The armed conflict in Israel today, which threatens to become World War III, is the continuation of almost a century of British-staged armed conflict between Arab and Jew that dates back to the Nebi Musa riots of 1920.
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Jabotinsky & Chaim Weizmann were both witting champions of the British Empire — instruments of Lord Alfred Milner and Leo Amery — the final authors of the Balfour Declaration, who craftily used them to secure British rule over Palestine as part of the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreements.


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The British also created and controlled the leaders of Arab nationalist movements. They owned Haj Amin al-Husseini, a young radical, funded his religious network and social organizations, and created the post of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem for him.
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Nebi Musa riots lasted several days. 5 Jews & 4 Arabs were killed, 216 Jews & 23 Arabs were wounded. Jabotinsky & Husseini were made public heroes by their British controllers. The die was cast, but the stage for the conflict had already been set decades before.
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#Palestine had been a necessary imperial target of acquisition for consolidation of the Empire for more than half a century before Sykes-Picot agreements, dating back to the 1830s and the efforts of Lord Shaftsbury and Lord Palmerston, master of cultural and political warfare.
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Shaftsbury was a Christian Zionist & British Israelite, who believed that Jews must return to Zion before there could be the second coming of Christ. He opposed Jewish civil emancipation in England, was anti-Semitic but believed it was Britain’s destiny to establish Zion.
Palmerston offered Sultan of Turkey British help in putting down an 1838 Arab revolt in Greater Syria. In return, Britain was given the right to establish a vice-consulate in Jerusalem — beachhead for the Empire. British decided to use a fledgling Zionist movement as their proxy.
The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 massively increased efficiency & shortened time of travel, putting an even higher premium on Britain’s securing a base of operations in Palestine, as a northern defense of the canal. Image
One of Britain’s motives in starting WWI was to finally secure Palestine with Sykes-Picot and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. No longer would the British have to entreat the Turks to accept the Jewish immigrants, which in British eyes were only surrogates for their empire.
Jabotinsky was a wholly owned and created asset of the British Empire, controlled by a political network led by Leo Amery, who became Britain’s most prominent Imperial spokesman and political organizer. Amery’s circle included Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Milner.

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Amery’s vision was that of Rhodes. The British plan to dismember the US in Civil War had failed bitterly. Rhodes, a rabid British race imperialist, had amassed his fortune through the exploration and mining of gold in Africa.
Rhodes wanted the “establishment, promotion & development of a Secret Society, the true aim & object whereof shall be for extension of British rule throughout the world, perfecting of a system of emigration from the UK, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands...
...and especially the entire continent of Africa, Holy Land, Valley of Euphrates, the whole of South America, Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, seaboard of China & Japan, ultimate recovery of the USA as an integral part of the British Empire.”
Rhodes’ secret society & how it operated are detailed in Carroll Quigley’s Anglo-American Establishment. Quigley describes British power elite at turn of century. They combined press, created political institutions & used financial power to affect policy.
carrollquigley.net/pdf/The_Anglo-…
Elite consisted of Venetian Cecil family; political & financial trustees of Rhodes’ Trust; various banking institutions + British royal family. Quigley describes a small inner core of collaborators from Britain’s aristocracy and financial elite.
They had 1 major enemy: American System of Political Economy. It threatened existence of British Empire, which depended on mercantilist system of securing cheap raw materials from colonized, backward parts of world, shipped to England for industrial production and military use.
At the turn of the century, there were two powers in the world that represented the American system: the United States of America, and Germany, which had built its economy on the model of America’s great economist Henry C. Carey.
Following stipulations of Rhodes’ Will, his collaborators sparked WWI to dismantle a threatening Germany, carve up Europe, secure + expand colonial holdings by acquiring much of Ottoman Empire, giving them its oil holdings + secure Palestine as military buffer to Suez Canal.
In order to accomplish these goals, they also worked non-stop to trap the United States into collaborating with their warring schemes and sought to diminish America’s industrial economy from within.
Lord Milner, British High Commissioner for Africa, had won Boer War, united South Africa as one political entity under British rule giving Britain looting rights for most important raw materials in Africa. He derived much power from these accomplishments.
At close of Boer War, Milner recruited group from Oxford University to assist him in establishing British rule in Africa. He recruited them to his philosophy and became each and every one’s mentor. Known as Milner’s Kindergarten, they would play a major role in both WWI and WWII.
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As WWI approached, Rhodes’ secret society, under Milner went to work. Both Liberal & Conservative, they held in common a rabid racial imperialism. For propaganda purposes, they created RIIA, purchased Times of London, ran crucial press organs to rally public behind their aims. Image
To understand today’s Likud + right wing in Israel, one must understand Amery & Milner + their role in shaping British Empire. They used Zionism to secure oilfields of Middle East + defense of Suez Canal. They stated this openly, as did their Christian Zionist supporters.

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Leo Amery’s son, Julian, described his father in The Empire at Bay, Notes from the Leo Amery Diaries (1988). British Imperialism “was a civilizing mission to which British peoples could dedicate themselves: one from which they would derive a sense of purpose & source of pride.”
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“This concept of Empire was much more than a political programme. It was an ideology that constituted a coherent system of thought to which every issue, political, economic, social, cultural, and even moral could be related. More than that, it was a faith.”
“This faith would sustain [Leo Amery] throughout his entire life.” In LeoAmery’s own words, this faith and concept of Empire, with its responsibility for “civilizing other cultures,” was mandated by God.
Amery is famously quoted as saying: “The Empire is not external to any of the British nation. It is something like the Kingdom of Heaven within ourselves.” Image
Amery was recruited by Milner in South Africa while reporting on Boer War & was known as Milner’s mouthpiece. A few years before Cecil Rhodes’ death in 1902, Rhodes discussed with Amery Rhodes Trust & scholarship fund to recruit young men to attend a special program at Oxford.
Scholarships would be awarded to select students from British Dominions, Germany, & the US, with the proportion heavily weighted to US recipients. The overt purpose was to recruit American support for the British Empire. Amery ran Rhodes’ Trust from 1933 until his death in 1955.
While at Oxford, Amery founded a branch of Fabian Society & established a close relationship with the Fabians Sidney and Beatrice Webb. He also came under the hegemony of Joseph Chamberlain, to become the leading spokesman for a tariff policy to secure advancement of the Empire.
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In 1902, he and the Webbs founded the Coefficients, a secret dining club of Liberal and Conservative imperialists including:

