by Claudiu Secara

Just before Israel attacked Iran, I posted this https://t.me/AlgoraPublishing/1482

“WWII? Or Is Israel being set up for a big downfall? It looks to me like the latter.”

First, a word of explanation. The possibility that Netanyahu is being given ‘one last chance or else’ is just as plausible. He is a thorn in the side of the Western countries and he could have been sent on a mission impossible. Should he succeed, he survives; losing his gamble, he is finally out of the game. The tenor of the West lately is to dissociate from Netanyahu, as he’s crossed a moral redline with what he is doing to the Palestinians. The West cannot support that publicly, anymore. He had the choice of either facing the judgement of the Israeli public or winning an epic battle against Iran, and thus redeeming himself in the eyes of the West.

He chose the war.

Then we had the shock of seeing a repeat of the stealth blow decapitating almost all the upper echelons of Iran’s military. For a long 8 hours, the Iranian defenses were fully paralyzed. Quite a feat, when one thinks that we all knew that war was being prepared. Were we witnessing another Middle East country being taken to the woodshed ? Let’s face it, in those 8 hours, Iran was very close to a Hezbollah scenario.

Iran is a strange country. The only country in the world run by a religious government which derives its legitimacy from God. The Persian civilization is one of the longest continuous in the world and a very accomplished civilization on its own, but for a Westernized world it is anachronistic and unappealing.

Worse still, it is unappealing to many within Iran itself; and those people would be more than happy to welcome a return to what they see as “normalcy”. So the Netanyahu gang had a high chance of causing the collapse of the leadership in Iran. The Israelis don’t act on hubris alone, but they back up their chutzpah with well-crafted and multiple levels of subversion.

So far, there are only three nations in the world who have managed to fend off such crafty subversion; and those are Iran, Russia and China. With the exception of China, the other two are struggling to maintain their sovereign existence. So, they have a lot of reasons to be cautious.

Hopefully, this time Iran has managed to overcome its moment of uncertainty and regrouped in time to hit back. It might even manage to win this battle, but the war goes on. And as experience shows, those who win on the first round are even more vilified.

My word of caution is still as valid as before. And that is not to fall into the trap known as Bonapartism. That is overextending one’s success. We had the scary moment of the danger of hubris and over self-confidence. We saw what happened to Iran and Russia within a few weeks’ timeframe – being attacked from within. Only the naive would think that the current exchange of missiles could settle the dispute once and for all. On the contrary, the temporary defeat of the Anglozionists will only increase their focus and viciousness by several orders of magnitude.

The big war is still ahead.