Is it Steve Witkoff’s turn to be sacked after Mike Waltz

After the sacking of Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff in February and nominating a political appointee retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as chairman, currently the most powerful general in United States military hierarchy is Gen. Alexus the Grynch, who is simultaneously wearing three hats: as combatant commander EUROCOM; as ex officio SACEUR, an acronym for Supreme Allied Commander Europe since World War II; and as NATO’s top general by virtue of being de facto head of NATO’s military committee, comprising all 32 Chiefs of Defense of the transatlantic alliance.

Thus Gen. Grynch has the effective authority to make or break Ukraine peace deal, not the commander-in-chief who is being tactfully hoodwinked by Pentagon’s top brass. Not surprisingly, Gen Grynch is pushing Keith Kellogg’s Ukraine peace plan, asking for deployment of NATO’s peacekeeping force in Ukraine.

Mr. Kellogg is a retired general embodying deep state logic. He has already been effectively replaced by Mr. Trump’s close confidant Mr. Witkoff as de facto special envoy for Ukraine, who should be credited for arranging the historic Alaska summit. The irony is that Mr. Kellogg’s so-called peace plan was crafted not by him but by Gen. Grynch’s predecessor Gen. Cavoli who served as chief architect of Ukraine’s proxy war under Gens. Mark Milley and CQ Brown.

The central rationale of Kremlin’s vehement opposition to Ukraine’s NATO membership is that it comes with inherent right of deployment of NATO troops and military assets in member state. Now if NATO’s peacekeeping force is deployed in Ukraine, with or without Ukraine’s NATO membership, it essentially means the same thing.

Kremlin would never allow the deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine right next to Russia’s western borders come what may. How would United States react if Russia deploys troops and military assets in Cuba or Venezuela a stone’s throw from maritime borders of United States?

What the Russian delegation understood by “security guarantees for Ukraine” was that Ukraine could have NATO’s Article 5-style collective defense treaties with European states that they could provide military support to Ukraine if it is invaded by a hostile power.

Ukraine has a capable and organized military force that has quite effectively been defending the country in the Russo-Ukraine War for over three years. It’s not some backward African country needing peacekeeping force for maintaining law and order. Therefore it doesn’t need the deployment of NATO troops on its soil, which is clearly a deal breaker.

Even an incorrigible hawk blinded by lust for blood, such as John Bolton and Lindsey Graham, would tell readers that confidence-building measures are essential for any peace deal to succeed. Cavalierly flouting the serendipitous peace process that began after the historic Alaska summit, however, Ukraine mounted a brazen airstrike on Russia on the Independence Day on August 24, deploying 95 drones that struck the Kursk nuclear power plant forcing a 50% reduction in the operating capacity of a reactor.

In addition, Ukrainian drones were intercepted across more than a dozen Russian regions, also causing a massive blaze at a large fuel export terminal at the port of Ust-Luga in Russia’s Leningrad region. But not a word was spoken about Ukraine’s deliberate provocation scuttling the nascent peace process by establishment media, in fact many European diplomats lauded Ukraine’s audacity in mounting the drone strike on Russia on the Independence Day.

But as soon as Russia responded with retaliatory strikes yesterday, dubbed the largest airstrike in history since Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe attack in the Battle of Britain during World War II, the chorus of European lickspittles chimed in, even though the lead American vocalist hasn’t delivered the opening lines yet, shedding crocodile tears over minor damage to irreplaceable archaeological monuments of British Council and European consulate.

What’s even more surprising is that today Reuters picked up an Onion’s risible anecdote and made it an exclusive report that Mr. Witkoff misunderstood Mr. Putin’s terms for ending the Ukraine War. I wonder why credits weren’t given to the Onion that conjured up the hilarious scoop, or to the Daily Mail and the rest of tabloids that first published the comical spoof on August 10. I considered Reuters to be a relatively credible news outlet, but it has proved that in the desperation to thwart Ukraine’s peace process, it could stoop as low as security establishment’s mouthpieces, Times, Post and Journal.

What Mr. Putin precisely proposed to Mr. Trump’s trusted confidant and seasoned real estate attorney and dealmaker Mr. Witkoff in the August 6 meeting in Moscow was that if Ukraine agreed to withdraw from the eastern Donetsk region, Russia would freeze the frontlines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia, in addition Russia would also be prepared to return tracts of Ukrainian land it had occupied in the northern Sumy and northeastern Kharkiv regions. That’s what Mr. Trump had in mind when he alluded to land swapping in Ukraine, and these proposals have now been enshrined in the Ukraine peace process after the momentous Alaska summit.

Predictably, Politico and Reuters have simultaneously published the Onion’s risible spoof that Mr. Witkoff misunderstood Mr. Putin’s terms for ending the Ukraine War, and the rest of mainstream news outlets might soon follow the suit. In fact, there’s no new revelation in the fabricated report as the Daily Mail and other tabloids first published the ludicrous news on August 10, but little attention was paid to it three weeks ago.

Clearly, the security establishment back then didn’t want to spoil President Trump’s summit with Mr. Putin scheduled in Alaska on August 15, therefore a gag order was issued to establishment media about reporting on the story. But after Ukraine and Russia’s tit-for-tat airstrikes against each other, beginning on the Independence Day of Ukraine on August 24, spelling an abysmal end to Ukraine peace process that began after the Alaska summit, the deep state appears to have issued fresh instructions to mainstream news outlets of filling old wine in new bottles in order to mount a smear campaign against Mr. Witkoff for arranging the historic Alaska summit.

It’s worth recalling that similarly in March, the Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg was the central figure in Signalgate scandal, after which Mike Waltz was sacked as NSA. Although a former special forces officer, Mr. Waltz ran afoul of deep state after he met Russian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, alongside Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff.

