manipulated him into launching the Second Israeli War this past February. Netanyahu was the one who conned both Bush and Trump to eliminate Israel's main enemies, Iraq and Iran, so Netanyahu's Great Israel project could be realized. He did so with lies and prevarications meant appeal to Bush's and Trump's weak points: Bush, stupidity, and Trump, ego.
Trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands or U.S. combat deaths and injuries for..... Netanyahu and his vision of Jews state like the one 2500 years ago.
“I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel. They shall rebuild ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine; they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them upon their soil, nevermore to be uprooted from the soil I have given them—said the LORD your God.”
All these arguments fall apart because of Iran's history, theology, and aims. Under the precepts by which the IRGC rules, even an uneasy 'peace' is merely an opportunity to build more weapons and more plans to destroy the entire West. Iran has a dictator/regime that relies on lying, cheating, draconian rules (condoned by their 'religion') plus a theology that calls for death, destruction, and suffering as a means --righteous, no less-- to institute a global dictatorship/caliphate worse than anything Mao dreamed up. Standard rules of logic and diplomacy merely strengthen the worst behaviors of these fanatics.
Life under the horrific cruelties of Shi'ism is unbearable to contemplate. Equally unbearable -- nuclear bombs on Washington, NY, Paris, and London. Are we foolish enough to think that somehow those who decry Trump will escape Iran's weapons?
FDR, whom I do not admire, made a diplomatic tie with Stalin in order to defeat Hitler. The US should court Putin, who is a more valuable ally, instead of driving him into bed with Iran. And if Trump can slowly strangle the IRGC with his economic siege, we should be grateful instead of criticizing his attempt to solve one of the world's greatest problems -- just because of his irritating flaws. Kicking the can down the road, like avoiding necessary surgery, is no solution.
The cowardly Tory’s from 250 years ago never needed to leave. Why would they with one foot on each side of the rail no matter the outcome. But you are concisely on target. This is not Stalin, or Mao who will starve and kill their own, but Barbarian treachery of intentional terror that salivates at the sight of an infidel neck on a stump and a scimitar in hand. The “religion” of nihilistic domination that gloriously dies for their idol and the hear after of multiple virgins child wives in bondage. Existence so reprehensible the gentleman and ladies of “society” not citizenry rather slander their own defenders or call them victims than really imagining in their hubris that it could happen here in America, but it already had begun during the tumultuous 1960’s academic “cultural revolution”.
Their intellectual, gentlemanly emasculation and the obvious insidiousness promulgation of fragility of their women aside, using opaque virtue signaling from captured academia and MSM they carry water for the enemy to slander the patriots of every sovereign nation with slogans and waxed faux history to hide their cowardice.
Those focused on Trump and perceived failure are overlooking a far more significant historic moment. This misunderstanding stems from three reasons, and you must consider them together to overcome a narrow perspective. First, you won't recognize this historic moment if you treat Islam the same way you would a benevolent religion, merely because it is labelled as a religion. Second, you may fail to grasp the significance of the moment if you do not acknowledge that thought shapes reality. Finally, the most crucial reason you remain unaware of this historic moment is your lack of understanding of Islamic history
Ok, so Israel got the bomb under Angleton during the 1960's, I think maybe earlier under the Rosenbergs - just sayin'. I just listened to some idiot on Tucker Carlson today who said, Persia has not been conquered, historically. Can someone tell him Alexander, the Mongols and the Arab Muslim Conquest, the Seljuk Turks, the 1953 usurp of Mosaddegh, and the 1979 usurp of the Shah disqualifies this statement as anywhere close to accurate. So, Iran is not Afghanistan. Can we please get our Middle Eastern history on the right foot.
I think we better look at oil before we try to analyze any of the crazy going on.
brilliant John, and you were not alone in thus prophesizing ...having survived 4 years in the hellish wilderness of the deep state's attempt at personal destruction, Trump feels ,it appears, invincible and has adopted Bib's foreign policy...bomb, slaughter, assassinate, gobble up and and just take all that you think belongs to you, to hell with the norms of peace and prosperity. To hell with negotiations. lie, bully, make up anything becuase nothing matters but slaughter, kidnapping.
the problem is, why is no one in power opposing his monstrosties. I personally think we are reasonable to hope for a coup, a coup d'etat to oust him before he destroys us and much of the world. And i have been a prime Trump advocate since 2016..but he has destroyed it all.
I like a lot of your work, but when it comes to the dustup with Iran your approach to passing on your suppositions tells me you're a somewhat fear filled fellow who doesn't like Trump and seeks widespread support from others who may be swayed by your rather eloquent ability to write alone.
