Manufacturing Apocalypse

Jun 17, 2025

Benjamin Netanyahu, crackling through Israeli television, tells 90 million Iranians their "hour of freedom is near, it is happening now." The same Netanyahu who turned Gaza into a graveyard now promises liberation through annihilation.

Trump left the G7 early. While world leaders pleaded for de-escalation, he demanded war. At 2:30 AM, he summoned his war council and tweeted threats at 10 million people in Tehran: evacuate your ancient city.

"I don't care what she said," Trump told reporters about his own intelligence chief's briefing. Tulsi Gabbard had testified just months earlier Iran was nowhere close to nuclear weapons, and would need three years even if they tried.

Trump's response: "I think they were very close to having one. I want unconditional surrender."

Translation: I don't care what intelligence says. I don't care what reality is. I want blood.

This was never about nuclear weapons, just like Iraq was never about WMDs.

The 30,000-pound bunker-busters are already airborne. Monsters that only B-2 stealth bombers can carry, designed to crater earth until nothing remains.

Multiple bombs dropped into the same hole, each strike deeper than the last, until the ground itself remembers violence.

Military tankers streak toward the Middle East. Fighter jets follow. Every U.S. base in the Indo-Pacific raised alert levels. The machinery of an empire desperately clinging to it’s made up glory, moves with terrible efficiency.

Iran's top leaders are already dead. Trump assassinated Soleimani in 2020. Israel systematically eliminated military commanders, nuclear scientists, negotiators—every voice that might have whispered peace instead of screaming war. Now they demand surrender from the rubble.

Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, sent him a message Trump proudly shared: "God spared you in Butler, Pennsylvania to be the most consequential president in a century... not since Truman in 1945."

Truman in 1945. The man who incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Huckabee believes Trump is God's chosen vessel for the End Times. An extremist who believes every bomb on Iran brings Jesus closer to his final battle.

They are marketing apocalypse as salvation.

They like you to forget Tehran like any great city is mad up of coffee shops where students debate, markets where families buy bread, hospitals where doctors save lives.

Ten million people whose crime is existing in a country Israel marked for death.

Traffic jams began at 2 AM when Trump's tweet pierced the darkness. Miles of cars backed up on highways, families fleeing with whatever they could carry.

But gas stations are empty—Israel bombed the fuel infrastructure, trapping the people Trump told to run.

"We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran," Trump announced, as if describing weather.

To these fucking criminals sovereignty, international law, human rights, and millions of lives means nothing. Just another video game level to conquer.

In 1953, the CIA overthrew Iran's democracy and installed the Shah, a brutal dictator who tortured his people for 25 years. Now they want his son, a man with zero Iranian support, a ghost from a hated past.

They tried the same shit in Iraq. Ahmad Chalabi, the exile who convinced Bush that Iraqis would greet Americans with flowers?

We never heard his name after six months. Instead: a decade of civil war, a million dead, and Iraq becoming an Iranian satellite state.

They tried this in Libya. It ended with Gaddafi's head on a spike, Hillary Clinton laughing: "We came, we saw, he died." And Libya became a failed state where slaves are sold in open markets.

Iran is 90 million people controlling the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of global oil flows. Iran has chemical weapons, biological weapons, allies across the Middle East who most likely will not be silent as they watch their patron burn.

The best case is complete state collapse with warlords fighting over ruins, millions of refugees, decades of chaos.

The worst case will likely be death and suffering beyond imagination.

And for what?

Messianic fantasies of extremist wanting to trigger apocalypse?

Expansion plans of a colonial project that can never have enough land?

Profits of weapons manufacturers who see war as market opportunity?

Corrupt soulless leaders with no empathy hungry for more no matter how many bodies it costs.

Iran wasn't building nuclear weapons. Iran wasn't planning to attack America. Yes, like many nations, the Iranian regime has many problematic elements, but nothing that remotely justifies this catastrophic violence.

But truth doesn't matter when bombs are already in the air.

This is their hour of “freedom” freedom to destroy, to dominate, to decide who lives and dies. The freedom to burn the world and call it light.

In Tehran tonight, mothers hold their children closer. Students close their books. Doctors prepare for casualties.

Ten million people wait in the darkness, wondering if dawn will bring annihilation.

They call it freedom. History will call it what it is.

DO NOT BE COMPLICIT. DO NOT BE SILENT.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY at (202) 224-3121

SPEAK UP. BOYCOTT. ORGANIZE. PROTEST.

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Sources:

The Streetlight

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