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The US DOES have a plan as it attacks Iran. And it isn't "Trump's" plan - but a plan that has been pursued continuously from at least as early as the Bush Jr. administration to today.

Just like Iraq wasn't toppled just in 2003 - but after years of war (Desert Storm, 1990-91), sanctions, and covert operations spanning multiple administrations, this current war with Iran is just one step of many meant to weaken and eventually destroy Iran.

Look at the trajectory that brought about this conflict and use that trajectory to trace out the most likely future US foreign policy will take.

Whether this US strategy succeeds or not depends on both Iran and its allies - but also the larger picture trying to topple Iran fits into - especially in regards to US ambitions to ultimately isolate and collapse Russia and especially China and how the former helps facilitate the latter.
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Regarding claims Iran is still shipping energy to China...

China needs energy from the entire Middle East, not just Iran, and even if Saudi Arabia and others have alternative routes for Chinese-bound energy exports it will still be far less than they've been receiving before the conflict.

And as the conflict continues there are greater chances even these alternatives will be targeted in one way or another - already the US is targeting Iranian energy production itself and is shaping narratives to justify the full interdiction of any energy exports from the region before they reach China.

Notice how the US doesn't really seem to have a coherent/obtainable public objective regarding Iran.

Is that because they don't have one at all?

Or because their actual objective can't be said out loud (destroying the global economy hoping to kill off China while only weakening the US in the process)?

A GRAND BARGAIN?

Regarding claims that all of this will lead to a "grand bargain" with China to sell US energy to it directly - the whole point of the US invading Venezuela, attacking Iran, strangling China technologically for years is to strangle China completely.

Selling energy to China will allow China to continue its already astronomical drive toward energy independence by 2030 and would still result in China's irreversible surpassing of the US - something the US has openly tried to prevent since the end of WW2.

Even with a US-imposed blockade in place, China is still likely to achieve energy independence in 5-10 years albeit at much greater cost - at which point the US will have lost its remaining leverage over China.

Also, unless purveyors of this theory suggest the US will control entirely all energy produced by Venezuela, Iran, AND the Persian Gulf states - the US itself has no possible way of providing China the total physical quantities of energy it needs as part of any "grand bargain."

China's potential purchasing of US energy would simply be a short-term strategic bridge toward energy independence it is already pursuing - a bridge that would make little sense for the US to provide to it as part of some sort of genuine "bargain."

A similar example is the US cutting chips off to China - hoping to strangle China's technological development.

The US has since offered inferior chips as an alternative in the hopes of slowing down China's drive toward chip independence.

Not only did China refuse because it knows this isn't a compromise but rather a trap - even if it accepted the offer it would have unlikely slowed down China's attempts toward chip independence since it knows the US will never accept coexistence.
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- At day 13 despite claiming Iranian military command, political leadership, and launcher capacity has been destroyed, Iran averages 20 ballistic missile launches a day, exhausting US anti-missile munitions;

- Iran is likely pacing itself for a long-term conflict lasting 6 months to even 1 year or more;

- Even if the US "pauses" like it did last year, the war will continue because eliminating Iran is key to encircling Russia and ultimately containing China;

- Beware of those blaming "Israel" for this war as Israel is merely an extension of US power in the region like Ukraine is vis-a-vis Russia in Eastern Europe;

- Shifting blame to a US proxy allows the US to carry out extreme measures without taking responsibility for them up to and including the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of the global economy;

References:

TOI - IDF estimates Iran now firing just 20 missiles a day at Israel, down from 90 last Saturday (Mar. 6, 2026):
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-estimates-iran-now-firing-just-20-missiles-a-day-at-israel-down-from-90-last-saturday/
AJ - Iran fires missiles, drones at Gulf nations as ship hit in Strait of Hormuz (Mar. 11, 2026):
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/11/iran-fires-missiles-drones-at-gulf-nations-as-ship-hit-in-strait-of-hormuz
NYT - U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP (1992):
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/us-strategy-plan-calls-for-insuring-no-rivals-develop.html
US Naval War College Review - A Maritime Oil Blockade Against
China (2018):
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=nwc-review


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The US can continue existing as a rapacious empire with or without Israel - it surely did fine for almost 2 centuries before Israel was created out of thin air by the Anglo-Americans - but the crimes of Israel would be impossible without US empire behind it.

Israel is not blameless. Blame it for its role in facilitating Western empire up to and including abetting genocide and wars of aggression.

But do not blame it for "corrupting" something that was never wholesome to begin with.

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People claiming "Israel" controls the US are either delusional or dishonest.

The US in particular has been exterminating indigenous populations, stealing land, and pilfering resources for nearly 200 years before Israel ever existed.

How is what the US is doing to the Middle East any different than what it did to the indigenous people of the American Midwest?

Western civilization has been doing it for centuries beforehand...

...the British empire for well over 2 centuries before the "Rothschilds."

Western civilization was for centuries bent on brutal, racist empire-building and it continues today - Israel is just one of many cogs created perpetuating this process.

