After promising during his 2024 election campaign to end the country’s quarter century of ‘forever wars’—on June 21, 2025 Trump started yet another ‘forever war’ by bombing Iran at multiple locations. He thus declared war today on Iran without a formal declaration, much like Japan did with the USA on December 7, 1941.

Also like Japan in 1941, Trump conducted fake negotiations over the past two weeks with Iran as a deception, to make Iran think a deal was possible when in fact he never intended a deal. The attack was inevitable days ago, once the US started moving two more US carrier task forces to the region, removing its naval assets out of its Bahrain and Qatar bases in the Persian Gulf, and calling on Americans in the region to leave. All indicators Trump made his decision to bomb likely a week ago.

The deception of fake negotiations this past week continued up to the very last minute. Two days ago Trump announced he was giving Iran two weeks more to consider his demands. As he said that, US air force B-2 bombers were being fueled, armed and readied for takeoff. Just another deception.

Trump’s forever war on Iran is like none of the US Empire’s previous neocon wars of the 21^st century.

This time there was no attempt to provide political or moral cover by going to the United Nations, as US presidents did in previous wars in Iraq in 1991 and 2003. Nor did Trump make the slightest effort to bring US allies on board to support or participate in the attack. Nor was there any pretense of invoking the War Powers Act, that imperial fig leaf that has served as cover for Presidents violating the US Constitution. All that was bypassed or ignored this time, in Trump’s ‘forever war’.

Trump’s decision to go to war was strictly personal. It was his alone—with US neocons whispering in his one ear and Netanyahu the other. That makes Trump’s war a personal act of Tyranny per the basic meaning of that term—an act in foreign policy not unlike some of his recent decisions in US domestic affairs.

Trump’s decision to bomb Iran has all the earmarks of the continuation of the US neocon global strategy in the 21^st century. By bombing, Trump reveals he is now solidly in the neocon camp—if he ever left it. Trump is now America’s No. #1 neocon.

No country will ever believe he, or the USA, ever wants to negotiate a peaceful settlement to any dispute. That applies especially to countries like China and Russia. Why negotiate with the USA? Negotiations are only a ruse. Russia found that out in Ukraine. China will no doubt take note in any future discussions about Taiwan or South China Sea islands.

The empire sees negotiations as a tactic. Treaties are only temporary agreements until the US believes the relationship of forces are again in its favor, at which point it conveniently breaks treaties.

‘Trump’s Iran War’ is a first in the history of 21^st century US neocon military adventures.  It is a first in that it is totally on behalf of a foreign country, Israel, against a country, Iran, that has not indicated any threat to America nor has the capability even if it did. Trump has gone to war with Iran not because it is in America’s interest to do so, but because Netanyahu and his Zionists have asked him to do so.

There is another ‘first’ in Trump’s neocon forever war on Iran: Trump started the war in direct contradiction to US intelligence agencies’ determination that Iran did not have a nuclear weapon and it would take it three years to develop one. That was the public statement of the Trump administration’s own Director of National Intelligence, DNI, Tulsi Gabbard to Congress this past March. The DNI gathers and summarizes the intelligence findings of the USA’s 17 intelligence agencies, including the CIA.

Trump publicly rejected Gabbard’s conclusions in a media interview just days ago, saying ‘she was wrong’. I (Trump) know Iran has a weapon’.  So how did Trump know? If his own intelligence apparatus said no why did he say yes? From what source did Trump get his evidence if not from the US intelligence apparatus?  It can only be from Israel and its intelligence agency, the Mossad. So we have the ‘first’ of a US president believing a foreign intelligence source (with a vested interest) against the determination of the USA’s own intelligence.

The bombing of Iran is clearly the outcome of the two forces on the planet that for decades have been pushing for perpetual war—US neocons and Israel Zionists. They are now obviously two sides of the same coin.  And together the two are obviously driving US foreign policy and wars.

President Biden may not have had all his mental faculties that enabled the Neocon-Zionist cabal to push him to war. What’s Trump’s excuse?

With the assistance of the US neocon cabal, Israel has become the dog wagging its American tail.

To sum up the unique character of this latest of US neocon 21^st century wars of empire:

Trump’s Iran war is a first in the history of US neocon military adventures as it is a war on behalf of another country (Israel) against their adversary (Iran) not against any country threatening America; it is a first because Trump has bypassed all government processes in his march to war; it is a first because Trump has decided to go to war ignoring his own US intelligence agencies and instead basing his decision on a foreign intelligence agency (Mossad).

Some Consequences

Trump may believe now that he has bombed Iran that it will come to the negotiating table. As he said after the event: ‘It’s time for a peace agreement’.  That statement makes him either incredibly naïve and stupid, or it’s just another negotiating subterfuge.

Why would Iran now agree to negotiate a peace deal with him?  Can Iran trust him that a deal is possible again, when negotiations were just a deception before?

Trump may think this bombing ends the war. But it may only have started it.

If Iran fought against Iraq in the 1980s and lost 1 million men, why would it now capitulate and not continue fighting?  Would the USA have done so after being bombed? Did it after Pearl Harbor, Manila in the Philippines, Wake and Guam islands that were all bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941?  Does Trump and US neocons think that is the likely outcome now? It’s possible they are that stupid. They’ve shown evidence before of being afflicted with a severe case of geopolitical myopia.

It’s extremely unlikely Iran will negotiate again.  Its leadership must be aware of the more fundamental objective of Trump and the US—and especially Israel—is regime change in Iran. Not just the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. Certainly US neocons and Israel know this is the real objective, even if Trump naively now believes he can now force Iran to negotiate a deal.

It is unclear at this point, moreover, whether Iran’s nuclear sites are actually destroyed. Time will tell.  But if so, what’s to stop Iran now from accelerating its nuclear program at other sites? The bombing may actually force Iran to now build a bomb as fast as it can. Only the total military occupation of the country by Israel and/or the USA can prevent that. And neither Israel or the USA has a military force remotely capable of doing so, let alone of even invading Iran.

If the Iranians believe the Trump-Israel objective is regime change, why won’t they continue fighting?  After all, Trump has demanded their ‘unconditional surrender’. Historically that means military occupation, new government, prosecution for alleged war crimes, and execution of former military leaders. To continue fighting is obviously a preferable alternative to ‘unconditional surrender’, capitulation and war crime tribunals.

Trump may have just ‘lit the fuse’ on the US empire’s declaration of war on the entire global south.  The bombing is a stark warning to all, and especially China, that the US is willing to escalate the use of force without limit (including nuclear) in order to preserve its global empire now being increasingly challenged by the nations of the global south.

With Trump’s war on Iran, the ‘forever wars’ not only continue now; they are likely to spread and become even more deadly.

Trump’s bombing of Iran represents a kind of ‘geopolitical Rubicon’ from which there’s now no going back.

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