Here’s a hint. First they capture the academics (1960’s) that educate your kids, simultaneously capturing the MSM with slogan slander that is easy for useful idiots to grab onto, then they capture the burgeoning bureaucracy to regulate the plan to rot a country from within knowing these people are full of fake hubris.
In the mean time they use the media 24/7 for years to paint as villain anyone that loves their country for simple minds to focus on as the “mean guy”.
A few points are worth making. First, I remember when TDS referred to people who gratuitously blamed Trump for virtually everything, including matters in which he had no involvement whatsoever. Now, the term seems to have acquired a rather different meaning: it is increasingly used to describe those who continue to support Trump despite what many regard as his apparent subservience to a foreign power, his embarrassing public statements, and his repeated failures.
If you still believe this is merely a matter of left versus right, then you have fully absorbed the propaganda, and in doing so, become precisely the reason those who seek to manipulate and control us are able to continue doing so with such remarkable ease.
Having been politically active for more than 20 years, I can’t help but find it somewhat amusing when someone resorts to personal insults in their very first response. It invariably brings to mind a particularly applicable maxim:
“When debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
I agree with your thesis about wars. Trump however always differentiated between Iraq and Iran. He thought the Iraq war was a big mistake, but thought Iran should be attacked. I am basically a pacifist so I don’t agree with initiating any overseas wars.
I am sorry, but I have to keep telling you that you will be proven wrong about this. The opposite will be proven true. President Trump is dismantling the "forever war" regime that has plagued the Middle East and the United States for many generations.
Haha, yeah so far he's doing a great job. 😂😂😂
Nobody believes you, not even yourself, not even the people who crow the same party line. Apparatchik.
I have friends in America who have escaped Iran years ago. They hope so badly that Trump will not back down from his plan. They speak to their family that stayed back, whenever Iran is not blocking the internet from them. The situation is awful in Iran. My friends would pay $10 a gallon of gas, if that is the price to pay to topple the regime before they share their evilness with the rest of the world.
Sure. I am superman and can leap tall buildings in a single bound
Fantastic perspective. I am sure that Trump will not back down. TAW.
I don't think you understand the fundamentals - the root cause of each war and deliberate propagation of more conflict in the middle is caused by Israel primarily, and secondly the USA - look at factual history and besides look outcome...who benefits cui bono? - its Israel (greater Israel and funding) and USA (oil and Petrodollar). Using Netanyahu similar words (a Big Lie) by him promoting USA to attack and destroy Iraq "I guarantee you if the World can unit against Israel there will be peace in the Middle East."
Ha! Not what the Bible says.
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You said, “If the world can unite against Israel there will be peace in the Middle East.”
That is certainly not what the Hebrew Bible says.
In fact, the prophets describe almost the exact opposite.
Zechariah 12:9 says that God will seek to destroy the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zechariah 14:2–3 describes the nations gathering against Jerusalem, followed by the LORD Himself going out to fight against those nations.
Joel 4 says that when God restores Judah and Jerusalem, He will gather the nations for judgment concerning “My people, My inheritance, Israel,” whom they scattered, and because they divided His land.
And Ezekiel 38 describes a coalition of nations coming against a restored Israel in the latter days. God's response is not that this coalition finally produces peace. His anger is kindled against the nations attacking His people, and He judges them so that the nations will know that He is the LORD.
So from the perspective of the Hebrew Bible, the idea that the nations should unite against Israel in order to bring peace is a very dangerous proposition. The prophetic warning is repeatedly directed toward the nations that gather against Israel and Jerusalem.
That doesn't mean every decision made by every Israeli government is automatically righteous or beyond criticism. Biblical Israel itself was repeatedly judged by God when it sinned. But there is a very large difference between criticizing a government and saying that the nations of the world should unite against Israel. The Hebrew prophets give some remarkably explicit warnings about the latter.
Sure!
A tree is known by its fruit, there is nothing about Trump that would support your argument.
Nah. This has been planned for a long time. Iranian parliament is controlled by freemasons, BUT, they're not part of the world bank so they have to play war. They are blowing up oil in both countries because destrpying energy destroys food. Get rid of foos, get rid of people. Block the hormuz and no fertilizer. Famine 2028. Part 2 of depop.
I have a bridge to sell you.
Trump bills himself as the smartest guy in the room. However, he is proving to be the dumbest.
He bought Netanyahu's sales pitch to invade and kill Iran's leader. Netenyaho is a major Neocon and cares nothing about the world. He only cares about violence. Trump stupidly listened.
Iran knows they can affect both Israeli and American elections this fall. They know that high fuel prices will flip the House to Democrats, who will start impeachment proceedings. Netenyaho also needs a win in Iran to stay in power. He's so crazy that I would not be surprised if he used a tactical nuke.
