Trump toys with World War III in Iran Epic Fury

Anna Chen – 28 February 2026, Iran

First published 2am, Saturday 28 February 2026 at Substack

On Oct 9 2023, I tweeted that Netanyahu had addressed the UN General Assembly 3 weeks before, demanding a “nuclear threat” to Iran. This was altered to “military” in the official record. Biden declined. A month later my 15-year-old MadamMiaow account was deleted.

(The point was that, having been denied a joint assault on Iran, there might be some other pressure brought to bear on a superpower reluctant to become embroiled in another Middle East war, especially with Ukraine thundering on.)

Finally bumped into outright war in the Middle East by October 7, Biden was soon followed by Trump who eagerly extended direct military action to Iran in a 12-day war last summer, because who wants to be left out of the excitement?

I said he wouldn’t be satisfied until there was a Trump Tower on the beach at Gaza and he was awarded a peace prize for it. And here, right on cue, is his SPECTRE lash-up as the Bored of Peace, featuring old ghoul Tony Blair and the Don’s sin-in-law’s glossy proposal for the Gaza Riviera, built on the bones of the Palestinian people. Same deal as America built on an ancient Indian burial ground — that is, the entire coast-to-coast, Atlantic to Pacific continent. 

And remember Biden’s construction of the Gaza pier out of scooped up rubble and remains, sold at the time as peace infrastructure but actually used for the US invasion to release hostages at the enormous cost of civilian casualties. It’s strange what gets forgotten by the victors writing history. Like Israel having the biggest skin bank in the world.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu is about to get his desire fulfilled with another war on Iran, this one likely to last a lot longer than last year’s if Trump pulls the trigger. Negotiations were a farce; this war was always planned ever since he pulled out of the JCPOA. Blood and treasure frittered away by arsonists, lunatics, felons and speculators. 

As Shakespeare put it, hell is empty and all the devils are here.

7am, Saturday: Woke up to the news that bombing had begun: unprovoked, pointless, cowardly. In the midst of negotiations, to which the Iranians had mostly agreed. The bones-spurs draft-dodger-in-chief was targeting not only 90 million Iranians but jeopardising the entire region, including American troops, for his own vainglory. 900 missiles are emptied onto Iran with 300 returned … so far.

MAGA figures erupted in outrage that the peace president, not famous for his familiarity with the verité, could betray his no-wars pledge.

But this hardly comes as a surprise given the military and propaganda build-up in the press. He’d boasted of his giant armada for weeks, clearly compensating for something. The USS Gerald Ford carrier sailed up the Mediterranean, awash with the effluence of five thousand sailors, joining the UK and New Zealand in the metaphor where overflowing shit proves to be an actual feature of late capitalism.

Having barely mentioned Iran in his interminable State of the Union speech only days earlier, Trump delivered a rambling middle-of the night war announcement from the situation room in a converted Mar-a-Lago closet, wearing a cap emblazoned with ‘USA’ – a white hat for this fraud, of course. His audience, presumably America’s shoot-em-up gamers ready for the fight from their mums’ basements.

Tucker Carlson called the attack ‘disgusting and evil’, putting the supine press to shame. But even they eventually largely concluded that this was not a wise move, if you discount the media such as the BBC who puffed up the ‘we’re doing it for your own good’ line with a regiment of regime change proponents to the fore.

We later learned that the Epstein admin bombed an elementary girls school killing upwards of 120 children and few are surprised although we’re all shocked and ragingly upset. Gaza callousness all over again. (Claims that the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, supreme leader since 1986, has been killed aren’t confirmed until Sunday.)

Emboldened by the ‘success’ of Venezuela, which has thus proved to be a pushover, and finding no opposition standing in his way, absolute power has corrupted Trump absolutely. How do you satisfy such an enormous appetite for money, power and a taste for blood? ‘Move over, Big Mac, I’ll have mine with relish!’

His attention split between starving Cuba into ‘friendly’ submission, taking over Panama and whatever dark happenings are going on in Africa, he’s now trash-talking Turkey, the third NATO nation to heave into view of this piggy-eyed clown after Canada and Denmark. President Erdogan is no genteel Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen. He’s far nastier and much more cunning than Orange Caligula, god help us.

Fortunately, Starmer has done one smart thing in his miserable career and refused to allow US bombing using UK bases such as Diego Garcia. Around 12 US air force F-22 Raptors did take off from Lakenheath airfield in the east of England a week or so back — south east bound — so let’s hope that doesn’t count.

Netanyahu escaped Iranian revenge bombing by fleeing from Israel to Greece when Cyprus refused to have him, whence he hopped over to Germany, back to the Europe of his ancestors. From there he can continue to stir up trouble, pointing the finger like a demonic witch-finder general and directing his half-wit sidekick to worse and worse excesses.

The Strait of Hormuz is closed as predicted, so oil prices could double — which makes this a terrific time to vow never to use cheap Russian oil again. US bases in Arab countries have been fired on: Bahrain which hosts the US 5th Fleet, Doha in Qatar, Ryadh, UAE and Kuwait have all been pummelled with the first American casualties of the war occurring on Day 1. But never mind. Trump says it’s worth the sacrifice to free the people whose economy Scott Bessent boasts they’ve been destroying. Former CIA chief Mike Pompeo wishes the protesters well and ‘every Mossad agent walking beside them’.

The neocons don’t even bother to dress it up any more. Maybe the pigs ran out of lipstick.

Starmer reverts to type and allows the US to use UK military bases to attack Iranian missile site resulting in a drone strike on Akrotiri air force in Cyprus. 76,000 out of the 200,000 Britons in the Middle East are being evacuated. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are hit. Israel has dragged in Lebanon. MPs are warning Starmer not to get us embroiled in Trump’s disastrous folly, with Labour’s Emily Thornberry stating US action is illegal in international law.

Defence secretary John Healey, the Tories and Nigel Farage, however, are urging more ‘support’ for the Americans. The UK, France and Germany pledged to defend their interests in a joint statement.

Trump admits more US soldiers are likely to be killed and he still hasn’t taken this before Congress. But he is panicking that the war will drag on further than the 4 or 5 days he’d planned for and has just bribed Americans with the promise of cheap healthcare. He ignored the CIA warning that killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons, would be replaced by someone far more hardline and here we are. He’s drunk on power but hopefully may be sobering up under the crushing weight of concrete reality.

Slavyangrad reports on Telegram that 15 countries have been directly or indirectly attacked: Israel, US, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Oman, Syria, Cyprus, France (Camp de la Paix, UAE), Italy (NATO camp at Ali Al-Salem Base), UK (RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus).