Let’s just cut straight through the noise to find some signal. The latest war in the Middle East is being lost in faulty narratives at home. How should we view this?
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The dialectic is at work again, and the present moment has the potential to create problems going forward. Where the on-the-ground reality of the Middle East is Israel versus Iran, the narrative “reality” of the American information environment has little to do with Iran at all, as it is represented by the pro-Israel versus anti-Israel contingent. This is an important distinction, as the gap between the narrative environment and reality means that the reality of the situation is not being adequately addressed, and the narrative is causing people to take a position on Iran that has nothing to do with Iran at all, but only which “side” they take on Israel.
This represents a classic master-slave dialectic, where the Zionist side is held up as representing “the West,” and the ant-Zionist side as the anti-colonialist, anti-oppressor of Marxist Conflict Theory. Again, this means that very few are grappling with the reality of Iran itself, what it represents, and what actions may or may not be warranted based on ground-truth reality of the Iranian regime and terror infrastructure.
The construction of this narrative along classical Marxist lines was driven by both the Left and the pseudo-Right, and it appears now to have been a major strategic error by the pseudo-Right for which we all may come to pay the price. If our foundational point hasn’t been clear allow us to restate it plainly: the dialectical nature of the narrative which has been adopted by many Americans created a frame of understanding that rendered discernment of true American strategic interests impossible, has divided many that ought to be allied for our own survival, and has distracted us from the very real, ongoing revolution against Americanism here at home.
The collapse of the anti-Israel “Right,” which is in quotes to represent the degree to which it was always astroturfed – not the least of which by checks from Qatar – opened up the space for the advance of the pro-Israel Right – not similarly in quotes, as it is largely representative of genuine Zionists, to include Dispensationalist Christians. If you haven’t heard our previous video on “The Jewish Question” you may be unfamiliar with our stance on Dispensationalism. Allow us to summarize that it represents a tragic and terrible error of exegesis that both cripples Christianity in the social and political spheres while simultaneously advancing a damnable and sinful promotion of death and destruction abroad – not unlike that eschatology of the Iranian regime’s “Twelfth Imam,” in promoting the idea of a “final battle” that destroys much of creation before the return of God to Earth – and elevates those who reject Christ of a certain ethnic group over and above fellow Christians.
Now that we understand the facts-on-the-ground reality versus the narrative, we can move forward with analyzing events, as they have thus far transpired and are reasonably likely to continue, and what they mean for Americanism.
First, the most obvious implication of the events of the last week is that the State of Israel has militarily and strategically exceeded the wildest expectations and buried the conventional wisdom about an Iranian war, which was broadly thought to be ruinous, with protracted conventional combat, asymmetric attacks globally from proxies and terror cells, a cessation of global oil shipping, likely drawing in Russia and China, and quite possibly devolving into nuclear war.
Though still subject to change, and change can occur quite rapidly and dramatically, the current picture of the theater is that Israel slapped Iran so hard, so fast, and so precisely in its pressure points that it crippled the ability to wage any sort of serious combat. This, perhaps coupled with prior operations that can only be described as “intelligence-coup” level operations against Hezbollah and Hamas, appears to have sapped the Iranian proxies of any will to fight, and the Russians and Chinese have already publicly announced their withdrawal of support for the Iranian regime.
This, too, might be eschatological in nature, as many of the Iranians and proxies likely expected Allah to intervene to prevent the sort of destruction to Iran that Israel has wrought, and the absence of that divine intervention may well have left them reeling and demoralized. Its possible Israeli bombs haven’t just blown up nuclear sites and missile launchers, but perhaps they’ve blown up the entire religious worldview of the Islamists.
Regardless of how you feel about Israel, or what they’ve done in Gaza, for instance, and we are overwhelmingly neutral as a rule, its wholly narrative alone that stands in the way of viewing the destruction of the Iranian threat as a good thing for America. Indeed, let’s review a few uncontested facts:
1. Iran may call Israel the “little Satan,” but it calls America the “great Satan.
2. Iran is responsible for hundreds, if not over one-thousand, deaths of American servicemen and women in the GWOT, mostly through mass-production and dissemination of EFPs.
3. “Death to America” is a common chant among the Iranian regime.
4. Iran became a leader in mass-production of terror drones, many of which were sent to Russia for use in Ukraine.
5. Iran was a major hub, and possible critical, for the Chinese belt-and-road initiative.
6. Iran ran proxies across the globe fueling international terrorism, trafficking of humans and drugs, and training Marxist paramilitaries in south and central America.
7. Iran posed a major threat to international shipping.
No serious person can call the destruction of this regime a bad thing for America. Now, it may yet materialize in some hypothetical way that becomes a bad thing for us, but that’s not the question at hand. Dealing in reality, and not merely in hypotheticals, the situation is overwhelmingly positive for us at present from a military and geopolitical standpoint.
However, that is far less true at home from a political standpoint. This situation has already divided the Right, and the narrative driven pseudo-Right has taken it on the chin. The vacuum of power created by this has been rapidly filled by neoConservatives, Zionists, and Dispensationalists. This will present many problems for us moving forwards. As we previously suggested, the eschatology of the Dispensationalists isn’t that far removed from the eschatology of the Iranian regime. It is also similar in that it is participatory. With enough political power the Dispensationalists might, as they have done before, seek to bring about the prophesies they believe will lead to the second coming of Christ. Because those prophesies entail the rise of an anti-Christ figure, said to first make peace with Israel before forming a super-powerful totalitarianism, it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine their leaders supporting the implementation of a totalitarian surveillance state.
Watch, in the coming weeks and months, for suggestions of who might be the storied “anti-Christ.” Could it be Netanyahu? Perhaps even Trump? Might a certain corporation already be well positioned to implement this totalitarian surveillance state? Maybe it’s time for war with “Gog” and “Magog,” often interpreted by Dispensationalists to be Russia and China. Or, perhaps, the destruction of Iran will blow up their eschatology too.”
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