Iran: War and the rise (again) of a new global power

FROM the pages of history, war has always been the arbiter of any nation’s fate. And the trajectory of the ongoing war inflicted by US Imperialism ang Zionist Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran only points to a single direction: The rise of Iran (again) as a global power with sufficient prestige and respect to influence global affairs, especially in West Asia/Middle East.

When this conflict finally ends, we foresee Iran joining China, Russia and the United States in the first rank of the new global world order, with US Imperialism probably in the fourth spot after China, Russia and Iran.

But for its awesome nuclear stockpile under the control of a madman like Donald Trump, it would have been easier to dismiss the United States as just another “major power” the way Great Britain has become after its failed takeover of the Suez Canal in 1956 from Nasser’s Egypt in tandem with France and Israel.

As history has shown, it is also thru war that Iran, then known as Persia, rose to become a global power when it defeated the Medes Empire around 550 BCE. And it is also by war with the Greeks under Alexander the Great that it would lose its vast dominion in 330 BCE, the extent of which would not be repeated until the rise of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan in the 13^th century AD.

Rome would rise as global power after its wars against Carthage running for 118 years that ended with the complete destruction of Carthage in 146 BCE.

Rome would then see its recognition as an empire ended with the fall of Constantinople (present day Istanbul) from the rising Ottoman Empire in 1453.

Japan would be recognized as a ‘Great Power’ after it emerged triumphant in the Russo-Japanese War that ended with the defeat of Russia’s Baltic Fleet in the ‘Battle of Tsushima’ in 1905. But by the end of World War 2, Japan would just be another vassal state of the American Empire that rose from the ashes of that global conflict.

Prior to this, Prussia (subsequently the German Empire) would be recognized as the new Great Power after it humbled France during the 1870 ‘Franco-Prussian War.’

Four empires— Germany, Ottoman, Russia and Austro-Hungary– would just become historical footnotes by the conclusion of World War 1.

Today, we see the American Empire and its Zionist master, Israel, including their Arab stooges led by the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia, being daily humbled by Iran thru missile barrages and drone strikes that no amount of propaganda by the compliant Western mainstream media and Trump’s daily lies can hide from the rest of the world.

It may take a while, but we see only total defeat for these aggressors and disturbers of peace.

Then, Iran would be able to dictate the terms of peace and the new political and security arrangements in the Middle East.

As things stand today in the Middle East and as history’s lessons forced it on us, the world must be ready to accept a rearrangement of the global order where Iran’s voice and opinion would henceforth matter.

The end of Western supremacy is over, and the rise of the East—under the triumvirate of China, Russia and Iran– can no longer be prevented.

Unless, of course, these warmongers, in their desperation, resorted to the use of nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear armed Iran, a possibility that would doom us all to Armageddon (in which case, there is no point in reading this article).

For against leaders like Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu– who have no moral qualms and see no “red lines” that should not be crossed– anything—no matter how cruel or outrageous—is a possibility.

In 1984, in her finest and most insightful book, ‘The March of Folly,’ respected historian, Barbara Tuchman, had already warned us that folly, driven by hubris, is always a disastrous combination in that arrogant leaders like Trump and Netanyahu– like Lydon Johnson or King George III before them– would keep on pushing failed policies while expecting a different result.

It is now time for the Philippines to stop being stupid and corrupted stooges of Imperialism and become a truly sovereign country by thinking for ourselves first– if our leaders are really interested in giving us a brighter, better and secure future.

The only ‘fly in the ointment,’ of course, is that there is not one single statesman among them.