The War On You

How Their Wars, Their Wealth, and Their Lies Are Breaking Your Life

Mar 01, 2026

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched joint military strikes on Iran targeting nuclear sites, missile bases, and leadership compounds in Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Karaj, and Kermanshah.

Trump said the goal was to destroy Iran’s missile and military capabilities, prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons, and to push for regime change in Tehran.

This came less than two months after US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in “Operation Absolute Resolve” on January 3, 2026.

Two regime‑change moves in two months. Two countries on different continents.

These are not isolated events. They are eruptions of a permanent system of control that runs through war, money, media, psychology, and technology.

That system concentrates power and wealth in the hands of a tiny elite and steadily strips ordinary people of control over their lives, their safety, and their future.

It’s Always Been This Way

In 1953, the CIA helped topple Iran’s elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh after he nationalized the country’s oil.

In 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution to stop presidents from dragging the country into war on their own.

That same year, the CIA backed a military coup in Chile that overthrew President Salvador Allende after he nationalized copper.

Across Latin America, similar operations removed leaders who challenged the US or corporate interests. US money funded propaganda and cultivated sympathetic officers.

Over the last three decades, the political and legal barriers to US military action have steadily eroded.

In 1991, the first Gulf War followed Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. There was a UN Security Council mandate. Thirty‑four nations joined a formal coalition. Congress voted yes.

In 2001, the war in Afghanistan followed the September 11 attacks. NATO invoked its collective defense clause. Congress passed the Authorization.

In 2003, the Iraq War rested on claims of weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be false. Congress still voted to authorize it, but the case was shaky and the “Coalition of the Willing” was informal.

Fast‑forward to June 2025, the US and Israel conducted earlier strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities without a formal Congressional vote.

In January 2026, US forces seized Venezuela’s sitting president in a unilateral operation. Again, no vote.

US intelligence had planned the abduction of Maduro for months, and Trump himself pointed to oil as a core motivation.

Lawmakers including Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and Tim Kaine have repeatedly tried to force the president to seek authorization for military action against Iran, and those efforts have failed.

Officials and analysts say the war on Iran was planned over several months in coordination with Washington, with a likely date set in advance even as public diplomacy continued.

Each time Congress blinks, the cost of the next unauthorized war goes down. The norm shifts as the president’s power grows.

Separation of powers might still exist on paper, but in the real world, war powers have quietly consolidated in one man’s hands.

It’s All About The Money

As breaking news of this war floods the headlines with “what is happening” images, reports, opinions, analysis, and propaganda, the stories that explain “why it’s happening” are buried.

US defense spending reached $919.2 billion in 2025. Trump’s proposed plans would push defense spending toward $1.5 trillion by 2027, which would add around $5.8 trillion to the national debt over a decade.

Between 2020 and 2024, the Pentagon handed $771 billion in contracts to only five defense firms. That is one out of every three contract dollars. RTX, formerly Raytheon, has a backlog of $251 billion in orders, with $103 billion of that in defense work alone.

Every new conflict means more contracts, more backlog, more lobbying money, and more pressure for the next war.

Inequality As A Feature

While missiles fly and budgets balloon, the wealth gap becomes a chasm.

Since 2020, billionaire wealth is up 81%. In 2025 alone, it jumped 16% to $18.3 trillion, three times faster than the average over the previous five years.

Fewer than 60,000 people, the top 0.001% of humanity, own three times as much wealth as the poorest half of the world. The richest 10% now own 75% of all wealth.

This is by design. Inequality is fused to political inequality. Highly unequal countries are seven times more likely to see democratic backsliding. Billionaires are over 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary people.

When Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, led the Department of Government Efficiency, he promised to cut $1 trillion from federal spending.

While Americans continue to wait for their DOGE checks, DOGE failed to deliver real savings and Musk’s wealth is on its way to reach a trillion dollars.

Instead, DOGE went after programs like Medicaid which keeps low‑income Americans insured, and made sweeping cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) which had severe, documented impacts on global humanitarian, health, and agricultural systems.

These actions have already led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, with projections of over 14 million total deaths by 2030, and directly contributed to the first rise in child mortality this century with the death of 200,000 children under five in 2025 alone.

Not to mention that the shutdown of USAID programs caused economic stress for US farmers reliant on these programs, and pushed more toward bankruptcy.

The New York Times reported that twenty‑eight of DOGE’s forty biggest “savings” claims turned out to be false or inflated, and DOGE will cost the US about $135 billion due to layoffs, rehires, lost productivity, and lawsuits.

Money flows up. Risk and pain flow down. The more pain for you, the more wealth for them.

They’re Coming For Everyone

The war on you is not only fought overseas. It shows up on the streets, in parking lots, and in apartment complexes.

