"Negotiating" with real estate con-men and private equity bros is an obvious indicator. Another is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's public and unrestrained strategy to kill trade, hyper-inflate Iranian currency, and create poverty and starvation in Iran. We've been weaponizing the dollar for decades to force other countries to submit to US mandates and demands. The urgency now is to gain that submission before the smart money vacates our increasingly untrusted and wholly politicized fiat.

Since February 28th of this year the US has also unloaded half of our munitions and missile inventory on Iranian "military" targets, accidentally hitting over 81,000 civilian infrastructure targets. Our expensive offensive military production capacity can't rapidly replace these wasted munitions, and it should not, as these weapons do nothing at all to defend America or keep her safe.

Another contrived war is the US/NATO war against Russia, taking place in Ukraine, using the same pattern: Economic warfare followed by an expensive military onslaught from the sea and air. Early on in the kinetic portion of the conflict, the US destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline, forcing EU buyers onto the pricy American natural gas teat. War today may include mass-produced and integrated drones controlled from anywhere, but it's the same air war and assault paradigm.

Underlying the economic and kinetic wars in Iran and Ukraine is the US-dominated investment fund acquisition of whatever is left after the "win." In both cases, US government goals include subordinating Europe to US markets, and positioning for the future subordination of Russia, and China. While the media occasionally reports instances of Ukrainian corruption and graft, and we bemoan the cost of the 60 day war in Iran thus far, the trillion dollar grifters in NYC and London smile and nod.

Like these two wars, and the more obvious hijack of Venezuelan oil fields, the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza also follows this pattern of economic deprivation and ruin, followed by air war to destroy the terrain, housing, industry, and food production. Israel has been exploiting Gaza for decades, but thanks to TikTok the world saw how this is actually done in real time since October 7th, 2023. Israel, with integrated US support, habitually manages Palestinians by controlling currency, calories and concrete with an attention to detail that would make a 1944 German Nazi blush. Imprison, torture, assassinate, and periodically attack "military targets" from the air while accidentally on purpose destroying everything and everyone connected to civil and economic society rounds out the list.