Commentary on the War in Iran

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Commentary on the War in Iran |
Saturday – April 11, 2026

Evening has arrived... No, I was just kidding but I thought that my joke was good enough actually, and if you are interested in more commentary about the war in Iran, you may check that out here.

    No, there is no evening to be mentioned when it comes to modern warfare, as they typically never seem to end. Well, that is not entirely true either because it is true that modern wars tend to end, but only after a very long time and usually never in a decisive way, although I did think that the American loss in Afghanistan in 2021 was quite decisive. It is in the nature of these wars that they should be dragged out as long and as far as possible, and usually there is an overwhelming, existential, dimension to such wars, but I have been over that in the past. I think that it should be made clearer yet that there will be no such thing as a victory or loss for any side involved in this war: the Iran war is going to slowly fade into the background until nobody cares anymore, and during that process the war itself will likely slowly glow out. This has been the course of almost all wars since the civilizational devastation of the previous century. But I do not think that war in our days are any less destructive; often they are more destructive. But it is clear to me that the leaders on both sides know somewhere that this war has to come to and end. Of course, the goal with this nonsensical war was to impose a western style regime in Iran, but it seems clear right now that no such thing is going to happen, and partly this is due to the lack of willpower on the part of the West. Is there a possibility for a regime change in Iran? No, there is no such possibility under current circumstances; a regime change would require a major conflagration on the ground, and such a war would be devastating for Persian civilization but also for the Western forces involved on the ground, but the biggest reason why no regime change will occur is because nobody seems to actually support this war, from an intellectual point of view, and besides, there is simply too much money to be lost on this. The Iranian regime appears much more like an annoying fly on the wall for the hegemony, and really even while such a fly may be annoying, no real effort will actually be wasted on trying to kill the fly. I guess a better analogy would be that of a hedgehog: the hedgehog may also be annoying, but not a real threat, and if you try to attack the hedgehog, you are going to have to deal with the spikes. Yes, no-one at this point is actually willing enough to deal with the spikes. It does seem fairly clear to me that yes, this war was an opportunistic thing carried out by people without principles and long term vision, and these same people would now like to proclaim themselves victorious. From a geopolitical point of view, it would have made some sense for the West to attack Iran since they viewed the regime as weakened, but it was perfectly clear to me at the start of this war that the regime was not weak enough, especially not when the intention so far has been to bomb the country (Iran) into the ground. You may drop a lot of bombs, but that will not lead to a regime change. Then there has also been a great deal of talk, noise really, about the supposed "nuclear capability" of the Iranian regime, but thus far this appears to have mostly been nonsense, similar to the nonsense espoused leading up to the previous Western misadventure on the Middle East 2 decades ago. What always happens in these stupid engagements is the same: you may not impose Western so-called "values" on people who simply do not share them, but in this regard the Westerners are completely incorrigible in their humanist inspired fantasies about the liberal utopia. So no, none of this will happen and in soon time the compression of events into almost a single point will have pushed out and away any awareness of this war in the collective consciousnesses of the West. Maybe this war will remain as a political slogan, but nothing more, and as if any politician ever cared.

    Then of course, once all of this is properly over, or rather once the limits of the ever changing course, have approached the end of this war, there will be much life lost, not that life mattered anyways to the humanists, and this has always been a rather painful and curious contradiction: apparently it requires an act of aggression, an act of war, to liberate people from themselves, and this logic will be carried into its extreme conclusion that has end in the same way always, read "Transhumanism". What are a few lives lost worth compared to the material victory? Not that much, and increasingly this "worth" is approaching zero. Of course, no material victory is or was ever possible, but that realization extends beyond the corporeal, not that it would during normal circumstances, but during the times of the Kali Yuga, this baseline would and should be expected. I understand, there are people suffering, but can you not see the humanitarians claiming that this is necessary? Actually not, and this has to be considered here: see, the humanitarians are not supporting this war, although their spirit lives on, and that is a huge reason as to why this is a poorly executed thing, read "Americanism". Well, I should qualify that last statement: it is not so much that there are no Utopians and no humanitarians involved in this conflict, it is more a matter of sentimentalism; the fact is that there is no Western sentimentalism behind this war, and as always happens in Democracies, once they yield results not to the liking of the revolutionary elite, the people are overruled. The laziness is also astounding: no attempts before the war was opened were made to convince people of the efficacy of the war, no false flag operations, no demagoguery, and no terrorist attacks. Is it all not just boring? Yes indeed, and so is everything these days.

    So, take this to heart when you stumble upon your own ability to quickly forget and forgive all the grievances of the past – the world is moving on and so should you. There is no point in lagging behind – embrace the chaos and become used to the continuation of it all – become more radical.

Reginald Drax – April 11, 2026.