Waiting on images of abject submission that don’t appear

BY Alastair CROOKE

Continued U.S. ‘dominance’ requires striking out in multiple directions, because the unidirectional war on Russia unexpectedly has failed.

Trump: “This problem with Vietnam … We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct: ‘Ah, let’s take it easy!’. It’s that we’re not politically correct anymore. Just so you understand: We win. Now we win”. All these would have been easy – along with Afghanistan.

What was the meaning to Trump’s reference to Vietnam? ‘What he was saying is that ‘we’ would have won Vietnam easily, if we hadn’t been woke and DEI’. Some veterans might amplify, ‘You know: we had enough firepower: We could have killed everyone’.

“No matter where you go”, Trump adds, “no matter what you even think about, there’s nothing like the fighting force that we have [including] Rome … No one should ever want to start a fight with the USA”.

The point is that in today’s Trump circles, not only is there no fear of war, but there is this unsubstantiated delusion of American military power. Hegseth said: “We are the most powerful military on the history of the planet, bar none. Nobody else can even come close to it”. To which Trump adds, “Our market [too], is the greatest in the world – no one can live without it”.

The Anglo-U.S. ‘Empire’ is backing itself into the corner of ‘terminal decline’, as French philosopher Emmanual Todd puts it. Trump is attempting, on the one hand, to coerce into being a new ‘Bretton Woods’ in order to re-create dollar hegemony through threat, bluster and tariffs – or war, if needs be.

Todd believes that as the Anglo-U.S. Empire falls apart, the U.S. is lashing out at the world in fury – and is devouring itself through the attempt to re-colonise its own colonies (i.e. Europe) for quick financial shakedowns.

Trump’s vision of U.S. unstoppable military force amounts to a doctrine of domination and submission. One that runs counter to all the former narrative-talk of western values. What is clear is that this policy shift is ‘joined at the hip’ with Jewish and Evangelical eschatological creeds. It shares with Jewish nationalists the conviction that they too, in alliance with Trump, verge on quasi universal domination:

“We crushed Iran’s nuclear and ballistic projects – they are still there, but we took them back with the help of President Trump”, Netanyahu boasts. “We had a precise alliance, within the framework of which we shared the burden [with the U.S.] and achieved the neutralization of Iran”. According to Netanyahu, “Israel emerged from this event as the dominant power in the Middle East, but we still have something to do – what started in Gaza will be ended in Gaza”.

“We need to ‘deradicalise’ Gaza – as was done in Germany after World War II or in Japan”. Netanyahu insisted to Euronews. Submission however, is proving elusive.

Continued U.S. ‘dominance’, however, requires striking out in multiple directions, because the unidirectional war on Russia – which was supposed to provide the world with an object lesson in the ‘craft’ of Anglo-Zionist domination unexpectedly has failed. And now time is running out on America’s deficit and debt crisis.

This – whilst articulated as the Trumpian desire for domination – is also throwing out nihilistic impulses for war and at the same time fracturing western structures. Bitter tensions are arising across the globe. The big picture is that Russia has seen the writing on the wall: The Alaska summit has born no fruit; Trump is not serious about wanting to recast relations with Moscow.

The expectation in Moscow is now leaning toward the expectation of U.S. escalation in Ukraine; a more devastating strike on Iran; or some punitive, performative action in Venezuela – or both. The Trump team seem to be talking themselves up into a state psychic excitement.

The Jewish Oligarchs and the right-wing of the Cabinet in Israel, in this emerging picture, existentially need America to remain as a feared military hegemon (just as Trump promises). Without the American ‘unstoppable’ military cudgel and absent the centrality of dollar use in trade, Jewish Supremacy becomes nothing more than an eschatological chimaera.

A crisis of de-dollarisation, or a bond market blow up – juxtaposed with the rise of China and Russia and BRICS – becomes an existential threat to the supremacist ‘fantasy’.

In July 2025, Trump told his cabinet, “BRICS was set up to hurt us; BRICS was set up to degenerate our dollar and take our dollar … off as the standard”.

So what comes next? Plainly the U.S. and Israeli initial goal is to ‘sear’ Hamas’ psyche with defeat; and if there is no visible expression of utter submission, the overarching aim likely will be to drive out all Palestinians from Gaza and to install Jewish settlers in their place.

