The Tournament of Shadows of the 21st Century

By Claudio Resta | VT

Many say:

”This is clearly Israel’s war against Iran, through that successful but ultimately failed regime change, the assassination of Khamenei, which resulted in an even more aggressive and resilient succession of a government determined to do as much damage as possible to Israel.”

”And possibly to expel eventually the Americans from the Middle East.”

I think all this is true but in my opinion there is something much more fundamental behind this war.

Behind and besides the appearance of a war waged by Israel along with the United States against Iran (which is nevertheless true), a much broader secret global war for the XXI century’s division of the world is occurring, the outcome of which was decided last year before the beginning of this war.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Game

Despite of the fact that the Israelis would probably say that that attack had to happen sooner or later anyway.

As also the more religious of Zionists, but still revisionists, let me point it, even claim it’s the final war between Gog and Magog.

Because at least since Ayatollah Khomeini, returning to Iran from exile on February 1st, took power as Supreme Leader just four days after February 5th, 1979, Iran became the most irreducible and implacable enemy of Israel.

Do not forget also that Reza Shah Pahlavi (previously Reza Khan 15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944), who was the Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, was also a Nazi ally of Hitler and deposed by the Allies during WWII exactly for that reason.

So that there is a tradition in that sense, not exactly Jew-friendly… even if in Iran today lives a Jewish community that is respected and lives peacefully. So they tell, at least.

Ever since the time Khomeini defined the United States as the ”Great Satan” of the world and Israel its ally as the ”Little Satan”, the relationship between Iran, the US and Israel became clear.

These sentiments were reciprocated by American and Israeli policy over the next half century, the events of which I will not describe here as they would be superfluous.

I don’t even care, for the purposes of this discussion, whether Netanyahu is alive or dead.

Despite the enormous importance of the role he played in convincing Trump to go to war against Iran on February 28th, and the conspicuous manner in which he did.

Personally, I believe Netanyahu is dead or in critical condition due to his absences from Israel’s Defense Council during its last eight wartime meetings, as well as missing over 7 cabinet meetings.

What PM could afford to be absent from a defense council when his country is under massive, constant and withering retaliatory attacks?

But as I’ve already said, none of this is of much import for this outlier of an analysis.

What does interest me are the roles of the three great powers—the US, China and Russia—play in this war.

Because the least that can be said about the roles of these three great powers—the US, China and Russia in the present conflict is that the behavior of their leaders is opaque and ambiguous, incoherent and elusive; and, in Trump’s case, also very, very contradictory given that he changes his narrative almost daily.

It’s as if the leaders of the great powers were unwilling or unable to publicly reveal the raw truth by providing us publicly with a convenient version.

For example, it’s clear, as Putin himself has admitted and as evidenced by the facts, many facts, that Russia and/or China are providing significant support to Iran as well as providing it with very advanced and powerful weaponry.  In terms of intelligence, satellite surveillance, and perhaps even acquisition and targeting.

How else to explain the surgical precision strike on Netanyahu’s bunker on March 9 in which his brother was killed, Ben Gvir was wounded and other high ranking officials certainly died, and Bibi himself was perhaps killed. But the last speculation was revealed only two days ago while the attack was launched on March 9.

Or perhaps maybe Netanyahu was transported to Germany in critical condition aboard the Israeli presidential plane, the Wing of Zion, after the attack and because of its serious consequences.

But why all this support from Russia and China for Iran?

Well, Russia has its motives: Ukraine and the availability of Iranian made drones, as well as the obvious benefits of the significant rise in oil prices, being a major global seller.

And China, too, has its motives of easing the ships transit through Hormuz, as well as ensuring the availability of the oil necessary to run its economy on favorable terms.

But in my opinion, there’s still something else they’re not telling us, because for China, making the Liaowang-1 ship available is a more than generous gesture, given that it will later be used to capture Taiwan, I believe.

So, risking to lose such a unique and powerful naval asset just to help an ally as Iran really means China is engaging in a proxy war.

What lies behind it, in my opinion, is that this war ”must” be won by Iran, not for its own interests but mainly for the overwhelming benefit of China.

Therefore, after having won militarily, through de-dollarization, the Renminbi will become the world’s new reserve currency and China will succeed the U.S Empire as the United States did replacing the United Kingdom after Bretton Woods in 1944.

Moreover, Iran has declared that it will allow anyone who pays for oil in Renminbi to cross the Strait of Hormuz.

This action too pushes hard toward de-dollarization.

A new global Chinese Empire, and, at this point, the annexation of Taiwan will be little more than a formality.

The ”unspeakable” agreement of Trump, Putin and Xi