Bertrand Russell
Halford Mackinder
Sir Clinton Dawkins
Prof. W.A.S. Hewins
Leo Maxse
H.G. Wells

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Their intent was to create a Brains Trust that would make government policy. Amery’s area of expertise was the military. He presented the reorganization plans for the Army that would allow the British to fight World War I.
“Most of the members, in fact, shocked me profoundly. I remember Amery’s eyes gleaming with blood-lust at the thought of a war with America, in which as he said with exultation, we should have to arm the whole adult male population...” — Bertrand Russell Image
In 1910, Amery married Florence Greenwood. Her father emigrated from Wales to Canada, married into family of American colonists who sided with British during Revolution. Her family was fiercely loyal to United Empire Loyalists with almost fanatical reverence for British Crown. Image
On June 11, 1916, less than a month after secret Sykes-Picot treaty signed, Milner given full page in NYT to make case that US should partner with British Empire. Milner knew of secret agreements with French to move war to Palestine + carving up Ottoman Empire between the two. Image
US had already entered war on side of British & as US would provide margin of victory, it would have major say in settlement of the peace. Milner, the man in pursuit of carrying out Cecil Rhodes’ Last Will and Testament, was about to join a War Cabinet with PM David Lloyd George. Image
Secret agreement to move war to eastern front would give Britain control over #Palestine, providing military buffer to #SuezCanal. Palestine would also provide a deepwater port (#Haifa) on Mediterranean for export of oil. Milner needed Americans on his side for plan to succeed. Image
“What I especially stand for is closest possible union between States under British Crown... there must never be another serious quarrel between States & England. I believe greatest disaster in human history was split which separated American colonies from home country.” — Milner
“I am sure that those in the United States who are familiar with the facts of British Government in India, would never wish to see that Government replaced by a Government of Junkers. I was ultra-British—an out and out British Imperialist” — Milner
A March 18, 1917 entry in Beatrice Webb’s diary describes Milner’s more private thoughts. Webb’s entry is made at conclusion of briefing she was given by Tom Jones, then acting secretary to Cabinet Committee on Territorial Terms of Peace. Milner was chairman of this committee. Image
“There is a vivid movement, guided by Milner & served by Amery, to prepare for another war, to complete the ruin of Germany & domination of British Empire. This gang of Power worshippers are running down Russian revolution & minimising entry of US as one of the belligerents.”
“They are bent on maintaining a ruling caste of a ruling race: they fear & despise democracy. Any aspirations towards self-government among British subjects, who do not already possess it, is sedition to be put down by machine guns and plentiful hangings.”
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Milner’s private papers give credence to this report. After colonizing Southern Africa, he wrote: “I believe in a lot of virtual-self-government in the new Colonies without letting the supreme control out of Imperial hands.” Image
Milner: Apostle of Empire: A life of Alfred George, the Right Honourable Viscount Milner of St James’s and Cape Town, KG, GCB, GCMG, 1854-1925
dokumen.pub/milner-apostle…

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Amery’s view was similar: “South Africa must develop as a white man’s country under the guidance of white men, and not as a bastard country like most of South America”
“In five hundred years’ time I expect the South African white man will contain a strong dark blend, and the end of all things may be a brown South African race. There should not be too quick a mixture now or for the next few centuries.” — Amery
Amery’s civil career in Britain’s Imperial Command was illustrious, varied, and colored throughout by sympathy for fascism. He joined Milner as an undersecretary at the War Cabinet, where he first met both Jabotinsky and Weizmann.

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When Milner became Secretary of State for Colonies in 1919, Amery was posted as his Under-Secretary. In 1922, he joined Privy Council & was appointed First Lord of Admiralty. In 1925 he was given post of Dominions Secretary in charge of #Palestine Mandate, held until 1929.
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As Quigley reports, the policy of the Milner group was to re-arm Germany to go east to destroy Russia. Statements to that effect are included in Amery’s diaries. In August 1935 Amery gave Hitler his advice on how to strengthen the German economy.
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Amery was an intimate of Reichsbank president & Hitler’s Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht. Schacht told Lord Lothian that Amery said British were not interested in allowing Germany to have her colonies back, but there was no reason Germany couldn’t go east to build up economy.
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Jun 23
🇷🇺🇮🇷 The Enemies of Russia and Iran Are One and the Same Forces

By Elena Panina

“Those who say we should have done more—what exactly do they mean by ‘more’? Start some military operations—is that it? We are already engaged in military operations against those we consider to be adversaries of the ideas we stand for, and against those who pose a threat to the Russian Federation. And these, essentially, are the same forces—whether in Iran’s case or in Russia’s—they’re somewhere in the rear, behind the front lines. But they’re not even those on the line of contact,” said Vladimir Putin during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on June 20, commenting on the claim that “Russia is an unreliable ally because it didn’t stand up for Iran.” Notably, the Russian president chose his words very carefully and spoke with great precision.
[Source: kremlin.ru/events/preside…]

▪️ In simple terms: everyone has their own front in the global battlefield. For Russia, it’s Ukraine; for Iran, it’s its own territory. But the enemy is the same. You can call it “the West” or, more specifically, the global “Finintern”—a financial international elite dreaming of flipping the chessboard of world politics to preserve its so-called “rules-based order.”

