As for the war in Ukraine, we are now submerged with propaganda, claims and counter-claims so that in the end, the truth is buried under the announcements and almost impossible to reconstruct.
It looks more and more likely that the attack in Egypt was a false flag from Israel. The very least that can be said is that it wouldn't be surprising. Likewise, the Saudi attack on Yemen was so "stupid" that although real, it is difficult to imagine that the Saudis are truly in charge. This is the price you pay for "protection" and having US bases on your land.
As for Trump, it is truly amazing to see how a man with plenty of tactic but no strategy has been cornered by the international cabal and outsmarted by Iran. As often in such cases, the only smart move was not to play. Now it is extremely difficult to see how he can extricate himself from such a quagmire without losing either credibility or the war itself, obliging him to double down every single time. Professor Jiang prediction a few days earlier was prophetic: There may be no exit or off-ramp as explained below.
by Leo Hohmann
If it’s even true that
Trump is looking for an off ramp, global power elites will make sure he
doesn’t find one; WWIII and military draft incoming
In case you haven’t noticed, the war in the Middle East is expanding.
Just in the last few days, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Egypt have
all been drawn into the conflict that started with just three parties —
the U.S., Israel and Iran. The new additions make this a truly regional
war with global ramifications. Even Ukraine managed this week to get
involved, striking an Iranian ship it said was sending military supplies
to Russia. For those who needed an outward sign, this attack by Ukraine
connects the Middle East war with Iran to the war against Russia in
Eastern Europe. As I’ve been saying for months, it’s all part of the
same war.
Egyptian officials confirmed today that two ships on its
Mediterranean coast came under a drone attack Wednesday at the port of
Damietta, a key loading point for liquified natural gas (LNG). As of
this writing, no nation or entity has claimed responsibility for the
attack, a sure sign of a false flag by malevolent forces, while Western
fingers are predictably being pointed at Iran. You can use your
imagination as to who would like to expand the war in the direction of
Egypt by looking at whose interests that serves.
So far, this is following the exact trajectory I predicted when these
wars started in Ukraine and the Middle East. Because I saw them as part
of the same major war, not separate conflicts, I knew they would
continue to escalate and anyone talking about memorandums of
understanding (MoU), peace talks and Trump looking for an off-ramp
doesn’t know what they’re talking about and aren’t worth listening to.
Trump may want an off ramp, but the powers driving these wars
and financing them will make sure he isn’t presented with one that his
ego will let him take. Those financing the wars are the ones pulling the
puppet strings. The politicians associated with the wars are mere front
men.
Donald Trump by now must be well aware that bombing alone is not
going to take out the Iranian government. A ground invasion will be
necessary. But he also knows that any landing of troops on Iranian soil
will result in tremendous casualties for the invaders.
All this talk from various Iranian ex-pats that gets regurgitated by
conservative podcasters and writers that the Iranian regime is weak and
ready to fall as soon as U.S. troops hit the ground is pure fantasy.
Then, they tell us, Iran can install the Clown Prince Reza Pahlavi, the
playboy son of the former Shah, to rule happily ever after in the
interests of America and Israel. Pure poppycock. Do not listen to these
people. Reza would not survive one week without a bloody civil war
tearing apart Iran, if he could even govern without being assassinated.
Trump himself knows this.
But Trump doesn’t want to land U.S. troops on Iranian soil if he can
help it, at least not right before the mid-term elections. He knows
launching this phase of the war would result in high casualties in a
very unpopular war and that such a war would also likely require the
U.S. to reinstate a military draft.
Ideally, I believe Trump would like to find a willing proxy to invade
Iran. The Kurds have been mentioned as one possibility but Iran seems
ready for that eventuality. Could Egypt be a better option? Egypt has a
very large army and we see that country being hit at its weak point, the
Suez Canal zone and connected ports, a major trade route into the
Mediterranean Sea.
If we see further assaults on Egypt’s main economic connection to the
outside world, that’s a sign that they are being targeted for the role
of willing proxy against Iran. Egypt also has a large Sunni Muslim
population, which has no love for Iran’s Shia Muslims, so the religious
element also works in favor of them being recruited as a Western proxy,
along with the Kurds, the Saudis and anyone else who is willing to join
the fight against Iran.
