Strategic Culture – March 6, 2026

The orgy of violence and war crimes being inflicted on Iran over the past week is truly shocking. Yet it is not surprising. This is what an empire that repeatedly commits genocide does.

The U.S.-backed Israeli genocide that has been going on constantly for more than two years in Gaza is now expanding to Iran. The Trump administration is openly talking about destroying Iran and its people. Tehran and other cities across Iran are enduring carpet bombing.

“It is not only a war against Iran – it is a war against the UN Charter, against all of us, against civilization,” commented the renowned international legal expert Alfred de Zayas. His voice has resonated with the anger and disgust of billions of people around the world, including many citizens in the United States.

This is an abomination, an affront to humanity.

In a detailed legal assessment, Professor De Zayas enumerates that the U.S. and Israeli military attacks on Iran have violated multiple treaties and statutes, including the UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions.

The world is witnessing barbarism on a massive and flagrant scale. Iran is responding defiantly with the legal and moral right of self-defense.

The crimes against peace and humanity perpetrated by the U.S. and Israel are staggering in their brutality and offense against basic human morality. What is even more odious is that the crimes are being committed with an insane religious conviction that American President Donald Trump is “appointed by God.”

More sickening still is that Trump and the Western and Zionist ruling class are representative of the Epstein Class, the global elite that have been implicated in unspeakable sex crimes against children. It is consistent, albeit vile, that the Western capitalist elite who have been raping children with impunity are now massacring them with bombs, as they have been doing in Gaza. It is perverse beyond words.

The aggression against Iran has been going on for decades, with murderous economic warfare – euphemistically called “sanctions”. When the latest episode of aggression started last Saturday, February 28, American and Israeli warplanes deliberately bombed an elementary school, killing 165 children. Multiple precision strikes hit the building. Since then, several other schools have also been destroyed.

Hospitals, residential districts, and cultural sites have been methodically bombed. In six days, the death toll has surpassed 1,200 and is rapidly rising. This is a war of extermination.

Trump and his senior aides, like the maniacal Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, are reveling in the destruction.

Trump speaks like a crazed crime syndicate boss, saying that he wants to “clean out” Iran after assassinating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a cowardly, obscene act of bombing his residence in Tehran last Saturday, murdering the spiritual leader and his family. Trump has subsequently warned that he must personally approve of any new leader acceptable to U.S. interests.

Paradoxically, the display of despicable criminality betrays a desperate weakness that spells doom for the U.S. empire.

The Empire of Lies and corruption is exposed before the eyes of the world. There is growing worldwide contempt and condemnation of the United States and its Western partners. The people of the world, including citizens in the U.S. and other Western countries, realize who the enemy of peace and morality is.

Trump’s shifting claims about why he ordered the attacks on Iran only betray and expose the cynical lies.

All U.S. wars over the decades have been carried out on the pretext of lies. Millions of people from scores of countries on every continent have perished in the charnel house of imperialist violence, their blood sacrificed for the god of capitalist greed. But what is significant now is that the lies are so transparent. The evil is no longer concealed. Even the usual Western media conformity cannot obscure the blatant criminality.

We are seeing the U.S. empire and its vassals engaging in wholesale mass murder and destruction. This was already happening in Gaza. It is now being magnified in Iran and Lebanon.

European politicians like Britain’s Starmer, France’s Macron and Germany’s Merz are acting like lieutenants in America’s fascist blitzkrieg. Their complicity is damning.

Here’s the thing, however. The Western imperialist system has dug its own grave. Trump and Israel’s madman Netanyahu have opened the gates of hell, but they cannot control what is coming. For one thing, Iran’s firepower looks like it will overwhelm the U.S. and Israeli defenses and bring the world economy to a shuddering collapse. The debt-ridden U.S. and Western economies are facing a long-overdue day of reckoning from implosion.

There is no doubt that the U.S. and Israeli military power is inflicting a maelstrom of destruction and suffering. The psychopathic arrogance of its leaders is astounding and a cause of despair for many people. But there is also a foreboding sense that this is a desperate storm before the imperial system finally collapses from its own inherent corruption.

The Zionist fanatics of the empire who fantasize about “bringing the end of times” are facing an end of sorts, but far from the twisted kind they envisage.

Iran has been planning its military strategy for decades. It is exhausting the wildly extravagant death arsenal of the U.S. empire and its Israeli attack dog. All the accumulated evil of wars and genocides that the Western system has perpetrated for decades with impunity is appearing. A day of judgment is here, and the world must decide once and for all to abolish the enemy – the Western imperialist system – and push it into its own grave.

Humanity has to realize, and is realizing, that for the world to survive in peace, the United States and its Empire of Lies must be defeated.

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