Interestingly, Putin began his response by quoting a book on military strategy by the President of Indonesia, published in Russia: “Each country bears its own responsibility for what happens on its territory.”

▪️ In Iran’s case, the voluntary retreat from its zones of influence in Lebanon and Syria, and the failure to respond strongly to Israel’s strikes on Iranian diplomatic missions and Iranian territory, eventually led to direct Israeli aggression with U.S. support.

The law ratifying the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran was signed by Vladimir Putin on April 21. But the Speaker of Iran’s Majlis, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, only sent the ratified treaty to Iran’s new President, Masoud Pezeshkian, on June 16—almost two months later. That delay is a highly significant nuance for understanding the current internal situation in Iran.
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Trump apparently thinks he has chosen an intermediate, somewhat personal course of action in the Middle East: a strike on only three Iranian nuclear sites and a new call for peace, which seems to weaken the arguments of both the pro-Israel hawks and the MAGA isolationists. But in reality, he took another step under pressure from lobbyists and circumstances, and further fueled the appetites of influential groups.

The reaction of Congress is noteworthy. Most lawmakers generally support a strike on Iran but simultaneously question the constitutionality of Trump’s actions.

Here is the statement from Democratic Senator Chris Murphy: “Only Congress can declare a preemptive war, and we must vote as soon as possible for a bill to completely strip President Trump of the authority to drag us into conflict in the Middle East.”

Many in Washington like the conflict in the Middle East. But they like even more the idea of taking away Trump’s powers on key foreign policy issues. And who said this concerns only Israel and Iran?

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President James David Vance went on Sunday talk shows to defend the half-measures and “moderate” (as Trump apparently sees it) decision of the Oval Office occupant. Well, this very position is the most vulnerable and unstable. At the same time, it strengthens the hawks (and Trump’s enemies) and disorganizes the MAGA movement.

And this is only the domestic American aspect. When, in a few years, they ask what Donald Trump achieved, what he did, the answer will be: he started another war. He did not make America great. Quite the opposite…
The US Has Stepped Into the Abyss — Will Iran Become the New Afghanistan?

By Elena Panina

It must be stated as a fact: America has found itself in a vortex of armed escalation that will increasingly burden it with a load impossible to bear in its current decrepit state.

▪️ Objective analysis should not be deceived by the attractive image painted by morning news: stealth bombers entering foreign airspace and unhindered attacking underground Iranian facilities with advanced penetrating bombs. Even a superficial review of specialized American military publications shows that their Air Force operates on a “bit by bit” principle.

This “powerful” strike was carried out amid shortages of everything: airworthy aircraft counted on paper, enormous maintenance backlogs, catastrophic shortages of flight personnel—not to mention their qualifications—and many other nuances of a declining empire. When this is taken into account, the picture gains more depth and scale. This applies across all branches of the military that might be engaged if the war escalates.

Most likely, Iran will receive significant support both regionally and globally. As previously noted, China will do everything possible to prevent Iran’s collapse. Primarily because Iran is a vital link in the new global axis opposing the West, and losing it would be unacceptable. “Conveniently and naturally,” a direct railway line between Iran and China has just opened. Military and other cargo are already moving, and this flow will only grow.

Regarding Russia, there is still hope to play the role of peacekeeper. Our assistance, including military aid, will remain covert and flow through China and North Korea. North Korea is another country playing and will continue to play a significant role in this confrontation. Few know that most of Iran’s underground facilities beneath the mountains were built by North Korean specialists. In the event of further escalation, Iran may well receive ready-made devices from Pyongyang for its own enriched material. As for delivery systems, including hypersonic missiles, Tehran has plenty.

▪️ Contrary to Washington’s current declarations about the complete destruction of Iranian nuclear sites, our military experts hold a firm view that no existing means can destroy Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities. The US simply does not possess the required arsenal of destructive weapons. Iran designed everything from the start anticipating American bombings, so it will undoubtedly complete its nuclear program.

Even if the US does not plunge into a full-scale ground operation—which it lacks the forces and resources for—coffins will start coming back to America from the Middle East anyway. Major US bases are openly vulnerable to missile attacks and other actions, and beneath the water Iran also has purchased “Varshavyankas”—some of the world’s most modern and silent submarines—as well as other submarines.

And who said sabotage through local recruited networks can only go one way? Just look at how carefully any mention of critical damage to one of the largest American oil refineries in recent days is being swept under the rug. According to one version by American intelligence, it was a terrorist act—an explosive device planted at the refinery went off.

▪️ Ahead lies a lot of pain for America in very vulnerable and sensitive areas, which will increase political and civil chaos. The main source of their troubles will be losses in personnel and equipment.

This conflict, it seems, will last a long time. It is yet another existential regional battle reaching far beyond its borders. Just as the West supports the Banderite formations with its military backing, countries opposing Western dictates will supply Iran by all possible means. This is already happening and will continue—both openly and covertly.
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“China is the big prize. China will be the final goal of this whole regime change process which started after 9/11.”

With this warning, Hussein Askary (@HusseinAskary) of the Belt & Road Institute in Sweden frames today’s global tensions as part of a long-term Western strategy to preserve a fading unipolar order by suppressing the rise of a multipolar world led by China, Russia, and the Global South.

Askary argues that Iran is now the central battleground in this struggle—not because of its nuclear program, but because of its pivotal role in the emerging economic and strategic architecture. Iran has entrenched itself in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, joined BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and expanded its regional influence despite decades of sanctions. These developments, he contends, cast Iran as a strategic threat to Western hegemony.

He claims that the U.S., Britain, and Israel—backed by powerful intelligence networks and financial elites—have little interest in peace or stability in West Asia. Their strategy, he says, is to generate sustained instability in regions like the Middle East to block the rise of competing powers. While leaders like Netanyahu aim to eliminate regional rivals, Anglo-American strategists see Iran as the last remaining independent actor in what some Western planners label the “black curse.”

