WW3 Begins: The U.S. Just Attacked Iran

But legality aside, this attack represents something far more dangerous: the continuation of a 75-year cycle of Western meddling in Iran that has produced nothing but blowback, instability, and human suffering.

The History They Don't Want You to Remember

1. 1953: Operation Ajax - CIA and MI6 overthrow Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh for nationalizing oil, installing the Shah as a Western-backed dictator.
2. 1953-1979: The Shah's Reign - American-backed dictatorship rules with iron fist. CIA and Mossad train SAVAK secret police in torture techniques. Over 100,000 political prisoners suffer under this regime.
3. 1979: Power Vacuum - Jimmy Carter withdraws support from Shah without transition plan. Only organized force left standing is Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolutionaries.
4. 2025: Full Circle - Same Western powers that created this mess claim they need to solve it with more bombs.

So here we are, 45 years later, with the same Western powers that created this mess claiming they need to solve it with more bombs. Does anyone else see the pattern here?

The Nuclear Lie Recycled

The justification for this attack centers on Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. We're told Iran is "weeks away" from building a nuclear bomb; the same claim that's been made for thirty years. Benjamin Netanyahu was warning about Iran's imminent nuclear capability when I was in high school. That was over two decades ago.

Netanyahu has been saying Iran is 1-2 years away from a nuclear bomb since 1992.

That's 33 years of the same lie. pic.twitter.com/NuLdOBZVZQ

— Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) January 21, 2025

But here's what makes this particularly absurd: Donald Trump told us in summer 2025 that Operation Midnight Hammer had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. His exact word was obliterated (meaning complete destruction). Yet somehow, less than a year later, Iran has rebuilt this program to the point of being an imminent nuclear threat?

Trump said Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated" in 2025.

Now, less than a year later, we're told they're weeks away from a nuclear bomb.

Which is it? pic.twitter.com/example

— Patriot Ryan (@patriotryanc) December 19, 2024

The Constitutional Crisis

From a purely legal standpoint, this attack represents a constitutional crisis. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress (not the president) the power to declare war. This isn't mere proceduralism; it reflects the Founders' determination to prevent executive tyranny and ensure that decisions about war and peace involve the people's representatives.

The president does not have the right to bomb another country, period.

We are not under imminent attack. Iran poses no threat to American territory; we have thousands of miles of ocean protecting us from any conventional military threat they might pose. Their missiles can't reach America. Their navy can't cross oceans. Their air force can't project power globally.

The only "threat" Iran poses is to American military bases in other countries (bases that shouldn't exist under a constitutional foreign policy in the first place).

The Selective Morality Problem

If human rights violations justify regime change, why aren't we bombing Nigeria, where Boko Haram terrorizes civilians?

Because this isn't about human rights. It's about strategic interests, specifically Israeli and neoconservative strategic interests that have captured American foreign policy for decades.

Why not Sudan, where ethnic cleansing continues?

No strategic value to the empire. Sudan doesn't threaten Israeli interests or control vital shipping lanes.

Why not North Korea, where an entire population lives under totalitarian oppression?

Too risky. North Korea actually has nuclear weapons and China backing them.

Why not China, where Uyghurs face systematic persecution?

Economic suicide. China is too powerful and economically integrated to attack directly.

And here's the ultimate irony: the same establishment figures now claiming moral authority to bomb Iran in defense of women and children are the same people who covered up Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking network. We have documented evidence of high-ranking government officials participating in crimes against children, yet we're supposed to believe they're bombing Iran out of humanitarian concern?

The Epstein files reveal a gigantic gap in information between 1999 and 2003 (the exact period covering the contested 2000 election and 9/11). Ghislaine Maxwell was offered a position on a 9/11 shadow commission in 2003. These people want us to trust them to be world police while they protected pedophiles in their own ranks.

The Economic Impossibility

• $34 Trillion National Debt (and growing)
• 800+ Military Bases Globally
• Infinite% Inflation Tax on Americans

Beyond the legal and moral problems, America simply cannot afford another Middle Eastern war. We have $34 trillion in national debt. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Inflation is destroying middle-class purchasing power. Every time you go to the grocery store and see milk, eggs, and gas getting more expensive, you're witnessing the cost of empire.

The Federal Reserve enables this warfare through monetary expansion. Without the ability to print money, the government would need to either tax citizens directly for unpopular wars (which is politically impossible) or borrow at market rates, which would be prohibitively expensive. The hidden tax of inflation funds the empire while working Americans pay the price.

This is imperial overstretch in real time. Paul Kennedy's thesis about great power decline applies directly: empires collapse when military commitments exceed economic capacity. We maintain 800+ military bases globally while our own cities decay and our own borders remain unsecured.

