Against Trump’s Iran War: For Dummies

This post is in response to ’s article Trump’s Iran Move: For Dummies, who commented with it in response to my article Impeach Trump for Treason before he blocked me for some reason.

Here is my brief rebuttal. I’ll take you through his article and his 6 points in favor of the Iran war:

Mr. Mader’s Introduction

Mr. Mader opens by making clear who his article is addressed to - “the Left is making their usual rabid, anti-Western screeching noises. I’m not talking about them here. The American Left is not what it was in the 20^th century. It’s now basically a mass psychosis. I mean that very literally. I’m not going to even bother.”

I largely agree with Mr. Mader’s view of the left. See for example grown men and women still wearing face diapers outside, and a plurality of the left doubling and tripling and quadrupling down on the transgender child abuse epidemic. If you don’t have a firm enough grasp on reality and morality to fall down on the right side of those questions, you pretty much need to get out of your cult and repent and believe in the gospel before it’s worth engaging you seriously on matters of foreign policy.

“What irks me is the Right, the people who voted for Trump.”

In Mr. Mader’s view, the Right’s criticisms fall into two camps, both of which are mistaken. I’ll let him speak for himself:

1. “First there’s: He PROMISED not to do neocon nation-building. Now look at this. WTF!”

2. “Then there’s: The Jews wanted it, so he did it. All US governments are just PUPPETS of Israel, and now you’re a puppet too, Trump! Betrayal of MAGA!”

In response to the first point, Mr. Mader asserts this war is different than Iraq, and that “this is not a war of choice.”

Now, it may be different from Iraq in some ways, but it definitely is a war of choice. As Mr. Mader simply asserts that it is not, I’ll just counter-assert and we won’t make too much of a big deal about it, since it’s so obvious - This is a war of choice.

In response to the second point, Mr. Mader bysteps one of the most crucial aspect to this war, “Whatever you think of US-Israeli relations, I don’t care”, as if waiving it away will make it go away. He then goes into some choice ad-hominem, which I’ll sample below:

“The nonstop focus on JOOOS from some of you is frankly pathetic and fake and bordering on psychotic. Put your fucking podcasts and rage play down for a while and look at the globe why not.”

Now, I’m not at all against using ad-hominems for rhetorical effect, but is this really necessary here? I, for example, would never accuse Mr. Mader of getting down on his knees and sucking off Netanyahu like Ted Cruz seemingly does on the regular, simply because he disagrees with me on to what extent Israel influenced us/forced our hand into the Iran war.1

So let’s all just ratchet the temperature down a bit.

The most generous and charitable I can be to the lack of charity displayed by some on the right towards their compatriots who are crying treachery about the Iran war is that we all know the left is looking to put us in gulags and destroy our countries and our civilizations when they achieve total political power again.2

In the current civilizational death struggle we are in, any perceived lack of unity or dissension on the right immediately triggers a vicious backlash, because perceived betrayal by those who should be friends and allies hurts worse than wounds from war with the actual enemy.

That said, this runs both ways - it’s pretty obvious3 this is going to end in disaster, and even if it does not we’re probably going to lose the midterms because of it, and in 2028 potentially/probably as well. But let’s not have some sort of Stockholm syndrome about it and forget who the abusers are - this is the fault of Trump and those who influenced us into this war, not those criticizing it.

Even if every single person on the right criticizing the war on Twitter held their nose and voted Republican in the midterms, we would still lose because normies who don’t read our articles because they don’t read don’t want a war with Iran and know we didn’t get what we were promised when we elected Trump - namely mass deportations and bringing back American manufacturing through some sort of restructuring of the American economy back in favor of the common man.

We really are going to lose our countries because we can’t stop fighting Israel’s wars.

Now, into Mr. Mader’s 6 points:

Point 1

“Iran really is, by best expert analysis, very near having nukes. . . . This is unacceptable. If you don’t understand why, you should study the question a bit.”

The question is not whether Iran having nukes is bad - Pakistan and China having them is bad. The question is rather: Is Iran attempting to get nukes and, if they are, can we stop them?

“[If Iran got nukes] they’d give the regime enormous sway in their neighborhood and beyond”

Interestingly, that is seeming more and more likely to be a potential outcome of this war. Iran’s demonstrated ability to deny passage through the Strait of Hormuz, which was only theoretical and doubtful before the war, is going to give them massive sway not only in the neighborhood and beyond if we can’t force them to open the Strait. And it is seeming like we cannot.

Oh, and if we can’t win the war, Iran is more likely to get nukes than they were before the war. Good job Trump, Netanyahu, and the architects and cheerleaders of this war. Really well done.

If we cannot open the Strait through airpower and a regime collapse, then we are either going to have to negotiate an end to the war, essentially conceding defeat, or escalate either through the use ground forces or by laying waste to Iran’s energy infrastructure.

Using ground forces would constitute the ultimate betrayal by Trump, and likely would lead to a quagmire if not outright military catastrophe. And if we hit their energy infrastructure, Iran has demonstrated it can hit back against the Gulf States, losing us all our allies and crashing the world economy.

Point 2

“Iran is weaker right now than it’s been in a very very long time.”

