Conflict with Iran – March 2, 2026 (Deconstruction Series)

If you were to start and stop with Truth Social for the answers as to why the US decided to attack Iran, you would end up with a long-winded chain of reasons some of which may give you pause.

What appears to be a mash of grievances includes “ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon” (again as this was the reason the US attacked them less than a year ago,) “destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground” (likely something we should have done last year,) apparently create a window for the people of Iran to overthrow their “clerical establishment,” and a few other motivations going back near 50 years ago. Not limited to the 1979 U.S. Embassy hostage crisis, the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole.

An answer to Iran’s “campaign of bloodshed” after several rounds of negotiations failed to produce an “Art of the Deal” style deal. And somewhere in the mix is a Trump ultimatum to Iran’s Military to not fight and lay down their weapons in exchange for “complete immunity” or face “certain death.”

All throughout the clip released on Truth Social was a collection of stances that the US has more or less had against Iran from last year going on back decades.

Initial Question – Why Now?

We may never entirely know why, some more recent history…

When Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, an initial strike the early morning hours of Wednesday, June 13, 2025, the intention was to hit military and nuclear sites including the Natanz enrichment facility. A little over 100 sites were hit taking out various high ranking Iranian military leaders and a handful of nuclear scientists. At the time Israel well into their multiple direction campaign especially into Gaza turning a very small area of the world into literal ruins. A response to a brazen terrorist attack by Hamas killing so many civilians.

The next Friday, June 22, 2025 the US joined in on the offensive, using our own codenames Operation Midnight Hammer, going after several other nuclear sites across Iran using our top B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk missiles. The images were stunning, the reported damage to Iran’s nuclear ambitions were “obliterated,” then the Pentagon suggested that Iran’s nuclear program was likely set back one to two years.

A deal was struck less than three days later, and hostilities ended June 24, 2025.

So, if all of this was done last year, ask again, why now?

To deconstruct this it may take branching further out than the coverage from mainstream media suggests.

One potential conclusion is this might have been more about taking out Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. While multiple things can always be true at once, early reporting suggests there was opportunity to hit the very man arguably at the core of the ideology “death to America” and “death to Israel” that influences plenty of groups across the greater Middle East region. Prior rhetoric is intentionally destabilizing and one could argue Khamenei’s brand of faith and governance is one of the most social and religious conservative.

A bit of awkward history here, this is the very man that succeeded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, in very close proximity to the latter stages of the long term dispute and war between Iran and Iraq. Back then the US took the side of Iraq suggesting an ideological fight, at the time our support going right to Saddam Hussein. Before Hussein was rebranded as a bad guy, he once got both military and intelligence assistance from this nation so long as weapons were pointed at Iranian assets.

All this could mean is a multiple-decade headache and destabilizing force in the region became a target of opportunity by Israel and the US. That does not mean that the long standing goal of preventing Iran’s nuclear ambitions was shelved. Just means consideration of all motivations.

From a lessons learned perspective on the question of future costs from prior foreign policy positions for this area of the world, the natural question may surface on what took us so long to go after Khamenei. If central to so many atrocities listed by Trump (and others) then all of this fails various optics tests.

Question – Is all of this off base entirely?

The root of deconstruction, of narrative and of coverage, is skepticism. Another consideration to make is a follow the money type train of thought.

Another conclusion to consider is an opportunity for the military industrial complex, real windfall potential for the defense sector in that defense spending generally speaking is already at record levels and the typical contractors like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman already are doing rather well stock market speaking.

Just a few days into the US’ campaign into Iran we are seeing well over 1,000 precision guided munitions already used suggesting fast-tracked “replenishment contracts” are likely pending. These would be multibillion dollar contracts that are on top of what already exists supplying our existing campaigns as well as what is sent to allies like Israel.

In just a short time hundreds, if not more, lives are already lost. Not just in Iran but elsewhere in the region as retaliatory strikes from Iran have hit Israel and US bases or interests in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Iraq (mostly Kurdistan region,) Jordan and even Saudi Arabia. Iranian missile and drone strikes across the region has shocked the region and the broader world markets.

Unfortunately for the military community and their families, 3 US military lives are already lost and many more wounded, with Trump saying to the media “sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is. Likely be more, but we’ll do everything possible where that won’t be the case. But America will avenge their deaths.”

