🇮🇷 🚀 The Third Gulf War Has Begun 🇮🇱 🔥
📉 ☠️ America & Its Empire Will Fall... Iran & The Axis Will Win 🇺🇸 ➡️ 🇮🇷
The final descent has begun.
🇮🇷 Proxy fires ignite from Lebanon to the Gulf, as drones, missiles, & militias collapse the fragile illusions of American power.
🇮🇱 Bases burn.
Alliances fracture.
The 🇺🇸 empire can no longer impose order; it can only absorb defeat. ⚰️
As Israel reels & America staggers, Iran’s Axis advances beneath the ruins, reshaping the map while the West watches its funeral in real Time. 🎯
The Third Gulf War Has Begun: The Dawn of a New Global Order - In the ruins of America’s empire, the Third Gulf War is not a clash of civilizations, but the final struggle for global supremacy. The American empire’s ability to project power has already been tested; its military is overstretched, its economy is fragile, & its political system is fragmented. As Iran’s Axis rises, it does not challenge the West with armies alone; it does so with strategy, resilience, & long-term vision. Iran & its allies weave a complex web of influence, creating an ecosystem of proxy wars, digital subterfuge, & economic sanctions that slowly erode imperial control. The conflict does not unfold as a single spectacular event, but as a series of cascading failures: supply chains crumble, currencies falter, & trust in Western institutions fades. The American empire’s response is slow, disjointed, & ineffective, as it continues to rely on outdated concepts of warfare that no longer apply. The Third Gulf War becomes a conflict of attrition, not a dramatic clash. As America’s empire falters, Iran’s Axis seizes the opportunity to fill the vacuum, not through conquest, but through strategic diplomacy, technological dominance, & regional influence. The world transitions from a unipolar world to a new order, with the Axis emerging not as conquerors but as the new custodians of power, peace, & stability.
The War has already begun.
Though framed in the language of escalation, retaliation, & proportionality, the events of June 13, 2025, merely formalized a trajectory that has long been locked in.
As Israeli drones & missiles pierced deep into Iranian territory, striking high-level leadership targets, including senior IRGC generals & nuclear scientists, the brittle surface tension of deterrence shattered.1
The ensuing Iranian response, waves of ballistic missiles against Israeli cities, saturation strikes on Haifa & Tel Aviv, & continuous drone barrages against regional targets...
Wasn’t an eruption of spontaneous violence but rather the activation of a long-prepared escalation ladder embedded within the architecture of the Axis of Resistance for two decades.2
The entry of the United States into this unfolding catastrophe isn’t merely likely; it is predetermined.
The architecture of American security commitments, the symbiosis between the United States & the Israeli state, & the internal dynamics of American domestic politics have collectively eliminated any plausible off-ramp.3
The invocation of inevitability isn’t rhetorical but mechanical.
The American security establishment, now operating with more than 40,000 personnel scattered across exposed forward bases in the Gulf, lacks both the logistical flexibility & the political sovereignty to abstain.
Every missile that lands near a U.S. airbase, every intercepted image of burning hangars in Prince Sultan or Al-Udeid, tightens the noose.4
The illusion that air superiority would indefinitely guarantee American dominance is Moribund. The age of the unilateral precision strike (the Desert Storm archetype) belongs to a fading technological epoch…
Whose margins have been eroded by the mass diffusion of cheap precision weaponry, autonomous drone swarms, & the widespread miniaturization of industrial lethality.5
Where once American F-15s & carrier strike groups embodied sovereign projection, they now represent obsolete museum pieces struggling to operate under conditions where every runway, depot, & airborne asset…
Sits exposed beneath overlapping rings of precision missile fire.6
The Iranians have achieved this without matching the American budgetary scale or replicating Western technological ecosystems.
Instead, they have reoriented the logic of power projection itself.
The accumulation of precision drones, loitering munitions, & mobile ballistic systems has inverted the cost curve of conflict:
For every multimillion-dollar U.S. aircraft sortie or billion-dollar naval deployment, Iran & its Axis can saturate the battlefield with thousands of expendable munitions at a tiny fraction of the cost.7
In this Paradigm, America’s traditional approach to escalation (built on capital-intensive platforms & a global logistical superstructure) becomes increasingly self-defeating.8
This dynamic isn’t novel. The pattern was repeatedly demonstrated in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Ukraine, & now in the opening stages of this war itself.