That meeting was meant to pave the way for a summit between Trump and Putin. After the talks ended, Waltz said he thought the summit could be arranged in the coming weeks. Thus, Mr. Waltz ruffled the feathers in security establishment by actively working to arrange a meeting between US and Russian leaders.

This transgression was deemed a sacrilegious assault on national security domain. No wonder deep state assigned the task of doing a hit job on Mr. Waltz to its trusted and most experienced operative, Mr. Deep Throat of Watergate fame, who artfully hatched the plot to kick Mr. Waltz out from key NATSEC appointment.

After Mr. Waltz, it is now Mr. Witkoff’s turn. The score is now two down, one more to go. Let’s see for how long anti-establishment Team Trump could stick together. But I’d still bet on Mr. President’s characteristic determination and defiance against the odds.

Alaska Summit: There is no Deal until there is a Deal

After the historic Alaska summit on August 15, harking back to Cold War-era meet-ups between Soviet and American leaders, Ukraine is getting coveted non-NATO collective security guarantees from US and European powers. What more could Mr. Zelensky conceivably ask for. It never was a question of winning territory, as Mr. Trump wisely pointed out, because advancing Russian troops would conquer the remaining tiny sliver of Donetsk one way or the other.

It’s noteworthy that in early days of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, in Feb-March 2022, Russia not only captured most of Donbas but its troops also reached the outskirts of capital Kyiv, Sumy and Kharkiv, before withdrawing back after the commencement of Istanbul peace initiative by end March 2022. Thus it never was a question of winning territory, as Russian forces have demonstrable capability to occupy entire Ukraine, and the casus bellum of the war was to liberate Russian-majority Donbas from onslaught of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi terrorist groups following the Maidan coup in 2014.

Moreover, Mr. Trump’s heir apparent Veep JD Vance, who certainly has the charisma and ideological underpinnings to carry forward Mr. Trump’s political legacy, has astutely warned the Europeans that US was done funding the war. Now it’s up to Europeans to collects alms and provide billions of dollars of military assistance to Ukraine’s perpetually hungry military brass.

Biden admin’s needless, forever war has already cost trillions of dollars to American taxpayers. Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent only on providing weapons to Ukrainian proxies and deploying and maintaining additional US troops and military assets for over three years in Eastern Europe. But the indirect opportunity cost of the war runs into trillions. Russian oil, gas and rest of exports were excluded from global economy for over three years. In addition, Western multinational corporations had to wrap up their lucrative businesses and leave the Russian market immediately after the onset of the war. Quite a few such companies in fact became bankrupt after losing business in Russia.

Notwithstanding, momentum of the epic battle for Donbas is unmistakably in Russia’s favor. Intrepid Russian warriors are currently scaling the fortifications of strategic town of Pokrovsk. Once the town is captured, the remainder of Donetsk will fall in Russia’s lap like ripe fruit. Therefore halting the ground offensive was never an option, although Mr. Putin did propose freezing the frontlines in Kherson and Zaporizhia during the negotiations.

Before the Alaska summit, however, a partial ceasefire was discussed in which Russia and Ukraine could’ve halted airstrikes against each other. But the Pentagon vetoed that proposition on Ukraine’s behalf, because a limited ceasefire would’ve favored Russia. Since the foiled Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023, Ukrainian troops have been retreating on the ground in the face of Russia’s fierce assault in Donbas.

Hence Ukraine’s only option is to mount occasional drone strikes inside Russia to give it a sense that it’s still in the game, and thus keep receiving billions of dollars in assistance from American and European patrons on that pretext. It’d be prudent of Mr. Zelensky to read the clearly visible writing on the wall and agree to generous peace terms offered by Trump admin. Because Ukraine is a pygmy caught in the fight between two giants, and it could become a flashpoint for the doomsday scenario that could spell end to humanity.

Besides Obama admin’s purported “humanitarian intervention” in Libya in 2011 causing nothing but chaos and destruction all over the hapless country still being run by two parallel gov’ts, Biden admin’s proxy war in Ukraine was another instance of liberal interventionism. This was the central rationale all the Europeans libs gathered around Mr. Zelensky to lend moral support in tough negotiations with conservative Team Trump on August 18.

Throughout American history, from FDR and Truman down to Obama and Biden, Democratic administrations have fought many more wars than Republicans, though slick libs often shrewdly qualify warmongering with benign epithets, such as necessary, justifiable and defensive.

Military strategists, not only of Russia but the rest of the world too, are at a loss to fathom Mr. Zelensky’s military objectives in insisting on still waging the lost war. Ukraine can certainly not win back territory, as is evident from the foiled Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023. It can’t even defend territory, as is obvious from Russian blitz in Donetsk and Luhansk during last several months.

Thus it appears the only reason Mr. Zelensky is refusing reasonable peace terms proposed by Russia and endorsed by United States is to keep receiving billions of dollars in assistance from American and European patrons on the pretext of waging war against Russia. War is indeed a profitable business, not only for military-industrial complex but also for greedy Ukrainian oligarchs thriving on American and European taxpayers’ money.

Unsurprisingly behind the back of Mr. Trump, Commander EUCOM Gen. Alexus the Grynch has essentially fallen back to Keith Kellogg’s Ukraine peace plan, a retired general representing deep state logic. Mr. Kellogg has no place in Trump admin. He has already been effectively replaced by Mr. Trump’s close confidant Mr. Witkoff as de facto special envoy for Ukraine, who should be credited for arranging the historic Alaska summit.

Mr. Kellogg was playing the role of a spoiler in peace negotiations and his nefarious plan has unequivocally been rejected not only by Russia but by Trump admin itself. It’d be prudent of Mr. Trump to avoid distractions of domestic politics for a while and pay more attention to Ukraine peace process that will be the defining moment of Trump presidency for all times to come.

