April 6, 2025 (EIRNS)—The problem President Trump is confronting in Iran, as he contemplates a potential major military intervention there, will never be resolved through threats, intimidation, or war. In the context of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israel’s rejection of international law, and the declining Western-centric system, the ostensible crisis around Iran that Trump is being drawn into is far more complicated than meets the eye.
In fact, such a crisis can only be understood from the standpoint that the post-World War II order—an order that was further cemented over the dead bodies of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and others—was designed by the outgoing British imperial establishment to manufacture never-ending strife between the U.S. and Russia. No stability would ever be found, they supposed, as long as the superpowers were at loggerheads.
Therefore, the current effort at normalization of relations between the U.S. and Russia is a revolutionary development, and one that strikes fear into the deepest and darkest crevices of the Anglo-American establishment. Trump’s efforts here could indeed be the key toward solving other major global problems.
Don’t think that the Anglo-American establishment is taking this lying down. Rather, they are doing all they can to derail the potential and ruin the Trump Administration, either by exploiting salubrious scandals like “Signalgate” or by luring it into a trap that would guarantee this—a war with Iran.
It is notable that the nationwide and even worldwide “Hands Off” rallies against Trump on Saturday, April 5—reportedly the largest ever demonstrations against a sitting U.S. President—did not include in their demands “Hands Off Iran,” or even “Hands Off Gaza.” Instead, one of their demands was “Hands Off NATO,” indicating at best a complete ignorance of the broader strategic situation, or at worst the intentional deployment against any efforts by Trump to walk the world back from conflict with Russia.
The only legitimate solution to the crisis is for the U.S. to revive its better traditions and join with the BRICS and Global South in creating a new international security and development architecture. Instead of a disruptive tariff regime, ostensibly to bolster internal economic activity, the U.S. would do far better to encourage growth in the rest of the world, thereby creating increased economic activity through the export of advanced American products to rapidly-growing developing nations.
The approach was spelled out in the Schiller Institute’s special report “Development Drive Means Billions of New Jobs, No Refugees, No War,” which outlines a pathway to replace today’s dying neoliberal order with a just new era that would benefit all mankind.
