| War | How “We the People” Helped End the first 3, but not the 4th … yet |
|---|---|
| Southeast Asia | draft resistance, mass marches, GI refusal, student uprisings, whistleblowers, Pentagon Papers, veterans against the war |
| Iraq | global antiwar marches, exposure of WMD deception, military-family resistance, public-opinion reversal, electoral pressure, withdrawal demand |
| Afghanistan | war-weariness, Gold Star families, veterans’ dissent, public recognition that U.S. goals failed, majority support for withdrawal |
| Iran | mass refusal before escalation: antiwar organizing, media challenge, congressional pressure, sanctions criticism, oil-war exposure, diplomacy demand |
Governments rely on obedience; when citizens, soldiers, journalists, teachers, writers, artists, and workers withdraw consent, state power weakens.
HOW WE CAN STOP THE WAR AGAINST IRAN BEFORE IT BECOMES ANOTHER IRAQ
- Expose nuclear-fear propaganda early
- Demand Congress block unauthorized war
- Reject oil-and-Strait-of-Hormuz panic narratives
- Support diplomacy, not sanctions-to-bombing escalation
- Amplify Iranian civilians, U.S. soldiers, veterans, and peace voices
- Name the pattern: Iraq WMD script, new target
The “Anunnaki” refers to the people descended mainly from refugees from the Lyran Constellation. The Anunnaki created our species and imprinted us with their obsession with status competition, class, caste, and hierarchical consciousness. The ideology they lived and instilled in us impels everyone to compete with everyone else, men to dominate women, rulers who kill to rule, slavery, wars for territory, genocide of religious rivals, and disregard for planetary ecology. Dominators preach: “Order requires obedience. Peace comes through strength.”
In the dimension of giving and taking, Domination Consciousness fully embraces taking but minimizes giving.
On Earth, Ninmah, an Anunnaki Princess on the Anunnaki Goldming Expedition to Earth from the Planet Nibiru, developed an alternative ideology to the domination dementia of her peers. Ninmah’s alternative relegates competition to a pole in the dimension of giving and taking. She advocates a balance of giving and taking within and between human groups, and between humans and the Earth.
THE PEOPLE CAN STOP WARS
“We the People” Helped End the first 3, but not the 4th. In SOUTHEAST ASIA–Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, draft resistance, mass marches, GI refusal, student uprisings, whistleblowers, Pentagon Papers, veterans against the war brought the War (and President Johnson’s Presidency to an end. In IRAQ, global antiwar marches, exposure of WMD deception, military-family resistance, public-opinion reversal, electoral pressure, and withdrawal demands from the people of America finally got us out of Iraq. In AFGHANISTAN,war-weariness, Gold Star families, veterans’ dissent, public recognition that U.S. goals failed, and majority support for withdrawal impelled President Biden to withdraw our soldiers from the country. Now, in Iran, it’s going to take mass refusal before escalating murders of millions of innocent people. It’ll take antiwar organizing, media challenge, congressional pressure, sanctions criticism, oil-war exposure, and diplomacy demands, as well as removal and imprisonment of Trump and his fellow perps from office, but we did it in prior wars and can do it again.
“THE PEOPLE” HELPED END THE U.S. WAR IN NAM, CAMBODIA & LAOS
Ordinarily powerless, poor, and basically loving folks pressured the American militarists to stop the killing of civilians, soldiers and forests, by protests, draft resistance, and flights to Canada, Ellsberg’s revelation of the Pentagon Papers that said we could not win, as well as by GI resistance and veterans who braved the punishment the warmongering elite inflicted upon anti-war activists.
For the war-enthusiastic American Dominators, Patriotism meant no criticism of the destruction our military wrought on both the enemies and the village people of the subcontinent. Despite the power of the war advocates, war opponents in America insisted that Love of America includes stopping its crimes against humanity in Nam and its neighbors.
The common people of America overcame deliberate lies that the security of the United States depended on thwarting the Vietmese independence movement and America, for its security, must kill North Vietnamese soldiers, pro-independence Viet Cong in South Viet Nam, and lots of Vietnamese villagers as “collateral damage” in Nam and its neighbors. America’s Dominator Government insisted that U.S. security necessitated preemptive war.
The grassroots American peace movement found the murder of civilians, G.I. mass rapes of Vietnamese peasants, the planting of landmines that kill and maim forever, the burning of forests, the poisoning of GIs and everyone else in SE Asia with Agent Orange, immobilized America so that it finally quit and left Nam to its people.
2001: AFGHANISTAN: THE FOREVER WAR COLLAPSED
9/11 and the Afghanistan Invasion
U.S President Baby Bush launched both wars. Obama reduced Iraq while escalating Afghanistan. President Trump, in his first term, negotiated the exit framework with the Taliban. POTUS Biden completed the withdrawal in 2021.
After the September 11, 2001, attack on the Twin Towers, for which the American establishment blamed the Saudi refugee Osama bin Laden and a small group of his Al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, the U.S. demanded that Afghanistan’s Taliban government hand Bin Laden over and dismantle al-Qaeda bases. Negotiations failed.
