Lives wasted, infrastructure and property destroyed, billions spent on this, and a looming depression for the rest of us. Thanks for nothing, Trump and Netanyahu and Frank McKenzie.
"When will the the imperial braintrust acknowledge the Zionist entity’s very real disarmament?"
Never and I think that has more to do with the economic side of the war. Zio finance has had to collectively struggle to keep markets stabilized throughout the world. Not a word of reality can be spoken about the conflict for fear of a market reaction. So far, their collective efforts have worked, with some exceptions. Once gravity sets in and the economic impact of Hormuz is finally digested by the markets, Iran wins. Ultimately , Iran will have to hold out long enough to make the markets scream. To the noble Iranian people on behalf of humanity: Thank you.
The only thing that upsets me is that the US aren’t getting their share of missiles, they’re just having to suffer the increased energy prices - caused totally by their Tango Tinged Tyrant Toddler.
Yes, in a very important way, the United States is winning these wars. The United States has caused the deaths of many Russian civilians and tens of thousands of Russian military personnel, not to mention physical damage. Not one American civilian has been killed, nor has Russia caused a dollar's worth of damage to the American infrastructure.
American imperialism started to collapse pretty much exactly when they started judging wars won by the amount of bombs dropped on civilian infrastructure. War is about production and logistics and identifying key strategic choke points that can be exploited to stop the industrial war production of the other side. The US has only done wars against poor populations they have vast technological and economic advantages over. They really don't know how to deal with an opponent with the technological and industrial capability to disrupt their extremely fragile economy and war machine.
American imperialism started to collapse pretty much exactly when they started judging wars won by the amount of bombs dropped on civilian infrastructure. War is about production and logistics and identifying key strategic choke points that can be exploited to stop the industrial war production of the other side. The US has only done wars against poor populations they have vast technological and economic advantages over. They really don't know how to deal with an opponent with the technological and industrial capability to disrupt their extremely fragile economy and war machine.
"They really don't know how to deal with an opponent with the technological and industrial capability to disrupt their extremely fragile economy and war machine."
That is true, but my point is that if Russia and China are not willing to use their technological and industrial capability to disrupt the United States, they will be defeated.
Not really because the US is defeating itself already, how can it defeat China or Russia when they're running out of missiles and interceptors and can't make any more? What are you basing this on?
"Not really because the US is defeating itself already, how can it defeat China or Russia when they're running out of missiles and interceptors and can't make any more?"
What makes you think that the United States 'can't make any more'?
The United States has what a number of military analysts have called a "Boutique Military Supply System", which means the entire weapons supply chain was designed to produce a limited number of actual weapons but at enormous cost.
This means that this system has no capacity to scale out its production processes since they were not designed to do so.
Add this to the many defects in most US weapon systems, poor training techniques, and decreasing troop morale, not to mention the paucity of manpower, and you have a military system that can neither produce nor fight in real conflicts.
A classic example of this syndrome were British bombing operations during WWII. "Butcher" Harris, the British Air Chief only had his flight crews target civilian centers, which are large swathes of territory. However, when it came time to actually bomb military targets after D-Day, the British crews simply couldn't do the job. This was not because they were incompetent but ad instead spent years bombing targets that required little actual precision.
First, why do you comment on the article if you haven't read it? Second, you should change your nickname. In order to be realist, one needs to know facts. You base your presumptions on thin air - that's not realism, on the contrary, that's deception. Third, I doubt anyone following Kit Klarenberg could come up with such uninformed questions. Shame on everyone who is still working for Western empire!
Sul fatto che sono in bancarotta come sistema e non sono da meno le colonie europee. Gli Stati Uniti hanno superato i 48 trilioni di debito, senza contare quanto occultato con bilanci ad hoc. Ora servono 200 mld a breve, e lo stampaggio della FED non può che provocare iperinflazione (la repubblica di Weimar ai keynesiani non ha insegnato nulla). Il sistema delle banche centrali con moneta creta dal nulla è uno schema Ponzi che tende all'infinito, ma all'interno di un sistema finito come la terra, non può matematicamente esistere.
No it doesn't it shows a lack of respect for a stupid interlocutor, if lot of people are calling you stupid because of your simplistic arguments it doesn't make you more likely to be correct, it means you're probably stupid
"No it doesn't it shows a lack of respect for a stupid interlocutor,..."
