Over a decade ago, the US and Western nations would feign concern for the loss of innocent life while they waged a war. Terms such as Collateral or Unintentional would be thrown around, even when all evidence points in the opposite direction. There was a need for benevolent war fighting, to satisfy the narrative for the domestic voting block, to package war and intervention in accordance with corporate spin but also to impress upon the rest of the world, that the killers are in fact the good guys.

The West and the US now don’t seem to concern themselves with such perceptions. With Israel’s current wave of imperial encroachments against it’s neighbours, the genocide against the Palestinians and the US with the Hegseth Department of War, does not even pretend to perfume the language. Whether this is because the voters at home, simply don’t care if blood is on their electoral ballets, or the corporate interests have no real interest other than to serve the biggest customer, the nation state. As for the allies, they are obligated and locked into a bi-polar world of Them versus Us, in this case the us is the US and it’s closest allies.

The them in this equation are more interested in persuading their enemies voters, public and wider world of the moral righteousness of their cause. Even as repressive regimes with histories of indignity and tyranny against the individual, they are winning the war of morality by being the bullied, defender and those who are expressing an interest and care for the innocent. The revenge attacks are, as best as is being claimed, not random and reckless. They are focused and targeted at least more than the Western allies can claim to be, past and present. It’s a war that has in the shooting aspects, been limited, the death toll is slight by historical contrasts. The repercussions economically and geopolitically will be felt for some time.

The war master president is a man who is proud of his inability to read, which seems to be the theme for modern Western society. TL;DR is a flex for a short attention spanned mentality which shrinks the world into binaries, reacts emotionally without consideration or thought. In his ghost written book, The Art of the Deal, Trumps manifesto to his own nepotistic genius, he claims “go with your gut.” This may be brushed off on the surface level but it’s also the hubristic arrogance of narcissistic people to believe that they, and they alone are correct, based on their feelings. Feelings that tend to steer their own self interest, and they can change whenever it suits them.

For those who believe in the need to have political leaders at all, it begs the question, why are people attracted to socio-paths and those who exhibit simplistic views. Or, in the case of Trump, one who says plenty of words which contradict and blather about the place with reckless stupidity. His assurances in trusting his own “gut” and going in the direction of steered by the last person he spoke with, is all that matters. For the rest of the world, it’s his status as ‘leader’ and the magical powers imbued into him through government fiat. He has the power to execute orders which will lead to the misery and mass death of thousands, potentially millions despite his chronic incoherence. A different form than what was suffered beneath mentally declining Joe Biden, the ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ president.

Trump is a man of poor discipline, weak will, who has mistaken connections and birth right with genius. His hubris is akin to a North Korean supreme leader, born into a position and status, except for him it was through eminent domain, familial connections, celebrity capitalism and brushing shoulders and loins with king makers and creatures of politics. He has achieved his dream of being the most famous man in the world, and now much to the chagrin of most of us, he is apparently the most powerful. For those who believe in government as the only way, and worship upon it’s bloody alter, one would think this moment would raise reflection. Instead, it is likely for them a testament, if only a saint was elected. Despite the checks, balances and layers of legal frameworks meant to protect the citizen, run the empire through rule of law, it’s just inconsistencies and injustice. War, being the health of the state and the protector of vile people.

It does not take much for Iran and it’s allies to win any propaganda war, for all their repressive faults they have been mostly consistent and stable. Any attempts towards liberal reforms ruined by external imperialism, only to empower hard liners. This war for Iran will likely invigorate the war hawks and most repressive who shall seize it as an opportunity to force unity, to force cohesion and ensure that all serve the State. The lie of the USA, being a bright shining example on the hill is one that never really was realised. Instead it was an imperial bully. Manifest destiny from the frontiers of the West to the wider world.

The world is run by incompetence, corruption and hateful creatures who use the institutions of governance to profit themselves, push their ideals or lack of values and to control the rest of us. And, every so often wars break out. No longer for any credible reasons. They just happen, whether to assist in liberal democracies domestic politics, or dictators hoping that they can save their regime with a foreign adventure, or the desire to reclaim ancient or racially entitled lands. Whether it’s religiously inspired, ideological or for a greater nation-empire it’s always certain and the victory shall justify the means.

