There is a new power in the world, Iran. Thus, three world powers now, in the new multi-nodal world. Along with the collapsing former false-power hegemon, the USA, whose power was not in spirit, or ideals or cooperation, but is shear ability to project military power around the globe.
This idea of the new power of Iran is fleshed out in Robert Pape's interview on Breaking Points: "Iran 'NEW WORLD POWER', NATO DEAD" on April 1st. NATO is dead, it is a military structure in which the U.S. General is at the top and gives the orders. Nobody is going to follow U.S. orders now. We have created a new world order, the three powers will be Russia, China and Iran and USA is fading away.
Recently, George Galloway referred to the U.S. regime's situation in their war on Iran, using a George "W" word: The completely "mis-underestimated" the capabilities and resolve of Iran.
As well, they ignore Iran's warnings of what they will do in retaliation for the next proposed U.S. aggression, presuming those warnings to be flummery just like the crap that spews from tRump's orifice. But witness that Iran has successfully carried out every retaliatory action. Next, they have stated that they will take out the Saudi's refinery capacity if further U.S. attacks are carried out.
See: "Israel is "TOAST" - Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson - Katie Halper Apr 3, 2026"
Col. Wilkerson:
"Iran's second-tier strikes could cause global depression - oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Ras Tenura 500,000 bpd, the bigger one, Saudi Aramco Semref, 7M bpd."
And Yemen could close the Bab-el-Mandeb entrance to the Red Sea, controlling all that traffic.
China has enacted a very clever move in working with Iran to convert Gulf oil sales into Chinese yuan, collapsing the U.S. petrodollar which has funded their extravagant consumerism and military power for decades. Ships may pass through the Strait of Hormuz - it is closed only to the enemy and their enablers.
Unfortunately, 40 foreign ministers of the "Coalition of the Stinking" just had a virtual meeting discussing how to open the Strait of Hormuz. Duh, it IS open, but not to the aggressor enemy! So if you're not on the wrong side of history, no problemo. But the white north keep making the wrong choices - Canada and EU, where they should be standing up to yet another American aggression, instead of sitting back and thinking "that's just what America does" when in reality, they should be gearing up for initiating a Nuremberg Tribunal and end this hegemony once and for all.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, on Glenn Diesen's podcast:
"On the one side, on the side of Israel, the, I would say the level of violence, dehumanization of Israel's foes, the biblical language, which in this case of the Bible, the Old Testament story of the Israelite capture of their promised land is so ruthless, so violent, so genocidal, that the rhetoric and mindset coming from Israel suggests no limits, that seems to be not just tactical. That seems to be actually ideological. The hatred for the other in Israel seems to be unbounded. And a difference of the U.S. and Israel is that in the United States, the public opposes the war quite overwhelmingly."
"Well, a common friend of ours, John Mersheimer, he keeps making the point that no one has told him any story of how this could end in a positive way: that is in a U.S. victory. And it's a good point. I just find it difficult to see what the best possible outcome is."
"Of course, Donald Trump can and should pack up and go home, but it's very unlikely to happen. And the backdrop of all of this is the continued American assertion of hegemony. That's not only Trump."
"That is the dominant American foreign policy idea that America must be and is the most powerful country in the world in every region and must constantly prove that or demonstrate that if there are any doubts. So a war in Iran is not about Iranian issues. A war in Iran is about demonstrating America's full and unconstrained power."
"And it must be proved to the whole world that it is full and unconstrained. That's the backdrop that goes beyond the question of Trump. But on top of that, problem, which is the assertion of hegemony, which is a claim that the U.S. believes in and makes, but cannot fulfill because the U.S. doesn't have the predominant power to do that other than in utter destruction. There is the personality of Donald Trump. And personalities make a difference in wars. Wartime leaders make a difference. And the more we understand the situation in the US, the more the personality factor plays in."