So those whom you disagree with are stupid?
The masses have never thirsted for the truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master…. Whoever attempts to destroy those illusions is always their victim. - Gustave Le Bon 1895
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Iran is different. Putin has not touched the US assets outside Ukraine, but Iran have dessimated those outside their borders. Meanwhile the dual national stampede from the settler colony will go into overdrive. No comparison.
Russia, better damn well see that Iran does not fail. If Putin were smart, he would see that Iran has all the weapons needed to drive the US and Israel out of the Middle East.
By contrast, the organisation’s analysis shows “the magazine abyss” for Washington and Tel Aviv is “coming soon”. Moreover, Rheinmetall’s CEO has cautioned the Empire’s global munitions stockpiles are “empty or nearly empty.”
The United States has fired 2,400 Patriot interceptors in 31 days. It manufactures 650 per year. Replenishment at current production takes three and a half years. It has consumed 40 percent of its global THAAD inventory. It produces fewer than 100 THAAD interceptors annually. Full replenishment takes four to five years. Each interceptor contains neodymium and samarium-cobalt magnets sourced from Chinese-controlled supply chains. The US defence rare earth stockpile has approximately two months remaining. (China has all the raw materials needed to make new replacements...)
Germany blinks first it seems: https://x.com/i/status/2039126040686248240 ? The German government to build 15 new nuclear power plants and lift sanctions immediately on all Russian oil and natural gas.
German Chancellor Merz has also agreed to pay to rebuild the Nord Stream pipeline to Russia.
All wind and solar projects have been cancelled.
"It's time for Germany to open our energy economy. The best way to do this is via free markets, lowering taxes and regulations".
Chancellor BlackRock is of course in the pockets of the nuclear power sector. A commericallly unviable, and uninsurable sector which has never made a profit, despite nationalising all its liabilities, and hiding all most of its uncleanable pollution as "national security secrets". A sector which exists entirely by sucking subsidies out of the pockets of the taxpayers. A sector which ALWAY is waiting for sucker moments like this. In fact already since 2022 in the hidden moments of December 30th when no one was looking, they even got Von der Crooked at the EU to declare that nuclear energy, which produces waste that cannot be ever safely stored for the lifetime of its hazards, is "green energy" and the likes of Blackrock can get subsdies and cheap financing for it.
So Germany and Europe is now, having been raped by the US LNG sector like Conoco Philips, and is STILL being raped by them, is now bending over to take it again from the Nuclear profiteers. With Merz as the pimp.
I agree that he is a BlackRock-Rothschild servant, but I don't think Merz will last long. The news coming from Germany is not exactly positive, especially for the largest industry, the automotive industry.
I heard about Volkswagen yesterday, which already produces military equipment.
As for the agreement with Israel, we'll have to see how they'll be able to raise the funds needed to pay for it. The war is expensive, and they're in deep debt, and they can't count on much aid from the United States.
Replacing car production with producing missiles for a country facing a genocide accusation at the ICC, is a clear direction of where Germany's oligarchy is moving its industry. German citizens are the ones who will pay.
As I noted befor: the people of Europe are being raped. And it is the likes of Merz who are lining them up for the rape. This is what the European oligarchy are now doing.
According to Professor Ted Postel of MIT the patriot and THAAD missile systems have a low rate of successfully intercepting drones and missiles.
The other key issue facing the US-Israeli axis is that they will really struggle to obtain the rare earth metals needed to replace the munitions/weapons systems already used/destroyed. China still has an export ban on exporting REE's for the US military industrial complex
Now the Houthis are coordinating their attacks on Israel with Hezbollah and Iran which will stretch the Israeli regime to the limit.
On top of this are the heavy casualties which the child killers of the IDF are suffering on a daily basis in S. Lebanon. The IDF are not capable of fighting up close against a determined opponent. Its losses in terms of tanks, IFV's are staggering.
Missile systems have proven to be a failure since the days of Saddam Hussein, who successfully hit Israel with 150 old Scuds, causing an estimated 5,500 deaths. Among the various flaws were serious software problems, as demonstrated by a professor at Sapienza University of Rome. Things didn't improve even with the war in Yemen, except that the Houthis were and are equipped with hypersonic missiles, with speeds at least twice that of interceptors, and therefore physically impossible to shoot down.