Although Mr. Putin graciously accepted the proposal of non-NATO collective security guarantees for Ukraine at the Alaska summit, the deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine right next to Russia’s western borders is a redline for Kremlin. What the Russian delegation understood by “collective security guarantees for Ukraine” was that Ukraine could have NATO’s Article 5-style collective defense treaties with European states that they could provide military support to Ukraine if it is invaded by a hostile power.

Ukraine has a capable and organized military force that has quite effectively been defending the country in the Russo-Ukraine War for over three years. It’s not some backward African country needing peacekeeping force for maintaining law and order. Therefore it doesn’t need the deployment of foreign mercenaries on its soil, particularly wimpy European draft dodgers and malingerers reporting sick all the time while facing baptism of fire. There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, therefore Mr. Trump should keep spoilers at bay and lead peace negotiations himself.

Palestinian Statehood: Bargaining Chip to Extort Concessions from Trump

Of all duplicitous politicians in the world, French Bonapartist Macron does not earnestly intend to recognize Palestinian statehood. He has given September deadline simply because he is using Palestinian statehood as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Trump admin.

After judging him to be an incorrigible sycophant, Mr. Trump has repeatedly insulted Macron, even calling him a publicity-hungry lickspittle following G7 summit after Macron broke fake news of imminent ceasefire during Iran-Israel standoff.

In addition, Trump has been pressuring Macron to stop the witch-hunt against the most popular conservative leader of France Marine Le Pen and let her contest elections. Therefore, the slick Frenchman is cunningly playing the Palestinian statehood card to shun Trump admin from endorsing his political nemesis.

Macron isn’t the only conman using the unfolding tragedy in Palestine for political ends. Ramaphosa gov’t of South Africa instituted the Gaza genocide case against Israel in ICJ in December 2023 as electoral gimmick because elections were due in May 2024 in which ruling African National Congress was predicted in opinion polls to lose its majority, though despite losing popularity, it eventually managed to form a coalition gov’t.

Similarly, President of ICJ Nawaf Salam, who pronounced the vague judgment that it was plausible that Israel's actions in Gaza Strip could amount to genocide, was appointed as PM of anti-Hezbollah gov’t in Lebanon in January 2025. It’s obvious that nobody is sincere with Palestinians, least of all duplicitous politicians, and the Palestine cause is being co-opted for moral posturing to obtain political dividends.   

Nonetheless, Macron and Starmer have instigated a full-fledged mutiny against Trump’s authority. No European leader, liberal or conservative, would have dared defy the authority of Obama or Biden admin. Clearly, European leaders are frightened by universal appeal of Trump’s alt-right movement, and Trump’s unequivocal support for Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage in particular.

Being paramount leader of US-subjugated “Free World” is similar to leading a pack of wolves. A slight hint of weakness would tempt blood-thirsty wolves to tear Trump apart. Macron and Starmer must be harshly taught to be obedient, because if they get away by defying Trump’s authority with impunity, then others would follow suit. These are a few steps that Trump admin could take to re-assert its authority:

United States has deployed over 80,000 troops and military assets in Europe, including 8,000 troops, military equipment and thermonuclear weapons in Britain, costing hundreds of billions dollars annually to American taxpayers to ensure Europe’s security. Mr. Trump should immediately convey to European leaders that he intends to draw down US forces by half.

Trump admin has recently appointed Gen. Alexus the Grynch as Commander EUCOM. He is also ex officio SACEUR, an acronym for Supreme Allied Commander Europe since World War II, who is the de facto chief of NATO’s military committee comprising 32 chiefs of defense staff of European armies. Gen. Grynch should be forthwith ordered to convey to chiefs of defense staff of France and Britain that all military co-operation with these countries will be suspended until their governments align their foreign policy with Trump admin’s guidelines.

Moreover, United States provides security to oil-rich Gulf Arab States by deploying troops and military assets in the Persian Gulf to ensure uninterrupted flow of crude oil to the industrialized world, and in return, Gulf’s rulers award lucrative oil contracts to Western companies. Trump admin should convey to Arab princes that oil contracts with France’s Total, Britain’s Shell and BP should be re-negotiated and awarded to American oil companies instead.

Furthermore, While I concede India’s tariffs are among the highest in the world, as Mr. Trump sagaciously pointed out, and India is one of the largest buyers of Russian oil and military equipment, in fact excluding the fleet of French Rafale aircraft, the rest of India’s military hardware is exclusively Russian built, still Trump admin’s reaction of imposing 25% tariffs on Indian products was unusually stern.

But there appears to be an entire sequence of events involved that compelled Mr. Trump to take Modi gov’t to task. In 2023, Canada’s then-PM Trudeau accused Indian intelligence agencies of assassinating Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen of Indian Sikh origins. Later, FBI uncovered an Indian plot of mounting assassination attempts on leaders of Sikh independence movement residing in United States.

Subsequently, last November, Dept. of Justice implicated Indian billionaire businessman and Mr. Modi’s political ally Gautam Adani of orchestrating a bribery and fraud scheme, involving raising more than $250 million in United States to be paid as bribes to Indian government officials.

But on top of all that, despite calling Mr. Trump his friend, Mr. Modi stabbed Trump in the back by endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in American presidential elections last November due to her Indian origins and secretive Hindu faith. Now, Mr. Modi is paying the price for betting on wrong horse in the race.

Regarding Trump admin’s trade deal with EU, I knew it after Mr. Trump delayed imposition of 30% tariff on EU products by several months that he won’t be able to follow through on the electoral pledge to American constituents. Anything below 25% is a sellout, and merely 15% tariff will ruin domestic industry and make entire United States a rust-belt state.

Behold the irony that most ingrate EU leaders too are lamenting the agreement. It appears nothing would satisfy the greed of freeloaders beside 0% tariff. There’s no substitute to avant-garde American military equipment. EU states would’ve bought it anyway, unless of course if EU leaders have agreed to bankroll billions of dollars worth weapons sent to Ukraine.

