By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), M.A. (Counseling Psychology, University for Humanistic Studies)
2023–2025: PRESSURE BUILT, CONTAINMENT FAILED
After October 7, 2023, the entire Middle East war exploded with intensified U.S. and Israel vs Iran and its Hamas supporters in Gaza. All belligerents enacted the ancient Anunnaki ideology of unremitting domination dementia.
From Lebanon, Hezbollah fired missiles and drones at Israel; Houthis in Yemen fired similar flying bombs at Israel and at ships in the Red Sea. Israel’s multi-layered air defense system and U.S. warships intercepted most of the ordinance that flew at them.
AMERICA & ISRAEL ATTACKED IRAN DURING PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
February 28, 2026: while nuclear negotiations were still underway, the United States and Israel launched massive coordinated 900 airstrikes on Iran’s military, governmental and religious leadership.
All sides in this conflict repeated the ancient Anunnaki-inculcated pattern of competition to dominate. Programmed for greed, rulers took ever-greater control of resources for their wars and profits, opposition to them built, violence escalated, civilians suffered, children died, and infrastructure collapsed. Only arms production surged. Trauma embedded itself into the next generation.
This sequence is DOMINATION DEMENTIA—a pathological pattern in which governing powers dictated the theft of society’s resources, snuffed out cooperative efforts, and destroyed the sustainability of life in the countries attacked, creating suffering for all of us.
2023–2025: MIDDLE EASTERN POWER SYSTEMS HEATED UP
2025–2026: STRIKE LOGIC FAILS HUMANITY
In 2026, a U.S. strike on a structure in Iran—believed to have military relevance—resulted in the deaths of schoolgirls. Reports indicated that the building’s function may have changed, or intelligence assessments misidentified its use.
Whether through miscalculation, flawed intelligence, or systemic bias toward aggressive action, the result remained the same: children died.
This is the defining signature of dominator systems: When uncertainty arises, they strike anyway.
This moment exposes the core logic of dominator warfare: once escalation overrides restraint, civilian life becomes expendable, reduced to a targeting variable within systems designed for control rather than protection. The language of “precision” collapses under the weight of shattered classrooms.
Following the strikes inside Iran, the conflict widened rapidly. Hezbollah intensified cross-border fire from Lebanon, and Iraqi militias targeted U.S. bases, Houthi forces escalated Red Sea interdictions, and Israeli strikes expanded deeper into multiple theaters. The region entered a state of continuous retaliation, where no strike stood alone.
Each action became justification for the next.
Iran and the U.S. both employed maximal military projection as their primary policies with which to assert themselves against the other.
Civilians in Iran and Lebanon suffered from drone, artillery, and missile attacks by America, and Israel. Israeli settlers in areas of Palestine supposedly reserved for Palestinians looted, tortured, and mutilated them. Missiles from Iran and its allies started hitting Israel once it spent most of its shielding countermissiles.
War was and still is a lucrative industry for the U.S. and Iran. Civilian lives, infrastructure, and health become business expenses to warmongers.
CIVILIAN REALITY: THE TRUE BATTLEFIELD
Civilians fled collapsing urban zones as conflict expanded. The dominant narrative frames war as strategic maneuvering between states, but the lived reality is displaced families, buried kids, cities reduced to rubble, and whole generations of innocent people who die from the ambitions of Trump and the Iranian leadership. The vast distance between decision-makers and the horrid conditions they spawned lets them continue the slaughter and destruction. When will we ever learn WE MUST–in my humble opinion–SEEK MUTUALLY ENHANCING PEACE.
BREAK THE PATHOLOGICAL PATTERN THAT IMPRISONS US ALL
The domination and destruction persist because it rewards politicians like Trump, Putin, and the Iranian Ayatollahs who use war and their control of the public narrative to consolidate their power and sell weapons. To break the cycle, we must expose how its incentives facilitate it, refuse to accept war as normal and instead shift toward a cooperative framework for all peoples. Without these changes, the people of Earth will escalate wars, create mass starvation and exposure deaths, and lose more children.
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