For Iran, this is a defensive war. A nation that has been betrayed and deceived by the US and it’s allies for decades. In fact the one constant for the world is not to trust the American government, they will lie. Betray what they promise or say and will act with violence, whether impulsive or predictable. The world is tired of it. And, this war is a needle on a camels stacked back. It may have broken. The hegemonic dominance of the US and the West itself is at an end. What comes next may be very revealing and uncomfortable for places of the world accustomed to comfort and living at the expense of the rest.

Revenge is a powerful energy. It is may be sought. The intended victims won’t be just the political class and governments but other symbols, and individuals randomly harmed because they are slumped beneath a collective blanket. This is both just and total war according the legal and academic traditions of the West, so why would the rest of the world not practice it? Maybe, they are better. They have values that are less inclined to murder and starve en masse? Unlikely.

Time shall tell. At the very least, the enemies seem to be interested in the optics, the perception of righteousness. That’s something. They are at least trying or pretending to, not hurt innocent people or punish the wider world.

Right now, the IDF is having a combatants crisis, it does not have enough bodies in uniform. The legacy of wars and elite status of the IDF has revealed an ill disciplined mostly conscript force that has become a checkpoint-occupation military. While the Air Force and specialist units still remain the best in the world, they don’t have enough. They also don’t have enough munitions and weapon systems. They are struggling to face the asymmetric and direct realities of modern warfare. A form of warfare that the West and it’s big budget wonder weapons have seemingly ignored or dismissed.

As for the US, the carrier fleet has become as relevant as the battleship once was. Just as Billy Mitchell proved before World War Two the flaws of large surface warships when faced by air power, and was mostly ignored. The war and the losses of battleships, and the supremacy of air power proved him and other thinkers correct. The drone and small disposable weapons have shown that low tech, in numbers are more effective than monuments of empire, such as the ‘stealth’ littoral warships or the air craft carrier. The 20^th century may be over, but the US and it’s allies think in such terms.

Iran, like Japan towards the second world wars end is fighting for it’s survival. It has a nationalist and religious zealotry that has steeled many of it’s fighters. It seeks alternatives that are outside the box, but unlike the battleship obsessed Imperial Japanese Navy, or the over stretched army of that empire, Iran is focused. It’s efforts on suicide boats, mini subs, drones and missiles that can overwhelm the wizardry of the Star Wars deluded intercept missile religion of the USA. This is a war, where big budgets, as immense as they are, struggle when it comes to logistics and time to manufacture uber weapon systems. When a confused mission, an incoherent leadership and a personnel starved military all converges against the spears of a determined and defensive enemy, it won’t end well.

“Send in the marines!”

The tip of the spear of the US empire, brave and skilful, yet incapable of storming these beaches. This will be no Normandy or Inchon, certainly no stroll onto the beaches of South Vietnam. It won’t even be the bloody shores of Iwo Jima or Okinawa. It would be more like the mobile infantry dropped onto alien planet, under armed, in small numbers, acting as fodder against an underestimated enemy as the bugs of Klandathu were in Starship Troopers. And given, Trump and his acolytes likely have not read the pages of history, through the expression of Hollywood may be the only way to communicate to them. There will be no island hoping to victory, let alone ability to hold the islands of the Gulf should they be taken. It is Iran’s lake. They own it.

Just as it is unlikely that the 82^nd airborne will land, and take key positions. It would be far worse than Operation Market Garden, with less resources against greater risks. At least then, the planners and allied forces had a goal, understood the objective. A bridge too far or not, it made sense. Can that be said now? Without air superiority, without the dominance that the US is used to having, how will helicopters and transport planes hope to get the airborne forces on the ground? And then what? There will be no second army with tanks and infantry rolling towards Arnhem to relieve the paras. It would be a waste of human life. The blunting of the spear, for what? So that a billionaire in chief could trust his gut? All the way with Israel?

This war could end, just as easily as it started. The importance of saving face, and in the case of zealots in Israel, expanding a greater Israel is all that matters apparently. The MAGA camp and allies of the US are divided. They are obligated, or inclined to support the war, even if they don’t want to. I doubt many of the boots on the ground, the brass above them or those in the suits administrating government irrationality believe in the mission. Then again, tradition remains. The Middle East and much of the world is still smouldering and ripped at from the ambitions of the United States and it’s allies. It’s tradition for them to wage war, whether it has a purpose or the killers actually believe in the mission, it never really mattered. It’s what the world expects from the US.

