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US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 12 of 2026
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I think this moment is going to be what cements the era of US humiliation. To start a brutal war against and adversary they has choked for nearly 50 years only to wave off sanctions due to the capitalist world system the US themselves constructed, all while still engaged in the war.
There is no spin for this. It's clear to everyone that the US was completely incapable of achieving anything against Iran, and literally could only save itself by walking back half a century's worth of imperial policies after 3 weeks.
Also, I believe myself and other comrades in the US may need to reconfigure our analysis of revolutionary potential within the US. For quite some time now, we've held the position that imperial super profits have created a near insurmountable inertia against class consciousness within the US, compounded by decades of anti-communist infiltration. These factors have ked us to conclude that conditions in the US aren't yet at a stage where there's any chance of a revolution. However, perhaps we must reanalyze our conditions and that conclusion.
Iran has caused the empire to draw blood and it's now desperate to patch up the consequences of its miscalculation, but that has got me thinking a bit. Why is the US so clearly humiliating itself? Could it potentially be that the US ruling class views it's situation as more precarious domestically then we'd assumed? Why not just let the proles suffer if unorganized mass outrage doesn't yet come close to threatening the domination of the US capitalist class?
Perhaps the ruling class in the US sees rapidly developing organizational skills within the masses. This is only really my ramblings but I think it's something worth ruminating about.
A) the US ruling class is scrambling to find a thesis to maintain some form of large scale dominance in the face of inexorable decline in the economy and on the battlefield. I think they may have gotten to the point where they are jumping between theses rapidly at this point. Some of these include a crypto-currency future, a multi-polar regional hegemony model, an AI-driven autonomous weapons platform, AGI/ASI runaway power scaling, technofeudalism, and a return to the robber baron / company town era.
B) They have been actively building the domestic military force for the next showdown with the population. ICE is only the half of it. The various local PDs, combined, are bigger than most national militaries. Then there's the Nat Guard, then there's domestic deployment of paid mercenaries, then there's the domestic deployment of the Banderites and the IDF, and finally the deployment of the US military directly. They have everything they need to quell a resistance.
C) But it looks like they are also seeing a resistance IN the military. The clogged toilets and laundry fires are evidence, but so are the purges and the use of absurd rhetorical filters like claiming Armageddon is the goal and waiting to see who complains so they can purge them. I think they're still seeing a situation where if they try to move too quickly before purging the military fully they'll have a coup on their hands.
They have no intention of having their forces wiped out by a foreign adversary before they can be deployed domestically against a resistance. This conflict with Iran may have shown their limits, but that doesn't mean they won't continue to operate within those limits with wild and reckless abandon.
80 cop cities just sprouted across the country.
What... does that mean? 👀