The CIA Blinks and Everybody’s Fighting in the Trump World War
Nothing succeeds like excess for the military/industrial complex
The long overdue Israeli bombardment of Iran signals the beginning of World War Trump. WWT could last all of a week or maybe 20 minutes if we’re unlucky. Smart money says the Iranians will talk turkey but many shrewd crookies got burned in Syria the last time Donald fired a missile in anger. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is in hiding but the White House claims to have his location pinpointed. For a man who speaks softly -as he often does- Trump carries a very big stick. On the home front the Democratic boomer/Antifa platoons can’t explain if they’re fighting to save Mexico or the USA. Meanwhile in europe the CIA/EU playdate turns sour as Moscow piles a 10-hour barrage onto Kiev, and Zelensky realises (too late) that Ukraine is the quid to an Iranian quo, and Trump is the pro. What the hell, we’re all fighting now, whether we like it or not.
Regular readers will recall I predicted the US v Iran showdown was imminent two months ago [Read : Iran is The Big Kahuna] after Trump’s bold move to reclaim control of the Panama canal was virtually ignored in mainstream media. Dots too difficult to join in the newsrooms of the BBC, apparently, but simple enough for any old cynic with a map of Africa and a functioning brain. In the event the relevant geopolitical chickens made it home last week, while the news-cycle was trying out the ‘mostly peaceful Molotov cocktail riots” routine CNN pioneered in 2020. For some strange reason news anchors felt the need to express surprise and dismay that Iran’s uniquely barbaric beardy-men finally got what was coming to them.
To describe the bombing of Iran as overdue is not hyperbole. In the run up to the 1980 presidential election, a Jewish colleague of mine submitted a comic ditty to a BBC show (Not the Nine O’clock News) containing the joke: “Q. What’s black and flat? A. Iran, when Reagan gets in.” Yes, a whole 45 years ago it was commonly anticipated that -sooner or later- the mad mullahs would be crushed by military means. Yet Reagan held his fire and the heaviest thing the USA dropped on Iran this century was $400 million dollars in cash in August 2016, as part of Barack Obama’s $1.7 billion bribe to release four prisoners and shut the mullahs up. Twelve weeks later America elected Donald Trump. Then as now, the Jewish lobby expected both moral and military support in return and so it has proved.
Nobody with a triple-digit IQ believes the White House waffle that Israel was paddling her own canoe when landing missiles on Iranian targets last week. Thwarted in his european peace-initiative by Zelensky’s slavish loyalty to the cabal of deep-state western spooks who crowned him, Trump has balanced the moral scale (in his mind) by revenging himself on Iran, which is locked in with team Russia on the Ukranian front. Kiev and its rump of loyalists are paying the price, but have only the Great Zelbo to blame. The NATO circus tent should have left three years ago.
The muddy pawprints of the CIA are, alas, found on almost every battlefield. The catalogue of ‘colour revolutions’ on its cv reads like a summary of NATO catastrophes. Where Langley stands on the Iran issue remains a moot point, but American Intelligence services seem so wedded to the Pentagon’s dark budget that one can only assume a similar and ongoing enthusiasm for anything that flies with a bomb attached. On the topic of Iran at least, one can imagine a CIA/Trump alignment, however brief. Not a squeak of dissent from the usual stool-pigeons has been heard yet.
On the other hand, the issue of who exactly is running the CIA right now is one to which I will return in a future post. Suffice to say it probably ain’t who you might think. Naturally, the ‘news’ spoon fed to western populations invariably omits any reference at all to this topic, or the often conflicting efforts of the White House and its rogue divisions.
However, as in 1980, no mainstream propaganda spigot can resist the chance to drag out their expert du jour to bloviate about the horrors that will ensue if/when we get Pakistan/Russia/China joining in the missile-flinging and the north African tribes finally succeed in marching the globe down Apocalypse Road. Personally, I greet this prospect with a well-worn shrug as there’s a NATO nuclear- submarine refuelling depot about thirty miles from my doorstep. The post-nuclear dystopia won’t be a problem for human toast.
Not that everybody will be thrilled to bits to see Trump(ish) missiles whomping the Supreme Leader and his ugly crew of dinosaur priests. There’s a certain kind of malevolent pacifism that infects professional media types, usually when the dirty work needs doing. Murmurings of discontent within Camp MAGA did not pass unnoticed:
[Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that, ‘IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!’”]
-Donald Trump on social media.
I’ll admit I do not expect the Trump World War to end with a fanfare once Iran has been militarily neutered (the only realistic outcome). Many dogs are in this fight, some invisible, some just visible in the bushes. Lets not forget that in the Trump era, every single event on the planet will be fed through the Trump filter before being spun out to the masses so they can see where the Evil Orange Man went wrong/crazy/nuclear/ off the rails. When you elevate a president to Global Enemy Number One not a sparrow falls without his arrow in its back. Expect more threats than whizz-bangs, with occasional deafening thuds.
Nevertheless I sense a distinct lack of edge to much of the current criticism, for all the appearance of international mayhem portrayed in the hourly bulletins. Among the swirl of tariffs and warheads there stands a new Trump, forewarned and no longer hobbled by innocence. There are enough carrots and sticks to go round, and this is a president in a hurry. Most politicians are defined by their failure to follow their instincts but this one has no other choice. It’s tempting to anticipate that what did not kill him -and that’s a history book of things- made him stronger. Judging by this week’s violence, we’re about to find out -one way or the other.
The likelihood of history repeating is still lurking too close for comfort. Our first four years of Trunp were ended and eclipsed by the almighty Covidian nightmare. Those wounds are still raw. If the Trump World War is to succeed, a lot more heads will roll once the Supreme Leader has been rolled into a Persian carpet and fed to the sharks. Most of the deadliest enemies of the free west are still in place within the walls of castle Trump. For anyone feeling overwhelmed by the wave of current events, keep calm, as there’s a whole lot more in store. On a positive note, this time around there will be no hiding place for the timid or the traitor. Everybody on earth will be obliged to pick a side in WWT.
Ian Andrew-Patrick
(My apologies to readers for the recent hiatus in output. This was due to a rare coincidence of opinion between myself and the medical profession. Normal service should now resume.)