The broader goal, according to Askary, is regime change in Iran, its fragmentation along ethnic lines, and a chain of destabilization extending through Pakistan, Central Asia, and Russia—culminating in an effort to contain or dismantle China’s global influence. Unless this agenda is stopped, Askary warns, it could spiral into global confrontation—even thermonuclear war.
Hussein Askary, The Belt & Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX):

It is very clear that at least since 2003, Iran had no intention of producing a nuclear weapon. Its nuclear program is completely civilian. This has been proven not only by the International Atomic Energy Organization but by the United States intelligence community itself. Since that time until now—until two weeks ago—the U.S. intelligence community’s opinion and assessment has been that Iran was not building a nuclear bomb. This was expressed two weeks ago by the Director of National Intelligence of the United States in front of Congress, Tulsi Gabbard, and she said that Iran has no intention to build a nuclear bomb. This is the assessment not of herself but of all the American intelligence agencies, and this goes back a very long time.

One way of assuring that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon was through the JCPOA—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—an agreement which was reached by Iran and the five plus one, the five Security Council members and Germany, in 2015. It took seven years to reach that agreement, and it assured that Iran, while it can keep its civilian nuclear program, will never be able to produce a nuclear weapon, because there will be international observers inside every Iranian nuclear facility, assuring that Iran does not produce a nuclear weapon.

That agreement was cancelled by none other than President Donald Trump when he became president in 2016. So, if there’s any problem, he is to blame if Iran ever acquires a nuclear weapon—although his intelligence agencies are telling him Iran is not about to acquire a nuclear weapon. Now President Trump says that the American intelligence agencies don’t know what they’re talking about, which is a bit funny in a way.

So the issue here is: if Iran is not close to building a nuclear bomb, what are the real reasons for that?

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has his own goals. The so-called Zionist movement has its own goals. Both the Israeli Zionists and the American Christian Zionists have their own goals, which are biblical prophecies and so on and so forth. Netanyahu wants to make sure that the original plan handed over to him more than 20 years ago—called “A Clean Break” and “Securing the Realm"—is followed, to ensure that there is no other power in the region, the so-called Middle East or West Asia, other than Israel. All other nations—major nations like Egypt, Syria, Iran, and so on—must be weakened and ruined. Iraq, of course, so that Israel remains on top and secure.

Ironically, that has not made Israel a secure country, as we can see today. But this level of thinking is not what the major strategists at a different level think about. These we call the Anglo-American elite, or the people who want to keep the unipolar world.

The unipolar world is that the United States and Britain will control the world, and their financial, economic, and military interests will be supreme above all other goals of other nations. This is a utopian dream, but it’s a very dangerous dream because the United States is still the world’s largest military power, and it can wreak havoc around the world. The intelligence services of the United States, Britain, Israel, and others are powerful enough to create chaos. They cannot win wars, but they can create chaos—as we saw in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and other places. There is no peace and security there. But the idea is to keep these areas in chaos so other powers don’t dominate. These other powers, of course, are Russia, China, and their allies in the Global South.

This is what is really behind the whole escalation. From the standpoint of the real big strategists in the United States, Britain, and some parts of Europe, the aim is to make sure there is no new world order—no multilateral world order—where nations like China, India, Russia, and others in the Global South have a seat at the table of global governance. The idea is that only the unipolar world will decide for other nations how to live, what level of economic and technological development they can have. This is really where the issue lies.

Iran has become a key element in the new, multilateral economic world order. For many reasons, despite the 800 types of sanctions imposed on it for 40 years, Iran has managed to maintain a certain stable economic situation. It is building infrastructure and integrating its economy with other nations in the Global South. Iran is a key element of the Belt and Road Initiative. Many people now are saying that the real goal of the attack on Iran is to destroy the Belt and Road Initiative.

Iran is now a key member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is a Eurasian security and economic constellation. Iran also became a member of the BRICS nations, together with the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia, and now Indonesia. Many other nations are looking forward to becoming members of BRICS. Iran has a pivotal geographical location on the Belt and Road Initiative, including both the land-based corridor and the Maritime Silk Road.

Iran is also part of what is considered an alternative to the Belt and Road by India, the Russia-Iran-India North-South International Transport Corridor, which goes from Russia through the Caspian Sea to northern ports in Iran like Bandar Anzali. I was there myself as recently as last May and saw the enormous advanced infrastructure being built there. It also includes routes from the eastern Caspian Sea to Bandar Abbas on the Gulf and to Chabahar, near the Pakistani border, and then further to India.

That’s why Iran now plays a pivotal geographical and economic role in this constellation of the Global South. I have followed this development for many years. The first article I wrote was in 1996 for the American magazine Executive Intelligence Review, when President Hashemi Rafsanjani inaugurated a small railway section between Mashhad in eastern Iran and Sarakhs in Turkmenistan, connecting that part of Asia to West Asia. One year later, another railway was built from Tabriz in northwestern Iran to the Turkish border. That was the first big Silk Road article I wrote, which became part of the first-ever New Silk Road comprehensive report published by Executive Intelligence Review and the Schiller Institute in 1997.

Iran shares borders with nine countries and is adjacent to Central Asia, Pakistan, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Turkey, Iraq, the Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. It has a pivotal role in all these constellations. Iran also has huge oil and natural gas reserves shared with Qatar—part of which was recently bombed by the Israelis. So Iran, as a key component in the Gulf region and West Asia, is a very important part of this whole picture.

One very interesting event occurred just about one week before the Israeli attack on Iran: the first train from Xi’an in northwest China arrived at the IRP logistics hub in northern Iran. This will be a new transport line on the New Silk Road—the Belt and Road—part of the China–Central Asia–West Asia corridor. Many say this could be a symbolic trigger for the Israeli attack. I don’t know if that’s true, but it is symbolically significant.

