America

Things are getting ready to break loose in the Middle East and, this time, it’s going to be different than the typical American/Israeli-sponsored regime-change operation.

Jesus warned in the 24th chapter of Matthew that in the last days we would see “nation rising against nation and kingdoms rising against kingdoms.”

In all the wars that America has been involved in post-World War II, there have been many cases of a nation rising against a nation.

A kingdom rising against a kingdom is more rare and a much bigger deal. This signals a major regional war, possibly a world war.

Why do I believe Iran War 2.0 has the potential to become one of those larger wars?

For starters, we don’t have the United Nations or a “coalition of the willing” on our side this time around, like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Secondly, neither Iraq nor Afghanistan had a ballistic missile arsenal anything like what Iran has. It is large, accurate, and includes hypersonics, something the U.S. and Israelis have no defense against.

Thirdly, those previous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did not take place in a digital age where the targeted nation, or an ally of theirs, had cyber capabilities that could devastate American infrastructure. Iran does. And certainly China and Russia, who are friends with the Iranian regime, have that ability.

Russia and China not only have the cyber expertise to make life difficult for Americans, they also have every reason to be fed up with Washington’s attempt to increase its hegemonic power, following Trump’s power play in Venezuela and his talk of taking over Greenland, Mexico, Canada, and his continued support for Biden’s Ukraine war in Russia’s backyard.

And, as I’ve previously reported, China receives up to 19 percent of its oil from Iran. This is a critical resource for the world’s largest industrial economy, enough perhaps to make it worth fighting for.