Mixing an election with war, and you never know what comes out.
I think you are absolutely correct, John; this is Trump Waterloo. And the American people will pay dearly for his stupidity.
You’re confusing Trump with Obama/ Biden
No Martin. They are all the same. Neocons controlled Obama and Biden just as they are controlling Trump. Trump stated he would not let that happen; he would stop useless and endless wars. However, that was a lie, as usual. All Iran has to do to win against American power is survive. Even Rome got its ass kicked when invading Persian territory. Trump must insert American troops to control Hormuz, which is political suicide. Iran needs to survive and manipulate oil prices. No president can survive that tactic.
Agree to cordially disagree
Martin, how is Trump different? Netenyaho got inside the situation room to pitch his insane plan for the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader. No leader of another country has ever been invited into that room. Yet, Netenyaho got his wish. He's using American power to bomb Iran, with little success, just as killing their leader did nothing. So the question to you is: how is Trump different? What has he done that is different from any other president? The fact is, we are at war, and it's a war that we will lose, just as we lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, et al. Neocons have zero history of winning anything.
Something happened to Trump between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0. Perhaps blackmail. Perhaps threats of assassination. All he had to do is follow through on most of his 2024 stump speech promises and he would have been the best Pres in recent memory.
He was installed for this very reason. It was even foretold in a series of childrens books from the 1800's. He'll destoey the dollar and be the last president as the countey collapses. That's why bessent is there, it's what he does.
Please name the books.
Okay, i'll do your homework for you.
Now that ypu know the names, author etc you can do more digging.
https://archive.org/details/travelsadventure00lock/page/n8/mode/1up
Im sure it's all just a coincidence lol
If you weren't informed, he ordered troops out of Syria, twice, in his first term.
The real power belayed that order and made fun of him for even trying. Follow antiwar.com for the news instead of the MSM/social media
President Trump is making the same mistake as Bush and for the same reason. He has around him many of the same neo-cons that drug us into the First Israeli War in the early 2000's, so they have now manipulated him into launching the Second Israeli War this past February. Netanyahu was the one who conned both Bush and Trump to eliminate Israel's main enemies, Iraq and Iran, so Netanyahu's Great Israel project could be realized. He did so with lies and prevarications meant appeal to Bush's and Trump's weak points: Bush, stupidity, and Trump, ego.
Trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands or U.S. combat deaths and injuries for..... Netanyahu and his vision of Jews state like the one 2500 years ago.
Amos 9: 14-15
“I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel. They shall rebuild ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine; they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them upon their soil, nevermore to be uprooted from the soil I have given them—said the LORD your God.”
All these arguments fall apart because of Iran's history, theology, and aims. Under the precepts by which the IRGC rules, even an uneasy 'peace' is merely an opportunity to build more weapons and more plans to destroy the entire West. Iran has a dictator/regime that relies on lying, cheating, draconian rules (condoned by their 'religion') plus a theology that calls for death, destruction, and suffering as a means --righteous, no less-- to institute a global dictatorship/caliphate worse than anything Mao dreamed up. Standard rules of logic and diplomacy merely strengthen the worst behaviors of these fanatics.
Life under the horrific cruelties of Shi'ism is unbearable to contemplate. Equally unbearable -- nuclear bombs on Washington, NY, Paris, and London. Are we foolish enough to think that somehow those who decry Trump will escape Iran's weapons?
FDR, whom I do not admire, made a diplomatic tie with Stalin in order to defeat Hitler. The US should court Putin, who is a more valuable ally, instead of driving him into bed with Iran. And if Trump can slowly strangle the IRGC with his economic siege, we should be grateful instead of criticizing his attempt to solve one of the world's greatest problems -- just because of his irritating flaws. Kicking the can down the road, like avoiding necessary surgery, is no solution.
Thank you! They chant death to America too, so when someone tells you they want to kill you, we should listen to them.
Move to the head of the class.
The cowardly Tory’s from 250 years ago never needed to leave. Why would they with one foot on each side of the rail no matter the outcome. But you are concisely on target. This is not Stalin, or Mao who will starve and kill their own, but Barbarian treachery of intentional terror that salivates at the sight of an infidel neck on a stump and a scimitar in hand. The “religion” of nihilistic domination that gloriously dies for their idol and the hear after of multiple virgins child wives in bondage. Existence so reprehensible the gentleman and ladies of “society” not citizenry rather slander their own defenders or call them victims than really imagining in their hubris that it could happen here in America, but it already had begun during the tumultuous 1960’s academic “cultural revolution”.