While POTUS Trump may be irrational and incoherent as to what the real point of the war is, he is acting in tradition. And, is being presidential. His political rivals can’t fault him for that, and chances are they won’t. So, the war goes on.

There is a surge among the liberal democracies towards a nativist conservatism. The United States experienced the lie of Donald Trump’s MAGA and the misplaced promise of an America First, once a dirty word, now a salvation for not only the war wracked planet but the debt addled empire of the USA itself. The age of liberal imperialism and big government was despised among many who had to suffer it, contrary to the establishment left and those in the comforts of East and West coast privilege, many common and hardworking Americans are forced to suffer and endure a coerced ideology that has done little for them, rather it’s been punishing. So, an outsider, even if he was a Liberal billionaire, drew an appeal. Mostly because of how much the establishment was hated by those suffering beneath it, the establishment itself resented. Trump said many things, but some of which was directed at those suffering. It appealed.

In England with it’s dystopian approach to surveillance and mandated cultural homogenisation, any sense of national pride from native born communities is now shunned and even considered to be hate. While, recently nationalised or refugee status individuals may in turn openly celebrate their cultures with the full protection of the State. At times, the violent crimes and rape of individuals has been covered up, and it’s alleged to have been assisted due to who some of the people involved may have been. Or, more to the point what religion, race or culture they have come from. The theory, perhaps, from the government being that in reporting and prosecuting non-whites, non-native Britons this may invoke hatred and anti-migrant resentment. The reverse has been true. The special protections, as it seems to be in place, has in fact stirred a sense of bigotry and wariness. Britain has a tradition of incompetence and in protecting the most vile, Sir Jimmy Saville was not a migrant and was very much British, the culture of government itself seems to be the issue at hand, rather than its current ideological persuasion.

Whether many of the acts, allegations and events are as adverse and severe as they have been reported among the alternative media, is uncertain. Because the mainstream and authorities have done everything in their power to avoid dealing with the crimes. Instead, focusing on the make believe Utopia of Diversity, Inc in symbolism, rather than sincere uniqueness of individuals. The diversity that is being pushed, or allowed, is not in ideologies or values, instead it’s a fixation with gender constructs, race and ethnicity. With an apparent tiering applied that as is the case with all politically enforced constructs, remains unknown and fluid over time. The British police, doing as they do, will enforce any law, so social media posts that go against the grain of the States narrative, are what they police, rather than allegations of rape and abductions. This has led to a deep seated resentment among some classes of person.

In Australia there has been an increase in migration, it turns out the federal government needs the influx of new arrivals, it’s addicted to the money they bring and the taxes they pay. Contrary to nativist hatred for migrants, many who arrive in Australia find work, invest in small businesses and franchises. It’s almost impossible to find a service station, post office or even outback general store that does not have an Indian or Chinese migrant operating it, this perhaps testament to a switch in ideals. The migrant is both accused of stealing jobs, while also sitting on welfare. The exploitation of welfare as both a receiptant and service provider is modern Aussie culture, so clearly those migrants who do both have perfectly assimilated. The running of a small business or daring to be in the private sector, are in less common Aussie pursuits. Taking a risk and having a ‘fair go’ at it, is for the few.

The irony is, many true blue Aussies who toil will often do so with those from all over. It’s from within academia, government and big corporate that the symbolism of multi-culturalism is a gentrification of myth. Where “diversity is our strength,” is a slogan thrown about by soft handed people in suits who avoid the real diverse nature of the world beyond their careers and multi million dollar homes. Diversity is more than a slogan for people with different hair or skin colour to stand alongside a politician, it’s more than a claimed sexual preferences or places of birth. Those things have become identities for entitlements and monetisation, rather than aspects of an individuals character. It is in the forced celebration of such, the individual distinction and true diversity has become crushed beneath the veneer of tokenism.

