Will Iran and its purported allies — fight brave, or die weak?

23 February 2026

With the US military buildup in the Middle East, a major war targeted at Iran is almost certainly soon to occur.

Despite America's notably ongoing one-by-one elimination of its purported adversaries — Iran, Russia and China continue to sit (mostly inconsequentially) by.

Instead of concretely formalizing and acting upon a united defensive front, the three have elected to sleep upon quarter-measures — colloquially referred to as 'half-assed' — that are unlikely to forestall American and Israeli parasites from ultimately feeding upon them.

Strategic considerations — spine versus no spine

Substack writer Simplicius produced a good analogy related to current circumstances:

There is a phenomenon that has been witnessed since the dawn of time.

You’ve seen it yourself: an armed militant marches a line of captives condemned to die toward their execution.

If all of them were to resist in unison, they would have a chance at overpowering the gunman. But instead they march on in docile submission to their deaths.

There is something psychologically that paralyzes humans from acting in such circumstances despite the fact that inaction would bring even more certain death, while taking action stands at least some small chance of success.

Choice 1 — proactively engaging Iranian backbone

Iran could lead the survival way by sinking the gathering American naval fleet.

Simultaneously obliterating Israel, as well as any American bases likely to pose retaliatory threats to those actions.

And if Russia and China had equal cojones, the former would preliminarily let the United States know — via conversations with US military heads — that an American nuclear retaliation against Iran would result in a full-throttle Russian annihilation of the United States.

China could back the Russians up by believably threatening to sink US naval assets and pummel American military bases that comprise the US cordon around the People's Republic.

The threesome's efforts thereby leaving the Americans to decide whether blowing up the world — and themselves — would be a reasonable response to getting what they deserve for murderously overreaching in the Middle East.

In the face of such an internationally united defense (against its constant predations), the American Imperium would likely collapse in the course of a few weeks.

To literally everyone's future benefit, including We the American People.

Had this trio of nations acted intelligently, before the current US buildup — deaths among those eventually to be affected, including our American troops — could have been avoided.

Choice 2— predictably drowning in cowardice

Chickenshittery almost always prevails, when Fat Cats are in power. No matter which side they are on.

Recall that the only successful opponents to maniacal American pillaging have been impoverished people of spiritual substance. People honed by hard-scrabble circumstances to combine courage and strategically minded, principled leadership.

Think Vietnam, Afghanistan and Yemen.

In short, other nations' disunited gutlessness invites . . .

. . . the Zionist-led, psychotically neocon United States to continue its mass murdering, thieving behavior.

Apparently inborn traits of strategic stupidity and spinelessness — both consistently displayed by the Imperium's larger, richer prey — reassure each other that continued complacence will win some them reprieves from being parasitized.

Perhaps so.

But recognize that even mighty China will fall to the United States' superior supply of nukes, if and when the Peoples' Republic is left the last one standing among the former pillars of opposition to the American empire.

One wonders why it is so difficult . . .

. . . for the Imperium's opponents to act against such easily predictable national catastrophes.

Why don't they unitedly prepare to fend off the disasters that are certain to occur, if leadership's guesses about who outlasts whom are mistaken?

Is Homo sapiens really this ignobly stupid?

Yes, we are.

Consistently so.

Foresightful risk analysis is not in our genes.

The psychotically predatory among us are, almost always, going to eat the morally but gutlessly sane.

The moral? — Moral and physical courage are generally short . . .

. . . in evolution's supply of mass societal behavior.

Respect is due the few cultures that demonstrate both.

Notice in this regard that:

with the US Constitution's constraints

upon government behavior

now vanished,

due to institutional malfeasance and public brainlessness,

our culture is self-evidently not one of the admirable ones.

Notably caught in the middle of this in-progress (nationally approved) morality-murder are our carelessly hazarded, well-meaning troops.

Everywhere American Oligarchy goes, it slaughters the best to enrich the worst.

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Will Iran and its purported allies — fight brave, or die weak?