Originally published June 26, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor
“It is overly simplistic to characterize the Trump World Order as a ‘profit over people’ scheme. While Trump probably believes corporations and markets are the prime movers of human civilization, he also seems to believe the average person must be an essential stakeholder.
“He pragmatically believes profit must be felt materially by the vast majority for prosperity to override sectarianism. Without a broad base of mutual stakeholders, sectarianism will triumph.
“I am assuming the Trump World Order will continue after him, in part because the institutions around its assumptions are already forming, and not just in the United States.
“The Iran deal makes sense within the perspective of this world order.
“The theory is that the threat of military action looming at any time, along with the inducement of economic prosperity from the bottom to the top of their society, will kill the regime’s current apocalyptic mission. That mission is to usher in the return of the 12th Imam, who will usher in the destruction of the world.
Not even the leadership will be interested in a mission that encourages the end of a prosperous world.” – Bill Collier, from last week’s Final Thought, Trump World Order.
INTRODUCTION
This month, there were several major bellwethers we have yet to provide a Deep Dive on. Among these are the Trump Deportations, the AI Data Center fights, and the increasing overt agit prop campaigns of the Progressive Press. The complete progressive takeover of the Democratic Party has been covered in past reports. Recent events warrant a new report closer to the midterm elections.
The AI Database story needs more development for a bellwether assessment to happen. The Trump Deportation story is tied into another future bellwether analysis, Judgefare, the progressive judicial opposition to President Trump’s executive authority.
You can expect an analysis of the Trump deportations in an upcoming issue of MIA. The Progressive Press story was a strong contender for this month’s Deep Dive, as was the Trump Deportations.
Even this month, the progressive media has accelerated its agit prop campaigns. We will be referring to them often as the content marketing hub of the Democratic Party because increasingly they have tied their fate to the Democratic Party, even at the cost to their integrity and standing as a “free press.”
That Deep Dive is already being researched, though the timeframe for when we will produce it is still fluid. Expect a Deep Dive close to the midterm elections, if not sooner.
While the Iran War has been covered in a couple of Deep Dives already, its bellwether significance cannot be understated.
In this Deep Dive, I will refresh you on how we got here, the terms of the actual deal, and the latest fallout of the deal. I will also provide a summary of the deal and an assessment of it in the context of the Trump Presidency, the new Geopolitical Reality (the Trump World Order we described in Issue 26.21 last week), and its ramifications on the November 2026 elections.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On February 28, 2026, Operation Epic Fury began. It was a wholesale effort by the U.S. and Israel to rapidly destroy Iranian power. The war cost the U.S. roughly $200 billion.
On June 17, 2026, a formal deal called the Memorandum of Agreement was signed by the Iranian regime and U.S. President Donald Trump. The deal gives Iran $300 billion in private international investment, its frozen assets returned, its oil allowed to be sold on the global market, and even an assurance from the U.S. it won’t interfere with internal Iranian affairs.
During the course of the war, many false uprisings came and went, but none were able to remove the regime from power. Untold thousands of Iranians were executed, and many continue to be executed even after the deal was signed.
The U.S. Senate responded to the deal by passing a resolution directing the President to end the war. The deal’s 60-day clock has started, and so far, the mechanisms are unfolding, mostly, as they were promised to.
The consequence of the war will profoundly affect the geopolitical reality of the region for the foreseeable future. The “success” of the deal’s finalization could also profoundly affect the outcome of the U.S. November 2026 Midterm Elections.
BACKGROUND
HOW WE GOT HERE – From our March 2026 Deep Dive on the Iran War by our Military Affairs Correspondent Michael Cessna:
“It was the collapse of the Iranian Rial (IRR) which led to the massive protests. The Rial went from roughly IRR 48,000 to $1 USD in the first week of December to IRR 1.4 million to $1 USD on December 28th, 2025. This triggered purely economic protests, which erupted throughout Iran.
“Decades of incompetence, corruption and incoherent policies having wrecked the Iranian economy to the point of utter disaster, opened the door for a swift transition to purely political protests openly calling for the complete overthrow of the regime.
“When the protests began to build momentum in January of this year, President Trump posted on Truth Social: ‘Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!… HELP IS ON ITS WAY.’”
The date of that post was January 13, 2026. What followed was a delayed but decisive response from the Iranian regime, resulting in a minimum of 30,000 slaughtered Iranians. On February 28, 2026, Operation Epic Fury began. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. and Iran was signed on June 17, 2026, nearly four months after the start of the war.