"Everything is a test for them of their own world, as well as, more broadly, a test of the American political class mindset of hegemony, which, despite all the evidence to... The contrary of the fact base of hegemony is still believed in Washington. So we have a very big structural and individual problem of getting any kind of de-escalation or any kind of resolution. I have one and only one thought about this, frankly. It's not a very persuasive one, perhaps, but it is the one that I've been holding, which is that Donald Trump listens to the extent that he listens at all. He listens to those he regards as his peers, and he does regard President Putin, President Xi, Prime Minister Modi as peers that he wants to be part of and live up to. These are leaders of superpowers. He inevitably, almost without exception, expresses respect for them, for the power that they hold, for their lead of superpower nations. They need to tell him to stop. I think it's extremely important. They need to tell him, Donald, this is not going anywhere. This is not going anywhere good. This is not helping you. It's not putting the United States in a better position. It is not helping any country in the world. It's dangerous. It needs to stop."
"But we also need the United States to get beyond the mindset that it displays now, which is either you're for us or you're against us."
"That's the American mindset borrowed from the Athenians in the Peloponnesian Wars when they told the Melians, if you're not with us, we kill you. Unfortunately, that is part of the American playbook as well. But countries... cannot succumb to that without giving up their own sovereignty and their own future."
"And now in a multipolar world, they don't have to succumb to it. So this is my basic advice in general, which is don't let the American empire divide your own neighborhood. I say it in Japan and Korea, China is not your enemy, it's your neighbor.
"I say it in the Gulf region, Iran and the GCC should be the first ones talking with each other. Not only do they share the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, but they share a lot of other things as well. They share culture, history, transit points, ecological risks in a very dry part of the world beset by major water crises. I say this carefully; in every, and I say it to the Europeans, Russia is not your inveterate enemy. This Russophobia is a historical fiction. It's a complete misreading of history, but it's also a complete misjudgment about European security, which can only be achieved collectively with Russia, not in opposition to Russia. And so this is the same everywhere. Empires divide and conquer. The United States has used division as a way to extend hegemony. It's always saying the one on the other side is the enemy. It's always trying to extend to the other side."
"The US position ideologically in the Middle East is we already run the Gulf. Now all we have to do is bring Iran back into the fold, which we happened to succeed in doing in 1953, but then lost in the 1979 revolution. We need to bring them back into the American empire."
"So every region faces a divide that the U.S. stokes. The U.S. tells ASEAN, oh, China's your enemy. It tells Japan and Korea, China's your enemy. It's stoking these divisions. And, of course, it has stoked the division with Russia because the whole point of the end of the Cold War, and there I was present personally watching at the highest levels, was that peace had come to a common European home, but the US wouldn't have it. It needed to expand NATO. It needed to keep an alliance against a country that no longer existed, for a threat that absolutely didn't exist, but it needed for American hegemonic purposes to expand NATO and not just to expand it, but right up to Russia's borders and to put in anti-ballistic missile systems and all the rest and to abandon treaties that had been signed with the Soviet Union in which Russia was the continuation state. So that was the mindset."
"Europe fell into it so dutifully. Privately uneasy, publicly without a murmur. And by the way, as crazy as this mindset is, let me just add two points. Europe has its own hegemonic mindset that remains even 80 years after the end of the European empires."
"So Europe ran the world in a rather vicious way for a long time in Asia and in Africa. That mindset's not gone. So that's why the subservience to the U.S. imperial mindset is not so hard because it's also seen to an important extent as keeping the West dominant. And so the Europeans... Yes, they're subordinated to the United States, but in a way, it continues to be a projection of the Western dominance in the world. And they view the United States as, therefore, in a way helping their empires that no longer exist to continue their international control. So that's really part of what's happening right now."
"Europe goes along because the idea of controlling the Middle East, that's a totally European idea. That's not just an American idea. That has deep roots. The worst of this is the British. The British absolutely still maintain the trappings and mindset of empire that has gone for almost 80 years, but it's still there."
"And so we hear the trappings, most remarkable rhetoric coming from Britain vis-a-vis Russia or other showdowns where Britain has no power to deliver on any of this, but to make a lot of rhetorical and political mischief. What's interesting is even in the Iran war, there's been a little bit of hesitation by the British."
"This shows how completely outrageous this war is because the British almost never hesitate to support an imperial venture and have always said America is basically our successor empire. But in this one, it's so outrageous that the British have tried a little bit. Don't bring us in. This is almost unprecedented. The British jump into every American war, but not this one, because it's so completely outrageous whats happening right now."