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 with NATO support. America’s original goal — destroying al-Qaeda’s sanctuary — evolved into defeating the Taliban, building a pro-Western Afghan state, training Afghan military forces, and attempting long-term “nation building. The Taliban government collapsed quickly, but the war dragged on for two decades.
2003: Iraq Diverted Attention
The 2003 invasion of Iraq split U.S. military and political attention. The Iraq War weakened the Afghan mission because resources, troops, intelligence focus, and diplomacy shifted toward Iraq. Nonetheless, In 2009, Obama approved a major Afghanistan troop “surge” of about 30,000 additional troops while continuing the drawdown from Iraq. He followed the Bush-era Status of Forces Agreement requiring most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011. Negotiations to keep a residual force failed, partly because the Iraqi government would not grant legal immunity to U.S. troops. So he escalated the war in Afghanistan while promising a future withdrawal timeline, starting with a troop surge in 2009–2010, followed by a gradual withdrawal beginning in 2011, and formally ending the U.S. combat mission there in 2014. He left, but thousands of U.S. troops are in Afghanistan.
Critics on the left argued Obama prolonged an unwinnable war; hawks argued he withdrew too quickly.
2020: Trump and the Doha Agreement
Under Donald Trump in his first term as U.S. President, the U.S. negotiated directly with the Taliban in Doha in 2020. The agreement set conditions for a U.S. withdrawal.
2021: Biden Withdrawal and Taliban Return
President Joe Biden clumsily completed the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The Afghan government collapsed rapidly, and the Taliban regained control of Kabul.
Both the Afghanistan and Iraq wars reveal that open-ended military intervention underplays the horrid human and financial costs.
2026: THE U.S.–IRAN WAR–-Oil, Nukes, Sanctions, Missiles & the Threat of Regional War
The current U.S.–Iran confrontation emerged from decades of hostility rooted in sanctions, nuclear disputes, proxy conflicts, oil geopolitics, and competing visions for control of the Middle East. In early 2026, tensions exploded into open military confrontation involving the United States, Israel, Iran, and allied regional forces. Recent fighting and negotiations have centered on Iran’s nuclear program, the Strait of Hormuz, sanctions, oil exports, and the danger of a wider regional war.
From sanctions to open war
For years, Washington accused Iran of advancing toward nuclear-weapons capability, while Iran insisted its nuclear program was defensive and civilian in nature. The U.S. imposed escalating sanctions targeting Iran’s economy, banking system, shipping networks, and oil exports. In February 2026, Washington imposed another round of sanctions tied to Iranian oil transport and regional military activity. Meanwhile, Israel and the United States increasingly portrayed Iran as the central military threat in the region. Iran, in turn, supported allied militias and governments in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen while building missile and drone capabilities.
On February 28, 2026, coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes reportedly hit Iranian military, government, and nuclear targets. Iran responded with missile and drone attacks against Israeli targets, U.S. bases, and shipping-related infrastructure in the Gulf region. The conflict rapidly expanded with
- attacks around the Strait of Hormuz,
- missile exchanges,
- naval confrontations,
- drone warfare,
- cyber disruptions,
- and regional proxy clashes.
Iran responded by restricting or disrupting passage through the Strait of Hormuz — one of the world’s most important oil chokepoints. Oil prices surged, and global shipping markets destabilized.
THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ: THE WORLD’S OIL ARTERY
President Trump publicly alternated between threats and negotiations throughout the crisis. He warned Iran repeatedly that “the clock is ticking,” threatened renewed bombing campaigns, and demanded limits on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. At the same time, Pakistani and Omani mediators carried proposals between Washington and Tehran seeking temporary ceasefires and phased negotiations. Several temporary ceasefires partially reduced fighting, but clashes repeatedly resumed around Hormuz and Gulf shipping routes.
THE HUMAN COST
Like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before it, the Iran confrontation has produced:
- civilian deaths,
- economic disruption,
- refugee displacement,
- oil shocks,
- internet disruptions,
- and growing fear of wider war.
Another open-ended Middle Eastern conflict risks repeating the same pattern seen in Iraq and Afghanistan: massive military expenditures, destabilization, civilian suffering, and no clear long-term resolution. Supporters of confrontation argue that Iran’s missile systems, regional alliances, and nuclear capabilities pose unacceptable strategic dangers requiring aggressive containment. But competing narratives dominate the conflict. The Trump Administration argues that Iran threatens regional stability, Iran must not obtain nuclear weapons, and that pressure and military force are necessary deterrents. Iran’s rulers argue that Iran is resisting foreign domination and sanctions, the U.S. and Israeli attacks violate Iranian sovereignty, and the leverage of Hormuz is defensive retaliation against economic warfare.
Antiwar critics argue that the current crisis reflects recurring patterns of threat inflation, militarized diplomacy, oil geopolitics, proxy escalation, and underestimation of human consequences.
As of May 2026, negotiations continue intermittently, ceasefires remain fragile, tensions in the Strait of Hormuz persist, sanctions remain central, and military escalation remains possible. The region remains suspended between diplomacy and renewed large-scale war.
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