According to the New York Times, the United States has passed three basic conditions to Iran: the complete cessation of uranium enrichment, the limitation of ballistic missile capacity, and the discontinuation of support for the proxy forces in the region, especially Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthies… (machine translation)
And if Iran were to heed them the next day they will get strikes anyway (Libya-style). It’s almost as if the US is telling Iran what it should not do instead.
So, in short the demands are: disarm yourself, and THEN we will totally not attack you!
Lessons from Libya
the US: “We demand that you disarm yourselves.”
Country that is targeted for domination and exploitation: “Why?”
the US: “So there’s nothing in the way of us bombing you into oblivion. I mean, for peace or something.”
Country that is targeted for domination and exploitation: “And what if we don’t disarm?”
the US: “We will try to bomb you into oblivion anyway, but it might fuck us up.”
Country that is targeted for domination and exploitation: “Sounds like we should be even more armed than we are now.”
the US: “Terrorists!”
I really wish these non-marxist but still anti-imperialist countries could disavow their liberal brainworms and implement a more centralised planned economy (can always revert to an “NEP” later) with guaranteed jobs/housing/sustinance and all hands on deck for food, medicine and war tech development.
In some cases, I’m sure it’s largely the fault of the post-WWII worldwide anti-communist campaign of wanton violence and the subsequent fall of the USSR. It undoubtedly (literally) killed a lot of rising communist/socialist elements in various countries that could have otherwise pushed hard in the kind of direction you describe. I mean, the western empire didn’t even just target communist elements. It also targeted, and continues to target, elements who wanted basic sovereignty/self-determination.
China is leading the rising alternative, but that doesn’t on its own bring back all the people murdered by imperialism, or on its own remove the imperialist tendrils in so many places.
My understanding of geopolitics has changed over time to consider that bourgoisie aligned groups and classes will organically form in post-formal-colonial countries - with or without a dictatorship of capital - with their north star aligning without much effort with the commanding heights of imperialism - the US. It’s why, aesthetics aside, liberals all over the world are so American.
Imperialism can deepen its roots elsewhere because there is fertile soil for them to find.
It’s natural selection at this point. States that do implement some form of nationalization, economic planning (this is not mutually exclusive with markets and private enterprise) and information domain sovereignty will survive the imperialist onslaught, and those who don’t won’t. Regardless whether they are Marxist or not. A nationalist anti-imperialist global south government can employ these methods as well and thereby turn their economy into a resilient war economy that can survive a prolonged siege. It’s not a matter of ideology, it’s a matter of pragmatism.
One could argue that is what marxism-leninism calls for; it is the science of capital and how to build socialism from it and therefore strategies that win against the first global contradiction - US imperialism - would echo this no matter what they call themselves.
Light up the Emirati and Saudi oil fields. Also a good dose of hypersonics on Tel Aviv.
The imperialists couldn’t survive 12 days of war with Iran. I hope any further attack finally makes Iran take the gloves off.
The lessons from Russia is attrition but I am not exactly sure how that would work here. I have read elsewhere that the US advantage would be to finish quickly and that it would be in Iran’s interest to drag it out at multiple chokepoints.
