Why I’m Not Surprised by the Chaos in West Asia
The chaos engulfing West Asia isn’t a tragic accident of diplomacy. It is the inevitable result of a decaying empire led by men whose geopolitical understanding froze somewhere around 1985. Watching President Donald Trump’s administration blunder into a war with Iran, I see the same myopic arrogance that has defined American foreign policy for decades: the belief that overwhelming firepower can always force sovereign nations to submit to absurd demands.
This war never should have started. Iran did not attack the American homeland, nor did it pose an existential threat to the U.S. that justified the deployment of two carrier strike groups and thousands of tons of ordnance. Unfortunately, Trump answers to someone other than the American people — Netanyahu, the genocidal war criminal currently in control of the Trump administration and hence the entire U.S. military.
I have watched this escalation unfold with grim recognition, because I have reported for years on Washington’s addiction to military force and its inability to learn from history. Iran, unlike the weak, fractured states America bulldozed in Iraq and Afghanistan, has studied American tactics and built a strategy of resilience. As one analysis put it, the United States launched an attack “with boasts of swift victory” but instead “ignited a resilient Iranian counter-punch that has rewritten the rules of modern warfare” [1]. This conflict has revealed that America is a declining power which can no longer project force at will, and Iran has proven it [2].
The administration, still trapped in its 1980s mindset, believes it can bully Tehran into submission with a few bombing raids. Yet every escalation — the assassinations, the economic strangulation, the belligerent talk — has only galvanized Iranian resistance. As I have stated in my own broadcasts, this is not a path to victory; it is a march toward catastrophic defeat.
The Escalation Trap: Why Trump Can’t Stop Digging
President Trump has fallen into the oldest trap in warfare: he cannot stop digging because he cannot afford to admit he is trapped. This is the escalation dynamic familiar to any student of imperial decline. His advisors, many of whom possess an abysmal ignorance of history, tell him that one more blow will break the enemy’s will. They fundamentally misunderstand the resilience of the Persian, Russian, and Chinese peoples — cultures that have survived countless invasions and foreign interventions, only to outlast their conquerors.
Every tactic the U.S. has tried has failed. Economic sanctions intended to cripple Iran have instead forged closer ties between Tehran, Moscow, and Beijing, who signed a 20-year Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty to counterbalance Western influence . Bombings have killed high-ranking officials like Ali Larijani, but they have also steeled the Iranian public’s resolve [3]. The assassination campaign has eliminated commanders, yet the Iranian military has proven its capacity to strike back, inflicting hundreds of U.S. casualties and successfully threatening vital chokepoints [4].
Meanwhile, the United States is depleting its own store of power. The American public is losing its appetite for a forever war, especially as inflation and diesel shortages bite at home. The military is running low on the smart munitions necessary for modern warfare, and domestic support is sagging as the midterm elections approach. Each new strike is a gamble that risks a wider regional conflagration — yet the administration projects an image of decisive leadership.
As I stated in a recent broadcast, the war is not just unwinnable; it is already lost [2]. We have exhausted our credibility, our treasury, and our patience, and we have nothing to show for it but a burning region and a hardened global alliance against us.
NATO and Europe: The Real Victims of American Empire
While Washington’s war machine has focused its fury on Iran, the true casualties of this 1980s adventure may well be the transatlantic alliance itself. Europe has been dragged into a conflict that threatens its economic future, and its leaders have dutifully taken the hit. The U.S. war economy relies on a weak Europe, one that is dependent on American energy and patronage. It was no accident that the Nord Stream pipelines, Europe’s key to energy independence from both Russia and the U.S., were sabotaged. This was “economic warfare against allies,” a blunt instrument used to cripple Europe’s industrial base and ensure its continued subservience to American interests [5].
European leaders, tragically, have been complicit in their own hobbling. Rather than assert their strategic autonomy, they have followed Washington’s lead, prepared to sacrifice their economies and endure the freezing winters of a scorched-earth energy war. I have argued that they are not strategic thinkers; they are administrators of a slowly disintegrating empire, unable to see that their long-term interests diverge from the globalist agenda peddled in D.C. [6].
The cracks in NATO are no longer hairline fractures. Turkey has demonstrated its willingness to pursue its own interests, flatly refusing to be a pawn against Iran or Russia. The U.S. has also found itself abandoned by its allies when it needed support, as evidenced by Trump’s furious blast at NATO nations over their refusal to deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz [7]. The Atlanticist project is now vaporware. Why would European soldiers die for an American empire that views them as expendable vassals? The alliance’s structure persists, but its spirit is long gone, and the United States itself is rapidly becoming the empire’s gravedigger.
GCC Countries: Targets, Not Partners
The Gulf Cooperation Council monarchies are learning a bitter lesson in 2026: they are targets, not partners. American military bases, emblems of the so-called security guarantee, have transformed nations like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE into primary targets for Iranian retaliation. Their elaborate defense systems have proved woefully inadequate against the swarm tactics of hypersonic drones and ballistic missiles. These states are bleeding billions in defense spending while their critical energy facilities are vulnerable to fire, turning their wealth into a liability.