Their intellectual, gentlemanly emasculation and the obvious insidiousness promulgation of fragility of their women aside, using opaque virtue signaling from captured academia and MSM they carry water for the enemy to slander the patriots of every sovereign nation with slogans and waxed faux history to hide their cowardice.
Those focused on Trump and perceived failure are overlooking a far more significant historic moment. This misunderstanding stems from three reasons, and you must consider them together to overcome a narrow perspective. First, you won't recognize this historic moment if you treat Islam the same way you would a benevolent religion, merely because it is labelled as a religion. Second, you may fail to grasp the significance of the moment if you do not acknowledge that thought shapes reality. Finally, the most crucial reason you remain unaware of this historic moment is your lack of understanding of Islamic history
Ok, so Israel got the bomb under Angleton during the 1960's, I think maybe earlier under the Rosenbergs - just sayin'. I just listened to some idiot on Tucker Carlson today who said, Persia has not been conquered, historically. Can someone tell him Alexander, the Mongols and the Arab Muslim Conquest, the Seljuk Turks, the 1953 usurp of Mosaddegh, and the 1979 usurp of the Shah disqualifies this statement as anywhere close to accurate. So, Iran is not Afghanistan. Can we please get our Middle Eastern history on the right foot.
I think we better look at oil before we try to analyze any of the crazy going on.
brilliant John, and you were not alone in thus prophesizing ...having survived 4 years in the hellish wilderness of the deep state's attempt at personal destruction, Trump feels ,it appears, invincible and has adopted Bib's foreign policy...bomb, slaughter, assassinate, gobble up and and just take all that you think belongs to you, to hell with the norms of peace and prosperity. To hell with negotiations. lie, bully, make up anything becuase nothing matters but slaughter, kidnapping.
the problem is, why is no one in power opposing his monstrosties. I personally think we are reasonable to hope for a coup, a coup d'etat to oust him before he destroys us and much of the world. And i have been a prime Trump advocate since 2016..but he has destroyed it all.
I like a lot of your work, but when it comes to the dustup with Iran your approach to passing on your suppositions tells me you're a somewhat fear filled fellow who doesn't like Trump and seeks widespread support from others who may be swayed by your rather eloquent ability to write alone.
Well said, when was the last time America won a war? 1944 and the whole of Europe was in front of them.
It depends on whether you believe the stated goals were the real goals, or if there were any coherent goals in the first place.
If afghanistan was fueled by institutional grift, then everyone who got a check from our tax dollars 'won'. The rest of us lost.
Trump‘s entire second presidency is his Waterloo. He serves Israel and defends those on the Epstein list because he’s one of them.
Do you even know who the Left is in America?
Here’s a hint. First they capture the academics (1960’s) that educate your kids, simultaneously capturing the MSM with slogan slander that is easy for useful idiots to grab onto, then they capture the burgeoning bureaucracy to regulate the plan to rot a country from within knowing these people are full of fake hubris.
In the mean time they use the media 24/7 for years to paint as villain anyone that loves their country for simple minds to focus on as the “mean guy”.
I know this is way over your head so…..
Take your TDS meds regularly, they work better.
A few points are worth making. First, I remember when TDS referred to people who gratuitously blamed Trump for virtually everything, including matters in which he had no involvement whatsoever. Now, the term seems to have acquired a rather different meaning: it is increasingly used to describe those who continue to support Trump despite what many regard as his apparent subservience to a foreign power, his embarrassing public statements, and his repeated failures.
If you still believe this is merely a matter of left versus right, then you have fully absorbed the propaganda, and in doing so, become precisely the reason those who seek to manipulate and control us are able to continue doing so with such remarkable ease.
Having been politically active for more than 20 years, I can’t help but find it somewhat amusing when someone resorts to personal insults in their very first response. It invariably brings to mind a particularly applicable maxim:
“When debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
Kind of Interesting how you Know Everything and can See everything that's coming.
It’s a method of experimenting with new military technologies while ramping up production and stealing natural resources.
I agree with your thesis about wars. Trump however always differentiated between Iraq and Iran. He thought the Iraq war was a big mistake, but thought Iran should be attacked. I am basically a pacifist so I don’t agree with initiating any overseas wars.
When I heard he was going to war with Iran, I knew it was going to be a regime change war. Regime change in Washington DC and Tel Aviv.
Arent they all? If they don't play with the world banks, there's a regime change war.
Donald Trump does not believe in anything other than himself. We project our wishes of rational and humane leadership onto his empty vessel.
What the hell does that mean? You are repeating eleven years of propaganda from a captured MSM.
Just wait. With people like yourself carrying water for enemy’s of America the scimitar will meet your neck soon enough.
You haven’t a clue what is happening.
I wonder who the Rothschild’s bet on this time around.