Similarly, most American oil is shale oil and limited reserves will run out in several years. The agreement appears to have been struck under immense political pressure, it clearly favors EU and it’s a stab in the back of Mr. Trump’s American constituents.

Notwithstanding, Director National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has done an outstanding job by exposing Obama admin’s Russia hoax that Kremlin interfered in American presidential elections of November 2016 on Trump’s behalf. Her next task is to diligently scrutinize secret internal documents of intelligence community in order to conclusively determine who was responsible for plotting to cause mayhem during Capitol protests.

The storming of the Capitol by a frenzied mob on January 6, 2021, was clearly a conspiracy orchestrated by the US deep state in connivance with the political establishment to undermine Trump’s leadership of the Republican Party and forestall his re-election bid in 2024. Rumors abound that then-Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and Chairman JCSC Gen. Mark Milley restricted the authority of the commander of the D.C. National Guard to send reinforcements ahead of the Capitol riots.

Mr. Trump’s obvious intention in motivating the crowd was that demonstrators would stage a protest in front of the Capitol to exert moral pressure on then-Veep Mark Pence and the electors to refuse to certify Biden’s confirmation, following rigged elections in which postal ballots played a central role and countless dead Americans, including founding fathers such as George Washington, Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, also cast their ballots favoring Democratic presidential candidate.

The Capitol’s security was overwhelmed by the size and fervid passion of the crowd. The chief of the Capitol Police acknowledged on the record that his repeated requests to send reinforcements were denied. According to an informative report by the Washington Post following the protests, security establishment restricted the authority of the commander of the D.C. National Guard to send reinforcements ahead of the Capitol riots that could have prevented the ensuing violence and bloodshed.

The report notes: “The commander of the D.C. National Guard said the Pentagon restricted his authority ahead of the riot at the U.S. Capitol, requiring higher-level sign-off to respond that cost time as the events that day spiraled out of control. Local commanders typically have the power to take military action on their own to save lives or prevent significant property damage in an urgent situation when there isn’t enough time to obtain approval from headquarters.

“But Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, said the Pentagon essentially took that power and other authorities away from him ahead of the short-lived insurrection on Jan. 6. That meant he couldn’t immediately roll out troops when he received a panicked phone call from the Capitol Police chief warning that rioters were about to enter the U.S. Capitol.”

How Trump Pledged to Support Ukraine for Passing Big Beautiful Bill

I had to do extensive research to find out rationale of most momentous policy reversal of second Trump presidency. On May 19, Mr. Trump had a telephonic conversation with erstwhile friend Putin in congenial atmosphere, in which Putin even asked for snaps of First Lady’s nude photoshoot that Trump graciously sent him via Whatsapp on the condition that he would keep them for personal use and wouldn’t disseminate them commercially, but all that bonhomie suddenly transformed into overt hostility after Trump said Putin had gone “absolutely crazy” after a routine Russian attack in Ukraine on May 26.

Some consequential event must’ve taken place in the week between May 19-26, and guess what was it? Predictably, it related to domestic politics of US instead of foreign policy. Through a reconciliation process, House of Representatives passed Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill for the first time on May 22 with razor-thin majority of 215 votes to 214. Later, Senate approved the bill 51–50 on July 1, with Vice President JD Vance casting a tiebreaking vote in support. And it again passed the House of Representatives, 218–214, on July 3, for the second time. Trump immediately signed the bill into Act the same day.

GOP holdouts, particularly the House Freedom Caucus, were opposed to the Bill. Whereas Trump was so sensitive about his legislative agenda that he unfriended Elon Musk simply because he dared to criticize the Bill. Therefore, Trump needed the support of someone powerful enough to have the Bill passed through Congress, and for that purpose, he struck a Faustian pact with deep state and solemnly pledged to continue providing military assistance to Ukrainian proxies and abruptly terminated friendship with Russian strongman.

Security establishment kept its end of the bargain and instructed its covert operative, who was elected Speaker of the House in October 2023 with the blessings of deep state, to follow Trump’s orders and have the Bill passed through Congress, a task that he executed with such artful wheeling and dealing that even Trump grew fond of him.

In April 2024, Speaker Mike Johnson put forward a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine that passed in Congress despite opposition from GOP and was signed into law by then-President Biden. Mainstream liberal media called that a Churchill or Chamberlain moment. Johnson said the classified briefings he had received about events unfolding in Ukraine played a significant role in his decision to stab Republicans in the back. But that treachery blew his cover as a deep state mole.

AIPAC was Johnson's largest financial donor in 2023. Johnson chaired the Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus of conservatives in Congress, from 2019 to 2021. Johnson is also the clandestine de facto chairman of the House Freedom Caucus while Andy Harris is simply a nominal figurehead. This was the reason he was able to easily convince the caucus holdouts to support Trump’s Bill after his demands were met by Trump admin.

The deployment of National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles in early June to quell anti-ICE protests instigated by California’s Democratic Governor Newsom and Israel’s bombing campaign in Iran lasting from June 13-23 and subsequent American bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites, during which Mr. Trump attended several security briefings, have brought the White House and Pentagon much closer to each other.

Now President Trump has gone a step ahead even from hawkish Biden admin in providing lethal military assistance to Ukrainian proxies for striking deep inside Russia that would further escalate the proxy war and peace would remain elusive for the remainder of Trump presidency.

The only difference being that Trump wants affluent European regimes to bankroll American weapons destined for Ukraine instead of adding additional economic burden on American taxpayers. But this isn’t noninterventionist pacifism that characterized first Trump presidency; it’s financial frugality at best.

Like Mike Johnson who was clearly an aspirant for presidential office in next elections, the Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg is also a certified deep state stooge. He wrote an article in the run-up to 2020 presidential campaign, accusing Mr. Trump of describing military vets as “suckers and losers.” That article significantly dropped Trump’s ratings before elections.

