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Here is the real reason for the Iran war and many other wars.

When Donald Trump said “ this is not Winston Churchill we are dealing with “

He was correct because Churchill in 1953, during his second premiership, Britain and the US supported a covert operation that overthrew Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and restored the authority of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

The coup was organised largely by the CIA, under the direction of Kermit Roosevelt Jr., but Churchill enthusiastically backed the plan.

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What we are witnessing now with the outbreak of war in Iran is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated with media complicity.

The deeper crisis is American imperialism at a stage so aggressive, so openly criminal, that it no longer feels compelled to cloak its ambitions in the language of diplomacy or democracy.

In this moment, imperial power has chosen an uneducated fascist demagogue as its ideal spokesperson, a figure whose vulgarity mirrors the nakedness of the project he represents.

What is taking shape is a new apparatus of colonial terror, where power, social media, and everyday life collapse into a single machinery of consent, training the public to see violence as spectacle and domination as normal.

It is imperial power acting without disguise, announcing that domination, plunder, and regime change are no longer covert operations but public policy.

History does not repeat itself mechanically, but it does return with new uniforms, new slogans, and the same deadly imperial ambitions.

Violence does not generate peace. It generates violence.

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This imperial aggression mirrors the logic of an Adolf doctrine called Lebensraum.

A racist and expansionist ideology that justified conquest, terror, and annexation in the name of national destiny.

Donald Trump declaring that he will decide who will be the next leader in Iran is a declaration of imperial intent, a signal that the United States now claims the right to decide which governments may exist and which must be eliminated.

This declaration like in Venezuela is an open admission of support for the fusion of state violence, corporate plunder, and imperial entitlement.

It is conquest no longer disguised as security policy but authoritarianism power that no longer bothers to conceal its motives, and where the extraction of wealth replaces ideology as the naked logic of domination.

( Today, that logic has metastasized. We now live in an era in which what serves Chevron, ExxonMobil, and the oil and arms)

Trump rehearsed this logic at home with ICE before exporting it abroad.

The assault on Venezuela follows the same script, a belief that violence, when sufficiently spectacular, can substitute for legitimacy, and that domination itself is proof of sovereignty.

It is an attempt to ‘normalize’ and ‘justify’ gangsterism.

We now have newscasts trafficked in images of people dancing in the streets, staging public jubilation around what is in fact, a spectacularized violation of both international and domestic law.

Repressive imperial power has become visceral and ocular.

State terrorism is no longer merely enforced by violence, it is normalized and taught, rendered legitimate through a form of pedagogical terrorism produced and circulated by nearly the entire corporate media apparatus.

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There was no scrutiny of the fabricated claims that Venezuela was plotting an invasion of the United States or serving as the epicenter of drug trafficking, assertions long discredited but endlessly recycled to justify imperial violence.

Nor, crucially, was there any acknowledgment of Trump’s staggering hypocrisy:

While declaring a war on drugs in the name of national security, he pardoned one of the most notorious narcotics traffickers ever prosecuted in the United States.

A notorious drug deal call Juan Orlaando Hernandez described by prosecutors as a central figure in an eighteen-year operation that flooded the U.S. with more than 400 tons of cocaine.

The immolation of international and humanitarian law, as the U.S. and Israel have done in Gaza, and as took place in Caracas, generates a world without laws, a world of failed states, warlords, rogue imperial powers and perpetual violence and chaos. 

If there is one lesson we should have learned from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, it is that regime change spawns Frankensteinian monsters of our own creation.

Silence by other countries and world organisations is not neutrality. It is complicity, and in an age of disappearing laws and vanishing lives, it is a complicity that history will recognize for what it is, an updated version of the worst horrors of the past.

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The overthrow of Mosaddegh became one of the central grievances invoked by Iran’s revolutionary leaders after the Iranian revolution.

Since 1979, the Islamic Republic has repeatedly invoked foreign intervention – particularly the Anglo-American coup – to legitimise its rule and to portray itself as the defender of Iranian sovereignty against external domination.

So we that is American need to recognise that Iran’s political system has been forged in the memory of past foreign interventions – and that any new conflict would risk reinforcing the very forces it seeks to weaken.

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