IRAN’S WAR DAMAGES – The Iranian military primarily has been reduced to one major asset, a still-plenty-stockpile of missiles of various ranges. Not even its drones are as nearly effective as they were at the start of the war.
Getting clear figures on troop losses is difficult, but estimates range between 1,000 and 3,000 soldiers killed, with up to 15,000 injured. However, Iran’s military leadership has been decimated, in some instances two or three times over. The new military leadership is young and inexperienced.
In the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s small boats and mines are still more than capable of shutting the strait down once again.
Iran as a forward threat is effectively over for the next 5-10 years, as its military assets have been largely eliminated. This includes ships, production sites, defense systems, radar bases, and more.
Iran as a naval threat is non-existent. Outside of commercial terrorism, the regime has no naval card to play.
In addition to military decimation, key aspects of Iran’s infrastructure have been destroyed, with estimates around $140-150 billion in losses.
IRAN’S REGIME CHANGE – Most of Iran’s top leadership has been killed, twice, meaning the immediate successors were also killed. There were two noted exceptions, one is for the Supreme Leader and the other is the President, the two top positions in the regime.
In the case of the Supreme Leader, they started with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but he was killed in the first week of the war. The successor, his second-eldest son Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, was also hit early in the war. However, he survived and has been steadily recovering.
The Iranian President at the start of the war was Masoud Pezeshkian, who was either never targeted or avoided being hit by airstrikes. He has emerged as the primary negotiator with the Trump administration. He continues to be the President.
The regime before the war was highly centralized, with the Supreme Leader holding nearly absolute power. There was a balance of factions centered around the Supreme Leader, which included senior clerics, the IRGC, and former officials in good standing.
With the accession of Mojtaba Khamenei, a new precedent has been set that breaks with the old tradition. Up until this moment, the successor had been selected, but he couldn’t be the son of the former Supreme Leader. Now, the precedent has been set that has made Khamenei’s family a de facto royal dynasty.
This rubs against the former ethos. It also ended up shifting power from the clerics to the IRGC as the successor was largely advanced and validated by them.
Mojtaba is considered more authoritarian, more theologically extreme than his father, even as he must now rely on his IRGC allies for power, as opposed to the clerics. These same clerics will likely harbor some resentment over the creation of a dynasty. This is an outcome they specifically were hoping to avoid from the moment the regime came to power nearly 50 years ago.
ISRAEL – The war in Lebanon has been Israel’s effort to eliminate an Iranian regime proxy, Hezbollah. Iran’s degraded status has left Hezbollah largely hung out to dry. Israel has taken territory in Southern Lebanon and is in negotiations to hand over some of that territory to a Lebanese army now, allegedly, willing to seriously go after Hezbollah.
The Iranian regime considers the end of Israel’s hostilities in Lebanon, and its withdrawal from Lebanese territory, an essential part of the terms of a final peace deal they hope to sign within the 60-day deadline. Israel was not part of the deal and has not endorsed the deal.
Israel has made it clear it has no intentions of halting its operations in Lebanon for any other reason besides its own perceived national security. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, recently declared, “without the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territories they occupied during this war, the war has not fully come to an end.”
Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted “We are not partners to this agreement that does not ensure our security.”
At the G7, President Trump declared, “Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed. You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody…”
President Trump affirmed this exchanged with Netanyahu in the beginning of June, when they were working on what would become the MOU. The President said to Netanyahu in a phone exchange, “You’re f#$%ing crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”
IRAQ – One of the major impediments to Iraq stabilizing as a nation has been the existence of multiple paramilitaries. In large part because of the Iran War, a lot of Iran proxies have lost some significant material support.
A major step towards the consolidation of military power under the Iraqi government happened in Samarra City, the seat of power for an Iranian proxy group, the Shia Nationalist movement. Their leader, Muqtada al Sadr, has signaled to his supporters an approval of a plan to integrate his paramilitary into the Iraqi military.
THE ACTUAL DEAL – THE MOU
CEASEFIRE – This provision provides for an immediate cessation of military action on both parts. The final deal requires an end to the Lebanon war as well. This is despite the fact that Israel was not part of the negotiations.
SOVEREIGNTY – This provision is a promise by both parties to not interfere with the internal affairs of one another. This provision effectively concedes Iran to the current regime, meaning “help is on the way” is never going to happen for the Iranian people.
