Another War, Another Lie—What’s Really Happening in the Middle East

Another war.

Another flag.
Another headline.
Another staged outrage.
Another round of innocent blood spilled for strategic leverage.

This time it’s the Middle East again.
As if it ever really stopped.

And once more… the U.S. steps in—
not as a peacekeeper,
not as a savior,
but as a stakeholder.

Because make no mistake:
When America intervenes in the Middle East, it’s never just about democracy.
It’s about oil.
It’s about arms.
It’s about influence.
It’s about empire.

They’ll feed you images.
They’ll show you rubble.
They’ll show you terrified children.
They’ll wrap it all in emotion and urgency—
so you forget to ask:
Why are we still there?

Why is it always the same region, the same cycle, the same destruction—
with a different villain and the same outcome?

Because war isn’t chaos to the system.
It’s currency.

War is how dying economies get CPR.
How military contracts get renewed.
How politicians regain public attention.
How global pawns get reshuffled in a new world order.

And when you intervene in ancient soil with modern lies,
you don’t create peace—
you create generational rage.

Let’s be clear:
There are atrocities on all sides.
But this isn’t about good guys and bad guys.

This is about narratives versus interests.
This is about the petrodollar, pipeline routes, rare earth minerals, strategic borders.
This is about proxy wars dressed up as moral duty.
This is about religious fireworks used to mask geopolitical chess.

And guess who pays the price?

Not the elite.
Not the corporations.
Not the policy makers.
The civilians.
The soldiers.
The displaced.
The forgotten.

So what’s next?

Another draft?
Another staged attack to rally support?
Another false flag to justify boots on the ground?

Because it’s coming.

War isn’t just fought with bombs anymore—
it’s fought with perception.
With AI-generated propaganda.
With weaponized empathy.
With social media psy-ops and manufactured consent.

And every time you repost a flag without knowing the full context,
you’re participating in it.

You’re not showing solidarity.
You’re amplifying the machine.

So here’s the hard truth:

If you want to support peace—
start by questioning the people who profit from the war.

Start by looking at the contracts.
Follow the defense spending.
Read the bills being passed during the chaos.
Watch the markets, not just the news.

Because while you’re glued to live footage of missiles,
they’re quietly signing deals that guarantee decades of resource extraction and reconstruction monopolies.

We’ve been here before.
Iraq.
Afghanistan.
Libya.
Syria.

Each time:
“Urgency.”
“Evil must be stopped.”
“Freedom must be defended.”

Each time:
Regime change, destabilization, permanent presence.

And what changed?
Nothing—except the death toll, the debt, and the psychological damage.

So what’s next?

Simple.
They escalate.
We react.
They justify.
We pay.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

You want to change the outcome?
Then change the questions you’re willing to ask.

Stop asking, “Who’s right?”
Start asking, “Who benefits?”
Stop asking, “Who attacked who?”
Start asking, “Who armed them? Who trained them? Who stood to gain?”

And above all:
Stop waiting for the mainstream to give you permission to feel.

Feel now.
Grieve now.
Speak now.

Because if we don’t,
what’s next is World War III
not as an event, but as a slow bleed into full-spectrum collapse.

And by the time they tell you the truth,
it’ll already be history.

Let’s stop pretending the U.S. “intervenes” in the Middle East for peace.

It’s not about stopping evil. It’s about preserving leverage.

And that leverage is built on three pillars:
oil, military dominance, and currency control.

Start with oil. Always start there.
The U.S. isn’t just interested in petroleum because it fuels cars. It’s because the global economy runs on the petrodollar system—a setup where oil is traded exclusively in U.S. dollars. This system keeps the dollar artificially strong and ensures America’s global economic dominance. Any country that tries to exit that system—Libya, Iraq, Iran—gets labeled a threat. Not because they’re inherently evil, but because they challenge the monopoly.

It’s not about humanitarian aid.
It’s about resource insulation.

Then there’s the military-industrial complex. You’ve heard the phrase. But do you know what it means?

It means war is not an emergency to the system. It’s a business model.
In 2024 alone, the U.S. defense budget was over $850 billion.
Weapons contractors like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman rely on perpetual conflict to meet shareholder expectations. So when a new war breaks out? They don’t just watch—they rally. Stock prices go up. Politicians get donations. Everyone wins—except the civilians being vaporized under drone strikes.

You think democracy spreads through airstrikes?
You think bombing ancient cities builds freedom?

No. It builds contracts.
It builds bases.
It builds debt.

After the bombing comes the rebuilding—and the same corporations get the contracts for both.
It’s war-to-reconstruction capitalism, disguised as international aid.

Let’s talk about regime change.

Every time a Middle Eastern leader steps outside the lines of U.S. strategic interests, they’re suddenly a “brutal dictator.” The press ramps up. The talking points sync. The calls for intervention start echoing in every direction.

Hussein? Killed.
Gaddafi? Murdered on camera.
Assad? Public enemy number one until the narrative shifted again.

Meanwhile, actual war crimes committed by U.S. allies?
Ignored. Sanitized. Buried.

Why? Because the real game isn’t about justice. It’s about installing controllable governments. Proxies. Puppets. Friendly regimes who’ll sign oil contracts, open markets, and host U.S. bases.

It’s not a war on terror.
It’s a war on independence.

