The US is likely to escalate the conflict with Iran as it lacks the capacity to relate with countries in respectful and mutually beneficial ways.
Simon Chege Ndiritu
Divergent Priorities Between Washington and the Rest of the World
Over the last decades, Washington has invested trillions in military programs for global domination, such as Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) (designed to enable the US to conduct a conventional strike on any target globally in an hour), in addition to its Carrier Battle Groups, Air Expeditionary Groups, and over 800 military bases spread across the world. No other country has found use for such militaristic capabilities. In addition to the above programs, Washington has waged the so-called Global War on Terror (GWOT), which has paradoxically increased the terror threat since the 2000s. Meanwhile, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, Russia rebuilt its economy and military to global prominence, and Iran has built a self-sufficient arms industry over the last few decades. Iran’s arsenal today is not only capable of curtailing Western puppets such as Saddam’s Iraq or Israel but also capable of dissuading a US attack. Also, Africa made strides in socio-economic development and poverty reduction, with some countries achieving development levels that stunned previously propagandized American audiences.
The limit of American global militarization is notable in how it has needed weeks to gather assets from across the world to threaten Iran. It was unable to strike any target in Iran within an hour, while its other resources in the region needed to be beefed up for weeks. Since these capabilities were designed to threaten or bomb countries into submission, Iran’s resistance thus far attests to their failure. There are other places in the world where the US cannot effect theft, including, in Trump’s words, “taking, keeping, or selling their oil,” which he used to describe US actions in Syria and Venezuela.
War as Washington’s Permanent Vocation
Trump’s weeks-long mobilization in the Persian Gulf, following a months-long one in the Caribbean, and ongoing GWOT engagements, emphasizes how war is Washington’s main business. Its posture of attempting diplomacy vis-à-vis Iran, Ukraine, or elsewhere is only a distraction to facilitate further wars of plunder. Washington’s feeling of entitlement to other countries’ resources has also been expressed in the kidnapping of a sitting president of Venezuela, which Western Europe has tacitly cheered. Western Europe has also continued cheering Trump’s military threat against Iran, which may evolve into decades of war like the Afghanistan and Iraq military debacles became.
Since Washington’s flywheel for war against Iran seems to be gaining momentum, Western Europe seems poised to follow into a potentially protracted war
Western Europe, which outwardly poses as promoting peace, always follows Washington’s endless wars, and no one should expect a different behavior in the current crusade against Iran. The West would have us believe that the world’s most pressing challenges today are not poverty, global warming, or the next pandemic, as Biden and Obama had claimed, but fighting endless wars. Surprisingly, Washington cannot afford to pay any attention to homelessness crises, unemployment, or increasing violence meted out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at home.
America’s decades-spanning global military expansion, which now faces a reality check, by needing to be adjusted for weeks without guaranteed attainment of set objectives, can be likened to a mentally ill person who, while walking naked in public, removes his palms that were covering his crotch to cover his face in an attempt to alleviate shame. Onlookers who might have thought that this disturbed individual was getting better receive unmistakable confirmation that the case has reached a crisis level. It is now abundantly clear that Washington’s militarism is perpetual and can be wielded against any country to steal oil, minerals, and strategic locations. As Wesley Clark, a former four-star US military General, who was also the Supreme Allied Commander Europe during NATO’s destruction of Yugoslavia, noted, the US had only military violence as a tool for interacting with other nations. Washington has continued expanding and using this capacity for violence at the expense of diplomacy and trade relations, a trend that will continue in the case of Iran.
Blind March to War while Pushing Allies into the Abyss
Since Washington’s flywheel for war against Iran seems to be gaining momentum, Western Europe seems poised to follow into a potentially protracted war. Despite Canadian PM Mark Carney’s decrying Washington’s undermining of trade and diplomatic relations in January 2026 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting at Davos, his country and other US allies are unlikely to offer meaningful resistance to US militarism. Carney berated Washington’s forcing countries into security and economic integration to advance its interests. Supposed US allies such as Western Europe and now India are pushed into submission to cannibalize their economies and to support Washington’s curated wars. A good example was Germany, whose chancellor was forced to stand and watch the US president threaten to bomb its energy lifeline if Russia were to militarily respond to a threat that Washington was cultivating in Ukraine against Russia. Later, the US would blow up the Nord Stream II pipeline that was planned to deliver affordable Russian energy, forcing Germany to purchase overpriced alternatives from the US. Even in February 2026, Trump openly dictated to India to quit purchasing affordable Russian energy through his social media site, justifying this pressure as being necessary to stop the Ukrainian war, which the US precipitated.
The suitability and method of creating a war in Ukraine for Washington’s interest were discussed by Washington’s functionaries, such as Zbignew Brzezinski, and were further revealed by the Guardian, which reported how the West was behind the 2014 turmoil in Ukraine, which created conditions for the ongoing war in the country. The primary role of US allies seems to be serving Washington’s interests at their own expense and later facing adverse effects, such as immigrant crises resulting from US-led NATO bombing of Middle Eastern countries. They have also grappled with an economic slowdown resulting from cutting themselves off from Russia’s energy to please Washington. Time will tell if they will wake up or follow Washington’s march to war against Iran and face adverse military, social, and economic consequences for decades.
Simon Chege Ndiritu, is a political observer and research analyst from Africa
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