As one that peruses Telegram sites to get a pulse on the reality of this war ,a big mistake in my opinion ,other than possibly bringing some humility to the empire and hopefully the result of which will be the final end of the ideology of zionism . This article from Kit sums it up very well . My wish and prayer is the acknowledgement of the British mistake of setting up the zionist state in Palestine and the final end of this nightmare that God gave them this holy land that birthed the Christed child ,Jesus . The Shiites of Iran are much closer to Christianity with their respect and acknowledgement of this faith ,the defenders of the oppressed , than the so-called delusional Christian zionists .
In Iraq before the US intervention, and similarly in Syria, Christians and Muslims got along well. It was the intervention of terrorist organizations sponsored by the United States and the United Kingdom, along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, that led to incidents, clashes, and massacres between Christians and Muslims.
Re the 26 billion dollars of armaments, which will cost twice that to replenish.
If I buy a tin of beans for 1 euro and keep it for a year before opening and eating it, and then replace the tin at a cost of 1.50 euros, did I just eat a euro's worth of beans, or 1 euro 50's worth of beans?
Hopefully the USA will be driven out entirely in the region. Next problem is of great importance for them which is their presence in the south china seas. Now they may be in a predicament as without doubt china also has enormous stockpiles of weapons of various degrees and some as of yet unknown types. Yes the USA has finally forfeited its hegemony which has been long overdue.
Great collection of information, and the photo of some part of Tel Aviv after the start of its bombing by Iran SPEAKS A LOT about the amount and kind of damage they are trying fiercely to hide. The high spirit of the iranians in the streets (a lot of documentation about) is another variable to take in account: they are clearly in peace about the human and infraestructural costs they are suffering TO BE SOVEREIGN and TO FREED THE WHOLE REGION of zionists carcinogenic presence (with full support of US, the big imperial cancer of our time).
Iran and the Resistance are redrawing the power-map on the planet: they are defeating the holy psychopathic cows of the XX and XXI Century, in one complex stroke.
Finally, the iron will is breaking the big stick and its small schtick....The military brass didn't have the mettle, nor the metal, neither brass balls...huffing and puffing, just blowing some wind! So it goes...and then, it's gone with the wind!
One of failures of many who consider themselves leftists is to look at the seemingly bungled projects of the America led imperialists, such as this war on Iran, and conclude that its designers were colossally stupid. They are not stupid! Sneering at the enemy and cheering for anyone standing up to them is no substitute for analysis and is an exercise in self indulgence.
If they are actually creatures with functioning intellects then why are they pursuing what, so far, seems to be the path of certain hegemonic collapse that any damn fool could have plainly seen from the get go since Iran made no secret of neither it's military prowess, nor its intentions to drive the Americans out from West Asia and neutralize the zionists?
Is the answer to be found in capitalist pursuit of short term profits that led firms with financial stakes in military conflict to fudge statistics so as to contradict reality?
Or did the Iranians, possibly with help from Russia and/or China sucker the Americans into jumping the gun? Initiating a conflict that has been planned since 1979 and with a detailed policy paper written in ~ 2006 but never acted upon, (presumably because they didn't think conditions were ripe) just so they could weaken and, maybe, even topple the hegemon?
Brian Berletic thinks that they wanted to seize what would be their last chance to smash China as a rival before it achieved energy independence. That seems to make sense.
Lives wasted, infrastructure and property destroyed, billions spent on this, and a looming depression for the rest of us. Thanks for nothing, Trump and Netanyahu and Frank McKenzie.
We should find out who lobbied for this war and make them pay for it.
I don't think we have to look to far -- the woman who has made huge donations to Trump and has his ear probably has a very good idea.
I don’t know if some casino mogul has geopolitical juice, but she could be the errand girl for those who do
Please tell me this stupendous report from Kit is not an April Fools joke!
Can't quit smiling. Thanks, Kit.
My pleasure. See, being an anti-imperialist needn't be at all depressing!
Great, as usual, Kit.
"When will the the imperial braintrust acknowledge the Zionist entity’s very real disarmament?"
Never and I think that has more to do with the economic side of the war. Zio finance has had to collectively struggle to keep markets stabilized throughout the world. Not a word of reality can be spoken about the conflict for fear of a market reaction. So far, their collective efforts have worked, with some exceptions. Once gravity sets in and the economic impact of Hormuz is finally digested by the markets, Iran wins. Ultimately , Iran will have to hold out long enough to make the markets scream. To the noble Iranian people on behalf of humanity: Thank you.