The idea that "Israel" somehow got the ruthless, racist thieves running the US to bend a knee to "them" is an absurdity at face value.

Almost as absurd as imaging the West was previously run by "honorable" men at one point, only to be "hijacked" by "Israel."

Then there is the material reality of Wall Street (arms, oil, tech, pharma, etc.) spending vastly greater sums on lobbying than "AIPAC" and all other "Israeli" lobbying combined - Wall Street being dominated today just like it has always been - by white, nominally "Christian" males.

The only thing worse than a Western civilization crumbling under its own rapacious-induced rot is trying to blame others for it - attempting to cite the symptom rather than the sickness.

This ensures that the sickness is never noticed let alone treated - and to whose benefit? The sickness.

The US can continue existing as a rapacious empire with or without Israel - it surely did fine for almost 2 centuries before Israel was created out of thin air by the Anglo-Americans - but the crimes of Israel would be impossible without US empire behind it.

Israel is not blameless. Blame it for its role in facilitating Western empire up to and including abetting genocide and wars of aggression.

But do not blame it for "corrupting" something that was never wholesome to begin with.
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- the US war on Iran has effectively cut Middle Eastern energy exports to China triggering a countdown on China’s 100 day reserves;

- China has been rushing toward energy independence presenting the US with a closing window of opportunity to cut off and starve China economically as part of a long-planned “distant blockade;”

- The US is already surging additional forces into the region ensuring the conflict continues throughout the 100 days China’s reserves will last;

- The US has already invaded Venezuela and is attacking Russian energy production and exports to cut them off from China;

- This plan has been laid out and pursued since the Bush Jr. administration leading up to the “Arab Spring” and the subsequent encirclement of Iran, Russia, and now China;

References:

The New Atlas - 2011: The Year of the Dupe (2011):
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-of-dupe.html
The New Yorker - The Redirection (2007):
https://archive.ph/3ZB70
US Naval War College Review - A Maritime Oil Blockade on China (2018):
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=nwc-review
NYT - The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (admitting CIA targeting Russian energy production and shipping) (Dec. 30, 2025):
https://archive.ph/PL0ES
Reuters - McCain ruffles Beijing with talk of Chinese Arab Spring (2012):
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/mccain-ruffles-beijing-with-talk-of-chinese-arab-spring-idUSTRE8130GT/
The Hill - McCain: Next stop for Arab Spring could be Russia (2012):
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/180834-mccain-next-stop-for-arab-spring-could-be-russia/



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🇺🇸/IRAN: US claims "dismay" over "Israeli" strikes on Iranian fuel depots, and why you shouldn't believe them...

The US has, in all military operations throughout its history sought to exterminate all human life where and when possible, turning nations into failed states and inhibiting life for everyone, not just governments it targets.

In Serbia it targeted the power grid.

In Iraq the US starved half a million children to death even before its invasion and occupation killed another 1 million.

In Libya vital infrastructure for agriculture was deliberately destroyed.

In Syria the US seized and denied grain to deliberately starve the Syrian civilian population.

And now the US seeks to do ALL of these things to Iran and it IS.

As the US continues destroying Iran, and as more egregious crimes against humanity are required to do so, it will depend on its Israeli proxies to carry them out, or at least claim to carry them out, attacks that will cause immense human death and the destruction of vital infrastructure, all so the US can claim plausible deniability for itself.

However, every bomb, missile, plane and drop of fuel Israel uses was given to it by the US, every target is fixed by US intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and each sortie made possible by US capabilities Israel doesn't have including extensive aerial refueling, suppression of air defenses, region-wide radar enabling situational awareness, and even combat search and rescue.

Every "Israeli" action is an American action.

Thus every "protest" by the US is an act of theater primarily because if the US doesn't want these targets hit it will simply deny Israel the ISR and coordinated operational capabilities (aerial refueling, suppression of air defenses, electronic warfare etc.) required to hit them.

The US knows, however, no one knows or cares about these material realities and will instead allow their myopic obsessions and emotions convince themselves somehow the Israelis, not the Americans, are in the driver's seat and these actions were "Israeli," not American, despite the fact Israel wouldn't exist in the first place (just like Ukraine) without full and constant support.

Again, this DOES NOT absolve Israel for the war crimes carried out amid this war of aggression.

Like America's proxies in Ukraine, all involved in atrocities must be fought against and held accountable.

However, if you want the war to end and the danger eliminated, identity the root of the danger, not just obsess over the tips of the branches or their falling leaves.
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🇺🇸/Iran: Iran Mission Creep and the US-Imposed "Distant Blockade" on China

US is bringing in another carrier and additional warplanes as existing hardware approaches maintenance walls indicating intentions to continue the war for at least another month.

With the long desired distant blockade now implemented on China and the clock ticking on China's 100 day reserves, the US is likely to continue surging forces into the region to keep the war going and energy exports stopped.

The US does not care about its Arab proxies. It does not care about Europe. It does not care about Israel or Ukraine or Japan or South Korea.