Hezbollah’s use of hundreds of kamikaze drones against Israeli armour in 2023-24, the Houthi missile swarms that paralyzed Saudi oil infrastructure, & the Shahed drone networks that Russia leveraged to destabilize Ukrainian power grids…
All illustrate the same strategic grammar:
Mass deployment of cheap, precise, low-observable weapons that neutralize the prohibitive cost asymmetries that once guaranteed Western superiority.9
For the United States, this represents a terminal strategic contradiction. The empire cannot sustain the theatre without forward basing.
Yet every forward base now constitutes a gravitational point of vulnerability under Iran’s expanding missile umbrella.
The overlapping rings of missile & drone threats around critical U.S. installations in the Gulf (Al Dhafra, Prince Sultan, Al-Udeid) now exist within a targetable envelope where any sustained campaign would yield rapid & visible American casualties.10
The fragility of American military manpower further exacerbates the danger:
Hollowed recruitment pipelines, overreliance on reservists, & falsified unit readiness metrics have left large portions of the U.S. force structure institutionally incapable of absorbing attrition, especially from genuine late-industrial warfare.11
The psychological dimension is even more brittle than the material One. In prior conflicts, the American public tolerated wars premised on minimal exposure to American blood, airstrikes, drone campaigns, & limited special operations footprints.
What now looms isn’t another iteration of Iraq or Afghanistan but a new form of symmetrical attrition warfare in which American forces absorb persistent missile barrages that kill dozens of soldiers in single salvos.12
The expectation that American society will stomach the rapid acceleration of mass military casualties in defence of Israeli regional ambitions isn’t merely unfounded but absurd.
& yet, precisely because no other path remains politically feasible, the march proceeds. The empire’s leadership structure (whether under the current Trump presidency or any conceivable alternative) no longer possesses meaningful agency.
Institutional inertia, political capture, & the intersecting interests of defence contractors, ideological lobbies, & transnational financial structures eliminate the space for sovereign restraint.13
The American system is now structurally incapable of disassociating itself from the strategic priorities of its Israeli client state, even at the cost of systemic self-destruction.
The assassination of Iranian nuclear officials on June 13 did not trigger an unpredictable chain of events; it simply activated a scaffolded war plan whose branches have been systematically cultivated by Iran’s Axis for years.
Each Hezbollah cell in southern Lebanon, each Houthi missile site in Yemen, each PMF militia compound in Iraq, & each ancillary drone depot…
All now function as autonomous but coordinated appendages of a distributed strategic architecture designed to progressively paralyze the conventional capacities of Western projection forces.14
This model of distributed proxy warfare (long dismissed by Western analysts as a crude substitute for real state power) has revealed itself to be the most adaptive military Paradigm of the 21st century.
The American entry into this conflict will proceed as a predictable ritual:
Airstrikes will commence against Iranian targets.
U.S. bases in the Gulf will be struck in retaliation.
Iranian proxies will widen the battlefield across multiple axes.
Israel, emboldened by U.S. reinforcement, will expand its targeting deeper into Iranian lands.
Iranian ballistic salvos will escalate in response.
& the fragile scaffolding of deterrence that held back regional conflagration will be obliterated under cumulative cycles of escalation, as no One retains the institutional capacity or domestic legitimacy to restrain momentum.15
Yet, this is only the opening…
The entry itself is not the conclusion but merely the doorway into deeper, irreversible collapse sequences.
As American strike groups commit, their exposed logistics chains will unravel under targeted interdiction.
Critical Gulf infrastructure will face saturation drone & missile waves, eroding both military coherence & regional basing viability.
Financial panic will accelerate as markets price in Hormuz interdictions, energy outages, & sovereign debt flight from dollar-denominated assets.
Domestically, cascading mass protests will fracture political legitimacy, while demands for national mobilization will collide with widespread insubordination.
The empire will convulse internally even as its foreign theatres disintegrate externally, with each collapsed front accelerating the erosion of global confidence in American hegemony.
But that is simply the Beginning of the End for America’s Empire…
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