The Arc Of Evil’s Inevitability

Monday, 23 June 2025, 11:44 am
Opinion: Martin LeFevre - Meditations

The conceit of many journalists, who think in terms of daily events, is that nothing is inevitable until it actually occurs. That’s absurd of course, though it usually takes hindsight to demonstrate that the course of human history, like a runaway train, was going to crash at foreseeable points.

Just as the national media in the United States bought into the Liar-in-Chief’s bullshit that Israel “unilaterally” attacked Iran, they accepted the cant that US bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities was “undecided” until the bunker busting B-2’s were on their way to Fordow. The truth is that this was a hand-in-glove operation between Netanyahu and Trump all along.

And so once again, “the US has gone to war in the Middle East on the back of a lie, on disputed, faulty intelligence purposefully distorted for political reasons.” However, prior impunity without accountability brings increasing consequences at home and abroad.

Trump suffers from even greater delusion than Bush-Cheney, since he believes not only is the USA all-powerful, he is all-powerful. He actually thinks that dropping 30,000-pound bombs and launching dozens of cruise missiles can be a one-off, and that Iran will “negotiate” while he demands their “unconditional surrender.”

It’s risible to repeat the narrative, “Trump, the isolationist president who vowed to avoid foreign wars, has walked slap bang into a trap prepared by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.” What point is there in debating which demon is more cunning?

Yes, POTUS looked like the dumb ass he is wearing his red, Make America Great Again hat in the Situation Room, his glowering face caked with tanning makeup as “my generals” fulfilled their illegal orders to launch an unprovoked attack on another nation.

But when dealing with two conduits of evil admittedly collaborating, it’s witless to hew to a narrative of one leading and the other resisting. Netanyahu and Trump are both puppets of collective and personal darkness, two of the worst excreta of human nature and history, no more in control of events than they are of their diarrhetic minds.

As usual, Trump told the truth after a blizzard of lies. “I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu,” he said. “We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.”

Netanyahu echoed, “Congratulations, President Trump, your bold decision to target Iran’s nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history.”

Even as this farcical charade unfolded in an arc of evil inevitability, the cable and legacy media kept repeating, “no one knows what’s going to happen next.”

Sure we do. Every non-nuclear nation that doesn’t want to be attacked by a nuclear nation will secretly race to get nuclear weapons. After all, Iran’s hawks in the Revolutionary Guard were proven right: they wouldn’t have been attacked if they hadn’t been a member of the NPT, as Israel isn’t, and had developed nuclear weapons, as Israel has.

And as nukes will now inevitably proliferate, they will inevitably be used at some point in the foreseeable future.

The next step on the “ladder of escalation” is less certain. But Iran has nothing to lose. Israel didn’t even pause its bombing campaign after Trump unleashed the biggest bombs the US has other than nukes. Now the two bastards are talking about regime change.

Since America won’t launch a ground war over a few dead sailors or soldiers if Iran retaliates against American bases or warships in the region, what will the dope and dupe in the White House do next?

The coward may well launch every bomber and cruise missile the US can deliver from its forces in the region. And if Iran withstands the bombing and is resupplied with missiles from Russia? Trump will again threaten Tehran will nuclear annihilation. But as stupid as he is, he isn’t suicidal, since that would start a third world war.

In terms of conventional weapons, militarily depleted or not, Iran’s network of alliances with regional militias remain dangerous. Indeed, which is more dangerous, a sunning rattlesnake with all its venom, or a cornered rattler with half its venom?

Ironically then, Iran now holds the cards. Israel and America have done their worst, and will keep doing it. At minimum, Iran is coordinating with its allies and proxies in the region and beyond, planning a sustained campaign against American and Israeli targets.

For example, a Tehran-backed Shia militia in Iraq, Kata’ib Hezbollah, has threatened to target US interests in the Middle East in response to Washington’s participation in Israel’s support. One of its commanders, Abu Ali al-Askari, was quoted on CNN as saying that US bases in the region “will become akin to duck-hunting grounds.”

Netanyahu and Trump are total puppets of man’s darkest subconscious impulses. They only believe they have choices, when in truth they cannot help but act out of their demented evil.

Movements and protests make no difference. Man’s demons will continue to rule until enough human beings awaken and negate the darkness within without resistance, conflict or violence.

At present, that appears to be a long way off, if ever.

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Martin LeFevre - Meditations

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Martin LeFevre is a contemplative and philosopher.

His sui generis “Meditations” explore spiritual, philosophical and political questions relating to the polycrisis facing humanity.

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