by Kevin Barrett, The Unz Review:
The Genocidal Zionist Entity faces a crisis. Its Epstein-syndicate-blackmailed asset Trump is deep underwater in the polls. And Israel’s war on Iran, fought using the hijacked US military, is shaping up as a catastrophic defeat.
The US desperately needs to end the Iran war and stop the bleeding. American allies are the biggest victims of the slow-motion economic train wreck caused by the Resistance Axis’s blockade of West Asian oil and fertilizer exports.
In Asia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have nearly exhausted their strategic energy stockpiles. And in Europe, whose industrial economy was crippled by the US demolition of the Nordstream pipeline, energy supply shocks tied to the Hormuz shutdown are making matters even worse. Europe is beginning to face escalating shortages of diesel, jet fuel, and heating fuel.
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America’s West Asian vassals are in equally dire shape. The fragile economies of Jordan and Egypt have been hit with fertilizer shortages and skyrocketing energy bills. And of course America’s petrodollar slaves—the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudia Arabia, and Qatar—are being strangled economically by the Resistance Axis’s control of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab.
If those increasingly desperate countries try to live on their savings, by cashing in their American bonds, the bond market will implode. The AI bubble, consisting of vast investments without much return, will pop. Economic Armageddon will ensue.
And then there is the petrodollar issue. US bases in those countries have been devastated by Iranian drone and rocket fire, and most have been all but abandoned. If the Americans don’t make painful concessions to Iran, they will be completely driven out of the region. That threatens the petrodollar—and with it, the planet-girdling ring of US bases paid for by the “exorbitant privilege” that allows US oligarchs to print unlimited currency and force the world to accept it.
So the US is faced with a choice between surrendering to Iran and limiting the damage to its empire, or escalating towards apocalyptic destruction. Surrendering while claiming victory is clearly the best option from the US perspective.
But the Israelis see things differently. For them, the war with Iran is existential. If the US surrenders, and Iran emerges stronger than ever, a revitalized Resistance Axis will emerge at the same moment that global and US public opinion are turning decisively against the Genocidal Entity. That will not only put an end to the endless expansionism of the Greater Israel project, but likely lead to the liberation of all of Occupied Palestine.
Historically, when “Israel” senses an existential threat, and the US doesn’t care, terrible things happen. In 1963, US president Kennedy vowed to shut down Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Israel’s founding father Ben Gurion, outraged by Kennedy’s intransigence, resigned as Prime Minister in June 1963 and largely disappeared from view. Zionist-controlled sources like Gemini claim Ben Gurion dedicated himself “to a quiet life centered around study and writing.” But many historians, following Michael Collins Piper and Laurent Guyénot, believe Ben Gurion “went dark” to devote himself to orchestrating Kennedy’s assassination. Following the JFK coup d’état, Lyndon Johnson, an Israeli asset, greenlighted Zionist nukes, the 1967 war of expansion, and even the attempted murder of 293 American sailors aboard the USS Liberty.