The modern left, the corporate and academic incarnations that now see Marx as a meme, rather than a complex thinker, have rejected the worker and proletariat. Instead, they are obsessed with government careers and welfare. A cycle of dependency and growth which satisfies a particular individual who sees the world as a place for material excess and comfort, debt incomes and a rejection of merit, replaced by nepotism of identity and form of obedient cohesion. It both needs the proletariat to build their roads, drive their trucks, construct their investments but they also tend to hate and deplore the people doing such things.

The nativist right has mistaken a class struggle between the government and its classes to those in the dying private sector. It’s a class war, which the left has fermented with it’s modern layers of privileges and luxurious make believe. The right, which finds a base in the proletariat have become seduced by their hatred of the corporate left and academic elites and the meddling and destruction of liberty both inflicts and have instead fallen for the culture and race war nonsense of division rather than ideological class divide.

Beyond the comforts of academia, the many layers of government and welfare are those who toil and feel the weight, the cost of others ideology. They recall a past, which may never have really existed, which was less constrained. A past with fewer laws, fewer regulations, less taxes. A past when they were not punished for living, when the cost of living was not so prohibitive. Unlike those, of the elite left or who enjoy the comforts, who tend to not mind the interior of a crystal palace and living at the expense of others. Those who have a different set of values and believe in hard work and want to be independent as best as possible, they feel the pain, they feel the hatred and disdain directed at them from those beyond their world. An arrogance only central planners posses who live in the cities and inside the government departments. The proletariat of the private sector and workers have suffered the ‘just because’ bureaucratic cycle, which hamstrings them but profits others and they have been denied access to what was once taken for granted in many aspects of life.

It’s among this class of human being where the discontent boils. In the past, the real left may have pretended to be a champion for them. To speak a language or express a commonality which may have resonated. The modern left only understands nuspeak and pronouns, they tend to disdain the people who exist in their periphery. Any political voice, or party that acknowledges and recognises these grievances will resonate. The modern left parties tend to think they have the writ of god to steer society and life through tax-debt extracted money or to ban and regulate life into a direction that they see fit. The conservative modern right wing hybrids pretend to seek a lessening of this mindset, they promise a relief from central planned living and government coercion.

It may be a lie, but they speak those words while the left piles on more of the pain and hate.

The real appeal for many drawn to the modern right, is the promise of nostalgic Utopia. A place in the past, the one found in advertisements and media, where life was better. A place that was, for some whiter, and less diverse. A place with fewer migrants, and even though the Fresh Off the Boats, Wogs, Chinks and Dagos all existed, they became part of the scenery. Chinatown has it’s restaurants and the refugees from South East Asia, swiftly left the housing trust homes and became small business owners. Though, back then, the nativist sentiments existed. The hatred of the Greeks and Italians resonated, the “Asian Invasion” was a concern, there was a time when most of the world was going to be owned by Japan. Now, a past of bigotry and race relations, that’s itself romanced.

The new migrants, whether African, Muslim, Chinese, Indian, or where ever are now seen as an extra dangerous alien. Social media has invigorated the fears. A romantic obsession with past fascism has picked aspects of those variations of nationalist ideologies that seem charming and seductive to the downtrodden. A mono-culture, a nation of strength and not dependent on global markets, imports and a system of instability. In current economic times, such a dependency has proven to be dangerous. It is a seduction to have a government that does more, by doing less, one that values law, order and ‘common sense’.

Even though those in the right flirt with peace with the World and less censorship and surveillance, the more those parties swell and become attached to government and alliances, the less they are concerned with these issues. They tend to lean back into the war mongering, censorship and surveillance, just for different reasons. To stop hate, may twist into, to protect children or to stop terrorism. Different framing with similar outcomes.

The reduction of migration is a policy that holds appeal to those who are at the end of their tether, it may make housing cheaper, cut back on traffic and as select reporting claims, will cut back on crime. Above all, it is the opposite to what the hated political and corporate groups want. The hatred and disdain for “woke” and the push to incorporate minority lifestyles and specifics into the wider community through government mandates and fiat, has slowly developed the opposite effect. It’s seeing an increase in racism, a draw to patriarch dominance, an interest in Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant religions, while also leading to an increase of bigotry towards gays, trans and dissimilar sexual preferences. People from such communities are no longer seen as individuals, instead they are politicised identities. Which is exactly how they were portrayed by the establishment left. In doing so, it has robbed them of any individual identity and has instead turned them into an entitled class.

