The Actual War Goals are Evil.
That's why the government won't tell us what they are.
Many Americans have been waiting for the government to announce what its Iran war plans are, but with the Iranian governments’s refusal to immediately surrender, the government is scared to admit its goals, because it knows the public will not approve. We are told that the goal is regime change, but are we to believe that hapless US/Israel bombers and target pickers accidentally foiled the government’s plans by killing so many of the potential Iranian successor leaders, or is this a sign that Israel and the US actually intended to kill the multiple layers of Iranian senior leaders they bombed?1
Stated Goal: “Regime Change”
The US and Israel may have differing goals. I suspect that the US interests in Iran might be satisfied by replacing the leadership with a government more favorable to the US and Israel.
Actual Goal: “Staticide”: Killing the State of Iran
.. but but I’ve heard Israel may have a more sinister strategy that involves not just the overthrowing of the Iranian leadership and replacing them with a puppet government, but rather creating a “failed Iranian state” organized by ethnic division:
the engineering of civil war in Iran, leading to
the destruction of the Iranian state and
the fragmenting of the country into multiple countries defined by ethnic group.2
Israeli: Dominance over Middle East
The purpose of this strategy is to eliminate Iran as a potential competitor with Israel for dominance over the middle east region.3 Additionally, there are those in the US and Israel that welcome an Apocalyptic War and see an opportunity to expel Palestinians from their homeland.
Professor Jiang Xueqin4 had laid out this scenario a year ago and I look forward to watching all his videos on this topic.
One of the main themes of Episode 9 is that Iran will respond by attacking Gulf Countries that host US bases and kick the US out of the Gulf, forcing the foreign labor force to flee. Because 60%-90% of the water in the Gulf is provided by desalination plants and 70-80% of the food is imported via the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has leverage to expel the US presence from the Gulf.
This has major significance, because these oil producers are the lynchpin of the Petrodollar, which maintains demand for the US currency, as well as demand for US debt.
Create Ethnic Enclaves
The Kurds have not had a state of their own and the US has previously used statehood as a carrot to give them leverage with the Kurds to fight for US interests. Each time, the US has betrayed the Kurds. The hope is that the US can again use these experienced Kurdish fighters against Iran, with the hope that this will prompt other Iranian ethnic groups to fight for their independence.
Like the Gulf States, Iran suffers from a shortage of water. The Israeli/US strategy is to exploit this scarcity to get the different ethnic groups to fight each other over water and independence. The water shortage is perpetual, leading potentially to a refugee crisis and perpetual fighting.
Divide and Rule
I wrote an article on “Divide and Rule” that captures one of the strategies that is being applied to Iran, and which I believe is under appreciated in its application in the US, ranging from US racial division, exploiting identity differences, and Professional Managerial Class gatekeeping.
Elsewhere:
Can Israel & the U.S. Sustain Iran’s Military Power? (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report
Comment:
The war is going so poorly Trump will have to start releasing Epstein files just to distract from it.
FOOTNOTES:
“And there is, as of today, no publicly stated definition of what winning this war looks like. Trump, when asked about post-war leadership in Iran, noted that most of the people they had in mind to take over were killed in the strikes. That’s not a plan hitting obstacles. That’s evidence there wasn’t a plan.” Thomas Karat When the Mask Slips: What Rubio’s Confession Means For You
Alistair Crooke said that there are already separate constitutions drafted for these new self-sufficient states, organized on ethnic divisions, to leave Iran weakened and in chaos, like we see in Syria. That is not he US approach, which is regime change.
The US is said to have broader geo-strategic goals of protecting its hegemonic status, relative to Russia, and especially China.
Professor Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian professor who has a M.A. in English Literature from Yale.