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Alastair Crooke \u2013 The Unz Review Oct 13, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Continued U.S. \u2018dominance\u2019 requires <\/strong><\/em>striking out<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in multiple directions, because the unidirectional war on Russia unexpectedly has failed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThis problem with Vietnam \u2026 We stopped fighting to win. We would have won easy. We would have won Afghanistan easy. Would have won every war easy. But we got politically correct: \u2018Ah, let\u2019s take it easy!\u2019. It\u2019s that we\u2019re not politically correct anymore. Just so you understand: <\/em>We win. Now we win<\/em><\/strong>\u201d. All these would have been easy \u2013 along with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

What was the meaning to Trump\u2019s reference to Vietnam? \u2018What he was saying is that \u2018we\u2019 would have won Vietnam easily, if we hadn\u2019t been woke and DEI\u2019<\/em>. Some veterans might amplify, \u2018You know: we had enough firepower: We could have killed everyone\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter where you go\u201d,<\/em> Trump adds, \u201cno matter what you even think about, there\u2019s nothing like the fighting force that we have [including] Rome \u2026 No one should ever want to start a fight with the USA\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

The point is that in today\u2019s Trump circles, not only is there no fear of war, but there is this unsubstantiated delusion of American military power. Hegseth said: \u201cWe are the most powerful military on the history of the planet, bar none. Nobody else can even come close to it<\/em>\u201d. To which Trump adds, \u201cOur market [too], is the greatest in the world \u2013 no one can live without it\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Anglo-U.S. \u2018Empire\u2019 is backing itself into the corner of \u2018terminal decline\u2019, as French philosopher Emmanual Todd puts<\/a> it. Trump is attempting, on the one hand, to coerce into being a new \u2018Bretton Woods\u2019 in order to re-create dollar hegemony through threat, bluster and tariffs \u2013 or war, if needs be.<\/p>\n

Todd believes that as the Anglo-U.S. Empire falls apart, the U.S. is lashing out at the world in fury \u2013 and is devouring itself through the attempt to re-colonise its own colonies (i.e. Europe) for quick financial shakedowns.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s vision of U.S. unstoppable military force amounts to a doctrine of domination and submission. One that runs counter to all the former narrative-talk of western values. What is clear is that this policy shift is \u2018joined at the hip\u2019 with Jewish and Evangelical eschatological creeds. It shares with Jewish nationalists the conviction that they too, in alliance with Trump, verge on quasi universal domination:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe crushed Iran\u2019s nuclear and ballistic projects \u2013 they are still there, but we took them back with the help of President Trump<\/em>\u201d, Netanyahu boasts. \u201cWe had a precise alliance, within the framework of which we shared the burden [with the U.S.] and achieved the neutralization of Iran<\/em>\u201d. According to Netanyahu, \u201cIsrael emerged from this event as the dominant power in the Middle East, but we still have something to do \u2013 what started in Gaza will be ended in Gaza\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to \u2018deradicalise\u2019 Gaza \u2013 as was done in Germany after World War II or in Japan\u201d.<\/em> Netanyahu insisted to Euronews<\/em>. Submission however, is proving elusive.<\/p>\n

Continued U.S. \u2018dominance\u2019, however, requires striking out<\/a> in multiple directions, because the unidirectional war on Russia \u2013 which was supposed to provide the world with an object lesson in the \u2018craft\u2019 of Anglo-Zionist domination unexpectedly has failed. And now time is running out on America\u2019s deficit and debt crisis.<\/p>\n

This \u2013 whilst articulated as the Trumpian desire for domination \u2013 is also throwing out nihilistic impulses for war and at the same time fracturing western structures. Bitter tensions are arising across the globe. The big picture is that Russia has seen the writing on the wall<\/a>: The Alaska summit has born no fruit; Trump is not serious about wanting to recast relations with Moscow.<\/p>\n

The expectation in Moscow is now leaning toward the expectation of U.S. escalation in Ukraine; a more devastating strike on Iran; or some punitive, performative action in Venezuela \u2013 or both. The Trump team seem to be talking themselves up into a state psychic excitement.<\/p>\n

The Jewish Oligarchs and the right-wing of the Cabinet in Israel, in this emerging picture, existentially need America to remain as a feared military hegemon (just as Trump promises). Without the American \u2018unstoppable\u2019 military cudgel and absent the centrality of dollar use in trade, Jewish Supremacy becomes nothing more than an eschatological chimaera.<\/p>\n

A crisis of de-dollarisation, or a bond market blow up \u2013 juxtaposed with the rise of China and Russia and BRICS \u2013 becomes an existential threat to the supremacist \u2018fantasy\u2019.<\/p>\n

In July 2025, Trump told<\/a> his cabinet, \u201cBRICS was set up to hurt us; BRICS was set up to degenerate our dollar and take our dollar \u2026 off as the standard\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

So what comes next? Plainly the U.S. and Israeli initial goal is to \u2018sear\u2019 Hamas\u2019 psyche with defeat; and if there is no visible expression of utter submission, the overarching aim likely will be to drive out all Palestinians from Gaza and to install Jewish settlers in their place.<\/p>\n