Not if they can keep the Strait closed and their regime in tact. If they dictate the peace terms and dominate the Strait of Hormuz, they will emerge more powerful than they have been in centuries. it’s not over yet, maybe the regime falls yet. We shall see

There are no easy options, and Iran’s victory conditions remain quite simple:

1. Keep a regime intact, any regime

2. Keep the Strait closed

We took out Iran’s entire leadership in our first strike, and their College of Cardinal simply convened again and elected a new military dictator Pope. The people are disarmed and ruled over by fanatical force of hundreds of thousands. How is the regime supposed to fall?

We have the largest navy in the world by far and have had weeks of air war to destroy their military capabilities. And still the Strait of Hormuz remains closed because Iran’s drones are cheap and it’s proving hard to destroy them all given how dispersed they are in the vast fortress country of Iran.4

Our war weariness is creeping up, and we cannot match a totalitarian regime’s ability to keep itself in a war to the death.

“Israel (who some of you hate)”

Christians should not hate anyone, as we are commanded to love even our enemies. But a country that manipulates our politics and religion in favor of its geopolitical interests, and in which Christianity is legally a second-class religion and culturally despised, can be described as nothing other than a threat to our national sovereignty and a civilizational adversary.

Point 3

“For more than a decade US leadership has wisely talked of the need to ‘pivot to Asia.’ The reason we haven’t been able to do so is too much of our military force must be parked near the ayatollahs, just to make sure key shipping lanes stay open.”

We are currently moving our military equipment and marines away from South Korea and using up our missiles, leaving us unprepared should China make a move. The Pentagon now has to beg Congress for $200 billion more for the war/replenishment.

Sure, if we win and emerge stronger than ever, we might be able to pivot back to Asia. But what if we lose? Mr. Mader published his article March 7th, so this isn’t exactly fighting fair, but writing on March 21st with no victory in sight, it seems more likely that we will lose shipping lane dominance rather than maintain it.

Point 4

“Whether you like it or not, Taiwan (and thus Taiwan Semiconductor) falling to Beijing would be a disaster for America, for all the most vibrant sectors of the US economy. We Americans simply cannot produce the high-end chips the Taiwanese can. My thinking is—even if we were to get the blueprints, some of which we already have, we still wouldn’t be able to produce them. The Taiwanese are Supreme Wizards of this art”

Premised in Mr. Mader’s article is a fundamentally different perspective from mine on what we need to restore American greatness. And Mr. Mader’s perspective is not that of the so-called New Right:

Since when do we just accept mediocrity and a lack of being able to manufacture and build things here? I thought that was the whole idea of MAGA - bring back manufacturing here, build things here again, bring American jobs back, rebuild the middle class.

I’m pretty sure we could figure out how to make good computer chips with some tariffs and investment in white men rather than our current regime of racial hatred and longhoused sillyness, subsidizing literally every other group.

And I’d take us figuring it out and losing access to “Taiwanese Wizards” over 100k Americans dead in the Pacific, risking a nuclear exchange, and a several trillion dollar war that we might not even win.

Point 5

“You may have noticed that Trump also recently moved to decapitate the Venezuelan government. Probably because the JOOOS told him to, yes?”

I’m not aware of anyone serious claiming we took out Venezuela because of the, as Mr. Mader mocks, “JOOOS.” Notice though Mr. Mader does not seriously deal with the question of Israeli influence at all throughout his article.

That influence is well covered elsewhere, and if you’ve never seen a discussion of it you should probably examine your media diet. But it’s just not a serious position that all criticism of Israeli influence on American politics is anti-semitism, and it’s becoming a sort of The Emperor has no Clothes story. Everyone sees the influence, and you can shout all the louder that the Emperor’s clothes are beautiful and that everyone who disagrees is an anti-semite, but a child could see something weird is going on in America as far as improper Israeli influence goes.

Point 6

“The BRICs have a fond dream that someday soon they’ll see an opportunity to dislodge the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.” “If you understand what the petrodollar is . . .”

Again, given we don’t seem to be able to reopen the Strait, that day may be even nearer now. Personally, I’m agnostic on the petro-dollar theory, but for what it’s worth Iran is allowing ship passage for payment in Chinese yuan.

Conclusion - Our War Is Here

Mr. Mader closes his piece with some general thoughts of his on the idea of a rules-based international order and his ideal vision for America’s foreign policy,5 so I figured I would offer a few thoughts of my own.

Things are broken back home:

1. Religiously and morally we have lost our way - Christianity has experienced a free fall over the last few decades, and we are more degenerate as a culture than we have ever been before, particularly in terms of sexual morality. Cultures, nations, and civilizations that do not maintain sexual morality are destined to fall.

2. Economically we have lost our way - Our cities are decaying and we no longer produce things, and countries that lose their ability to produce things will lose their great power status, as repeatedly argued and demonstrated by .

3. Societally and militarily the greatest threat to America is not Iranian Mullahs or Xi Jinping. It’s ourselves - the enemies are within, not without. America is breaking apart at the seems, and culturally we are more divided than at any point since the outbreak of the (First) Civil War. The left rejoiced at Charlie Kirk’s murder, and believe in their religion of chemically and physically castrating kids with a zeal that our Christian pastors and priests cannot match. And this is all to say nothing of the importation of foreign peoples to the West to replace our dying culture which is failing to reproduce itself due to Feminism.

We need to build and restore Christendom at home. Our war is here, not in the sands and mountains of Iran.