by Eric Striker, The Unz Review:
The seeming conclusion of the Iran war, dubbed a humiliating defeat for the soon to be fully integrated US and Israeli militaries, is more than another one of Washington’s failed Middle Eastern adventures (the sixth in 25 years). This time, regime insiders are warning that the end of Pax Judaica, the world order established by the Allied victory in 1945 and reinforced with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, is finally here.
On one side of the global conflict to decide the fate of the world is the Washington consensus, represented by its G7 client states as well as Israel and Ukraine, which costumes itself as normative liberalism while granting sovereign power to a network of Jewish supremacist billionaires and their lackeys. Examples of how this works is the British Labour government’s ban on ideological fellow traveler Hasan Piker for his criticism of Israel or the high priests of human rights in the Biden administration serving as accomplices in the Gaza genocide.
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On the other side are the revisionist powers of CRINK — China, Russia, Iran and North Korean — who assert the primacy of the state over money and exercise power openly. As civilizational powers, CRINK nations support a pluralistic world order governed by realpolitik, in contrast to the liberal democracies who declare all nations outside of its institutions (NATO, IMF, etc) as illegitimate and thus fair targets for economic and military violence. For this reason, the hard core of CRINK often finds fair weather friends among the numerous middle and small powers who would prefer to pursue their own national interests over Washingtons, such as Turkey. Multipolarity in action.
A direct war between these two competing forms of geopolitics is fait accompli. In the last few years, we have seen this clash take on kinetic forms — Russia-Ukraine, US-Israel and Iran — as well as economic clashes, such as the trade war with China.
Most neutral observers will conclude that the Ukraine war (especially the failure of economic sanctions against Russia) and the US trade war with China represent strategic defeats for Pax Judaica. While disappointing, the rulers of the West believe they can handle this.
What is unacceptable, however, is the situation Donald Trump has left in Iran. The demonstration by the Iranians in the Strait of Hormuz, along with the obliteration of American military bases throughout the Middle East, has left the mothership — Israel — in one of the worst security positions in its history. Over a decade of horse trading with the Gulf Arabs, hoping to bribe them into signing the Abraham Accords, is now in jeopardy as Iran emerges from the war a geopolitical power. If the leaked details of the Iran negotiated settlement are accurate, and Donald Trump signs off, Iran will come away the new masters of West Asia.
Credit where credit is due. The will power and rediscovered unity of the Iranian people, produced by American and Israeli atrocities, as well as their ability to improvise and adapt in terrible conditions won them the day. Yet, CRINK is also an important component of this story, as China and Russia provided crucial satellite intelligence, weapons and technology that Iran used to expose American and Israeli forces as paper tigers and land devastating blows inside Gulf states to punish their collaborators.
This relationship now appears to be altering the balance of Israel’s war in Lebanon. Entering the war, Israel had every reason to believe it could finally eliminate Hezbollah once and for all. These hopes have been dashed in the last three months, with Hezbollah’s full integration with the IRGC command and control structure. Most importantly, Hezbollah has mysteriously obtained the latest in Russian FPV and fiber optic drone technology — either directly from Russia or through an Iranian intermediary — and is inflicting massive casualties on vulnerable advancing Israeli troops and their vehicles, reducing the Israelis to erratic air strikes against random civilians in Beirut in frustration. The strategic initiative has been recouped by Hezbollah, and now the Shia group is setting the terms for any ceasefire , refusing to allow the IDF to consolidate an inch of Lebanese land.
