April 1, 2025 (EIRNS)—As tensions around Iran, Yemen, and Palestine escalate, the question arises, whether Donald Trump will succeed in evading the traps and disasters of endless wars which plagued his predecessors—and against which he explicitly campaigned. The clouds of war continue to descend on Southwest Asia, with the ongoing U.S. airstrikes on Yemen, increasing military deployments to the region, and growing rhetoric against Iran. Trump himself again threatened Iran in a post on Truth Social on March 31, that “the real pain is yet to come, for both the Houthis and their sponsors in Iran.”
Iranian authorities continue to make clear that they will not, and cannot, back down to such threats. Ali Larijani, a leading advisor to Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, warned that any military action against Iran will finally push the country to develop its own nuclear weapons. “If the U.S. or Israel bomb Iran under the pretext of Iran’s nuclear issue, the Islamic Republic will be forced to move towards producing nuclear bombs,” he said in an interview on March 31. The world will not stand behind the U.S. if it continues this dangerous escalation.
This way of thinking was taken to new lows last weekend when Fox News host Jesse Watters said, regarding the dispute with Denmark over Greenland: “Every country puts their interests first. And when our interests align, we can do business. And when they don’t, that’s life. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland—we’re big boys. We dropped A-bombs on Japan and now they are our top ally in the Pacific.”
This is the kind of dangerous insanity swirling around Trump, and is exactly the sort of thinking the British and their unipolar gang would love nothing more than to see him embrace. Will such an approach work? Are such threats a useful method for bringing various parties to the negotiating table? No. But it will likely lead to a much larger war, and will almost certainly end any prospect for improved, world-changing relations between the U.S., Russia, and China.
Meanwhile, the defenders of the old system are collapsing at every turn. In Europe, the calls for ever more military spending and further sanctions on Russia are bankrupting national economies, and are being met with growing resistance from within EU nations themselves. Yet as opposition voices grow, they have been met with brutal censorship and undemocratic rulings, as was seen earlier this week with the flagrant arrest of Marine Le Pen, the leading contender in France’s 2027 elections. In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also tried to eliminate all opponents to his genocidal war against the Palestinians. But despite his efforts, he has been plagued by more scandals than one can keep track of. The latest one, surrounding two of his top aides who presided over his disastrous policy vis-à-vis Qatar, is now erupting. Netanyahu’s scheduled appearance in court on March 31 for his own corruption scandal was actually interrupted because he had to rush to another court to testify on the new corruption case!
These obviously failed policies make it crystal clear that the Trump administration should dump such so-called leaders and collaborate with Russia, China, and the BRICS nations in creating a new security and development architecture for the world. Only that approach can bring lasting peace to Ukraine, Gaza, and beyond. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s three-day visit to Moscow this week, where he is meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin, underscores the potential for collaboration between these three nations. Wang Yi praised the U.S.-Russia efforts to reach peace in Ukraine, noting that “a serious conversation has taken place on the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis and the improvement of Russian-American relations.” Wang added: “A step towards peace, although not that big, is constructive—it is worth taking. You can’t get peace lying down, you need to work and achieve it with work.”
Keep this potential in mind and mobilize to bring it into fruition. The British and their acolytes would love nothing more to see the Trump administration shoot itself in the foot, or elsewhere, by getting involved in a war with Iran—a danger that must be avoided at all costs.