Israeli Minister Smotrich \u2013 a few years ago \u2013 argued that complete displacement of the Palestinian and Arab non-submissive population would only be finally achieved during \u2018a major crisis or big war\u2019 \u2013 such as occurred in 1948, when 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. But today, despite the two years\u2019 of massacres, Palestinians have not fled, nor submitted.<\/p>\n

So Israel, for all Netanyahu\u2019 boasts of having crushed Hamas, has yet to defeat Palestinians in Gaza \u2013 and some in the Hebrew media are calling the Sharm el-Sheik aAccord \u201ca defeat for Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu and the Israeli Right\u2019s ambitions are not circumscribed by Gaza.They extend much further \u2013 they seek to establish a State on the full \u2018Land of Israel\u2019, which is to say, Greater Israel. Their definition<\/a> of this colonial project is ambiguous, but likely they want southern Lebanon up to the Litani River; probably most of southern Syria (up to Damascus); parts of the Sinai; and maybe parts of the East Bank, which now belong to Jordan.<\/p>\n

So \u2013 despite two years of war \u2013 what Israel still<\/em> wants, Professor Mearsheimer opines<\/a>, is a Palestinian-free<\/em> Greater Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore\u201d,<\/em> Professor Mearsheimer adds:<\/p>\n

\u201cyou have to think about what they want with regard to their neighbours. They want weak neighbours. They want to break their neighbours apart. They want to do to Iran what they did in Syria. It\u2019s very important to understand that [while] the nuclear issue is of central importance to the Israelis in Iran, they have broader goals \u2013 which is to wreck Iran, turn it into a series of small states\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then the states that they don\u2019t break apart \u2013 like Egypt and Jordan \u2013 they want them to be economically dependent on Uncle Sam, so that Uncle Sam has huge coercive leverage over them. So, they\u2019re thinking seriously about how to deal with all their neighbours and make sure that<\/em> they\u2019re weak and don\u2019t pose any kind of threat to Israel\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Israel clearly seeks the collapse and neutralisation of Iran \u2013 as Netanyahu outlined:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe crushed Iran\u2019s nuclear and ballistic projects \u2013 they are still there, but we took them back with the help of President Trump \u2026 Iran [now] is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles with an 8,000 km range. Add another 3,000 and they can target New York City, Washington, Boston, Miami, <\/em>Mar-a-Lago<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

As a possible ceasefire deal begins to take shape in Egypt, the wider regional picture is that the U.S. and Israel to seem intent on provoking a Sunni\u2013Shia confrontation to encircle and weaken Iran. The last days\u2019 EU\u2013GCC joint statement on the UAE\u2019s claims to own sovereignty over Abu Musa and the Tunb Islands reflects a growing analysis in Tehran that Western powers are once again using Gulf monarchies as instruments to stir regional instability.<\/p>\n

In short, this is not about the islands or oil \u2013 it is about manufacturing a new front to weaken Iran.<\/p>\n

And with all such projects for the re-ordering of the Region to acquiesce to Israel\u2019s hegemony, the big Jewish donors want to ensure a situation whereby the U.S. supports Israel unconditionally \u2013 hence the large funding directed at the MSM and social media to ensure an across all society support for Israel in America.<\/p>\n

The two-year anniversary of 7 October poses a question: How does the balance sheet stand? The U.S.-Israel partnership has succeeded in destroying Syria, turning it into a hell of internecine killings; Russia has lost its foothold in the region; ISIS has been revived; sectarianism is on the upsurge. Hizbullah was decapitated but not destroyed. The region is being Balkanised, fragmented and brutalised.<\/p>\n

JCPOA Snapback for Iran has been triggered and on 18 October, the JCPOA itself expires. Trump then is left with a \u2018blank sheet\u2019 on which he can write an ultimatum demanding Iranian capitulation, or military action (if he so chooses).<\/p>\n

On the other side of the account, were we to look back to the Resistance\u2019s initial objectives of exhausting Israel militarily; creating internecine warfare within Israel; and putting into moral and practical question the principle of Zionism that confers special rights for one population group over another, then it might be said that the Resistance \u2013 at a heavy, heavy cost \u2013 has had some success.<\/p>\n

More significantly, Israel\u2019s bloody wars have already lost it a generation of young Americans, who are not coming back. Whatever the circumstances to the killing of Charlie Kirk, his death has let the genie of \u2018Israeli First\u2019 dominance in Republican politics escape free from the bottle.<\/p>\n

Israel has already lost much of Europe, and in the U.S., the Trump and Israeli Firsters\u2019 intolerant insistence on fealty to Israel and its actions has triggered intense First Amendment<\/em> push-back.<\/p>\n

That puts Israel on track to \u2018loose\u2019 America. And that could be existential for Israel, who may need to fundamentally re-assess the nature of Zionism (which was, of course, Seyed Nasrallah\u2019s stated objective).<\/p>\n

How would that look? Accelerating migration \u2013 leaving a patchwork of Zionist holdouts surviving amidst a stagnant economy and global isolation. Is that sustainable?<\/p>\n

What will be the future that heralds for Israel\u2019s grandchildren?<\/p>\n