Israeli Minister Smotrich – a few years ago – argued that complete displacement of the Palestinian and Arab non-submissive population would only be finally achieved during ‘a major crisis or big war’ – such as occurred in 1948, when 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. But today, despite the two years’ of massacres, Palestinians have not fled, nor submitted.

So Israel, for all Netanyahu’ boasts of having crushed Hamas, has yet to defeat Palestinians in Gaza – and some in the Hebrew media are calling the Sharm el-Sheik aAccord “a defeat for Israel”.

Netanyahu and the Israeli Right’s ambitions are not circumscribed by Gaza.They extend much further – they seek to establish a State on the full ‘Land of Israel’, which is to say, Greater Israel. Their definition of this colonial project is ambiguous, but likely they want southern Lebanon up to the Litani River; probably most of southern Syria (up to Damascus); parts of the Sinai; and maybe parts of the East Bank, which now belong to Jordan.

So – despite two years of war – what Israel still wants, Professor Mearsheimer opines, is a Palestinian-free Greater Israel.

“Furthermore”, Professor Mearsheimer adds:

“you have to think about what they want with regard to their neighbours. They want weak neighbours. They want to break their neighbours apart. They want to do to Iran what they did in Syria. It’s very important to understand that [while] the nuclear issue is of central importance to the Israelis in Iran, they have broader goals – which is to wreck Iran, turn it into a series of small states”.

“And then the states that they don’t break apart – like Egypt and Jordan – they want them to be economically dependent on Uncle Sam, so that Uncle Sam has huge coercive leverage over them. So, they’re thinking seriously about how to deal with all their neighbours and make sure that they’re weak and don’t pose any kind of threat to Israel”.

Israel clearly seeks the collapse and neutralisation of Iran – as Netanyahu outlined:

“We crushed Iran’s nuclear and ballistic projects – they are still there, but we took them back with the help of President Trump … Iran [now] is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles with an 8,000 km range. Add another 3,000 and they can target New York City, Washington, Boston, Miami, Mar-a-Lago”.

As a possible ceasefire deal begins to take shape in Egypt, the wider regional picture is that the U.S. and Israel to seem intent on provoking a Sunni–Shia confrontation to encircle and weaken Iran. The last days’ EU–GCC joint statement on the UAE’s claims to own sovereignty over Abu Musa and the Tunb Islands reflects a growing analysis in Tehran that Western powers are once again using Gulf monarchies as instruments to stir regional instability.

In short, this is not about the islands or oil – it is about manufacturing a new front to weaken Iran.

And with all such projects for the re-ordering of the Region to acquiesce to Israel’s hegemony, the big Jewish donors want to ensure a situation whereby the U.S. supports Israel unconditionally – hence the large funding directed at the MSM and social media to ensure an across all society support for Israel in America.

The two-year anniversary of 7 October poses a question: How does the balance sheet stand? The U.S.-Israel partnership has succeeded in destroying Syria, turning it into a hell of internecine killings; Russia has lost its foothold in the region; ISIS has been revived; sectarianism is on the upsurge. Hizbullah was decapitated but not destroyed. The region is being Balkanised, fragmented and brutalised.

JCPOA Snapback for Iran has been triggered and on 18 October, the JCPOA itself expires. Trump then is left with a ‘blank sheet’ on which he can write an ultimatum demanding Iranian capitulation, or military action (if he so chooses).

On the other side of the account, were we to look back to the Resistance’s initial objectives of exhausting Israel militarily; creating internecine warfare within Israel; and putting into moral and practical question the principle of Zionism that confers special rights for one population group over another, then it might be said that the Resistance – at a heavy, heavy cost – has had some success.

More significantly, Israel’s bloody wars have already lost it a generation of young Americans, who are not coming back. Whatever the circumstances to the killing of Charlie Kirk, his death has let the genie of ‘Israeli First’ dominance in Republican politics escape free from the bottle.

Israel has already lost much of Europe, and in the U.S., the Trump and Israeli Firsters’ intolerant insistence on fealty to Israel and its actions has triggered intense First Amendment push-back.

That puts Israel on track to ‘loose’ America. And that could be existential for Israel, who may need to fundamentally re-assess the nature of Zionism (which was, of course, Seyed Nasrallah’s stated objective).

