Our Wednesday News Analysis | Editorial | A Regime Change is On the Rise

Iranians are among the most generous and honorable people, treating others with respect and dignity. Iran is one of my favorite countries because I love the people I meet and the food I eat. Iranians have an inherent trait of dissent; they're born dissenters who always seek better, not necessarily more, and they're blunt about it.

They aim to stabilize the region by evicting the Collective West from the Middle East. The regime change is underway. The Collective West is crumbling from within.

We are at 24 seconds to midnight. It can only get better.

Have a good day,

Abraham A. van Kempen

Sr. Editor

DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: A NEW WORLD EMERGES: IRAN WILL WIN & ISRAEL MAY NOT SURVIVE

Douglas Macgregor, a retired Colonel, combat veteran, and former senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, suggests that a new world order is forming with a new Middle East—where Iran is likely to prevail, and Israel might not make it.

From Iran’s perspective: Operation Yankee Go Home!

Watch the Video Here (43 minutes, 12 seconds)

Host Prof. Glenn Diesen
Substack.com
2 March 2026

The Escalation and Regional Consequences of the War Against Iran – An Analysis with Colonel Douglas MacGregor, PhD

Welcome back! Today, we host Colonel Douglas MacGregor, a combat veteran, author, and former U.S. Defense advisor. As the third day of the Iran conflict ends, it's clear the expected quick victory hasn't happened. The conflict has become a more complex regional issue...

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DEBUNKED AND CONFIRMED: MYTHS AND REALITIES FROM THE IRAN WAR

Source: Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/debunked-and-confirmed-myths-and-realities-from-the-iran-war/

By Ramzy Baroud
Published March 3, 2026

The war on Iran has shattered US-Israeli myths and confirmed deeper truths about power, resistance and regional reality.

Israeli priorities shape US Middle East policy as Washington aligns with Tel Aviv despite rising domestic opposition. (Illustration: Palestine Chronicle)

The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that have shaped US policy and regional politics for decades. What has unfolded in the past days is not simply a battlefield confrontation; it is a historical rupture.

Several narratives that once appeared unassailable have collapsed under the weight of reality. At the same time, theories long dismissed as ideological or exaggerated have been confirmed with startling clarity.

The Myth of American Protection

For decades, Washington has portrayed itself as the ultimate guarantor of regional security. US military bases, aircraft carriers, air defense systems and bilateral security agreements were marketed as shields protecting allies from existential threats.

This war has exposed that promise as hollow.

Despite overwhelming US military presence across the Gulf, regional allies have faced missile alerts, drone incursions and maritime threats. American troops themselves have been killed. Energy infrastructure has been threatened. Shipping routes have been destabilized.

The presence of American forces has not prevented escalation; it has invited it.

More importantly, the nature of US presence has been exposed. It is not rooted in partnership but in dominance. Yet even dominance has proven illusory. Military superiority does not automatically translate into strategic control. When a regional power like Iran chooses to retaliate asymmetrically, the illusion of total American command evaporates.

The Failure of “Containment”

For years, US policymakers framed Iran as a state that could be isolated, sanctioned and gradually weakened under a prolonged containment strategy. The assumption was that Tehran would remain strategically boxed in.

That assumption has now collapsed.

Iran has demonstrated that it possesses both the capacity and the willingness to disrupt the entire regional order if pushed to the brink. Missile capabilities, regional alliances and maritime leverage give Tehran tools that extend far beyond its borders.

Containment presumes passivity. Iran has proven anything but passive.

This reality carries a fundamental implication: Iranian rights, interests and security concerns cannot simply be dismissed. A sustainable regional order cannot be built on the permanent marginalization of one of its central actors...

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THE SUICIDAL FOLLY OF A WAR WITH IRAN

Source: The Chris Hedges Report
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-suicidal-folly-of-a-war-with

By Chris Hedges
Published February 20, 2026

The Laurel and Hardy negotiating team of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, coupled with Trump’s appalling ignorance of world affairs and megalomania, seem set to push the U.S. into yet another debacle in the Middle East, one the Congress has not approved, and the public does not want.

The demands imposed on Iran by the Trump White House are no more acceptable to the regime in Tehran than those imposed on Hamas in Gaza under Trump’s sham peace plan.

Trump’s demand that Iran shut down its nuclear program and give up its missile capabilities in return for no new sanctions is as tone deaf as calling on Hamas to disarm in Gaza. But since we have long dispensed with diplomats, who are linguistically, politically and culturally literate, who can step into the shoes of their adversaries, we are being led to another war in the Middle East by our newest coterie of buffoons. The U.S. and Israel foolishly believe they can bomb their way to decapitating the Iranian government and installing a client regime. That this non-reality-based belief system failed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya eludes them.

The promise of no new sanctions will not incentivize Iran to broker an agreement. Iran is already crippled by onerous sanctions that have gutted its economy. This will do nothing to break the economic stranglehold. Iran will not give up its nuclear program, which has the potential to be weaponized, or its ballistic missile program, which Israel said it would target in an air attack. Israel’s reputed nuclear arsenal of some 300 warheads is a powerful incentive for Iran to retain the capacity to build a nuclear arsenal of its own. Iran, like Hamas, is never going to render itself defenseless against those seeking its annihilation.

An aerial attack on Iran will not be like the 12-day assault last June against Iran’s nuclear facilities and state and security facilities. Then Iran calibrated its response with symbolic strikes on Al Udeid air base in Qatar in the hopes that it would not lead to a wider, protracted conflict. If an aerial assault is launched, Iran will have nothing to lose. It will understand that appeasing its adversaries is impossible.

Iran is not Iraq. Iran is not Afghanistan. Iran is not Lebanon. Iran is not Libya. Iran is not Syria. Iran is not Yemen. Iran is the seventeenth largest country in the world, with a land mass equivalent to the size of Western Europe. It has a population of almost 90 million — 10 times greater than Israel — and its military resources, as well as alliances with China and Russia, make it a formidable opponent...

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