It wasn’t a coincident that in March, Mr. Goldberg was the central figure in Signalgate scandal, after which Mike Waltz was sacked as NSA. Although a former special forces officer, Mr. Waltz ran afoul of military brass after he met Russian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, alongside Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff.

That meeting was meant to pave the way for a summit between Trump and Putin. After the talks ended, Waltz said he thought the summit could be arranged in the coming weeks. Thus, Mr. Waltz ruffled the feathers in Pentagon by actively working to arrange a meeting between US and Russian leaders.

This transgression was deemed a sacrilegious assault on national security domain. No wonder deep state assigned the task of doing a hit job on Mr. Waltz to its trusted and most experienced operative, Mr. Deep Throat of Watergate fame, who artfully hatched the plot to kick Mr. Waltz out from key NATSEC appointment.

Notwithstanding, President Trump is unconsciously trying to create distance between himself and Putin by uncharacteristically heaping insults on him and holding him responsible for escalation in Ukraine War. Mr. Trump is cognizant of the fact that Putin is despised as arch-foe by deep state, and he doesn’t want to spoil cordial relations with powers that be after re-election by courting estranged friend Putin.

On June 1, Ukrainian proxies mounted Operation Spiderweb, after getting a greenlight from Pentagon’s EUCOM head General Christopher Cavoli, in which Ukrainian drones struck deep inside Russia targeting strategic bombers, in order to scuttle peace talks between Russia and Ukraine happening in Turkey. That was Gen. Cavoli’s last major operation against Russia, as he retired on July 1 and was replaced by Gen. Alexus the Grynch.

In the Orwellian dystopia of mainstream political orthodoxy, any deviation from dogmatic adherence to charade of democratic values and civil liberties is promptly dismissed as heretical “conspiracy theory,” and conspiracist infidels are publicly burned at stakes, like condemned witches of medieval era, by establishment inquisition because blindfolded sheeple don’t want their illusions destroyed.

Even if it is proved beyond doubt that democracy and representation is a farce and deep state and corporate interests in fact rule the roost, naïve electorate still enthusiastically votes for its preferred poison to perform its civic duty of digging its own grave.

How Palestinians were Betrayed by Gulf’s Imperial Stooges

Apart from Zionist and Western regimes, Gulf’s autocrats are equally complicit in the genocide of Palestinian people. Hamas mounted the October 2023 attack to forestall Arab rulers treachery of establishing diplomatic and trade ties with the Zionist regime. UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco had already recognized illegitimate state of Israel in the run-up to US presidential elections of 2020, and it appeared likely the rest of Gulf Arab States would follow suit, thus burying the dream of independent Palestine.

Iran is the only Islamic military power capable of confronting the Zionist regime and lending moral and material support to Palestinian people, an unforgivable crime for which it is being punished by Israel’s relentless bombing campaign on behalf of Western regimes and Gulf’s autocrats, while the rest of Arab countries ruled by Western proxies are hand in glove with neocolonial powers despite pretending to sympathize with the Palestinian resistance.

The traitors to the Palestine cause are throwing parties in their lavish palaces and cheering Israel’s bombing campaign in Iran, but they don’t appear to have a slightest possible clue regarding the magnitude of danger hovering above their heads. It appears unsavory repeating threats ad nauseam, but if push comes to shove, the unrepresentative tyrants of the Arab World will fall like dominoes. You’ve been warned, time and again. Put a leash on your attack dog, lest it gets rabid, if it isn’t already.

Back in the heyday of Arab nationalism and non-aligned movement, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia imposed an oil embargo against Western patrons of Zionist regime. The 1973 collective Arab oil embargo against the West following the Arab-Israel War lasted only for a short span of six months during which the price of oil quadrupled, but Washington became so paranoid after the embargo that it put in place a ban on the export of crude oil outside the US borders, and began keeping sixty-day stock of reserve fuel for strategic and military needs dubbed the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).

Furthermore, the Carter Doctrine of 1980 was proclaimed after the embargo, which states: “Let our position be absolutely clear: an attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”

For the heinous crime of imposing oil embargo, King Faisal was treacherously assassinated in 1975 by his own greedy brethren. Ever since then, Saudi Arabia and the rest of Gulf States have been ruled by imperial stooges. The new generation of Gulf’s autocrats, including Mohammad bin Salman, bin Zayed and the rest, has struck a Faustian pact with Western regimes.

In this unholy marriage of convenience, Western regimes provide security to Gulf’s authoritarian rulers by establishing military bases across oil-rich Persian Gulf to sustain the tyrannical rule of Gulf’s autocrats, and in return, Arab petro-sheikhs ensure uninterrupted fuel supply to industrial powers and invest trillions of dollars in Western economies.

Donald Trump made an official visit to the Gulf States in mid-May. During the visit, Gulf’s rulers pledged to invest trillions of dollars in the US economy. What did Gulf’s rulers demand in return? Obviously, they asked for providing security. What is the single biggest threat to the illegitimate rule of Gulf’s autocrats? Clearly, it’s Iran’s formidable military capabilities, a stone’s throw away across the Persian Gulf.

A month before Trump’s visit, Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman conveyed a stark warning to Iranian leadership that its time was up. A month after the visit, on Friday the Thirteenth of June, Israel mounted Operation Rising Mouse, targeting Iran’s military and civilian installations. Thus, Israel is in fact doing the “dirty job” of degrading Iran’s military capabilities on behalf of Gulf’s autocrats.

Born into affluence and luxury and raised in opulent palaces, the new generation of Gulf’s princelings and oligarchs regards Palestinian Arabs as an obnoxious liability who want to spoil their cordial relationship with Western and Zionist masters by pushing the agenda of independent Palestinian statehood.