It doesn't even care about the American public.

The window is closing on containing China, China fully aware of all of this and already speeding toward permanent escape velocity.

The US is making its move now.

The US knows it will be causing immense global damage and damage to itself but believes it has the best chance of weathering it and emerging the strongest on the other end - or at least the best chance it will ever have.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳 The US War on Iran is a US War on China

▪️US planners likely realized as a result of attrition in its proxy war on Russia and considering the outcome of ongoing war with Iran in the Middle East, that even a "distant blockade" in the Asia-Pacific against China was unlikely to succeed;

▪️Degrading or toppling Iran was already a prerequisite to further isolating Russia and then China, thus attacking Iran and shutting down energy exports from the entire region, no matter the cost, has effectively implemented the "distant blockade" on China at the very source of most of China's energy imports;

▪️At the same time, the US continues expanding its international blockade against the so-called "shadow fleet" through maritime drone strikes attributed to "Ukraine" and the interdiction and seizure of vessels by US proxies and in the case of Venezuela, by the US itself.

This can be expanded to target ALL Russian and Chinese maritime shipping - not just energy shipments;

▪️Note that the US invaded and captured Venezuela, halting energy exports to China in the lead up to this second war of aggression targeting the majority of China's remaining energy imports from the Middle East.

▪️The US CIA continues carrying out long-range drone strikes into Russia targeting energy production specifically to degrade both Russia's own economy and its ability to export significant amounts of energy to China.

These operations will only continue to increase in scale and scope with likely operations moving to target pipelines into China directly;

▪️The US is also carrying out terrorist strikes on China's Belt and Road Initiative, particularly in Pakistan and Myanmar, specifically striking at alternative routes for energy used to bypass a potential Asia-Pacific blockade.

These type of attacks can be organized and directed at whatever infrastructure China attempts to use next to mitigate the US-imposed shortages China now faces.

This is a systematic global war to strangle China;

▪️China has prepared for this for years - building out a massive 100+ day reserve and scaling out renewables, nuclear power, and coal-to-liquid energy production domestically.

It will still likely take years to replace dependency on the Middle East - about 5 years - a closing window the US knew was closing - prompting this reckless war of aggression now taking place;

▪️The US has also built-up and armed proxies in the Asia-Pacific region including Japan, the Philippines, and the island province of Taiwan - not to "beat" China - but to use long-range missiles/drones to strike and degrade domestic efforts to circumvent the US-imposed blockade - such as striking refineries, data centers, energy infrastructure, etc. just as the US uses "Ukraine" to do so against Russia - all while avoiding a direct confrontation with China itself;

▪️The US believes that rapid "initiative" can overcome the growing number of disadvantages the US has created for itself and faces due to China's rapid rise (like modernization, and surpassing of the US in terms of industry, military, and technology).

It hopes that is willingness to indulge in globally-destabilizing war of aggression is greater than China and the rest of the multipolar world's ability to unite and meaningfully fight back.

The US also believe that the wars it has ignited across the planet will primarily destabilize Eurasia leaving North America - just like during WW2 - relatively insulated.

So far that has been true. While Americans are suffering, the corporations driving these policies are still thriving.

Russia and China know about all of this. They have made their own plans.

Only time will tell who planned better.
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- US-led air and missile strikes continue across Iran while Iran continues region-wide missile and drones strikes including on high-value US targets;

- Both sides face ticking clocks including Iran’s supply of missiles and launchers and the resilience of its “mosaic” defense strategy and America’s missile inventories as well as maintenance walls its aircraft will reach by the end of the month;

- Victory for the US requires toppling the Iranian government;

- The US would also settle for a temporary pause to reorganize and attempt another round of aggression;

- Victory for Iran in at least this phase of the war is simply surviving;

- US objectives for this conflict are focused on eliminating a Russian/Chinese ally, cutting China off from oil in the region, and allowing the US to consolidate resources toward encircling Russia and China themselves;

References:

CNN - Radar bases housing key US missile interceptor hit in Jordan and UAE, satellite images show (Mar. 6, 2026):
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/05/middleeast/radar-bases-us-missile-defense-iran-war-intl-invs
Raytheon - RTX's Raytheon delivers 13th AN/TPY-2 radar for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (May 2025):
https://www.rtx.com/news/news-center/2025/05/19/rtxs-raytheon-delivers-13th-an-tpy-2-radar-for-the-u-s-missile-defense-agency#:~:text=News%20%7C%20RTX's%20Raytheon%20delivers%2013th,U.S.%20Missile%20Defense%20Agency%20%7C%20RTX
RAND Corporation - Extending Russia (2019):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf
US Naval War College Review - A Maritime Oil Blockade Against China (2018):
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1735&context=nwc-review
Brookings Institution - Which Path to Persia? (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
The New Atlas - 2011 - Year of the Dupe: One year into the engineered "Arab Spring," one step closer to global hegemony (2011):
https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-year-of-dupe.html


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