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Trump’s War Has No Plan But It Does Have a Goal – To Destroy Opposition to US & Israeli Hegemony in the Middle East - Whatever the Cost

What the War Exposes is the Underlying Weakness and Brittleness of US Domination & the Complicity of the Arab Regimes With Zionism & Genocide

John Mearsheimer: No Winning in Iran for the U.S.

The war against Iran and Trump’s threat to escalate it are a perfect example of the madness of capitalism and its military-industrial complex, which is based on destruction for its own sake. Having got himself into a war Trump doesn’t have what John Mearsheimer describes as an off-ramp.


⚡🚨🚨🚨 STATEMENT — KHATAM AL-ANBIYA CENTRAL HEADQUARTERSA spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said no oil will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz for the benefit of the United States and its allies.🗣️ The spokesperson added: “You cannot… pic.twitter.com/wPTEOEJjlK
— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) March 11, 2026

Trump and Hegseth’s only strategy is to go yet further up the escalation ramp and to threaten even more devastation unless Iran stops blocking the Straits of Hormuz. This is highly unlikely to work. On the contrary Iran has the ability to take out nearly all of the neighbouring Arab state’s oil facilities, meaning there will be no need to block the straits.

Desalination plants are crucial to the very existence of the Gulf states. In Kuwait, about 90% of drinking water comes from desalination, the figure is 86% in Oman, about 70% in Saudi Arabia, 42% in the UAE, 90% and about 50% in Israel.

There have already been attacks – by the US on a desalination plant on the island of Qeshm, in the Straits of Hormuz and an Iranian attack the next day on a Bahranian plant. Iran is less dependent on desalination but if the US military or Israel is mad enough to attack its plants then Iran could strike back.


It goes without saying that an attack on desalination plants is a war crime but Israel has continually attacked water treatment plants in Gaza. In March 2025 two desalination plants in Deir al-Balah were forced to close after Israeli forces cut electricity supplies.

Before the war broke out I agreed with Mearsheimer that there was a good chance that the US would not attack Iran. Why? Because it was impossible to see what the end game was. But that was to ignore the essential irrationality of US imperialism and its drive for hegemony in the Middle East.

Even Starmer understood that you can’t effect regime change from the air, which is why he initially refused to allow the US to use British bases. This attracted the wrath of Britain’s most notorious war criminal, Tony Blair, for whom war is like a love potion. Starmer then reversed his decision.

It appears that the sole reason for the war is to inflict as much damage on Iran and if possible to make it a failed state. It is blood letting for its own sake. The purported reason for the attack, the issue of nuclear weapons, is a fiction since not only was Iran not building such a weapon but the assassinated President Khameini had issued a fatwa in 2003 prohibiting their development. US intelligence concurred. Ctd....