Importantly, China has been playing an increasing role in the region after the defeat of the U.S. and NATO in Afghanistan and their humiliating withdrawal in August 2021. What is now called the pivot of Eurasia—Afghanistan and Central Asia—is slipping from British and American control for the first time in more than 200 years, since the Great Game began. That vacuum has been filled by China. China now has good relations with the Taliban, and there are many investments in Afghanistan. Central Asian nations and Russia are also building constructive relationships there. This pivot of Eurasia, which the British wanted to keep unstable, is now out of their game plan.

China also managed to get Iran and Saudi Arabia—who were entangled in a very dangerous and bloody proxy war in the region, the so-called Shia-Sunni divide—to normalize relations in March 2023. This ended nine years of terrible destabilization in the region. The war in Syria led to problems in Lebanon and Yemen. Eventually, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates realized they could not win the war in Yemen. Therefore, the normalization between Saudi Arabia and Iran was very important.

A few weeks before that agreement in March 2023, President Xi Jinping visited Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, holding three major summits: one with the Saudi king and crown prince, one with the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), and one with all the Arab countries. This was a major breakthrough both diplomatically and economically. A comprehensive strategic agreement was signed with Saudi Arabia. President Xi Jinping offered cooperation in various sectors: infrastructure, digital infrastructure, cloud computing, space technology, nuclear technology, clean technology, and more.

The Gulf countries want to diversify their economies and reduce reliance on fluctuating oil prices. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and others want to industrialize using their sovereign wealth funds to invest in industries. But for industrialization, they need to invest in transport, power, telecommunications, and so on. China is willing to offer all these areas of cooperation.

Two months later, in February 2023, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited China and finalized a comprehensive 25-year strategic agreement. This is one of the most comprehensive agreements ever signed between Iran and China. Iran’s natural economic orientation was previously toward the West. Its historical relationship with Russia has been troubled, and it lacked deep ties with Asia. But these new agreements, and the normalization of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, ushered in a new era in the region’s political and economic development.

Now, you remember that in 2023, a few months after these developments, President Joe Biden announced from Indonesia during the G20 summit an agreement to build what is called the India–Middle East–EU corridor as a rival to the Belt and Road Initiative. I wrote at that time that this is political fiction. It’s a political project meant to undermine the Belt and Road without building any real alternative. There will be no railways, no ports, because all the railways and ports are already being built by China and its partner countries. If you want to build something serious, you have to involve China. Therefore, I said this was a political fraud, meant to derail the work China has been doing.

In September, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the United Nations General Assembly and presented a map of the region. In green, he showed Israel and some Arab countries that, according to him, were willing to normalize relations with Israel. The rest of the region was left out. There was no map of Palestine, nothing about it. Just Israel and the Arab countries. Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon were also left out. A year later, after the genocidal war was launched in Gaza, Netanyahu presented a new map including the India–Middle East–EU plan, calling it “the blessing,” and labeling the rest—the parts including Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq—as “the curse."

All these countries, except for Iran, have been destroyed or are under the control of the Anglo-American elites and Israel. Iraq, for example, is controlled by the United States, as all its oil export revenues are held in the U.S. Federal Reserve under Executive Order 13303. I’ve written and spoken about this extensively.

So the only one left in this so-called “black curse” is Iran. This is why the current confrontation centers on Iran. The goal is to stop the Belt and Road Initiative, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization—which countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and even Turkey want to join—and the developments around the BRICS nations.

A new world economic order is emerging, but because West Asia, Iran, the Gulf countries, Palestine, and Syria are so strategically and geographically crucial, this region has become the battleground. This is the real reason behind the escalation, not just Netanyahu or Trump or Zionism. The true strategists—figures like Tony Blair and the financial oligarchies of London and Wall Street, what people call the military-industrial complex—are focused on defeating Iran.

The plan is to achieve regime change in Iran as a key element in returning to control over the pivot of Eurasia, and also to implement long-standing plans like the Bernard Lewis Plan, which envisions dividing countries like Iran into multiple ethnic entities—Persian, Azeri, Arab, Kurdish, Baloch, and so on. From there, the plan would move on to Pakistan and Central Asia. There are even plans to conquer and divide Russia along ethnic lines, as many in the West have suggested. The ultimate goal is regime change in China. China is the final target of this regime change project that began after 9/11.

Whether Russia and China will now intervene diplomatically or otherwise to stop this remains uncertain. They are attempting to talk to Trump, to the Europeans, to find solutions. But this is where things are headed, and many now predict that the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine will develop into a global war—a global thermonuclear war.

This is the background we believe explains the current reality. Our intention here was to have a discussion about this extraordinary summit, which falls into the framework of the new constellation of economic and political forces in the Global South. That includes the extraordinary summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in late May, between China, the ASEAN, and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
@HusseinAskary Source: Why Is Iran Targetted Now: A Prelude to a World War?
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Jun 20
China–Iran Rail Link Defies Sanctions—Israel Strikes Back

Just days after China and Iran launched a direct overland trade route that bypasses U.S. naval power and sanctions enforcement, Israel struck Iranian targets. The message is unmistakable: Washington and its allies are rattled.

The new rail line—part of a $400 billion pact under China’s Belt and Road Initiative—connects Xi’an to Tehran in 15 days, slashing delivery times and avoiding chokepoints like the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal. No U.S. warships. No surveillance. No sanctions enforcement.

This isn’t just infrastructure—it’s a strategic breakthrough. Iran, long targeted for isolation, is now a central node in a rising Eurasian corridor linking China, Central Asia, Russia, and the Mediterranean. The U.S. campaign of “maximum pressure” has failed to contain it.

While Washington scrambles to blacklist Chinese and Iranian firms, and India’s U.S-aligned Chabahar ambitions stagnate, Beijing and Tehran are laying what Iranian officials call the “steel arteries of independence.”