Living a jet-set lifestyle, spending vacations in tourism hubs of Beirut, Istanbul and southern Europe, gambling away millions in casinos of Monte Carlo and Las Vegas, buying luxury yachts and da Vinci’s artwork Salvator Mundi costing half a billion dollar on whim and bestowing largesse upon fawning acolytes across the world, Gulf’s petro-sheikhs look down upon starving Palestinian Arabs mercilessly slaughtered by Zionist mercenaries as buzzkill party poopers imploring them to take up arms against Western benefactors.

Just like privileged Arab ruling elites, the bourgeois liberal classes of the West too don’t give two hoots about suffering of Palestinian people. Although Western mainstream media is attempting to appropriate the Palestine cause by depicting graphic images of Palestinians being massacred in Gaza to sell news and push liberal agenda, the urbanized liberals of the West afflicted with scourge of runaway materialism and compulsive consumerism and busy in their hedonistic lifestyle are indifferent to the suffering of Palestinian Arabs.

Excluding a handful self-styled progressive moral impostors having political aspirations, thus duplicitously appropriating all the noble causes from Palestine and antiwar activism to corporate socialism and environmentalism, the bulk of urbanized liberal classes has scant interest in politics, particularly in foreign affairs.

They would keep on voting for Democrats in the US, Labor in the UK and the rest of establishment liberal parties in Europe and America even if the Obama and Biden admins turns out to be complicit in the genocide not only of Palestinians but Arabs and Muslims across the Middle East.

Duplicitous moral posturing of torchbearers of Western liberalism never ceases to amaze gullible viewers. In the run-up to 2020 presidential elections, Black Lives Matter protests following the killing of George Floyd were politicized to attract black and Hispanic voters and claim moral superiority over American conservatives. Then the burning issue of racial discrimination was swept under the rug during four years of Biden administration.

Afterwards, in the run-up to last November’s presidential elections, pro-Palestine demonstrations, comprising a few dozen singing and dancing hippies, were arranged in the Ivy League Western universities to lure Muslim diaspora. Despite the fact that during Israel’s year-long assault on Gaza, the Biden-led Democratic administration generously provided billions of dollars in military assistance to genocidal Zionists to perpetrate the Gaza Holocaust.

Despite masquerading as pro-Palestine, progressive moral impostors regard Israel as the only liberal democracy in otherwise authoritarian and conservative Arab World. Therefore, my dear progressive brothers and sisters, stop running with the hare and hunting with the hounds and reveal your true identity beneath the mask you are wearing.

It’s noteworthy that the bulk of protesters demonstrating Islamic causes, such as the Palestine cause, in the West is exclusively comprised of Muslim diaspora, with only a sprinkling of white Christians. Hamas is the offshoot of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, whose gov’t was toppled in July 2013 on instructions of Obama admin as it posed a security threat to Israel, whereas Hezbollah is supported by Iran. In nutshell, only Islamic nationalists, including Islamic Republic of Iran, are sincere with Palestinian liberation movement, the rest is simply moral posturing for political dividends.

Is Trump Sleepwalked into Forever War by Pentagon and Netanyahu

Netanyahu has grossly underestimated Iran’s formidable military capabilities, naively expecting the Islamic Republic to be a walkover like Lebanon and Syria, and has overestimated protection offered by Israel’s fabled Iron Dome air defense system that until now proved effective only against unguided rockets launched by Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel.

Although effective against aircraft and drones, even the best of air defense systems, such as THAAD that Israel has deployed, offer only 70-80% protection against incoming ballistic and cruise missiles. Back in the day, there was even a heated debate among military strategists should costly missile defense systems be even built, because they offer only a false sense of security, and the advent of hypersonic missiles has made them completely worthless.

Despite Netanyahu’s repeated provocations, Iranian leadership has displayed remarkable restraint during the conflict. It has strictly forbidden Iraqi militias, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Houthis in Yemen from jumping into the fray on Iran’s side, at least for now. And despite mobilizing troops towards Iran’s western coast, it has thus far avoided striking Western assets in the Persian Gulf.

This is a turning point in the conflict. Netanyahu will obviously beg Trump to join in airstrikes against Iran in order to get a face-saving. But Trump has to decide whether it’s worth risking an all-out war whose outcome will be massive turmoil in global markets, oil price will skyrocket, stocks will plummet and global economy will witness worst recession since, I don’t know, the great recession of 1930s. Choose peace over war, Mr. President, lest you too go down in history like the rest of warmongers, including Bush, Obama and Biden.

As I predicted in February that after sacking Gen. CQ Brown as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and appointing a partisan political appointee retired air force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine in his stead, the institutional policy of US military would now be collectively determined by chiefs of staff and combatant commanders.

After ingratiating American Step-President Donald Trump by deploying National Guard and Marines in LA to crack down on anti-ICE protesters, the Politico reported on Thursday that Iran hawk CENTCOM’s chief Gen. Erik the Gorilla is calling the shots in Iran-Israel conflict, requesting deployment of additional aircraft carriers and fighter aircraft in the Middle East, while Def Sec Hegseth and Chairman Caine are simply playing the role of liaison officers between the White House and the military brass.

It appears the toddler-in-chief lacks the capacity to learn from past mistakes. Trump should recall how Jim Mattis, McMaster and Mark Milley stabbed him in the back during the first term by overruling his non-interventionist agenda and fueling conflicts in the Middle East, leading to electoral defeat in 2020 presidential elections.

Since the Cold War, the Pentagon’s top brass has developed an uncanny expertise in brinkmanship. For the initial few months of the Ukraine War, the Pentagon’s declared policy was that US would only provide defensive weapons to Ukrainian proxies, then the policy was revised to include short-range offensive weapons so that trigger-happy Ukrainian troops don’t strike deep inside Russia, but eventually the Pentagon provided everything short of nukes in its arsenal to Ukrainian proxies, including HIMARS, ATACMS, tanks and even F-16 aircraft.