But I do believe we are still an escalation or two away from any
ground invasion of Iran. I could see a scenario unfold where the U.S.
recruits a proxy force to invade Iran and then sends in its troops to
finish the job, but even this supposed mop-up role could take longer
than Trump believes and require a very unpopular military draft. Once
Trump reinstates the draft, many more Americans who are currently tuned
out will wake up and protest sending their sons to fight another
overseas war on behalf of foreign interests. This will cause Trump to
clamp down on protests, potentially declaring martial law and possibly
even canceling elections in 2028. He has been known to talk about a
third term, having brought that up again just a few days ago.
And now we have a report out of Israel that something big is getting ready to go down in the war against Iran.
The Iran-affiliated Hormuz Letter posted Thursday to its X account as follows:
BREAKING: Israel says the U.S. is preparing for
something “bigger than anything we have seen before” in the war on Iran,
a senior Israeli security official tells Channel 15. The official adds
the U.S. is preparing for a large-scale unprecedented operation against
Iran, not just a single isolated response, with Israeli defense circles
saying the U.S. is approaching a major counter-response.
That same source reported a couple of hours later:
BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has just launched multiple
airstrikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Houthi leader Abdul-Malik
al-Houthi warned shortly before “the indications reveal the Saudis are
heading toward full escalation. We will meet their full escalation with
full escalation.”
Shortly before that, The Hormuz Letter reported
that Iran had landed direct hits on U.S. assets at its air base in
Jordan, destroying three F-35 fighter jets and killing at least one U.S.
military officer along with an unspecified number of “maintenance
personnel.” This has not been confirmed by the U.S. military.
BREAKING: For the first time since the start of
the war, Iran’s IRGC announces the complete destruction of 3 F-35
fighter jets and significant damage to 3 others at the Muwaffaq Salti
Air Base in Jordan, through multiple ballistic missiles targeting the
deployment ramp and maintenance hangar this morning, per Tasnim. Iran
had not previously announced the destruction of an F-35. The IRGC adds
several U.S. officers and maintenance personnel were also killed at the
base. The strike comes in response to a U.S. strike on 2 residential
homes on Qeshm Island earlier this morning, killing a father, mother,
and their 2-year-old child, and injuring 2 other children.
It’s difficult to know how much of this is true. Both sides are
waging an information war as intense as the kinetic war. But it’s safe
to say that the war’s trajectory and the nature of the rhetoric on both
sides suggests that violence is reaching new heights across the Middle
East, as it is in Russia and Ukraine, and pretty soon nobody will be
able to deny we are in World War III.
Remember, the ultimate goal of the globalist power elites is to take
down the flailing U.S. empire and its outdated paper petro dollar and
replace it with some form of global government with a new global
currency.
So whatever the Trump administration has up its sleeve will
ultimately backfire. Could we be on the verge of a defeat so humiliating
that even the arch-salesman Donald Trump can’t spin it as a victory?
Only time will tell. But one thing I want to stress is that we should
not get excited whenever either side in this now global conflict starts
talking about peace. The false peace that will eventually come is
probably two or three years away. Before you can have any semblance of
peace, there must be a clear winner and clear loser in World War III.
And since this war is just starting to get cranked up, we are a long way
off from that.
But right now, the U.S. is being exposed as a paper tiger and Trump
is going to be obsessed with trying to reverse that trend and
reasserting American strength. Trump is not a rational man who is driven
by facts, such as the fact that the U.S. is running out of missiles and
munitions, running low on oil reserves, and that there are limits to
what American military power can achieve. There’s also the disturbing
fact that changes in modern warfare actually mean America’s bloated
military budget is spent mostly on weapons that have become obsolete.
Not only are they obsolete, but they are tremendously expensive and will
take several years to restock.
Instead of focusing on facts and acting rationally, Trump is driven
by his emotions, which buttress his overwhelming desire to be seen as a
winner of heroic proportions. This is exactly the type of political
leader the global financiers needed and wanted at this point in history,
because his egocentric emotional responses to events make him super
easy to manipulate. He wants to go down in history as the one president
who conquered the imaginary demons crafted by the globalists for decades
– Russia, China, Iran. Trump wants to bag them all. And it’s his
hyper-emotional, overzealous nature that will actually hasten America’s
downfall, allowing the globalists to replace the American-dominated
global order with their long-coveted new international economic order
based on technocracy and an air-tight digitalized control grid ruling
over a vastly smaller global population.