And here’s the final piece of the machine:
Psychological control through media saturation.

You’re not watching journalism.
You’re watching manufactured consensus.
A narrative shaped to keep you emotionally reactive and intellectually dependent.

They give you villains. They give you hashtags. They give you selective outrage and call it solidarity.
But they don’t give you context. They don’t give you history.
They don’t tell you how the CIA funded jihadist militias in the 1980s to fight proxy wars.
They don’t remind you how U.S. weapons routinely end up in the hands of “the enemy.”
They won’t talk about who armed who.
Or how Saudi Arabia continues to receive billions in U.S. arms sales while bombing Yemen into rubble.

You’re told it’s about human rights—
but they fund both sides.
You’re told it’s about liberation—
but they destabilize and never rebuild.
You’re told it’s complicated—
but it’s really just profitable.

So what happens next?

The playbook doesn’t change.
Another provocation. Another escalation.
The media hits the gas.
Sanctions. Airstrikes. Troops.
Public support manufactured by emotional trauma.
And behind the scenes?
Oil flows.
Contracts sign.
Currency control remains untouched.

And the cycle repeats.

Unless we stop asking, “What side are we on?”
And start asking, “Why are we even there?
Unless we stop thinking with flags—
and start thinking in systems.

Because until then, there is no end.
There’s only the illusion of choice wrapped in patriotic rhetoric.
There’s only another war.
Another funeral.
Another billion-dollar deal.

And if we stay silent?
We’re not neutral.
We’re complicit.

[Butterflies and Rainbows]
“It’s all going to be fine.”
“We’ve been through worse.”
“Technology will fix it.”
“Humanity is evolving.”
“We’re more connected than ever.”
“We just need to raise the vibration.”
“Love will conquer all.”

They post it on pastel backgrounds.
They say it with crystals on their shelves and filters on their faces.
They light a candle and call it resistance.
They watch the system burn and say “everything happens for a reason.”

They talk about unity while their supply chains collapse.
They dream of utopia while their freedoms evaporate.
They scroll through affirmations while the world quietly prepares for scarcity, chaos, and a hard reset.

Because it feels better to imagine a smooth transition into paradise
than to accept we’ve been marching—blindly, willingly—into engineered collapse.

[Reality]
Here’s the truth.

Supply chains are tightening.
Currencies are inflating.
AI is replacing labor at light speed.
Nations are decoupling from the dollar.
Social trust is dissolving.
Food is being consolidated.
War is on the table.
And no—this isn’t fear.
This is the data.

The next collapse won’t be a single moment.
It’ll be a slow descent that looks like convenience… until it’s not.

The banks won’t fail all at once.
They’ll offer you a “safe” digital currency.
The shelves won’t go empty overnight.
They’ll just get more expensive, more artificial, less yours.

The control won’t come from soldiers.
It’ll come from algorithms.
From “nudges.”
From rewards for obedience and punishments for friction.

Your freedoms won’t be stripped.
You’ll trade them—willingly—for the illusion of safety.

And while you're told you're evolving, you're being managed.
While you're told you're “awakening,” you’re being rerouted.
Spiritual bypassing is the new opiate of the masses.
A prettier prison—but a prison nonetheless.

[The Split]
There are two timelines now.

One where people keep pretending the world is healing because their WiFi still works.
And another where people see the writing on the wall,
cut the fantasy,
sharpen their discernment,
and start preparing—not in panic, but in power.

Because collapse isn’t the end.
It’s the consequence.

Of dependency.
Of distraction.
Of decades of outsourcing responsibility to systems that do not love us.

And in that collapse, there is still a choice.

You can chant mantras while your autonomy gets erased.
Or you can get clear. Get real. Get ready.
Build systems. Grow food. Forge networks. Reclaim sovereignty.

This isn’t about fear. It’s about function.

Because when the illusion finally breaks—
when the butterflies vanish and the sky turns red—
the ones who held onto fantasy will freeze.

But the ones who faced the fire?
They’ll walk through it.

[Final Act: The Great Checkout]

Because here’s the other truth no one wants to say out loud:

Humanity is checking out.

Not rising up.
Not waking up.
Not fighting back.
Just quietly... checking out.

Replacing meaning with media.
Replacing community with clicks.
Replacing purpose with performance.

We don’t face reality—we filter it.
We don’t change the world—we simulate a better one in a headset.

AI writes our words.
VR feeds our fantasies.
Digital avatars let us be everything we’re too numb to become in real life.
All while the real world—our food, our freedom, our families—decays in silence.

It’s not apocalypse—it’s abandonment.

The soul is starving, but the dopamine’s still cheap.
And the machines? They’re happy to keep us sedated, swiping, smiling.
Because the more distracted we are, the easier it is to replace us.
And the less we show up in the real world, the faster that world disappears.

And when the collapse fully hits—when the illusion breaks and the screen goes black—
you’ll find that no digital escape, no chatbot, no perfect algorithm can bring back what we refused to protect.

So what now?

Now you decide.

Keep scrolling through synthetic dreams...
or stand in the ashes of a dying world and say:
Not like this. Not me.

Because the collapse isn’t just coming.

It’s here.
And so is the choice:

Escape.
Or engage.

One leads to extinction.
The other?
To something real.

Joe Leposa

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