Caitlin Johnstone – Caitlin’s Newsletter Sept 3, 2026
Today in dystopia, war pundits have begun suggesting that the US could recruit sufficient troops for a ground invasion of Iran by offering young Americans debt forgiveness in exchange for enlisting.
I guess it was only a matter of time.
In an article titled “The war with Iran will not be won through airstrikes, so what’s left?”, the Jerusalem Post’s AJ Jaff writes the following:
“Recruitment numbers are running below what a ground invasion of Iran would require. Estimates for a successful ground campaign against Iran’s 31 provincial commands and its Mosaic Defense Doctrine run between 750 thousand and 1.5 million American troops. The current active US Army stands at roughly 452 thousand. The math does not work, obviously.
“Based on American history, however, there is a path forward. Not conscription or a draft in a world war-era sense, but enlistment through a ‘debt forgiveness program.’
“The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand in non-mortgage debt across student loans, credit card balances, auto loans, and personal loans, with some estimates go as high as $100 thousand.
“This is the cohort the Pentagon needs. A federally administered debt-forgiveness enlistment program that fully discharges student loan, credit card, and loan balances after 24 or 36 months of service, and extends the GI Bill, would produce voluntary enlistment at scale.”
“This is not theoretical.
“It is the American state doing what the American state has always done when it needed staff it could not otherwise generate. World War II offered the GI Bill. Vietnam offered college deferments. The post 9/11 wars offered signing bonuses and citizenship pathways. The Iran war will need to offer debt relief. The economics of the indebted American 20-and 30-something make this the most efficient conversion mechanism available to the Pentagon and the Trump administration.
“The moral reading on this is uncomfortable. But states generate the soldiers they need through the incentives that work on the population they have.”
The Jerusalem Post is now running editorials with ideas for how the Pentagon could recruit enough American soldiers to launch a ground invasion of Iran.
They want to exploit the crippling debt young Americans are carrying by offering them a chance at forgiveness if they’re… pic.twitter.com/O6659GwWIu
— Mel (@Villgecrazylady) September 2, 2026
In a Twitter essay on the same subject published earlier this month, AJ Jaff used more blunt language:
“When the choice is decades chained to $45,000+ in debt, or a few years of service that erases it and hands you a clean start, a huge share of desperate young people will take the offer. Not because they ‘support the war’. Because the debt was engineered into a cage, and service is the ONLY door out.”
The Jerusalem Post says that Jaff is a Canadian who currently serves as the head of security for an unnamed “multinational organization,” describing him in his author bio as “a retired officer of the Canadian Armed Forces and a recognized expert in international security, crisis management, and geopolitical risk.”
There isn’t much publicly available information about Jaff apart from this, and yet here he is being amplified by one of Israel’s largest English-language newspapers. So we can expect we’ll be seeing this idea pop up again elsewhere.
It’s just everything ugly about the US empire all rolled up in one neat little package, isn’t it? Struggling American citizens strapped with mountains of bills because they live in a dystopia which plunges people into debt for the privilege of living on the planet they were born on, desperately enlisting to go kill people in an imperialist war of aggression overseas in the hope of one day getting their heads above water financially.
It just might be the most American idea anyone has ever had.
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Everything ugly about the US empire… is being lectured to by a Jewish Canadian in an Israeli newspaper?
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
If it were our empire, the emperor would already be history.
Nigel Farage set up by jews
secret filming edited in a way to make nigel look bad
is just the latest stunt by the Chabad synagogue in cambridge UK
First nigel was injured in a light plane crash
the pilot admitted he had been paid
then Nigel pulled over on the motorway to find the wheel nuts
on his car loosened, ir the firebombing on his home
Now hes set up to make it look like he took bribes
The jews ran a evil propaganda campaign similar to that othey did on Nick Kollerstrom
It went much further with British whistleblower David Irving, when jews threatened to take his daughter and do what they did to US aviator Charles Lindbergs baby son
Nigel Farage is undeterred and makes a bold claim of a 2027 general election
where migrants will be going home
The Reform Party leader has kicked of his party’s conference by claiming the country will see a General Election in 2027. After making the bold prediction he labelled Prime Minister Andy Burnham, the ‘messiah without a mandate.’ However, the bribery claims have done little to distract from Mr Farage’s popularity
Jewess actress and local trollop Maureen Lipmas in a fowl mouthed tirade said Nigel
should be brutally killed
29 August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chtICsfGOA8 “XI Traps U.S, Controls Materials Behind America’s War Arsenal…
China’s growing missile capabilities + dominance of the rare-earth supply chain are raising fresh concerns for the US defense (?/ gj) indusry.
