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The inevitable attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran by Israel and the United States has been long in the making. It became even more predictable when Assad's government in Syria fell and was replaced by an Al Qaeda offshoot group.
The Western and Israeli-backed Islamist insurgents who took power in Damascus had revenge against Shiites on their immediate mind, not local governance, and certainly not the ongoing Palestinian genocide.
Netanyahu was salivating, having secured Syria's fate as a launching pad and dumping ground.
The Islamic rulers of Iran made a critical mistake letting Assad fall after pouring resources, money, political capital, and military energy into preventing that outcome for the decade prior. They should have mobilized as if their own survival depended on it.
They should have known that weakness invites aggression.
But the Mullahs have always been slow and stupid except when it comes to the oppression of their own people. Then they move quickly and energetically.
A similar dynamic is at work in Washington. U.S. politicians are very quick to please Israel, groveling on their knees, but slow to act to fix their country's numerous problems.
I don't think it's historically accurate to even speak of an "America" or an "Iran." Neither country exists politically. They are both occupied territories. Just nicer Gazas.
Israel has Washington by the balls, and Iran came under the shadow of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Originally the Mullahs just wanted to call it the Islamic Republic, but after popular pressure they reluctantly added the "of Iran" part in their official titles.
So America and Iran are not going to war. This conflict is not about preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons or fighting against American imperialism. It's not even about Palestine and stopping Israel's hegemonic ambitions.
It's much more than that. It's an apocalyptic war between Israel and Islam. There are elitist end-times cults on both sides of this conflict who don't care about the fates of these countries, the lives of innocent civilians, regional stability, or the world economy. And they've been itching for a big war for a long time.