Trade is moving. Sanctions are eroding. Control is slipping.

Coincidence? Not likely.
The Belt and Road: A Declaration of Independence from Empire

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a resurrection of an old American ideal. Abraham Lincoln’s Transcontinental Railway shattered the monopoly of maritime empire for the first time in modern history, breaking the British Crown’s centuries-long stranglehold on global trade routes. The oligarchy—then and now—has always ruled by controlling chokepoints: narrow shipping lanes, ports, canals, and straits.

The first true cause of World War I wasn’t archdukes or alliances—it was the showdown between the rising Teutonic industrial power and the Anglo-Saxon maritime elite. Britain could not abide a Germany that threatened its supremacy over the seas. The sea was their dominion, their empire—not merely of flags and colonies, but of finance, minerals, and trade. That same imperial logic defines the Anglo-American Empire today.

This empire is not a nation but a network: a multi-headed beast whose oldest head is the British East India Company—an international maritime cartel backed by mercenaries and financiers. Its bloodline continues in the lords and ladies of the Privy Council and the banks of London and Wall Street. For them, the BRI is the single greatest threat to the system of global looting they’ve maintained for centuries.

The British Empire’s power rested on keeping the world divided: Africa and India as raw material colonies; the seas as profit highways; and development on land as a threat. After the U.S. Civil War, railways across North America, Russia, and parts of Asia promised a land-based alternative to maritime imperialism. That’s why the oligarchy moved to sabotage it—then and now.

To this day, their strategy is permanent underdevelopment. War, sanctions, regime change—anything to stop sovereign nations from building independent infrastructure. Land development is the enemy. Why? Because whoever controls the sea controls the world. That was the doctrine of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan in The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890), and it still guides American grand strategy: secure the sea lanes, seize the mineral deposits, and strangle inland progress.

The Anglo-American elite are geographically insulated yet globally meddling. They sit atop islands and continents far from the devastation they cause. Like the colonial powers before them, they ruled not by example, but by force—especially naval force. Their nightmare is a connected world—rail, roads, energy, and fiber linking continents outside their control.

That’s what the Belt and Road represents: not merely infrastructure, but insubordination.

And for the maritime oligarchy, insubordination is unforgivable.

The Belt and Road is not just a development strategy—it’s a declaration of independence from empire.Image
Pepe Escobar warns: the China–Iran rail link isn’t just trade — it’s a revolution. It bypasses every U.S.-controlled chokepoint, from Hormuz to the Malacca Strait. The West’s response? War. For the neocons and Zionist axis, Iran must never become the logistics heart of Eurasia.

That’s the real reason behind the chaos: to block integration, crush sovereignty, and sever the “steel arteries” of independence before they reshape the global order.

Pepe Escobar: A few weeks ago, the first direct freight train from China arrived in Tehran. It came from Xi’an — the ancient Silk Road capital — crossing Central Asia along the way. This overland route bypasses every U.S.-controlled chokepoint in Eurasia: the Malacca Strait, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz.

It’s no coincidence that a war erupted just days later. One of its main objectives is to stop Iran from becoming a major logistics hub at the heart of Eurasia. No one in the U.S. is offering this analysis — no one.

Judge Napolitano: Did Trump trap Netanyahu into a plot to dismantle BRICS, or did Netanyahu trap Trump into a plot to expand Israel’s borders by neutralizing Iran?

Pepe Escobar: Judge, it’s the same interests.

Judge Napolitano: That’s a Pepe Escobar question. I wouldn’t ask anyone else.

Pepe Escobar: And only you could ask it like that, Judge. If this is a “wag the dog” moment, then it’s a double “wag the dog.”

This war has been on the drawing board since at least 1998, when the neocons were out of power. Back then, they were promoting the infamous “Clean Break” strategy, with Bibi Netanyahu collaborating from the sidelines. Once they returned to power, the collusion became direct.

The ultimate dream of the neocons, the ziocons, and the wider Zionist axis has always been Iran. After 9/11, it became explicit. Remember General Wesley Clark learning at the Pentagon about the plan to take down seven countries in five years? Iran was the final target — the cherry on top.

Now, they believe they have an opening. When I say “they,” I mean the Zionist axis: Netanyahu, the Tel Aviv establishment, and yes, Donald Trump as well.

There’s added urgency now because, as we discussed earlier, Eurasian integration is accelerating. Connectivity corridors, logistical networks, and trade routes — like the International North–South Transport Corridor — are reshaping the region.

I personally traveled this route last month — from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, inside Iran. It’s one of the most important geo-economic projects of the 21st century, on par with China’s Arctic Silk Road.

At a panel today in St. Petersburg, one Russian expert said building the Arctic northern route is for Russia what the space race was in the 1950s and ’60s. That’s how strategic this moment is.

From Washington’s point of view, it must be stopped. And Iran? Just look at a map. Geography is destiny. Iran sits at the crossroads of everything.

And now the Chinese know they can send goods overland from China to Iran — and receive them back — with no U.S. surveillance, no naval blockades, and no sanctions. The connection is real. The shift is already happening.
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Jun 18
Jeffrey Sachs says Mossad is in charge—Israel’s premier assassination unit has effectively dictated U.S. foreign policy for decades, and Trump is just the latest to fall in line.

The deep state—CIA, Mossad, MI6—calls the shots, not presidents. Ukraine’s strike on Russian bombers and Israel’s attack on Tehran? Same tactics, same authors, same drones. Mossad was behind both. And the CIA? Of course it knew—it’s neck-deep in it.

America doesn’t have an “America First” foreign policy, Sachs says. That’s a convenient illusion. What it has is an “Israel First” policy—reckless, delusional, and decades in the making.

The U.S. sacrifices trillions, countless lives, and global trust to serve an extremist Zionist agenda that treats American interests as expendable.