The only thing that upsets me is that the US aren’t getting their share of missiles, they’re just having to suffer the increased energy prices - caused totally by their Tango Tinged Tyrant Toddler.
They won’t learn.
If USA is hit blame 🇮🇱 as they’re Samson option is a threat they openly use against their host like the parasite they are
Yes, in a very important way, the United States is winning these wars. The United States has caused the deaths of many Russian civilians and tens of thousands of Russian military personnel, not to mention physical damage. Not one American civilian has been killed, nor has Russia caused a dollar's worth of damage to the American infrastructure.
The same can be said about the war against Iran.
American imperialism started to collapse pretty much exactly when they started judging wars won by the amount of bombs dropped on civilian infrastructure. War is about production and logistics and identifying key strategic choke points that can be exploited to stop the industrial war production of the other side. The US has only done wars against poor populations they have vast technological and economic advantages over. They really don't know how to deal with an opponent with the technological and industrial capability to disrupt their extremely fragile economy and war machine.
American imperialism started to collapse pretty much exactly when they started judging wars won by the amount of bombs dropped on civilian infrastructure. War is about production and logistics and identifying key strategic choke points that can be exploited to stop the industrial war production of the other side. The US has only done wars against poor populations they have vast technological and economic advantages over. They really don't know how to deal with an opponent with the technological and industrial capability to disrupt their extremely fragile economy and war machine.
"They really don't know how to deal with an opponent with the technological and industrial capability to disrupt their extremely fragile economy and war machine."
That is true, but my point is that if Russia and China are not willing to use their technological and industrial capability to disrupt the United States, they will be defeated.
Not really because the US is defeating itself already, how can it defeat China or Russia when they're running out of missiles and interceptors and can't make any more? What are you basing this on?
You need to get out of your dream world. Put down the Kool-Aid.
https://paulcraigroberts.org/iran-will-win-the-war-unless-iran-follows-putins-script/
"Not really because the US is defeating itself already, how can it defeat China or Russia when they're running out of missiles and interceptors and can't make any more?"
What makes you think that the United States 'can't make any more'?
What are you basing this on?
The United States has what a number of military analysts have called a "Boutique Military Supply System", which means the entire weapons supply chain was designed to produce a limited number of actual weapons but at enormous cost.
This means that this system has no capacity to scale out its production processes since they were not designed to do so.
Add this to the many defects in most US weapon systems, poor training techniques, and decreasing troop morale, not to mention the paucity of manpower, and you have a military system that can neither produce nor fight in real conflicts.
A classic example of this syndrome were British bombing operations during WWII. "Butcher" Harris, the British Air Chief only had his flight crews target civilian centers, which are large swathes of territory. However, when it came time to actually bomb military targets after D-Day, the British crews simply couldn't do the job. This was not because they were incompetent but ad instead spent years bombing targets that required little actual precision.
First, why do you comment on the article if you haven't read it? Second, you should change your nickname. In order to be realist, one needs to know facts. You base your presumptions on thin air - that's not realism, on the contrary, that's deception. Third, I doubt anyone following Kit Klarenberg could come up with such uninformed questions. Shame on everyone who is still working for Western empire!
Sul fatto che sono in bancarotta come sistema e non sono da meno le colonie europee. Gli Stati Uniti hanno superato i 48 trilioni di debito, senza contare quanto occultato con bilanci ad hoc. Ora servono 200 mld a breve, e lo stampaggio della FED non può che provocare iperinflazione (la repubblica di Weimar ai keynesiani non ha insegnato nulla). Il sistema delle banche centrali con moneta creta dal nulla è uno schema Ponzi che tende all'infinito, ma all'interno di un sistema finito come la terra, non può matematicamente esistere.
You can’t be this stupid can you? LOL
Using an ad hominem shows a weakness in position.
No it doesn't it shows a lack of respect for a stupid interlocutor, if lot of people are calling you stupid because of your simplistic arguments it doesn't make you more likely to be correct, it means you're probably stupid
"No it doesn't it shows a lack of respect for a stupid interlocutor,..."
So those whom you disagree with are stupid?