The recent South Australian election results have shown two things, the conservative Liberal Party has no policies and little appeal for most voters. It’s only difference to the centre left Labour party is in the pant suit colours worn by it’s politicians. While the Liberal party may have more people from real estate and the corporate sector in it’s ranks, it’s basically the same as the Labour party. That being, more government where ever it can be crammed. Whatever tax breaks may be applied will only be added else where. The One Nation, conservative nativist party has been plugging along since the 1990s, but has finally earned itself, ‘minor party’ status. Meaning it gets different media coverage and the government will allow it to have more officials, and incomes for it’s members.

One Nation has drawn appeal in it’s DOGE like promise to cut back on government waste, to curb migration and to “bring the country back to something we can be proud of.” Pride may not be tangible to the nihlistic profiteers in the Labour party and it’s ilk, it is for those who feel a sense of dread within their day to days, those who work and find they have no hope. They feel they are punished for working, punished for existing. This may seem strange to those who live on welfare or have secure jobs and pensions, those who live from the taxation it it’s many forms, stolen by those who are suffering and struggling. And, for a lot of younger people, hope has been destroyed. So, it will be politically exploited in rhetoric and unfulfilled promises. But any promise is more alluring than more of the same. The more of the same benefits the borgoise left and those dependent on government. Who can grift from it’s schemes.

While more extreme race based and nationalist groups have been banned under repressive hate speech laws, those followers likely have moved to One Nation. Whether they ease their extremist views or, influence the party remains to be seen. While others will go underground and likely gain more followers, and deeper hatreds because they no longer can stand out in the open for debate and discourse. The insecure ban different opinions, the confident confront them. Australian politics is not confident, it’s in the habit of banning most things. Including speech, ugly or otherwise.

The nativist right, whether One Nation or MAGA, always end up being for war. The appeal to imperial foreign policies always lingers. There political rivals are no different. War, it is often stated is the health of the State. Whether that war is an abstract, war on drugs, poverty, life itself. Or, war in the traditional sense and the violent obsession for mass murder. The collectivism of misery seems to be for all political parties.

As for the Labour party, when most Australians work in local, state and federal governments, rely on government contracts, are on benefits or have retired with comfortable pensions due to the perks of the period in history they were born. More of the same is fine. They after all are not in the sun building the houses many see as investments or farming in what land has not been ripped up for real estate. The established view is that One Nation or variations of the right are evil and wrong. The people who support them are somehow stupid and racist. This being a view of those who purport to only see the world according to gender and race identity. While the left is good, positive and correct. Despite democracy being sold as a virtuous thing, where difference can be discussed and debated, the mob decides what party should rule for a period of time. It seems that only very specific parties are allowed, and there are those who are sick of this. So, the alternatives are viewed as being nativist right parties.

The scapegoat will be the migrant, with their different religion and language, they are a convenient pariah. The hatred for the private sector and those who are different from the modern left and it’s rejection of the proletariat is some soul searching that the modern left is likely incapable of doing. That’s because it is soulless. It is material in it’s obsession. Charity and benevolence does not exist, welfare as means of government growth and political grandstanding, and diversity is a cosplay not of unique individual human beings, simply as demographics and categories to force people into. It’s an inhuman ideology, but the seduction of careerism, status and material gain intoxicate. And, those who see the force of government as a tool to “fix” the world naively assume more of the same is the only way to do so.

The left has become the best form of capitalism, exploitative and materially obsessed while imposing excessive welfare policies that are always going to be corrupt in nature, creating a monopoly and sacrificing self reliance, charity and dignity for dependency and a life in the system. The right, not much better, it just delves into abstracts more akin to spiritual and faith based promises which can provide people with more than just extra debt or tax extracted fiat currency. For those of us who embrace individual liberty and freedom, politics is where principles go to die. No party are trustworthy allies, they all lie and in the end, government wins and grows.

As a man who toils, it’s hard not to hate the status quo left back as much as they hate me and my class. But, I will never extend my hand to the right, even if I spend more time digging and labouring alongside them in the rain or sun. Migrants included, whose dirty hands and pained bodies hates the corporate left back. The soft handed left, should reflect on the enemies it’s made and the friends they are willing to make.