US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 12 of 2026
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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/03/19/iran-moves-to-total-war-against-the-death-cult/
Essential reading.
As concisely as possible.
Iran's response to the attack on South Pars.
Why LNG trains are so crucial.
The first West Asia High Tech Total War.
The breakdown of the Surgical Attrition strategy.
This unlocked a new potential US strategy for me. Someone below mentioned that maybe this was to push out one faction of the international bourgeoisie for another. What if it's not that but instead....
What if the realization is that the US built its post-WW2 wealth by being the only industrial economy untouched by the war. This meant that everyone who needed help rebuilding had to go through American physical industrial capacity. It was achieved through total war in Europe, that is to say the destruction of physical industrial capacity across the entire subcontinent.
So what if the idea with Iran is to actually achieve the exact same outcome without the need to fully destroy all the physical industrial capacity? What if the goal is for the US to be the only country who's energy logistics is left standing. It doesn't matter how many factories Europe has if they can't power them. With US energy reserves and access to oil and gas reserves across the entire Western hemisphere, the US could in theory be the only place with enough energy to handle the industrial needs of the North Atlantic alliance and their vassals and subjects.
I know that there are power issues in the USA, but I am also aware of a massive amount of capital that has recently been gathered to develop power projects across the country.
I know that Venezuelan crude is very costly to refine, but a higher cost doesn't matter as much if it means being the only country with a reliable energy platform.
Essentially I am proposing that the US may be engaging in what could be called a logical or economic deindustrialization, like what they did to Latin America over the last few decades, applied to as much of the world as possible, without needing a total war to destroy the physical industrial capacity.
This would be inline with what we speculated was true about the strategy during the Biden administration and the destruction of Nord Stream 2 - raising energy prices on European industry to make them more dependent on the US and applying sanction chains to punish anyone buying Russian energy.
Yes, there are lots of detailed problems with this including rare earths and energy diversity and refinery capacity and lots of other things.
It is already clear that they are de-industrializing Europe and siphoning Europe's industries to the US. That is not controversial or hypothetical, it is already happening. What is not clear is how this strategy is supposed to achieve that for China or for Russia. Russia will never run out of energy (not this century at least), and China's energy self-sufficiency is only going up, as a result of the green transition and nuclear development, not down. The result is not the most dangerous rivals of the US being de-industrialized, it is the US cannibalizing its own vassals to try and halt or slow down their own decline. Even for the middle powers like Brazil or India, it is not clear that the US is succeeding in seriously undermining their energy security. India will keep receiving oil from Russia for example no matter how much the US wrecks West Asia. The countries most dependent on Middle Eastern oil and gas are ironically the US's most loyal vassals.
Well, in a multi-polar world, the US could be content with just dominating half of the globe's industry. Or they could be laying the ground work to eventually destroy the East's energy infrastructure at a later date
There is also the question of what Putin and Trump agreed in Alaska. If West Asia's energy production gets destroyed and Russia and usa make a new opec where they hold 70% of world production and are the only ones capable of securing shipping, they can try to cut off China.
In world with 3 super powers (Russia China and usa) the smaller 2 have to ally to have any chance at being the sole winner. It is clear that China is or will be top dog so Russia needs to shift its alliance. Russia is a bourgeois state and we should always expect the worst from them.
I'm pretty sure China would be fine after a short period of rejiggering their energy system. I'm almost sure these plans would be coming too late to work but it could be the capitalists last move with any chance of success.
It's not that i don't think the intention isn't there, but they just don't have the means. Short of launching nuclear WWIII at least. There is a vast chasm between wishing something would happen and being able to make it happen.