The masses have never thirsted for the truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master…. Whoever attempts to destroy those illusions is always their victim. - Gustave Le Bon 1895
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite. - Arthur Schopenhauer
No you specifically are stupid. Lots of people who disagree with me aren't. All you're saying now is you're a stupid person with a big book of quotes.
Iran is different. Putin has not touched the US assets outside Ukraine, but Iran have dessimated those outside their borders. Meanwhile the dual national stampede from the settler colony will go into overdrive. No comparison.
Yes, Putin is a fool.
https://paulcraigroberts.org/iran-will-win-the-war-unless-iran-follows-putins-script/
Russia, better damn well see that Iran does not fail. If Putin were smart, he would see that Iran has all the weapons needed to drive the US and Israel out of the Middle East.
By contrast, the organisation’s analysis shows “the magazine abyss” for Washington and Tel Aviv is “coming soon”. Moreover, Rheinmetall’s CEO has cautioned the Empire’s global munitions stockpiles are “empty or nearly empty.”
https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2038868023314976864
The United States has fired 2,400 Patriot interceptors in 31 days. It manufactures 650 per year. Replenishment at current production takes three and a half years. It has consumed 40 percent of its global THAAD inventory. It produces fewer than 100 THAAD interceptors annually. Full replenishment takes four to five years. Each interceptor contains neodymium and samarium-cobalt magnets sourced from Chinese-controlled supply chains. The US defence rare earth stockpile has approximately two months remaining. (China has all the raw materials needed to make new replacements...)
Germany blinks first it seems: https://x.com/i/status/2039126040686248240 ? The German government to build 15 new nuclear power plants and lift sanctions immediately on all Russian oil and natural gas.
German Chancellor Merz has also agreed to pay to rebuild the Nord Stream pipeline to Russia.
All wind and solar projects have been cancelled.
"It's time for Germany to open our energy economy. The best way to do this is via free markets, lowering taxes and regulations".
For Immediate Release.
Berlin, April 1 2026.
Chancellor BlackRock is of course in the pockets of the nuclear power sector. A commericallly unviable, and uninsurable sector which has never made a profit, despite nationalising all its liabilities, and hiding all most of its uncleanable pollution as "national security secrets". A sector which exists entirely by sucking subsidies out of the pockets of the taxpayers. A sector which ALWAY is waiting for sucker moments like this. In fact already since 2022 in the hidden moments of December 30th when no one was looking, they even got Von der Crooked at the EU to declare that nuclear energy, which produces waste that cannot be ever safely stored for the lifetime of its hazards, is "green energy" and the likes of Blackrock can get subsdies and cheap financing for it.
So Germany and Europe is now, having been raped by the US LNG sector like Conoco Philips, and is STILL being raped by them, is now bending over to take it again from the Nuclear profiteers. With Merz as the pimp.
I agree that he is a BlackRock-Rothschild servant, but I don't think Merz will last long. The news coming from Germany is not exactly positive, especially for the largest industry, the automotive industry.
https://www.ft.com/content/1e41e6db-792f-4f60-b567-adb6458fb072?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.reuters.com/business/volkswagen-shift-production-missile-defense-one-factory-deal-with-israeli-2026-03-24/
I heard about Volkswagen yesterday, which already produces military equipment.
As for the agreement with Israel, we'll have to see how they'll be able to raise the funds needed to pay for it. The war is expensive, and they're in deep debt, and they can't count on much aid from the United States.
Replacing car production with producing missiles for a country facing a genocide accusation at the ICC, is a clear direction of where Germany's oligarchy is moving its industry. German citizens are the ones who will pay.
As I noted befor: the people of Europe are being raped. And it is the likes of Merz who are lining them up for the rape. This is what the European oligarchy are now doing.
According to Professor Ted Postel of MIT the patriot and THAAD missile systems have a low rate of successfully intercepting drones and missiles.
The other key issue facing the US-Israeli axis is that they will really struggle to obtain the rare earth metals needed to replace the munitions/weapons systems already used/destroyed. China still has an export ban on exporting REE's for the US military industrial complex
Now the Houthis are coordinating their attacks on Israel with Hezbollah and Iran which will stretch the Israeli regime to the limit.
On top of this are the heavy casualties which the child killers of the IDF are suffering on a daily basis in S. Lebanon. The IDF are not capable of fighting up close against a determined opponent. Its losses in terms of tanks, IFV's are staggering.