LIMITATION – This provision puts a time-limit on this agreement of 60 days. The intention of the agreement is to sign a final peace deal.
NAVAL BLOCKADE – This provision gives the U.S. 30 days to end its naval blockade of Iran. Parts of the blockade had to be removed immediately upon signing.
OMAN WINS – This provision immediately opens the Strait of Hormuz, compelling Iran to assure safe passage for commercial vessels, with no tolls, for 60 days.
The Final Deal must include a plan to administrate the Strait of Hormuz, with Oman being given the lead role in the project, along with Persian Gulf States and Iran itself. This means Iran will still be part of the “security” of a post-war strait. This gives Oman new regional power. Oman’s opposition to having normalized relations with Israel makes this choice by the President curious.
IRAN’S BOUNTY – The U.S. commits to develop a $300 billion investment plan for Iran in this provision. The Final Deal will include a plan for private investors from multiple countries, including the U.S., to invest $300 billion to rebuild Iran’s infrastructure. President Trump has sworn that no U.S. tax dollars will go into the fund.
SANCTION LIFT – Part of the Final Deal MUST include an agreement for the U.S. to lift all sanctions against Iran.
NO NUKES – Iran pledges not to procure or develop nuclear weapons, but it does not commit to having its nuclear material removed.
STATUS QUO – Until the Final Deal is signed, Iran is given permission to maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program. The U.S. will also not impose any new sanctions, nor will it deploy any new military assets into the region.
IRAN CRUDE FLOWS – This provision ends all U.S. restrictions on Iran crude oil on the international market. This process began as soon as the MOU was signed.
UNFROZEN ASSETS – When the MOU was signed, frozen Iranian assets held in the U.S. began a process of release to Iran that is expected to be completed before the Final Agreement is signed.
RELEASE MECHANISM – This provision establishes an executive mechanism to “monitor the successful implementation of this MOU and the future compliance of the final deal.”
GETTING TO NEGOTIATE THE FINAL DEAL – This makes the beginning of the implementation of the ceasefire, the naval blockade lift, the creation of the Oman-led administration of the strait, the release of Iran crude oil onto the global market, and the releasing of Iran’s frozen assets the condition for a Final Deal negotiation to begin.
UN APPROVAL – “The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UNSC resolution.”
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
MOU FOLLOW-UP – So far, the ceasefire has mostly held. The Naval blockade is not entirely lifted, but the process has begun. The U.S. projects full commercial traffic will resume within 30 days.
On June 25th, Iran struck a cargo ship in the strait, causing the flow of traffic to once again halt. So far, the U.S. has not made definitive statements on the violation.
Iran responded to the world by claiming “The only authorized route for passing through the Strait of Hormuz is the one declared by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Vessel traffic outside these routes is extremely dangerous and prohibited. Violators will be dealt with.”
On June 22nd, the U.S. treasury issued wavers that effectively allow Iran to sell oil on the global market. Talks about releasing frozen assets are ongoing, with no assets reported released as of yet.
A round of technical talks was held in Switzerland on June 21-22, 2026. They created working groups, communications channels, and received a commitment from Iran to allow IAEA inspectors back into the country. Iran has already wavered on that commitment.
So far, final deal negotiations are limited to preliminary talks, with each side feeling out the boundaries of the other.
DOMESTIC RESPONSE – With the help of 4 GOP Senators, the U.S. Senate was able to pass a War Powers Resolution instructing the President to cease all operations in Iran. The resolution passed by a final vote of 52-48.
The War Powers Resolution has yet to be tested constitutionally as no President has, so far, challenged it in the courts. A simple veto ends it, and only one congress has mustered the veto-proof majorities needed in both chambers to override it.
That congress was the 1973 congress, which overrode a Nixon veto of a War Powers Resolution. However, the PR of the President vetoing the resolution might not be popular with most Americans, who overwhelmingly want to see the war end. Fortunately for Trump, that test will not come.
Since the vote, two GOP Senators switched their vote, changing the outcome from 50-48 for the resolution to 50-47 against it. This happened after the President made an unscheduled visit to Capital Hill where he engaged in a shouting match with the two Senators who ended up changing their votes.
Republicans view the deal as too generous to Iran while Democrats doubt its efficacy over its lack of details. A plurality of the public think Iran got the better deal, 37%, while 22% think the U.S. did. 67% of the public supports a deal being signed.