The conflict has also hammered their export capacity. Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz caused a huge drop in energy shipments, with key Gulf facilities like Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura refinery damaged by missile strikes [8]. Qatar’s precious LNG wealth, a cornerstone of its national power, is also on the line. Damage to these facilities will take years, not months, to repair — and every escalation delays that recovery.
This economic devastation is not an accident; it is part of a broader strategy that has exhausted the GCC’s financial war chest. I noted with particular interest the reporting from last year that detailed how Saudi Arabia sent signals about fiscal stress and the crumbling petrodollar system, with demands for trillions in security guarantees illustrating the sheer weight of imperial protection rackets [9].
Washington extracts tribute while offering only hollow promises and making its vassals targets. The deal offered by the U.S. empire is becoming so obviously one-sided that even the Gulf monarchies, so often slow to read the writing on the wall, are beginning to look for exits.
The Strait of Hormuz Is the World’s Lifeline — and We’re Cutting It
The true insanity of this conflict is on display in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. This is not just a regional dispute over territorial integrity; this is the world’s principal economic chokepoint, responsible for carrying about 20% of global oil and one-third of the world’s LNG [8]. Yet, much more is at stake. The global food system depends on Persian Gulf outflows of helium, sulfur, fertilizers, and petrochemicals that are the invisible inputs to modern agriculture and industry [10]. Iran’s closure of the strait was not an idle threat; it was an act of economic defiance that instantly caused global energy prices to surge and sent supply chains into chaos [11].
Blockades are one thing; but a prolonged closure is turning into a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. The damage to Qatar’s LNG facilities alone will take an estimated three to five years to repair [12]. If the conflict continues and the disruption stretches into a lost decade, the world will face a famine unlike anything in modern history. Global starvation would not be a poetic metaphor but a daily reality as fertilizer and grain shipments grind to a halt [10]. It is a reckoning that would make the Great Depression look like a downturn in a business cycle.
This is not a prophecy of doom; it is basic arithmetic. The U.S. has chosen to cut its own throat and the throat of the global economy by treating the world’s most critical supply line as a medium for political gamesmanship.
A New World Order Is Rising: China, Russia, and the Reckoning
Out of the ashes of the American empire in West Asia, a new world order is being born. Iran’s successful defiance is more than a military turning point; it is a powerful psychological symbol proving that nations can stand up to the United States and survive. When Washington’s primary tools are sanctions and violence, and those tools fail, the myth of the indispensable nation collapses with them. As I have said, Iran’s resilience is a testament to the reality that “nations no longer must bow to the U.S. empire” if they are willing to pay the price for their freedom [13].
This new order is being built by China and Russia, not through threats, but through alternative structures of trade and cooperation. They are actively constructing overland and maritime corridors, like China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the nascent Russia-Iran North-South corridor, to bypass the chokepoints controlled by the U.S. Navy. Their accords, like the 20-year pact between Russia and Iran, provide mutual defense that offers a shield against U.S. coercion [14].
The crumbling of American influence is most visible in its own inability to compete on the domestic front. The U.S. cannot even power its own AI ambitions, let alone project power to maintain a unipolar world. While Washington is mired in a 1980s worldview and protectionist trade wars, rival nations are advancing. Trump’s tariffs are not protecting America; they are an “embargo against America,” raising costs for its own consumers and forcing its companies to innovate in a vacuum, disconnected from global supply chains. This economic self-sabotage while our rivals collaborate is the clearest sign yet that we are headed for a historic decline.
The Reckoning Is Here: Time to Face Reality
The reckoning we face is not in the distant future; it is arriving right now. I see no evidence of learning in Washington, only a deepening delusion that defines the Pentagon’s strategic planning. I have interviewed many experts, from whistleblowers to military veterans, and the consensus is that the empire is in its final, frantic phase. We have invested trillions in weapons designed to demolish other nations, yet our own bridges are crumbling, our people are chronically sick (and obese), and our economy is hollowed out. The enemies are not gathering on our shores; they are feasting on our ruin from within.
The American people are the ones suffering from these policies. This war is not hurting the globalists who orchestrated it; it is hurting the everyday American who is coping with the diesel shortages, grocery inflation, and the constant drumbeat of fear. We are not just fighting a foreign enemy; we are fighting ourselves, and we are losing.
We are now confronted with a choice: to continue this delusional path toward national ruin, or to begin the painful process of constructing a new society that prioritizes liberty, self-reliance, and life. I believe we must extricate ourselves from this war and finally acknowledge that we are not, and never had the right to be, the world’s policeman. We are no longer the essential nation, and our attempts to prove otherwise are literally burning down the world.
We need to rebuild America with honesty, dignity and a deep cleansing of corruption, incompetence and financial influence to restore America to something resembling its founding vision. Until we do that, the slow, grinding, insufferable collapse will be painful and catastrophic.
We the American people deserve better than this.
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