Iran knows where everything is located – to the millimeter. No need to go for flashy photo ops Shock’n Awe-style monopolizing the news cycle. What matters is the Chinese torture of steadily degrading the enemy’s capabilities; the strategy is painfully methodical, and painfully precise.
No wonder the Empire of Piracy is catatonic. What to do when your massively expensive and nearly irreplaceable sensing and monitoring hardware is being reduced to ashes? When your screens go deep dark? When the arrogant imperial confidence of the entire chain of command is being torpedoed in real time?
The Iranian Way of War is a sophisticated mix that may eventually be studied in Western military academies. All logically interconnected – from destruction of enemy support infrastructure to steady degradation of intel, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities; from attrition of air defense and interceptor inventories to widespread disruption of logistics.
And all that is supremely cost effective – but certainly not for the attacking Empire, as every (malfunctioning) Patriot costs millions of dollars, and simply cannot defend scores of different locations simultaneously.
In a nutshell: this is how a systematic degradation of the whole regional architecture that allows the U.S. and its vassals to project military power across West Asia looks like. Played out in front of the whole Global South. The manual is available for all, live, in real time.....
Iran’s precision, restraint and reach is shutting up the whole vociferating spectacle emanating from the Empire of Narratives – as Iranian missiles and drones relentless strike fighter jets, Black Hawks, data centers (as in the Amazon central hub in Bahrain), logistics depots, power plants – and more.
The Global South just needs to check the satellite images of proverbial craters across Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE. And Iran hasn’t even started yet. Were Iran to obliterate Qatar’s remaining LNG trains, that would leave most of the planet with no LNG from Doha for at least a decade – not to mention the helium for making microchips.
The massive humiliation of hitting and disabling one of those multibillion-dollar sitting ducks is being kept for the appropriate time. And as everyone knows, Iran runs the clock, and time is on its side.
None of that, of course, minimizes the risks of the escalation ladder; and we are still in the middle of what could become the Mother of All Escalation Ladders.
But then, suddenly, the imperial machine stops – and CENTCOM refrains from bombing Iran for a few days. At a closed meeting in Washington last Friday, someone with an IQ over room temperature (J.D. Vance? Gen. Caine? Both?) dared to warn neo-Crassus that his Mother of all Escalations was destined to fail.
And that was due to a bunch of obvious reasons; from no Patriots available to widespread Gulf petromonarchy panic; from the risks to the global economy to a massive oil crisis just around the corner.
Does that mean that neo-Crassus will return to the MoU that he signed and then bombed? Of course not. Plan B may look more like intensifying “economic pressure” via extra embargoes and sanctions, as recommend by the real estate Talleyrand of the times, Kushner, the Epstein lite family “advisor”.
So it’s not only global oil reserves – and the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) that are running out. THAADs, Patriots, JASSMs, Tomahawks, everything is running out.