Tough question – Is the US Military for hire as brokered by Trump?

Throughout the 2024 campaign Trump repeatedly said “regime change” was a failed policy of the past, and usually in the context of “warmonger” and “globalist” suggestions of his political competition. Not just speaking about other opposition Republicans but usually of Democrats directly.

“Regime change is a proven, absolute failure” and “stop racing to topple foreign regimes” were common quotes from campaign stops. At one point saying “(I will) clean house (of) all the warmongers and America-Last globalists.” During the campaign the concept of “Peace President” was branded, perhaps trying to capitalize on how Trump orchestrated the surrender in Afghanistan. On election night, November 2024, Trump directly declared “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”

Here we are now, several campaigns already into Trump’s second term, even though claiming of his opponent Kamala Harris that if she were elected she would “get us into World War III guaranteed.”

Even Trump’s close political allies chimed in, like Stephen Miller suggesting Harris was all about “regime change” and “Kamala= WWIII” on social media. Later, Miller said that because Liz Cheney, who he called a “warmongering neocon,” could not support Trump then her support of Harris means if elected Harris would “invade the whole Middle East.”

“KAMALA WILL SEND YOUR SONS TO WAR” Miller posted this specific warning on social media just a month from election night.

It brings us to a point, one we should not be happy exploring, in that for a President with plenty of supporting political cast being so against regime change and conflict then one could also argue rather well that Trump already taking one out via arrest in Venezuela and another out in Iran via miliary strike that something became more important.

And it may be money.

Deconstruction question – What role has the Board of Peace played?

We have this new organization out there formed by President Trump, ratified on January 22, 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with a few high-level goals for Gaza and a broader mandate for “global conflict stabilization.”

By the end of February 2026 over 25 nations have signed the charter, each of which requires a $1 billion contribution to Trump’s international organization within 3 years of signing on. (Queue Austin Power’s movie quotes, it is appropriate.)

Who is reportedly already in on this includes Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Turkey, Argentina, El Salvador, Pakistan, eve Vietnam and Cambodia among others. The board itself is governed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Some familiar names.

Several nations have “observer status” (whatever the hell that means) including India, Japan, South Korea, EU, Italy, and Greece among others. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Norway, Sweden, and Ukraine all outright declined the organization and Canada’s invitation was outright withdrawn. Unsure anyone knows what Russia and China are considering in this, if anything.

This is an interesting group to consider as well as the timing landing arguably between arresting one regime leader for drug crimes and killing another over a multi-decade dispute over who is causing regional instability across the greater Middle East.

With billions in income on the line for Trump himself, this would be money to his organization and not the US in any regard (even though neither is a good way to go about this,) we have no choice but to consider the US military as guns for hire by an organization with the goal of a “new world order” and direct alternative to the United Nations.

Potential terrible conclusion…

Follow the train of Trump’s own thoughts and comments.

This Board of Peace would be an assortment of international nation interests at the paid for hands of Trump and his “clear-eyed” exercise of American economic and military power. No longer restrained by the UN, a “cloud-castle abstraction,” to ensure “real solutions” rather than “just talk” to international concerns.

Said another way, 25 or more nations paying $1 billion directly to Trump, in order to be at the table of discussion, on the continued goal of who wins and who loses, backed by the strongest military on the planet. And a key nation, long-term US ally, Israel is also at that table.

Guns for hire.

3 or more US military families out there yesterday, or perhaps today, found out their loved ones, their kids, were killed in all this. More flag draped boxes are on the way home. 100s if not 1000s of families across the region are also looking at the world very differently today, all while trying to figure out where there their loved ones are let alone making painful final arrangements for them.

Turns out the “President of Peace,” as Trump referred to himself throughout 2024, ended up becoming lead in an international alternative organization, with paying dues just to participate, running around the globe deciding outcomes. Other countries across the greater Middle East are being swept up into the US’ war with Iran just as a few neighbors of Venezuela had to deal with that fallout. A few were even threatened.

Let all that sink in, consider what is being reported by mainstream media, covering those on the hill wanting to rein in Trump’s military usage around the globe on the back of the Supreme Court trying to rein in Trump’s economic tariff based trade wars with recent decision.

There might just be more to this story than Iran and nuclear ambitions.