Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian April 10, 2026
he Iran War has been going on for less than six weeks, has thus far involved no infantry engagements of any kind on either side, and is currently in the middle of a ceasefire.
Does that sound like a conflict that can already be described as going to “define our generation”?
Because that’s what Sir Keir Starmer said earlier today.
Now, politicians engaging in hyperbole for the sake of a soundbite is hardly rare, but Starmer is far from alone in this over-statement…
The New Republic is calling Iran “the greatest strategic blunder in American military history”.
The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history. https://t.co/vYhfLG6ONl
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) April 10, 2026
Let’s remind ourselves that official figures claim fewer than twenty US losses, no boots on the ground and – again – currently in a ceasefire after six weeks of fighting.
With respect, this is not even in the top two US military disasters of this century.
Iraq and Afghanistan cost trillions, lasted decades and in strategic terms achieved next to nothing – and though many, myself included, would argue that was potentially very much the point – officially they are very definitely disasters.
To already brand the Iran venture on that level reeks of agenda setting.
And at the same time, we’re being prepped for the economic impact of the (as yet) six-week-old war to last for years, by outlets like the New Statesman:
The Iran energy fallout is here to stay – It will take years for global markets to recover from the crisis
Foreign Affairs says the war is “upending the economy”.
The FT is warning of “long term scars”, while Fortune think it’s “re-shaping global power”.
Al Jazeera is wondering how global supply chains will ever recover.
Most tellingly of all, the head of the International Monetary Fund is out there declaring…
Iran war will permanently scar global economy even if peace is reached
You see, even if peace were declared tomorrow, it’s too late. We’re scarred.
She even added that the “most hopeful scenario” will cause a “permanent hit to living standards”…which she probably didn’t mean quite the way it sounds.
This is a LOT of premature narrative formation. Propaganda that spits out the answer before the teacher has even finished asking the question.
And it’s a tell-tale sign of narrative roll-out, rather than an organic reaction to real events.
I wonder what the end goal might be…
Of course he didn’t mean it that way but – hmmm.
Maybe this war will “define our generation”, but based on current information it will be because that was the plan from the beginning.
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LOL..
Well done Kit..you’ve worked it out..the wars are performative, that’s why the toobz are crawling with intel colonels spreading the horsehit thick…prole slop…because having shat the bed financially and lost focus on the lol..bio-security op’..up in the gallery they have decided the old standby WAR will have to suffice…
Lol the markets..which of course, are everything to these imbeciles, have become unmanageable as they stand.. which is actually more of a stoop..
being held together by the yankee printing press, so a good conflagration to keep the churn moving.. in the hope they can re-structure and lose the four quadrillion or so in toxic waste..without having to offer a jubilee..despotism is preferable, or so it seems..
Have a quick gander at how far the Russians have gone with their digital panopticon…of course it doesn’t fucking work very well.. and no doubt a harbinger of the rest of this digital dross..
which is both unsurprising and expected..
lolo..
By the way..the hollow men have always used the Saudi Goat herders as their personal piggy bank and desert fiefdom..finding more utility in using a theocratic medieval satrap for resource extraction because that way they can actually use slavery out in the open rather than dressed up as demockracy… and of course it’s historical and they are sort of cousins… and a form of lol counterpoint..
it seems that they’ve used these desert Bedouins to fund their Western panopticon too because they actually have real resources and not bits of central bank paper…
It’s highly likely there will be a bit more chopping and musical chairs in the Embassies some time soon..
lolo..
Good point. No infantry engagement, they all left their bases to live in hotels, while the boat with marines is still sailing somewhere out there, on the way to fight (on paper only). Everything shown about this very fake and staged affair was not real. Just actors pretending to be at war with their pretend enemy.
“Planned” you say
It takes two to tango.
Some people think Iran is America’s dance partner…
A digital technocracy might be on the way, and it might appear appealing to all governments. Let’s hope this war of US/Israeli aggression makes it more unlikely.
And don’t forget the “plan” based on Biblical “prophecy” (Daniel and Ezekiel) to “strongly delude” the “rapture ready” Evangelical crowd into thinking we are in the “end times” and hus try to force God’s hand. In other words, the whole “Gog Magog” misinterpretation of scripture to force fear, “the mind killer” (Frank Herbert’s Dune)
Knightly in casting here and there in the mainstream of lies only comes up with a lot of doubt, but never a whopper. His initial theory was that the war was a charade or cover for something much bigger and more sinister and my interpretation was that it was globalist manipulation regarding the their dreaded “Great Reset”, but I may be wrong.