"I think that's an inherent contradiction of the hegemonic peace, though. If you want to be a hegemon, you're very dependent on the alliance system because you divide regions into dependent allies versus the balanced or contained adversaries. And I don't think often the European leaders appreciate this: that once you are in a conflict with your opponent, be it Russia, then this is what makes them so dependent on the US. This is why they have to sign all these horrible trade deals. This is why they end up in this situation. The same with the Gulf States. I mean, their conflict with Iran is the reason why they've become hostage to the US."
"And I think it was acceptable when the US was more of a comfortable hegemon. But now that it's declining, and it's, as Mark Rutte said, NATO is also not just for protection, it's for power projection. If this is for power projection for the US, and so they're being used to go after rising powers, and then the US is [not] in the position to defend them anymore, then it looks like a disaster. It's just shocking to me that there's not more efforts to readjust to current realities."
"Israel is "TOAST" - Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson - Katie Halper Apr 3, 2026"
Col. Wilkerson:
"To stop Israel, you drop the 82nd Ready Brigade not on Iran, but on Dimona in Israel, then tell them they are not using this for war. And oh, by the way you know the categories of munitions that you are two day's supply, four day's supply, eight day's supply. I've seen the chart, you know those munitions that you are very very short on and that are critical to your survival. I'll stop them all tomorrow morning. Every one of them. Now let's talk.
(He's speaking very emphatically here)- Shut this down. Lebanon, Gaza, West Bank, all of it. Shut it down and take yourself out of office."
Col. Lawrence
Wilkerson: Is Netanyahu Getting Desperate?
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom - Streamed live on Apr 2,
2026
On reparationshttps://youtu.be/f5Nja-30V-w&t=1509:
Judge Napolitano: "President Donald J. Trump - so he's boasting about the destruction of an exclusively civilian infrastructure. Looks like a bridge over a valley of homes and waterway." [This is the B-1 bridge in Karaj, highest bridge in Middle East, still in construction]
Col. Wilkerson: "And Araghchi said very clearly - ceasefire, cessation of hostile attitude and reparations. [Emphatically]: Donald, you're going to rebuild that bridge. The only way you're going to get out of this mess in a sane, sound fashion is you're going to provide reparations.
And I'm sure that bridge, knowing how much it meant to the Iranians and the engineering feat and putting it together, it was all for civilian traffic. You're going to rebuild that bridge and all."
"We didn't even make any attempt to argue that the Iranians had done something militarily to precipitate our attack on Iran. There's no provocation here.
We just decided we were going to go out and we were going to whack the Iranians both last June and again this time.
Furthermore, both the Israelis and the Americans are running around the world assassinating leaders. This was not something that the United States engaged in in large part or certainly in an overt way in the past. And here we are and furthermore, there's the genocide, right? The Israelis, here's an apartheid state executing a genocide in Gaza and we're complicit in that genocide.
If there were Nuremberg Trials, right, where the Israelis and the Americans were brought before the curt, President Trump and President (sic) Netanyahu and many of their advisors would be hanged, right? This is a genocide. What did we do in 1945 with those Germans who executed a genocide in Europe and who were not only accused of executing a genocide, but those Germans were accused of launching a war of aggression, bears remarkable resemblance to what we and the Israelis have now done twice against Iran."
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Dimitri
Lascaris.
Here is his report on the school bombing at Minab, Iran:
Western
Media Ignore Victims of Trump Regime's Minab Massacre |
Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris:
On March 28, while travelling in Iran near the Strait of Hormuz, Dimitri Lascaris visited with family members of the 168 students and teachers massacred by U.S. forces at the outset of Trump's latest war of aggression on Iran.
These victims of the Trump regime's barbarism angrily rejected any suggestion that they or the Minab school were connected in any way to the Iranian military.
They also confirmed that they have been completely ignored by the Western media, the United Nations and U.S. military investigators.
Dimitri's interviews of the family members took place at the cemetery where many of those killed have been laid to rest. He also visited the home of a family that lost five of its members in the atrocity.
Western media have never bothered to visit - this was a boys and girls school, girls on first floor, boys on second floor, each having a separate playground on either end of the school.
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