The Blowback Cycle Continues

I have been a liberty activist for about twenty years now, and I've watched this cycle repeat endlessly. We create the problem through intervention, then use the problem to justify more intervention. The Iranian regime exists because of American intervention in 1953. The instability that followed American abandonment in 1979 created the current regime. Now that regime is used to justify more intervention.

1. Iraq Intervention created chaos, ISIS, and regional instability requiring more intervention.
2. Afghanistan 20-year occupation ended with Taliban back in power and billions in abandoned equipment.
3. Libya NATO bombing turned functioning state into failed state with open slave markets.
4. Syria Proxy war created refugee crisis and strengthened Iranian influence in region.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria; every intervention creates more chaos, more enemies, and more justification for the next intervention. The military-industrial complex profits from this cycle while American soldiers die and American taxpayers fund it through inflation.

What Bitcoin Teaches Us About Sovereignty

Bitcoin provides a perfect analogy for what's wrong with this approach. Bitcoin works because it's decentralized; no single authority controls the network. When power is distributed, the system becomes more stable and resistant to corruption.

The current international system is the opposite: centralized American hegemony enforced through military intervention and dollar dominance. This creates instability because it concentrates too much power in too few hands, leading inevitably to abuse and resistance.

Just as Bitcoin's proof-of-work eliminates trusted third parties in money, true international stability requires eliminating the trusted third parties in global governance (the Federal Reserve, Pentagon, and intelligence agencies that have repeatedly lied about wars, money printing, and surveillance).

Iran's adoption of Bitcoin as sanctions-resistant money demonstrates this principle in action. The harder America pushes financial warfare, the faster the world adopts alternatives to the dollar system. Bitcoin undermines the petrodollar system that funds American empire, which is why the same establishment that wages wars to maintain dollar dominance will eventually wage war against Bitcoin adoption.

The Theological Dimension

As a Christian, I must address the theological implications of this conflict. Both the Iranian Islamic Republic and the American deep state represent different forms of the same fundamental problem: autonomous rebellion against divine authority.

The Iranian mullahs claim religious authority while oppressing their people. American neoconservatives claim moral authority while protecting pedophiles and starting endless wars. Neither has legitimate authority to rule over others because both reject the true King's law.

For the one in authority is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God's servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.

Scripture is clear that civil magistrates are "ministers of God," but only when acting within their proper sphere. When rulers exceed their God-given jurisdiction, they become tyrants rather than ministers of justice.

Romans 13:4

Presidential war-making without congressional approval violates both constitutional and biblical principles of legitimate governance.

The dispensationalist theology that supports these Middle Eastern wars creates an eschatology of defeat; expecting the gospel to fail and requiring military intervention to fulfill "Bible prophecy." This is backwards. True biblical eschatology expects the gospel to triumph through peaceful means, not military conquest.

A Prayer for Iran

My prayer is that the people of Iran ultimately benefit from these events. They have been jerked around by Western powers for 75 years; first by the British, then by Americans, then abandoned to Islamic revolutionaries. It's frankly unfair, and they deserve better.

The Iranian people I know in the Bitcoin space are largely Christians or Zoroastrians who despise their own government. They don't like the Islamic Republic. They don't like the Ayatollah. For their sake, I genuinely hope regime change leads to a government that respects their rights and represents their voice.

But hoping for good outcomes doesn't justify illegal means. We cannot do evil that good may come (Romans 3). Violating God's law never produces lasting good, regardless of intentions.

The Path Forward

1. Recognize the False Choice - Neither Iranian theocracy nor American imperialism deserves our support. Both represent autonomous rebellion against divine authority.
2. Demand Congressional Action - If this conflict is justified, let representatives vote on it publicly and be held accountable by voters.
3. Adopt Sound Money - Support Bitcoin adoption. The warfare state depends on Federal Reserve money printing. Sound money makes wars harder to finance.
4. Fix America First - Focus on our $34 trillion debt, crumbling infrastructure, unsecured borders, and documented criminals in high office.

The deeper issue is that America's empire depends on monetary hegemony; forcing the world to use dollars. Bitcoin threatens that hegemony by providing a neutral, apolitical alternative. Every nation that adopts Bitcoin becomes more economically sovereign and less dependent on the dollar system.

That's the real revolution happening here. Not regime change imposed by bombs, but monetary sovereignty enabled by mathematics. Not the empire of force, but the republic of voluntary exchange.

The only sustainable future is one built on honest money, limited government, and respect for national sovereignty.

The Iranian regime may fall, but the American empire that created it is falling too. The question is whether we'll choose the path of sound money and constitutional governance, or continue down the road of monetary debasement and perpetual war.