GLOBAL RESPONSE – Here are some responses from key players regionally and globally:
Saudi Arabia – Their main issue with the deal is the failure to address Iran’s proxies. Saudi Arabia wants guarantees Iran will not continue to support its many proxies that have wreaked havoc on the stability of the region for decades.
Egypt – So far, Egypt has expressed only support for the deal, enthusiastically.
Broader Europe – The E3, Germany, the UK, and France, have issued broad support for the plan, hailing it an “historic opportunity” to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Oman – As a major facilitator of the deal, Oman supports the deal enthusiastically, embracing its lead role in the administration of the Strait of Hormuz.
China and Russia – Both China and Russia support the deal, with Russia offering a little more skepticism on implementation.
SUMMARY
The war in Iran as seen through the American audience has become a debate on America’s relationship with Israel.
Israel has become a foil for both the non-globalist nationhood faction and the globalists. Israel represents to progressives a successful model of ethnic nationhood with a compelling argument for it.
Israel’s narrative is that it was brought about to save a persecuted people from genocide, from the Nazis, the fascists, the faction the Progressives claim to be protecting the world from. That narrative, a narrative of the disenfranchised overcoming the oppressed, is a progressive narrative.
This makes Israel a powerful anti-globalist narrative because it uses the progressives’ primary appeal for power, rescuing the disenfranchised and oppressed from their systematic oppressors, to justify its own “ethnic nationalism.”
So long as Israel exists, it is a massive thorn in the side of the argument against non-globalist nationhood, as well as ethnic nationhood. It also cuts against their narrative of being antifascist, since they find themselves having to sub-humanize the Israelis to avoid facing their status as a disenfranchised and persecuted people protecting themselves through ethnic nationhood.
Yet Israel is also a foil for the globalists, as its perceived influence on American power has become the symbol of globalism itself. So, the fierce nationalists on the right and the first globalists on the left are both highly motivated to see the worst in Israel and the best in their opposition.
The immediate fallout of the deal has left Israel, the country that began the operation with the U.S., out in the cold. Their biggest win is a vague assurance from Iran they will not pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons. Soon, the deal will enable Iran to once again fund its proxies, including Hezbollah, since that type of activity is not included in the deal.
For the Final Deal to be signed, Israel has to retreat from Lebanon, which seems unlikely at the moment.
Oman has gained regional power and prestige in the deal. Meanwhile, Iran’s support of terrorism wasn’t even addressed.
The Progressives find themselves comparing the deal to Obama’s Iran Deal. They claim Obama’s was better, with far less cost to the American people.
The Conservatives find themselves unsatisfied with terms that put into question the sacrifices made to get to this point. Some agree with the Progressives that the final deal is not unsimilar to the net result of the Obama deal.
The major difference is the degradation of Iran’s military power and even its proxy power, a point the Progressives omit in their analysis more often than not.
The fact that Russia, China, and Western Europe all approve the MOU should give pause to Americans, for surely the interests of these entities are NOT aligned with ours. Yet here we are finding more support from our enemies and our disgruntled allies than we do from the country who fought by our side at the start of the war.
The Iranian regime empowers China, and China empowers the progressive west to further erode nationhood identities in the west while China preserves it for themselves. This is why Western Europe embraces this deal, for a powerful American non-globalist nationhood model cuts against the progressive globalist model. A loss for China is a win for the non-globalist nationhood model.
The deal empowers Oman, a hardline anti-Israel Islamist state every bit as inclined to oppose American power as the current regime in Iran is. This hurts another non-globalist nationhood model, Israel.
The American people generally support an end to the war, having never understood the geopolitical issues at play since the President himself failed to articulate it. Again, for them, the war is about America’s relationship with Israel, not America’s de facto AI war with China.
From the start of the war, but after he had already pledged to the Iranian people to help them overthrow their totalitarian regime, the President stressed the one win he wanted was to assure Iran does not get nuclear weapons. To that end, he maybe won. But did he really?
ASSESSMENT
Understanding the true reason President Trump chose to start a major war with Iran might be a question for historians a thousand years from now. But most, I believe, will not deny that the reality of power compelled the Trump administration to attack Iran.
Iran was already suffering major degradations before the war began. The protests were massive, revealing an overwhelming rejection of the Islamic Republic by the Iranian people. The U.S. had just surgically removed a Chinese asset and flipped a pro-Chinese country, Venezuela, to a pro U.S. country. Here, they had an opportunity to do it again.
