The war on Iran represents a tipping point in the shifting balance of power on the world stage.
Superficially, this war is the culmination of a decades long effort by one man, the indicted war criminal and genocidal psychopath, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu.
But of course, it’s about much more than the crazed ambitions of that mass-murdering megalomaniac.
Over the last quarter century the world has watched as Western regimes violated the sovereignty of poor defenceless nations, spreading death and destruction in the name of freedom and democracy, without regard for civilian life, cultural heritage or the environment, and with utter contempt for international law.
This rogue behaviour has been tacitly tolerated by the rest of the world for decades, simply because they lacked the power to challenge Western hegemony or even moderate the worst excesses of the West’s supremacist conceit. But that status quo has been shifting slowly yet surely in recent years, as the US-led West’s primacy has waned.
Russia, China and Iran have spent the last couple of decades preparing for precisely this moment in world history, and they know what they’re doing, unlike Trump.
This war will end US dollar dominance and the petrodollar system.
Iran has imposed restrictions on maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most vital choke point through which a quarter of the world’s oil and gas supplies previously passed each day, now requiring transit fees and allowing oil shipments denominated in Chinese currency, while barring vessels associated with the aggressors.
Meanwhile, Iran is using its vast arsenal of drones and missiles to systematically dismantle the archipelago of US and Israeli military bases across West Asia, from which this illegal unprovoked aggression was launched against Iran.
The bossy, arrogant and entitled America, high on hubris and contempt for others, having elevated miscreants and incompetents to the highest levels of authority, now faces the inevitable and predictable consequences, namely strategic humiliation and economic collapse.
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