If Klaus Schwab was still running the WEF show, and not Larry the Fink following the election of Donald the Liar, he likely would have said something very parallel regarding this recent war apparently threatening to escalate into a WWIII Armageddon.
In 2020, Schwab said, “The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous future”.
According to quasi-reliable AI Overview, what this meant was:
“”Launch of the Great Reset” – In June 2020, Schwab and HRH the Prince of Wales launched the Great Reset initiative, arguing that the COVID-19 crisis showed that the old systems (capitalism) were not fit for the 21st century.
“Never Return to Normal”: In their book, Covid-19: The Great Reset, published in July 2020, Schwab and Thierry Malleret wrote: “Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never”.”
“The Opportunity”: Schwab argued that the crisis allowed world leaders to take “bold” action to accelerate changes toward a greener, fairer, and more digital economy, rather than simply trying to repair the old system.”
Simon Dixon, a financial analyst, who left the Bank of England and became a Bitcoin Guru at least a decade ago, podcasting from his tax have on the Isle of Mann, said shortly before the outbreak of this round of hostilities against Iran and Lebanon, that a “regime change” had already been made in a deal with Iran. A few days later Israel and the US “decapitate” the Iranian leadership, but if everything was so fixed then why the theatrics of a war?
Apparently, both sides except for a few atrocities here and there, committed mainly by the terror regime of Israelis, each side has been warning the other side of where their strikes would be beforehand, to allow people to evacuate the areas. At least we know that the Iranians did that with respect to many of their targets, including American bases.
Creating a global oil, food, and economic crisis certainly does serve the interests of those behind the globalist-reset agendas, and although the establishment control of the facts has waned since Covid they still are very much trying to suppress information leaking out regarding the actual damage to either side in this war.
The following link is on Pubmed and is from 2021 and the “infodemic” the elites were trying to supress at the time was actually the truth about the pandemic being a “plandemic” to role out the WEF Great Reset:
“The Great Reset. Restratification for lives, livelihoods, and the planet”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9757815/
“From the outset, the 2020 coronavirus crisis has been declared not only a “medical war” (Emmanuel Macron, 16 Mars 2020; Donald Trump, 19 Mars 2020) against an epidemic virus disease, but also a war against “another epidemic – a dangerous epidemic of misinformation”. The term “infodemic” appears in a WHO report on “the “2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCOV) Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan” from 04 February 2020. In further describing this “other epidemic” in his video message on COVID-19 and misinformation from 14 April 2020, UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks of a “global ‘misinfo-demic’” on the ground that “wild conspiracy theories are infecting the Internet” and “hatred is going viral”. He concludes that “media companies must do more to root out hate and harmful assertions about COVID-19” and announces “a new United Nations Communications Response initiative to flood the Internet with facts and science while countering the growing scourge of misinformation – a poison that is putting even more lives at risk”.”
The entire war could be the whopper and greatest fake since 2020.
Iran is not America’s dance partner.
And perhaps every other country on earth has realized dancing with the U.S. is suicidal.
Trump is now going to blockade the Persian Gulf. Let’s see which countries dance to America’s tune. America can’t stand for Iran taking control of the Gulf. Time will tell if America receives the support it is looking for.
” Trump is now going to blockade the Persian Gulf.”
What a f*cking idiot.
but then there is always the reliable TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out).
The Lying TrumpSteinBergManSki is now going to blockade the Persian Gulf says:
(i) USA has destroyed Iran Air Force( Iran didn’t hae one)
(ii).. USA has destroyed their Iranian Navy (Iran doesn’t have one)
(iii) Iran is defeated.( lolololol)
What will Iran do?
How will the US accomplish this…these pussies have their own USA Navy parked 100’s of miles away.
Iran will likely warn them of a red line… not to cross it ..or else the US Navy will join the Italian Navy
Iran will not tolerate US ships any where near the Straits of Hormuz and risk events that will clog the narrow (5 mile)portion for accessible shipping route…..ie risk sunken US Navy blocks entry and impedes passage.
Recall that Iran is not stopping shipping …..its ACTUALLY Lloyd’s of London denying coverage.
Iran says passage requires :
(i) $2 Million fee and
(ii) no affiliation with Irans enemies.
Simple.
If TrumpSteinBergManSki fucks this up…again …. and seriously impacts ship passage through the Straits of Hormuz ….the USA will create an even longer list of enemies as the world is already at the brink, if not collapse already, of many disasters financial , agricultural and will turn on the USA big time.
TrumpSteinBergManSki would do this just to royally fuck up the world like a psycho he is , its not just about Iran.
USA has already shown it is full of sh*te and hot air.
Prick the Orange Balloon and they can F*ck off.