Yet Another Illegal Regime-Change War

Bibi and Trump Launch Their War on Iran

BILL ASTORE

FEB 28, 2026

I woke to the news that Israel/USA is launching attacks (New York Times) and strikes (NBC News) against Iran. The BBC used “joint attack” for the Israeli/U.S. war plan. Three sources, and all three avoiding that useful descriptive word, war.

I suppose Mr. Trump doesn’t have to ask Congress for a declaration of war since it’s not a war—it’s just attacks or strikes or “major combat operations,” as Trump said today.

“All I want is freedom for the [Iranian] people,” Trump also said. Once again, “freedom” is synonymous with war and death.

So perhaps Orwell had it wrong. It’s not war is peace; it’s war is freedom.

It’s funny: I’m listening to ABC News and they keep using the words “strike” or “joint strike” or “preemptive strike.” Or even “larger-scale strike.” Trump sees it as a “noble mission,” but not apparently a Nobel Peace Prize one.

So many lies, so much dishonesty, so much illegality.

Grim times.

If you can stand it, here’s Trump talking about Iran’s terror. Iran has “soaked the earth with blood and guts,” so he claims. I’m glad the USA is innocent of death and violence. No blood and guts from our military “strikes.”

It’s not a war. It’s just “strikes” or “attacks” or something

So remember America: Don’t speak of war. You have no say anyway. Just sit back and watch the strikes and attacks ordered by two paragons of virtue, Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump.

Update (2/28, Noonish)

The words of James Madison resonate here:

Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debt and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manner and of morals, engendered in both. No nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare …

Allegedly, we’re bombing for freedom in Iran, even as freedom in America vanishes. Is it time to drop “freedom” bombs on ourselves?

Ask Americans (or any other people) being bombed if they think it’s conducive to greater freedom.

11 thoughts on “Yet Another Illegal Regime-Change War”

  2. There is a suspicion that Netanyahu has something on Trump that he threatened to reveal. Netanyahu himself is desperate to avoid an independent investigation into Oct 7. War could be the result though in the end the truth comes out but desperate people do desperate things. Concern for the people of Iran certainly is not a factor.

    The only positive thing I see in this is it means the end of the US relationship with Israel as this war has no other reason that it is a service to Israel, transparently so. The rupture of the relationship will not be immediate, but it will be inevitable. The story of how a tiny country was able to control the world’s only superpower will be an astounding read for those looking back on it in the future.

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    1. “The story of how a tiny country was able to control the world’s only superpower will be an astounding read for those looking back on it in the future.”

      Assuming there will be a future, or historians around then to write about it. Both the host and the parasite are entering into death spirals, the desperate thrashing about could prove cataclysmic.

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  4. Everyone knew this was coming. After all, Iran was given a deadline to accede to whatever the U.S. decides unilaterally to compel. See? It’s just that simple.

    Orwellian redefinition and/or inversion of language is an important component in manufacturing consent. Words like war, provocation, and preemptive don’t carry their usual meanings. However, it’s clear that the U.S. (its leaders anyway) provoked this preemptive war (or whatever it turns out to be, Congressional authorization not needed) no matter what prevarications hot takes (like mine) offer only a few hours into the debacle. It may also be an attempt at “let’s you and him fight” where the U.S. gets Iranian citizens to execute U.S. plans for regime change they, too, might actually want. Like others before them, they are being set up to fight and die as U.S. proxies. It’s all so despicable.

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    1. “Bought and paid for by Israel.”

      With the what – $28+ billion? – Biden and Trump have sent them in US taxpayer money since Oct. 7, 2023?

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  7. I would try to think of something witty and concise to say for these events but I’m too busy vomiting over the shock of what we have become for such words. How can a nation both rise and fall at the same time, depending on the viewer’s perspective? The perspective is mine and the trajectory is downward…

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  8. It’s not a war, it’s a massacre (when you kill kids)… ‘thou shall not kill’ was for only certain people? I expect some here in America will believe it was for their own good… children’s brutal horrific deaths. We seen it before… all through history…

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