I believe President Trump wanted, above all else, to usher in a quick regime change, like he did in Venezuela, which would deliver a stunning blow to China’s power. Were China to lose Iran as soon as it did Venezuela (both major sources for discounted oil), this would set them back significantly. While it would hardly cripple them, it would be a major setback in their plans. Venezuela is a major setback for China in the Americas in and of itself.
At a time when the world is diving headlong into the AI Wars, ANY power advantage the U.S. can have over China could have exponential advantages down the line.
Had Trump delivered the fatal knockout blow that would lead Iran to quickly capitulate, or the Iranian people to quickly rise up and remove them, Trump would have seen his poll numbers go up and the American economy would soar.
A hostile apocalyptic mission death cult being removed from a region will have a mid- and long-term stabilization effect that will also lead to great economic flourishing as well.
Still, the President hedged his bets, not on his mission, but on his message. Militarily, I believe they held nothing back, they went for broke, they went for the decisive quick win. They just didn’t dare set that expectation because they knew the power of the cult they were attempting to destroy.
From before the start of the war, but after Trump’s “Help is on the way” message, he made it clear his primary mission was to assure Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. While he never shied away from hoping for a regime change, he never made it a condition to end the war, nor was it stated as a mission before the war started.
This means the message the American people got had nothing to do with China. Not even through his proxies, including Rubio, was any message sent to telegraph this reality to the American people. The real mission was to overthrow the regime as fast as possible, to repeat Venezuela. The real mission was to knock China back from the world stage, to drive the cost of their energy up, and advantage the U.S. in the early phase of the AI wars.
Perhaps the unpopularity of AI caused Trump to hedge his bets on his messaging, or perhaps it was simply his fear he might not succeed (which turned out to be the case). Perhaps a message that the war was about knocking China out of the Middle East for a spell to advantage the U.S. in the AI wars would have failed to convince the American people to commit to a determined war of regime change for geopolitical reasons.
With the progressive press, the content marketing division of the Democratic Party, that message would have been turned into xenophobia against a country, China, that’s better than us and has a more competent and capable leader. I have next to zero doubt that this would have been the exact counter narrative from the progressive press.
Trump’s initial attacks worked as planned, even better than planned. I believe the Iranian President was intentionally not killed because Trump’s administration identified him as a possible transition figure after regime change.
They killed all the essential leaders. They did it twice. They failed to kill the son, however.
By their reckoning, the war should have ended here. The regime should have collapsed. The army would leave their posts. The people would rise up, even without guns, for they wouldn’t need them if the government just walked away. That’s essentially what happened in Venezuela, only the uprising wasn’t even needed. The government just instantly capitulated to the U.S.
But Venezuela was different than Iran. Maduro’s power was not built on a psychotic end-world vision, it was built on pure power alone. There are far less ideologues in the Maduro regime than there are in the Iranian one.
While the overwhelming majority of Iranians may reject the Islamic Republic, the core of that Republic, the clerics, the IRGC, the elders, were and are mostly, fully committed to the bit. They’re not opportunists, they’re true believers in a mission, to usher in the age of the 12th Imam, even if it means death to the rest of the world.
For them, death is not a deterrence. For Maduro’s regime, the credible threat of death changes hearts and minds instantly.
The IRGC did not walk away. They held their firearms and willfully killed their neighbors for the sake of the 12th Imam. When the people rose, the IRGC fired back. There was no unfettered path to the halls of power for an unarmed people as the Trump administration hoped there would be.
In Iran, there are two countries, the country of the people of Iran and the country of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The latter one has all the guns and a powerful center-holding and action-inspiring narrative, being the engine through which the whole world will eventually be saved.
Through the Islamic Republic, the 12th Imam will return to earth and usher in the end that leads to paradise for all who are worthy, the true believers of Allah.
The clerics, the army, the elders, all have families, from grandparents to children, with institutions of their own. They have existed in this separated state for decades now, becoming a whole civilization, not a people united in pursuit of pure power under the charismatic leadership of one man.
Though the Supreme Leader had great authority and was truly the center of power for the whole regime, it was the office that held the power, not the man. The man might die, but the office lives in the next man.
Had the U.S. killed the son, I have little doubt a new man would yet have been selected, most likely from among the ranks of the IRGC. The clerics and elders would have as little choice to say no as they did when the son was first offered by the IRGC as the successor.
Some might suggest the IRGC chose the son knowing the controversy behind it, using it to make it clear who the new dominant power in the regime is.
