Recent reporting from the Financial Times reveals it was President Trump, not the Iranian government, who was begging for a ceasefire.
FT reports that the Trump administration had been privately pushing for a ceasefire for weeks to alleviate the economic strain caused by Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, and depending on Pakistan for mediation. Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir was communicating with Iranian officials, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance, and Trump himself even after the president threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization on Tuesday.
According to the five people familiar with the diplomatic back channel, Trump had been asking for a ceasefire since as early as March 21, when he first threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants.
This contradicts virtually everything the Trump administration has claimed about Iran—that Trump’s constant bombings and threats of extinction caused a wounded, demoralized Iranian regime to limp to the negotiating table, desperate for a deal with the U.S.
What you are describing is not really tinfoil hat.
You are basically describing the poltical theory of oligarchical collectivism, as outlined by Emmanuel Goldstein, in 1984.
Go read 1984 again.
The entire operating concept of the forever war between Oceania, EastAsia and Eurasia is that they all throw their economic might into never ending wars, to solve the capitalist problem of overproduction, and also simultaneously create totalitarian police states that keep the proles under control, to keep the oligarchs comfy and in power.
Like the entire genre of cyberpunk… its a ‘this was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual’ situation.
Iran doesn’t have to be a willing participant in all of this, they just have to be in the… eternally fucked, sacrifice/periphery zone, that the three major powers constantly war/scheme for control over.
Sure, the exact lines on the map as drawn in 1984 aren’t perfectly correct, but the broad strokes are pretty close to correct.
You’re right, I should go read 1984 again, lol.
At this point I would suggest grabbing a physical or local digital copy, before it becomes a thoughtcrime.