How would that look? Accelerating migration – leaving a patchwork of Zionist holdouts surviving amidst a stagnant economy and global isolation. Is that sustainable?

What will be the future that heralds for Israel’s grandchildren?

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/10/13/waiting-on-images-of-abject-submission-that-dont-appear/

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Trump’s Gaza plan for peace is fake news. Here’s what’s really going to happen

BY Martin JAY

How much hope can we place in the recently announced ceasefire deal, agreed both by Israel and Hamas, supposedly brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump? Who are the winners and losers? And how much of what we are seeing and reading in western press is the whole truth?

Unfortunately the picture is bleak and there is not much hope for a long-standing peace in the Gaza Strip, largely because the so-called deal is not a ‘peace deal’ as such but more a temporary ceasefire to get out Israeli hostages. Not much more.

Certainly, the 20 point plan has more to it than that but the fact that most of the points are vague and open to interpretation doesn’t bode well for the whole thing to be taken seriously. Perhaps it was never meant to be taken seriously, as I have previously written, it is likely that Trump put this together at the last moment hastily due to the media spotlight that EU leaders were getting and the possibility of a UN plan getting underway.

In reality, the only two winners in the deal are not even countries or states, but individuals. Trump himself will think he is whitewashing himself of the genocide and will hope that being the one who is the architect of the plan itself, it will accelerate his chances of getting a Nobel Peace Prize. This is unlikely though as despite western media dutifully writing up the narrative that it is Trump who is “railroading” the peace deal through, the truth is, in reality, a little different. From the very first day in office, Trump could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but instead chose to support Netanyahu all the way with numerous arms shipments being signed off by him. For Netanyahu, the political capital to be gleaned by getting 20 hostages alive returned to their families cannot have a price attached to it. And so, broadly speaking, both Trump and Netanyahu will wring their hands when the hostages walk free.

But it is expected that Netanyahu won’t waste any time getting back to business of slaughtering more innocent Palestinians in Gaza once the media attention wanes and he sees that the Europeans start to harp on about a Palestinian state, when they see IDF soldiers outside of the main part of the Gaza Strip. Time and time again history has shown us that it is always Israel which breaks ceasefires, hunts down and murders key Palestinian negotiators and it is always Israel which betrays international law.

Aid is expected to be sent into Gaza during a ceasefire and this will be the first casualty. Netanyahu might let in a bit for a few days but it is only a matter of time before he inevitably closes this supply and reverts back to the egregious policy of starvation. It is also inevitable that Israel will make sporadic attacks which break the ceasefire, which is a trap for Hamas, as, if they retaliate, then Israel can say the ceasefire has been broken entirely by “terrorists” and that of course “Israel has the right to defend itself”.

The hostages exchange might well be the catalyst for the ceasefire to be broken. How long does Trump need a ceasefire to be in place to say to the world that he alone brokered peace both for Gaza and the whole of the Middle East? Perhaps a week. Perhaps two. If the hostages’ bodies cannot be located in 72 hours and exhumed, before handing over the remains to the IDF, then this alone could spark a fresh offensive by Israel who will simply intensify their depraved genocide and catch up on the numbers, killing women and children in tents, or wiping out entire families in their homes as they did barely a couple of hours before MPs in Israel’s parliament finally agreed to the deal in the wee hours of the night.

For Hamas, there really isn’t much in it to accept for the return of a number of Palestinians illegally detained in Israel’s prisons. They know that even if food aid resumes, it will not be for long as Netanyahu’s big plan for the entire region in “Israeli expansion” into Syria, Lebanon, parts of Jordan and Iraq and keeping Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is not part of that, rather than wiping them out entirely in an ethnic cleansing strategy which leaves many thinking of the Nazis and the Holocaust. Don’t place much hope on the 20 point plan by Trump’s people as it was never meant to be taken seriously. “Look, we offered them peace” is what the narrative will be so there had to be something written at least. But in reality it’s not worth the paper it is written on as Hamas have even rejected outright the idea of Tony Blair being an interim PM in the Strip or giving up their weapons. Fake news, Trump might call it, if it hadn’t come from his own shaking hand.

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/10/15/trumps-gaza-plan-for-peace-fake-news-heres-whats-really-going-happen/

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