Dying for Tel Aviv

The war against Iran was lost the very moment Israel and the United States chose to launch it. Public opinion remains overwhelmingly hostile. A victory is politically impossible.

Effect an Iranian missile strile in Tel Aviv; March, 29, 2006.

You know Carl von Clausewitz’s timeless dictum: “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” In the brutal arithmetic of conflict, true victory isn’t just about battlefield dominance—it’s about alchemizing military gains into lasting political triumphs.

France learned this the hard way in Algeria, snatching military victory from eight grueling years of combat, wielding overwhelming firepower against the outgunned FLN, and deploying over 900,000 troops by 1962 (gendarmerie not even included). Yet they lost the war politically, their empire crumbling under the weight of global scorn and domestic revulsion.

We called out the sheer lunacy of this American assault on Iran from the very first strikes last June—a reckless gambit waged purely in Israel’s shadow. Every other pretext peddled to justify it? Utter rubbish that evaporates under the slightest scrutiny: Iran’s supposedly “two weeks from the bomb,” its funding of terrorism, the need to starve China of oil, or smashing the BRICS alliance. These are flimsy fig leaves for a folly that serves no one but Netanyahu’s inner circle.

This war is unwinnable for the U.S. and Israel because public opinion has already rendered its verdict—and in places like Iraq and Pakistan, furious crowds are literally laying siege to American embassies. The home front has turned hostile, and no amount of spin can reverse it.

The U.S. military is burning through its stockpile of ammunition faster than a prairie fire. Time is on Teheran’s side - and as General Aleskandr Rodimstev famously said at Stalingrad, time is blood.

It’s thus over before it’s begun: The Israelis’ pitch to Trump—a lightning regime change in 48 hours—fizzled spectacularly and shows no signs of materializing. Military muscle without public buy-in and ammo? That’s not strategy; that’s suicide.

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The Israelis, perpetually intoxicated by their own myth of invincibility—despite being utterly impotent without endless American handouts—have now slapped Turkey onto their ever-expanding hit list of regional foes to dismantle. And in a move as predictable as it is reckless, they’ve hammered Lebanon yet again, escalating a multi-front combats that’s spiraling into catastrophe.

Worse still, the oil and gas supply chain is choking to death at breakneck speed, poised to cripple the West, Japan, and South Korea in mere weeks, courtesy of a war nobody wanted but the hawks in Tel Aviv and their enablers in D.C.