On January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis, federal immigration agents surrounded the car of Renee Nicole Good. As she tried to drive away, they shot her. A 911 caller said she was “shot at point‑blank range.”

On January 24, 2026, also in Minneapolis, Alex Pretti, a 37‑year‑old intensive care nurse at a VA hospital, was filmed holding his phone when agents pepper‑sprayed him and then fired ten shots. Some shots hit him while he lay motionless on the ground. BBC’s video analysis confirmed he never had a gun in his hand.

Since September 2025, federal immigration agents have been involved in eleven shootings. Fourteen people have been shot. In 2025, thirty‑two people died in ICE custody, the highest number since 2004.

Nearly three‑quarters of the roughly 68,000 people held by ICE that year had no criminal convictions. Yet when asked about Pretti, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem called him a “domestic terrorist.”

The language of “terrorism” and “security” is being turned inward. It is now pointed at citizens whose real offense is asserting their rights or standing near someone the state wants.

Meanwhile, the January 30, 2026 release of more than three million pages of Epstein files cracked open a window into the social world of power.

The documents reveal communications between Jeffrey Epstein and Trump advisers, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Bill Clinton, Peter Thiel, former Prince Andrew, Steve Bannon, and many others.

A dense network where money, politics, and intelligence meet. Social ties, shared secrets, and mutual favors create a protective bubble.

The documents also reveal that back in 2007, prosecutors had drafted a 60‑count indictment against Epstein and unnamed co‑conspirators. That indictment was never filed. Instead, Epstein received a non‑prosecution agreement that let him avoid federal charges and serve a light state sentence.

Hundreds of trafficking victims, mounting evidence, yet no one in the network is seriously investigated, indicted, prosecuted, or held accountable.

Power, Not People

By 2024, reporters at the Guardian found that people across the political spectrum in the US described feeling powerless and hopeless.

A University of Minnesota study on politics showed that this sense of uncontrollability feeds apathy and withdrawal from civic life.

When people are hit by failure after failure, betrayal after betrayal, they start to believe nothing they do matters. Inequality and elite polarization make the effect worse.

Violence is not only bullets and batons. It is also built into systems that decide who lives a long life and who dies young.

War creates profits, pay for lobbying and campaign donations. Politicians who take the money, vote for more war and bigger defense budgets.

More contracts, more profits, and more incentive to find the next enemy.

Media consolidation increases control. Friendly coverage protects leaders from scandal and keeps dissenting voices marginal.

Leaders approve more mergers, shrinking the media landscape further.

Inequality hands billionaires outsized political power, tax breaks, deregulation, and policies making them even richer.

Budgets fund bombs instead of hospitals, public housing crumbles while submarines get new contracts, people die from untreated illness, from hunger, from stress and despair.

No one pulls a trigger, but the system chooses those deaths.

21st Century Neo‑Colonialism

For decades, rich countries and their corporations have used economic tools instead of gunboats to strip resources from poorer nations.

Trump strips away any illusion with his open talk about Venezuelan oil and Greenland’s minerals.

Imperial conquest has been replaced by economic domination. Instead of bodies in chains, whole economies tied to debt, trade rules, and resource concessions.

In Chile, US companies once controlled about 70% of copper production. When Allende moved to nationalize those resources, he was overthrown with US help.

Today the same game is playing out around cobalt, lithium, and other minerals needed for batteries, AI, and weapons.

The likely future is not mysterious, the elite have chosen war and inequality over reform.

More war. More money to weapons. Less oversight. Courts that side with power. Corrupt leaders who own more of everything and answer to no one.

Media that speaks with one voice and sells you your own powerlessness back as entertainment. Algorithms that keep you angry and exhausted. Police and agents who have more tools each year to surveil and punish you.

A politics in which most people feel so defeated that they stop fighting at all.

But systems that refuse to self‑correct do not last forever. They get corrected by shocks. Sometimes those shocks are people in the streets. Sometimes they are financial crises. Sometimes they are military defeats.

The elites are waging war on your humanity and dignity.

This war lives inside budget spreadsheets, corporate mergers, courtroom appointments, police manuals, code bases, and content feeds.

It decides who gets heard and who gets disappeared, what you are told to fear and what you are never told at all.

It’s about time you finally recognize that and act accordingly.

Speak up. Boycott. Organize. Protest. Fight Back.

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Chrissie

Thank you Hussein, in Australia, we watch as the USA implodes upon itself, which has been coming for decades and decades. The shocking greed and lack of philanthropy at the top staggers us all. The mess they have made of some parts of the world simply out of their push for ever more money and power is startling. So when is the silent majority going to speak up???

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