The regime is the office and the mission, though, not the individual. Despite Maduro’s “socialist” justifications for controlling Venezuelans at the micro level, his regime was yet pinned to the man, not the office, and his soldiers were not saving the world, they were only enriching their own.
The deal itself is not a deal for a winner, it’s the deal for the status quo, which is a win for the regime. They stood in the face of death and laughed. Their own people turned on them and they laughed as they slaughtered them in response. This was heroic, for the protests and the war exposed the infidels among them.
The slaughter was a cleansing. The uprising was a test of the resolve of the true people of Allah, the people of the regime, from children to the elderly, a people who are all married to the return of the 12th Imam.
The deal itself is a win for China particularly, for it keeps their cheap source of oil intact, and it keeps China’s access to Iran’s territory opened as well.
But Trump didn’t lose, no sir. He won. He got what he wanted the whole time, the end of Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions. The Progressives will rightly point out he will have no more reason to be confident this regime isn’t lying than Obama did when he made his deal with Iran.
In reality, Trump lost, bigly. America lost as well.
We spent billions of dollars, and might spend billions more, directly or indirectly, on Iran, all to see China’s influence remain intact. We are left with just Iran’s promise that they won’t get nukes, which is just as untrustworthy a promise as it was before.
The President never gave the American people a chance to decide if they’d support a pragmatic war that would end the power of a genocidal death cult regime while also crippling China’s power at a crucial time in the beginning of the AI wars.
They never heard that invitation. The message they heard was that the war was to end Iran’s nuke program. The Trump administration only hoped for regime change, they weren’t trying to force it.
All that half of the Conservatives and most of the Progressives heard was “we are fighting to defend Israel against Iran.” Given how poorly this has worked out for Israel (though they are not without victories because of this war), that narrative holds little substance to it now.
Perhaps Trump did not wish to telegraph to China how adversarial America is. Perhaps, under Trump, she isn’t. That question will be pondered for a future Deep Dive, God willing.
Barring some unforeseen turn, such as regime change through some as of now clandestine operation, perhaps being conducted by Israel, Iran is at best a wash for Trump in the midterms, but more likely it is an albatross.
If the deal goes forward as it seems to intend, the “Trump Israel puppet” narrative has far less teeth, but the “Trump will keep us out losing wars” narrative will be utterly destroyed.
This will effectively sap conservative energy going into the midterms, at least among the “casual” conservatives, the non-activists. The globalists won, why vote for the party that helped make it happen? After billions in U.S. dollars spent, and the slaughtering of tens of thousands of Iranians, the globalists won.
This is how many conservatives will feel, and perhaps rightly so. Ironically, the globalists won at the expense of Israel, the symbol of globalism to these same Conservatives.
“Help is on the way” will become an increasingly haunting echo in the Trump administration, and one that, I think, might become the defining moment of the entirety of Trump’s career, and the lesson we all must learn repeatedly, that our strengths are our weaknesses.
In a moment of supreme confidence, Trump offered the moon and the stars to millions of living human beings. This led them to boldness that was soon met with bullets, with slaughter, as tens of thousands were killed, even more arrested, with thousands still in prisons and executions still occurring.
Trump broke through that 2016 GOP Primary daring to talk like a man who intended to win in America’s interest. That same bravado spilled over onto January 13, when he spoke like a man who wanted to win for the sake of the Iranian people.
The Conservatives mostly supported that cause from the start, and many still do, while the Progressives were never moved by the plight of the Iranian people. They passed off the protests as CIA operations, and the victims as treasonous agents rightly killed.
Unless and until this regime gives way to Iranian liberty, the bravado that won Trump the Presidency has now led to a near-fatal (maybe fatal) mistake.
Truly, the myth of the Teflon outsider politician died with those Iranians. So long as this regime continues to stay in power, so long as China continues to entangle itself more with Iran, Trump’s “Help is on the way” will be his cry of defeat, the apex of his power and the moment of his descent.
As we have no one else outside of Trump and the Republicans, at present, to resist progressive power with, Trump’s failure is our loss as well.
Let us hope our increasing awareness of the fecklessness of the GOP and Trump in opposition to the progressive state will lead to the emergence of American political parties willing and able to challenge the leadership of both.
FURTHER RESOURCES:
From Cyrus to Khamenei: The 5,000 -Year History of Iran – Greek Reporter
History of Iran – Peter William Avery
History of Iran – Map and Timeline – History-maps.com