It even floated the idea of providing JASSM missiles with an extended range of up to thousand kilometers to Ukraine, but as Ukrainian pilots weren’t skilled in operating F-16 and couple of aircraft crashed in Ukraine, therefore the idea was dropped. Besides, Storm Shadows provided by Britain didn’t prove game changer in the conflict.

Now, the same cat-and-mouse game is being played with Iran. First, it was decided to let Israel bomb Iran for a week to bring it to negotiating table. After Iranian leadership agreed to resume negotiations, then it’s been decided to let the standoff continue for a while to see what happens. In the meantime, if a compulsive arsonist lights up a matchstick in the powderkeg and the critical oil infrastructure of the Persian Gulf goes up in flames, then they’d say, oops, we made a mistake, let’s punish Iran for fomenting the worst energy crisis of the industrial era.

Before Trump, former President Obama also claimed to be a peacemaker. He even managed to withdraw US forces from Iraq in 2011, but only to redeploy them after ISIS overran Syria and western Iraq in 2014. Obama also made the fatal mistake of listening to his generals and fawning Netanyahu’s persistent groveling and ended up simultaneously bombing seven countries in the Middle East.

Netanyahu has become the longest-serving prime minister of Israel, consistently being elected since 2009, as he embodies the deep state logic. Obama initiated a proxy war in Syria on Netanyahu’s behalf in order to eliminate a security threat posed to Israel’s northern borders from Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Baathist gov’t of Bashar al-Assad, fomenting the worst humanitarian crisis of the Middle East in the decade-long proxy war, causing hundreds of thousands of fatalities, displacing over half of Syria’s 25 million population and reducing the whole country down to rubble.

Moreover, the decade-long conflict in Syria gave birth to myriads of militant groups, including the Islamic State, and after the conflict spilled across the border into neighboring Iraq in early 2014, it was directly responsible for the spate of Islamic State-inspired terror attacks in Western countries from 2015 to 2017.

Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in August 2011 to June 2014, when the Islamic State overran Mosul and Anbar in Iraq, an informal pact existed between the Obama admin, its regional allies and jihadists of the Middle East against the Iranian resistance axis comprising Iraq, Syria and their Lebanon-based proxy Hezbollah that posed a security threat to Israel’s northern borders. Therefore, in accordance with the pact, militants were trained and armed in the training camps located in the border regions of Turkey and Jordan to battle the Assad government.

This arrangement of an informal pact between the Obama admin and the jihadists of the Middle East against the Iran-allied forces worked well up to August 2014, when the Obama admin made a volte-face on its previous regime change policy in Syria and began conducting airstrikes against one group of militants battling the Assad government, the Islamic State, after the latter overstepped its mandate in Syria and overran Mosul and Anbar in Iraq from where the US had withdrawn its troops only a couple of years ago in December 2011.

After this reversal of policy in Syria by the Obama admin and the subsequent Russian military intervention on the side of the Syrian government in September 2015, the momentum of jihadists expansion in Syria and Iraq stalled, and they felt that their Western patrons had committed a treachery against the jihadist cause, hence they were infuriated and rose up in arms to exact revenge for this betrayal.

If we look at the chain of events, the timing of the spate of terror attacks against the West was critical: the Islamic State overran Mosul in June 2014, the Obama admin began conducting airstrikes against the Islamic State’s targets in Iraq and Syria in August 2014, and after a lull of almost a decade since the horrific Madrid and London bombings in 2004 and 2005, respectively, the first such incident of terrorism occurred on the Western soil at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in January 2015.

Then the Islamic State carried out the audacious November 2015 Paris attacks, the March 2016 Brussels bombings, the June 2016 truck-ramming incident in Nice, and three horrific terror attacks took place in the United Kingdom within a span of less than three months in 2017, and after that the Islamic State carried out the Barcelona terrorist attack in August 2017.

20 June 2025.

Is Israel Bombing Iran on Behalf of Gulf’s Autocrats

If circumstances get really desperate, Iran has couple of aces up its sleeve that it could play as last resort to make industrial powers feel the pain as Iran burns and Neros at G7 summit fiddle. Iran’s invaluable asset is its geo-strategic location, spanning the entire eastern coast of oil-rich Persian Gulf.

Firstly, as Iran’s astute military leadership has already indicated, Iran could enforce a temporary blockade of Strait of Hormuz from where over half of world’s oil exports pass for the duration of the conflict. This would instantly make oil prices jump over $100 a barrel and Shylocks of Western World would immediately feel the pinch.

As far as American saber-rattling is concerned, Mr. Trump should know that Iran is known to possess plenty of Russian anti-ship Onik cruise missiles, whose export version is called Brahmos in India and Amir al-Bahr, Lord of the Seas, in Perso-Arabic.

Iran has passed on several tranches of these ship-killer hypersonic missiles to Yemen’s Houthis as well, on the condition that they won’t deploy the missiles until after getting greenlight from Iran. Therefore, it would be prudent of US Navy to steer clear of Iranian and Yemeni coasts, lest its ships are sunk to the bottom of Indian Ocean.

Secondly, Iran could go for the “nuclear option,” not literally but metaphorically. May God bless Haj Qassem Soleimani with highest ranks in paradise who proved to the world that the real super power of the Middle East is none other than mighty Iran. He orchestrated the audacious attack on the Abqaiq petroleum installation and the Khurais oil field in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia in September 2019, which was the first major attack in the Persian Gulf against the assets of Washington and its regional allies that hampered Saudi oil production for months.

The “sacrilegious assault” on the veritable Mecca of the oil production industry was an apocalypse for the global oil industry, because the Persian Gulf holds 800 billion barrels, over half of world’s total 1,500 billion barrels crude oil reserves.