Jeffrey Sachs: Certainly, Mossad is in the lead. It’s assassination and murder unit number one, but Mossad has effectively determined U.S. policy for decades, and Trump is falling into line. It’s quite amazing to see one president after another fall into line with Murder Incorporated, led by Israel.

We don’t know exactly what happened between then and now. In one sense, I think President Putin, in 2017, expressed something that we all come to learn. He knew it in 2017, in an interview with Le Figaro. He said, “I’ve dealt with many American presidents. They come into office with ideas, but then men in dark suits and briefcases, wearing blue ties, show up and explain to them the world the way that it will be. And so you never hear of those ideas again.”

I can’t peer into the inner thinking of Trump, but everything he’s saying and doing today violates what he said last month. In the end, we know that our foreign policy is governed by a deep state apparatus—the CIA, Mossad, MI6, as you said—and we know that the actions that occur—for example, Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bombers—had the same provenance, that is, the same authors, as Israel’s attack in Tehran last week. Same methods, same crates carrying drones inside a country to make a decapitation strike or a strategic strike. Mossad was involved in both the Ukraine operation and the Tehran operation last week.

We’ve discussed in recent weeks: what did Trump know? I have no idea. What did the CIA know? Of course, it knew. It was involved in all of this. Who leads all of this? Mossad. I would say—it’s strange, but it’s actually true—America does not have an America First foreign policy. Despite what Donald Trump says, America has an Israel First foreign policy. It happens that Israel’s foreign policy is completely reckless, dangerous, and delusional. And it has been that way for decades. I was going to say for 30 years—that’s the time span of Netanyahu, who is currently the most despicable person on the planet, in my view, because he’s the greatest war progenitor of them all. But it actually goes back beyond 30 years. This is a long-term plan for Israel to have its way in the Middle East.

The way Netanyahu has explained it, repeatedly, for 30 years—for anyone who cares to read his books and articles or watch his speeches—is painful, but worth doing, because he tells you what his modus operandi is. And the modus operandi is this: we will do what we want in the Middle East, and if any government in the region objects, we will overthrow that government. But when he says “we,” he’s being very nice. It’s his U.S. allies who will do it. The U.S. will spend trillions of dollars, lose lives, and destroy the world’s trust in the United States to carry out this extremist Zionist agenda. And Netanyahu has been right. The U.S. has done his bidding up until now.

We know there was a plan hatched decades ago, but revealed to former NATO commander General Wesley Clark in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, which outlined seven wars in five years. Those seven countries were Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Iran. The U.S. has now been engaged in six of those seven. It’s a long-term plan—delayed, by the way—because each one turned into a complete debacle compared to what Bibi always promised: how wonderful these wars would be. And now we’re in the seventh war, finally. Donald Trump has completely fallen into line as of today.

It’s amazing to watch. It’s terrifying to watch. It would be nice if we had an America First foreign policy.
Jeffrey Sachs says the U.S. government has become nothing more than PR and bombs—a regime that fabricates its own reality, smirks as it lies, and treats truth with contempt. It doesn’t pursue peace or justice—only dominance, enforced at gunpoint.

The record is plain: every war it touches ends in catastrophe. But that doesn’t matter to the men in charge. Their families aren’t being bombed. Their cities aren’t burning. They operate like underworld dons—certain that violence writes history.

This isn’t diplomacy. It’s gangsterism in a suit. And it’s not a system the world can survive.

Jeffrey Sachs: This is how the U.S. government acts—and has acted—for decades. Donald Trump is not alone in this. There was a famous interview around 2003 in which one of George Bush Jr.’s top advisors, when asked about the real situation, explained to the reporter, “We make our own reality and you report on it.”

This is the view of a government that has become nothing more than PR and bombs. That’s what the U.S. government is. They have their own narrative. They smirk when they say it. They’re uninterested in anything truthful. They believe that weapons are the only determinant of reality in the end.

This entire approach is repeatedly put to the test. The idea that weapons create truth—not rhetoric, not analysis, not actual events, but weapons—is continually found wanting. That has long been true in human history, and it proves false month after month, year after year, in our current circumstances.

Netanyahu has left behind a wasteland. It’s the old expression of Tacitus: They create a desert and call it peace. This is Netanyahu. He championed the overthrow of Gaddafi—now there have been 14 years of violence, death, and destruction in Libya. He supported overthrowing governments in Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and now, quite explicitly, in Iran.

The wars that have occurred have been complete disasters. This is the empirical record. But they don’t care about the empirical record. It doesn’t touch them. These are powerful people whose families aren’t being bombed, whose relatives aren’t being killed. They act like underworld dons who believe violence runs the show. So they don’t care about the truth.

There’s no analysis here. There never is, these days. There’s no honesty in any statement anyone makes. The day before the Israeli attack, the U.S. government was saying the next round of negotiations with Iran was scheduled for Sunday. This was in the context of ongoing negotiations. Then suddenly, a massive murder attack by Mossad. No one says, “But we were about to negotiate.” It’s taken for granted. “Well, of course that happened.”

What kind of behavior is this? Maybe it’s the behavior of the underworld—but it’s not a behavior in which the overworld can survive, frankly.
Jeffrey Sachs says serious diplomats no longer believe a word the United States, Britain, France, or any close ally of this cabal says. The Russians gave up on that long ago. The Chinese did too. Meanwhile, we accuse them of lying—when all they hear are lies from the U.S.

Thuggery is not survival. Thuggery is thuggery. There’s a stark difference between underworld behavior and what real survival demands. It may sound quaint, but honesty and cooperation are essential—yet we are sliding—absolutely sliding—rapidly toward an unprecedented nuclear war.