New reports highlight Chinese hypersonic weapons designed to threaten high-value aircraft at extreme ranges…/ by TOI
31 August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMKyvBIT34 Economist Richard Wolff: The US Empire is Over…It’s China’s Turn/ by Cyrus Janssen
((( rotschild’s demenzionide epic pedo poupee crypto fake j. drumpf- kkk rigger of 2024/ now has to play 1948 israhells Whore muz in 2026- is a sitting duck…..has no cards only quack quack quacks / steals the US blind & thus bankrupts the DC casino)))
Anyway Every Body Anywhere
h.a.n.d. have a nice day 😎
CIA O
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The jewish Talmud has in its text approval of sexual intercourse with 3year olds, wonder why nobody talks about that. ?
.can it be because the Rotschild clan in City of London loves children and are the chief talmudists..yes.
A Rothschild relative was head of the jews in the UK Greville Janner said some years ago
That first homosexuality will be legalised, then incest down graded to a non crime and then
finally pedophilia or sex with kids will be classed as ” CSA or child sexual attraction, nota crime but
a psychological choice
homosexuality was legalised to cover for pedophiles
Greville Janner went on that as Israel rules the UK
our laws will have to fall in line with theirs where child sex is ok
May I suggest.
ALL nations, ESCAPE DEBT, By eliminating the Chews, & lets get ridd of this compound interest that destroys the lives of all working people.
The Muzzies operate a different system.. (no wonder they seem to get on in life easier) That will attract fence sitters by the thousands once Sharia law is dominant.
adolf hirler showed the way
put the rothschilds in prison and took back the stolen money
that was the real cause of ww 2
Here’s a much better idea: send the kikes. All of them. Round up every jew – Every. Single. One. – stick ’em in costumes, kit ’em up, hand them a rifle, and even give them a ride to Iran’s doorstep…where they’ll need to be forced out of the boats and planes at gunpoint….and send the deranged little ghouls on their way to a quick, and hopefully excruciatingly painful, death.
The only problem would be the Iranians being able to shoot straight since they’d be laughing so hard at the sight of waves of dysgenic yidden degenerates stumbling across the beaches.
Uncle Shlomo wants You! – Goyim! – to join the Israeli Foreign Legion (f/k/a the U.S. Military) to fight and die for Israel, our closest friend and ally in the Whole Wide World!!!
Judenfilth knows there is no shortage of disposable subhumans
The US Government has not thought this idea through very far, have they? Because our US Government is idiotic! A young man of fighting age will only have a relatively small by American standards amount of debt of between $40,000 and $100,000, right? A military draft is legal in a declared war by an act of Congress. When a soldier dies in combat in a legally declared war there is no death benefit for the dead soldier’s family or next of kin but in an undeclared war there is. In WW2 when a soldier was killed in combat the dead soldier’s family got nothing but a dirt- cheap gold star! When a soldier dies in an undeclared war the death benefit is $400,000, as of 2026 so think about it! The US Government or the creditors for the debt would lose between $40,000 and $100,000 of profit from a dead soldier’s debt a100% loss and then on top of that a loss the US Government would have to pay out $400,000 per dead soldier. As a thought experiment round the dead soldier’s debt up to an average of $100,000 plus a $400,000 death benefit. That is a loss and a cost of $500,000 per dead soldier or a $1,000,000 per every two dead soldiers plus the loss of forty years of the value of the dead soldier’s lifetime labor. Every five hundred dead American GIs would cost the US Government S1,000,000,000 yes, a cool billion! Yes, this entire dirt- cheap evil scam will practically pay for itself! The US Government will have to bite the big one a have Congress declare war on Iran and declare a military draft to force America’s young men to die for free! There is no other way outside of nuclear weapons for the USA to fight a true war with Iran because it just cost far too much!
Jews won’t care to hear this, but MUCH so-called debt is fraudulent and may be voided with a simple process that begins with a Notice and Demand letter, preferably sent by certified mail, with the green Return postcard.
Look it up, or look into it.
Don’t risk your lives for the Jews, guys!