It bears mentioning that alongside deploying several thousand American troops, additional aircraft squadrons and Patriot missile batteries in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the Abqaiq attack, several interventionist hawks in Washington invoked the Carter Doctrine of 1980 as a ground for mounting retaliatory strikes against Iran, which states:

“Let our position be absolutely clear: an attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”

Mr. Trump is an accomplished businessman, always eager to promote trade and investment, who has been duped by blood-thirsty Netanyahu fighting for his political survival. Iran is known to hold second largest oil and gas reserves in the Persian Gulf after Saudi Arabia, and its leadership has already indicated that Iran is willing to negotiate a nuclear deal. It’s a golden opportunity to make most of it. Don’t push Iran over the brink, because with the back against the wall, Iran will retaliate with all possible means at its disposal.

Mr. Trump used to be a pacifist president during the first term, and I diligently campaigned for him in both elections. But something has changed in his second term; he’s not the same antiwar politician. It seems the impeachment proceedings in the run-up to 2020 presidential elections, electoral defeat at the hands of Biden, January 2021 Capitol riots and subsequent insulting court appearances have affronted his ego and damaged him psychologically, and he is out there to get revenge.

Rumors abound that his Zionist son-in-law Jared Kushner has threatened to divorce Ivanka if Trump doesn’t unconditionally endorse Netanyahu’s vindictive policy of setting Middle East ablaze. While I empathize with Trump’s dilemma, personal affairs should be kept separate from politics. Mr. Trump couldn’t let blood-thirsty lunatic have his way simply to save the marriage of his beloved daughter.

Israel’s key rationale in bombing Iran isn’t to destroy its nuclear program, because Iranian leadership has already indicated that Iran is willing to negotiate a nuclear deal, placing curbs on its nuclear program. The Zionist regime’s central objective is to degrade Iran’s conventional warfare capabilities, specifically its drone and missile program, as Israel did in Lebanon and Syria.

While I concede replenishing Iran’s long-range missile arsenal might take some time after the bombing campaign, it won’t make Iran toothless. As I previously stated, Iran’s invaluable asset is its geo-strategic location, spanning the entire eastern coast of oil-rich Persian Gulf. The entire oil infrastructure of littoral states of Persian Gulf is only a stone’s throw away from Iran’s western coast.

Iran doesn’t need long-range missiles to mount audacious attacks on US military bases and oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar, because simply rocket artillery would suffice to cripple global oil production for months to come. Not a drop of oil will flow outside Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, the industrial world could adjust to renewables.

Gulf’s autocrats are co-belligerents in Iran-Israel conflict. Israel has mounted a bombing campaign to degrade Iran’s conventional warfare capabilities on the behalf of Gulf’s insecure rulers. Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Baathist Assad gov’t in Syria posed a proximate threat to Israel’s regional security, both of which have already been eliminated. Iran is over 1500 km away from Israel. It takes a veritable ICBM to strike military targets in Israel.

Donald Trump made an official visit to the Gulf States in mid-May. During the visit, Gulf’s rulers pledged to invest trillions of dollars in the US economy. What did Gulf’s rulers demand in return? Obviously, they asked for providing security. What is the single biggest threat to the illegitimate rule of Gulf’s autocrats? Clearly, it’s Iran’s formidable military capabilities, a stone’s throw away across the Persian Gulf.

A month before Trump’s visit, Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman conveyed a stark warning to Iranian leadership that its time was up. A month after the visit, on Friday the 13^th of June, Israel mounted Operation Rising Mouse, targeting Iran’s military and civilian installations.

The Bedouin chieftains claiming royal descent from camel herders should know that if Iran goes down, the critical oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar too will go up in flames. The tyrannical regimes will be toppled and replaced with genuinely representative governments of Muslim Brotherhood.

The butcher Clown Prince of Yehudi Arabia, fond of cutting down critics like Jamal Khashoggi into pieces; the son of most notorious womanizer of the era, the Emir of Abu Dhabi, pretending to be the standard-bearer of Bedouin liberalism while fueling conflicts and providing military support to Southern Separatists in Yemen, Khalifa Haftar in Libya and RSF militia in Sudan; the duplicitous Emir of Qatar, masquerading as Brotherhood patron while hosting the largest US airbase at al-Udeid, they must all pray to God the conflict ends quickly and intercede on Iran’s behalf to end the bombing campaign.

Otherwise, Iranian Fidayeen, equipped with rocket artillery and missiles, have been positioned along Iran’s entire western coast, awaiting orders from Ayatollah Khamenei to unleash barrages of drones and missiles across the Persian Gulf targeting global oil production industry selling oil as well as blood of Muslims to Shylocks of Western regimes.

The servile lackey of security establishment, the Western mainstream media, which for once has buried the hatchet and seems to have developed sudden fondness for American step-president and is depicting Trump as Christian savior for letting Israel bomb residential areas and shopping malls in Iran, is naively claiming the “inner circle” of Ayatollah Khamenei has been eliminated. There is no such thing as inner and outer circle in the Shiite Imamate. The whole of Iran is Khamenei’s inner circle, standing firmly behind Imam of the era.

Yesterday, Trump credulously boasted that Israeli and US air forces have achieved air supremacy over Iran’s airspace. Air supremacy is typically a precursor to mounting ground invasion, as in Qaddafi’s Libya in 2011. But who will dare to invade Iran, a handful Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MeK) terrorists, who are only good for mounting subversive ops in Iran on Mossad’s behalf?

US Air Force should steer clear of Iranian skies and use Jordanian or Iraqi airspace instead, if it wants to save the precious F-35 stealth aircraft. Iran doesn’t need S-300 batteries to shoot down hostile aircraft. It has bought a huge chunk of MANPADS that Pentagon provided to Ukrainian proxies and which ended up in East European arms black market. Now the IRGC has trained and equipped entire battalions skilled in using MANPADS. God, I wish divine providence had bestowed a bit of brains to Yankees instead of destructive weapons.