Jeffrey Sachs: This has been the consistent pattern. You end up with an unnamed and unknown CIA-led foreign policy. This policy has the advantage of being completely unaccountable. You don’t have to explain it, justify it, or review what’s happened. Nobody looks at the record in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, or Sudan. You simply move forward—more deaths, more killing, more regime change. We’re in the middle of it right now, but this is the big one. This is a country with over 90 million people and powerful allies, and Netanyahu’s madness combined with Trump’s complicity means, “Yeah, sure, let’s kill all the top leaders,” and then declare a happy “mission accomplished,” just like that banner showed.

Serious diplomats don’t believe a word the United States, Britain, France, or any close ally of this cabal actually says. The Russians gave up on trusting that long ago. The Chinese did too. We accuse them of lying constantly, but all they hear are lies from the United States.

I attended a UN Security Council session last week, shortly after Israel bombed Iran without provocation—just days after assassinating several scientists and top military leaders, and only three days before the next round of negotiations was supposed to begin. I listened to the U.S. and other so-called Western diplomats. The ambassador from Denmark was so disgracefully ignorant she didn’t even mention Israel’s bombing of Iran. Instead, all she did was threaten Iran.

The French and British justified Israel’s “right to self-defense,” and the U.S. representative essentially said: If any American is harmed, we will destroy Iran. That’s outright thuggery. This is what diplomacy looks like these days.

This is alarming because diplomacy is supposed to be a set of tools to prevent global destruction. It’s not a game, a show, a clever social media post, or a witty remark outside the UN Security Council. It’s a matter of survival—especially in the nuclear age.

The idea that diplomacy is serious has been thoroughly debunked. Many would say: Sachs, you’re naive, an idiot, a fool. It’s all about power. But survival isn’t only about power. If it becomes only about power, we won’t survive. It has to be about cooperation, understanding, and enough truth-telling that, for example, you don’t carry out mass assassinations three days before a scheduled negotiation and then boast about it.

You don’t say, “Yes, we want to negotiate—but if you don’t completely surrender, we will destroy you,” usually in big bold letters with exclamation points. That’s not survival. Thuggery is not survival. That’s thuggery—and thuggery is not diplomacy. Thuggery is thuggery.

There is a difference between underworld behavior and the kind of conduct we need to survive. I know it sounds quaint—the idea that honesty, follow-through, real negotiations, and respect for the UN Charter matter. It sounds old-fashioned, but it is, in fact, the foundation of survival.

And we are sliding—absolutely sliding—rapidly toward an unprecedented world war. A war with nuclear weapons.
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Jun 16
Zionism Is Modern Nazism: The Zionist regime in Tel Aviv mimics the Nazi playbook—demanding absolute loyalty from Jews worldwide, no matter where they live or what nations they belong to.Image
Just as Nazis exalted the “Aryan” race while persecuting Jews, Slavs, and Roma, Zionism elevates one group above all others, weaponizing Jewish identity to justify ethnic supremacy.
The result? A brutal occupation, the destruction of Palestine, repression of Arab peoples, and even racial discrimination against Black Jews inside Israel.
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Jun 14
🇷🇺 Sergey Glazyev unmasks the terminal madness infecting US foreign policy—a death cult masquerading as strategy, authored by the cold hand of Zbigniew Brzezinski.

“Washington continues to implement Brzezinski’s suicidal strategy, which consists of five stages: the seizure of Ukraine, the separation of Europe from Russia, the subjugation of Russia, the destruction of Iran, and the isolation of China. Having stumbled on the third stage, they have now begun the fourth.”

Five acts in a tragedy of empire:

Seize Ukraine — Accomplished at gunpoint, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, reducing a sovereign nation to a NATO buffer zone.

Cut Europe off from Russia — Achieved through blackmail and sabotage, transforming Europe into a deindustrialized satellite orbiting Washington.

Crush Russia — Attempted and failed. Instead of collapse, Russia rearmed, recalibrated, and realigned the global balance.

Destroy Iran — Now in motion. Assassinations, sanctions, and the looming threat of open war—all signs of imperial desperation.

Encircle China — The final delusion: to isolate a civilization of 1.4 billion people with aircraft carriers and empty threats.

Having shattered its teeth on Moscow, the empire now turns its fury on Tehran. This is not strategy—it is imperial nihilism armed with nuclear weapons.

Glazyev isn’t speculating—he’s warning. The world must wake up. The American empire is not stabilizing the world. It is setting it on fire.
🇷🇺 Sergey Glazyev writes:

“The beginning of the fourth stage of Washington’s implementation of Brzezinski’s strategy—following the failure of the third—will lead to catastrophic consequences for the West. Israel and the United States will not defeat Iran, which will shut down the Strait of Hormuz, through which a quarter of the world’s oil is transported. Oil prices will skyrocket, plunging the European Union into a deep depression. This will further destabilize the already fragile macroeconomic situation in the United States, with serious negative consequences for the American economy and financial system. Iran, with the support of its allies, including China, will deal a crushing blow to Israel. A mass exodus of millions of Israeli residents will begin toward the Right-Bank Dnieper region, where Zelensky’s Russophobic regime has already eliminated the local male population. The blood-soaked clown will be forced into peace by his masters. All of this was predicted three years ago and published on this channel in the piece titled ‘What Is Happening.’”
🇷🇺 Sergey Glazyev continues:

“Modern war is called hybrid because the battlefield is used as an auxiliary front—one where punitive actions and provocations are carried out. The main front is cognitive and informational, where the struggle is for the minds of people. The second front is currency and finance. The third is terrorism… The outcome of the war unleashed by Israel against Iran will be determined by the resilience of Iran’s regime. Judging by the internal strikes, there are traitors, corrupt officials, and fifth and sixth columns of enemy agents—supporters of restoring the Shah’s regime. The main blow will come from within, aiming to fracture society along ethnic lines. Iran is a multiethnic country with a multimillion-strong Azerbaijani population. If they do not succumb to provocations from outside, Iran will stand. The same applies to Israel, from which a mass exodus of civilians may begin under the pressure of strikes from Iran and the Palestinians.”
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