Missile systems have proven to be a failure since the days of Saddam Hussein, who successfully hit Israel with 150 old Scuds, causing an estimated 5,500 deaths. Among the various flaws were serious software problems, as demonstrated by a professor at Sapienza University of Rome. Things didn't improve even with the war in Yemen, except that the Houthis were and are equipped with hypersonic missiles, with speeds at least twice that of interceptors, and therefore physically impossible to shoot down.
I take it you mean defensive “missile systems”?
Yes, the interceptors have speeds of around 6000 km/h, about the same as the old Scuds.
As one that peruses Telegram sites to get a pulse on the reality of this war ,a big mistake in my opinion ,other than possibly bringing some humility to the empire and hopefully the result of which will be the final end of the ideology of zionism . This article from Kit sums it up very well . My wish and prayer is the acknowledgement of the British mistake of setting up the zionist state in Palestine and the final end of this nightmare that God gave them this holy land that birthed the Christed child ,Jesus . The Shiites of Iran are much closer to Christianity with their respect and acknowledgement of this faith ,the defenders of the oppressed , than the so-called delusional Christian zionists .
In Iraq before the US intervention, and similarly in Syria, Christians and Muslims got along well. It was the intervention of terrorist organizations sponsored by the United States and the United Kingdom, along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, that led to incidents, clashes, and massacres between Christians and Muslims.
Thank you so much for your thorough work, Kit, it is so important!
Re the 26 billion dollars of armaments, which will cost twice that to replenish.
If I buy a tin of beans for 1 euro and keep it for a year before opening and eating it, and then replace the tin at a cost of 1.50 euros, did I just eat a euro's worth of beans, or 1 euro 50's worth of beans?
Very good analysis which agrees with my own, as well as that of others.
https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-uss-winning-ways/
Hopefully the USA will be driven out entirely in the region. Next problem is of great importance for them which is their presence in the south china seas. Now they may be in a predicament as without doubt china also has enormous stockpiles of weapons of various degrees and some as of yet unknown types. Yes the USA has finally forfeited its hegemony which has been long overdue.
Great collection of information, and the photo of some part of Tel Aviv after the start of its bombing by Iran SPEAKS A LOT about the amount and kind of damage they are trying fiercely to hide. The high spirit of the iranians in the streets (a lot of documentation about) is another variable to take in account: they are clearly in peace about the human and infraestructural costs they are suffering TO BE SOVEREIGN and TO FREED THE WHOLE REGION of zionists carcinogenic presence (with full support of US, the big imperial cancer of our time).
Iran and the Resistance are redrawing the power-map on the planet: they are defeating the holy psychopathic cows of the XX and XXI Century, in one complex stroke.
This has all been predicted:
Superiority: Arthur C. Clarke
https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Arthur%20C%20Clarke%20-%20Superiority.pdf
Finally, the iron will is breaking the big stick and its small schtick....The military brass didn't have the mettle, nor the metal, neither brass balls...huffing and puffing, just blowing some wind! So it goes...and then, it's gone with the wind!
One of failures of many who consider themselves leftists is to look at the seemingly bungled projects of the America led imperialists, such as this war on Iran, and conclude that its designers were colossally stupid. They are not stupid! Sneering at the enemy and cheering for anyone standing up to them is no substitute for analysis and is an exercise in self indulgence.
If they are actually creatures with functioning intellects then why are they pursuing what, so far, seems to be the path of certain hegemonic collapse that any damn fool could have plainly seen from the get go since Iran made no secret of neither it's military prowess, nor its intentions to drive the Americans out from West Asia and neutralize the zionists?
Is the answer to be found in capitalist pursuit of short term profits that led firms with financial stakes in military conflict to fudge statistics so as to contradict reality?
Or did the Iranians, possibly with help from Russia and/or China sucker the Americans into jumping the gun? Initiating a conflict that has been planned since 1979 and with a detailed policy paper written in ~ 2006 but never acted upon, (presumably because they didn't think conditions were ripe) just so they could weaken and, maybe, even topple the hegemon?
Brian Berletic thinks that they wanted to seize what would be their last chance to smash China as a rival before it achieved energy independence. That seems to make sense.
Outstanding clarity on this situation has been displayed, here. 👍🏾