Iran War: So you think a food stockpile is going to save you?

Anna Chen – 7 April 2026, Trump’s Iran War

Remember I wrote a while back that what the US elite and its minions do to Palestinians today, they did to Native Americans and Aboriginal Antipodeans yesterday and will do to the rest of us tomorrow?

Well, here it comes. 

America and Israel go for world domination in the Iran War as if it was a video shoot-‘em-up game of Risk. The Grand Carve-up is a reality, as I warned in 2011 and 2012, when Washington’s favourite academic, Niall Ferguson, preached breaking up Europe (which felt rock solid at that time) for plunder. 

Coming so shortly following Barak Obama’s Pivot to Asia (2010/11) when the declining US hegemon sought to “contain” China, the professor pointed the direction of travel of the US state regardless of which party occupied the White House. Previously existing as an invisible undertow driving geopolitics, the arch objective exploded into the light after China saved the global economy from America’s 2008 Crash (see Shakedown Timeline 2010-20). For no good turn goes unpunished when the decrepit US economy is being eclipsed in late capitalism.

The race to retain dominance was on in earnest.

All Donald Trump did when he won the 2016 election was double down on Obama’s pivot where even Biden hadn’t yet dared to tread so openly (although his fingerprints are all over the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine complete with the Burisma smoking gun). Which would be the first to be crushed? Russia or China?

The question we should be asking is: why have Trump’s destructive policies advanced so far into madness with so little pushback? After all, they had the felon by the gold ballrooms over and over again. 

The answer depends on whether you believe the Democrats are a benign force for universal good or just the smarter arm of the corporate class. 

Lest we forget, the Gaza genocide started on Biden’s watch only weeks after Netanyahu had demanded at the UN General Assembly in September 2023 that the West launch a joint attack and start an Iran war, his decades-long idée fixe. Biden declined, at least publicly.

We have no idea what horse-trading was going on behind the scenes. An apocalyptic manoeuvre this extreme requires a pretext as cover; a warm-up act to desensitise the public. Something that would allow the atrocity to come appear, if not acceptable, powerful enough to buy time to set the war for the Middle East in motion and let momentum take its course. But a younger generation of Americans wasn’t buying what the president was selling.

In the game of geopolitical power tag, my contention is that Biden effectively threw the 2024 election. Their world domination aims were so revolting that they needed a patsy to do the worst of the dirty work. The Democrat administration was so reckless by the end that they’d crossed just about every red line in their push for global ascendence, as if they were crying out for defeat, ready for the next guy in the relay to take the baton for the lap to class victory. The guy who would take America from a state ostensibly caring for its own people to a permanent war economy: “We can’t take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare — all these individual things.” The post-supernova Death Star.

Under Biden there was widespread disgust with events in Gaza; a war in Ukraine as NATO landed on Russia’s doorstep; sabre-rattling over China including a $1.6 billion character-assassination bounty and an unnecessary chip war that only ended up galvanising the rising superpower into working it out for themselves; and Biden’s obvious decrepitude. 

After hanging on way past his sell-by date, there followed the selection as presidential candidate not of Bernie Sanders who, whatever disagreement you may have with his position on Israel, would have been a shoo-in, but the inadequate Vice President who was up to her eyeballs in Biden’s mistakes. The electorate wanted a change but the Democrats gave them Biden MkII. The voters chose the Peace President, as Trump was heavily marketed having taken the temperature and tacked with the flow.

So why is this important?

Whoever you vote for, the government always gets in. There’s a well-worn danger in forgetting how bad the previous administration was that made you want to replace them and bouncing between the two every four or eight years in ever declining levels of awfulness. The United States of Amnesia, as Gore Vidal put it. 

The devil is in the detail. Never underestimate the state’s highly budgeted manipulative powers of mass psychology. The final small but hugely significant event that blew up in the brains of the US electorate and helped usher in Trump for his second term, despite everything known to the American public, was a small rodent: Peanut the Squirrel.

Beloved by 500,000 Instagram followers with millions more viewing, this social media superstar was transformed into a potent symbol of the Biden administration’s callousness against the common man and woman. 

In the final weeks leading up to the election, New York authorities seized Peanut and his racoon chum, Fred, under some rabies pretext when they could have tested and quarantined them. Against all common sense following nearly a year of public outcry, they euthanised the cute critters on 30 October, less than a week before the election with emotions already running high and now turbocharged to max. Neither had rabies. The furries, that is, although I can’t swear to the candidates.

That’s the moment for me when Trump’s victory went from likely to a dead cert. 

If this wasn’t deliberate, it sure looked like it. It was a visceral mass redirection of sentiment more powerful than hours of studied argument by experts. 

Now, why would the political class want to see a return of the wrecking ball who has no decency and no boundaries? Deniability could be one. They’re all paid by the same billionaires anyway. Who do they serve? Not the electorate, evidently.

Yes, Trump is unhinged. Is it he or his minders who are consciously employing former President Richard Nixon’s “Madman” theory? He may think he’s being a genius in aping his hero’s strategy to intimidate his opponents but the original idea was to avoid actually going through with Mutually Assured Destruction and his latest Iran War targets are calling his bluff. He is so far deep into what may have begun as a cosplay that it has devoured him: for all intents and purposes he has become the thing itself. It was always there in the abyss of his soul and now it stares back. No wonder Bone Spurs needs an extension to the presidential bunker underneath the White House.

The press wing of the UK establishment belatedly realises we may be in serious trouble if the Hormuz Strait remains closed thanks to the Don’s Iran War mafia shakedown.

It’s not merely oil and gas supplies threatened. We also face the loss of everything produced in the petrochemical industry: helium (chips), fertiliser, plastics, pharmaceuticals and a wide range of essential chemicals. Water purification, anyone?

Who exactly is it who is using the Hormuz Strait closure to blackmail the world? The people defending themselves from an illegal war? Or the Joker in the White House adding Europe to his shakedown list?

My mum’s family survived the London Blitz, inflicted by another raging megalomaniac. As a consequence of being brought up on hair-raising tales of dried eggs, food shortages, sacrificed pet rabbits and ration books, a well stocked larder is in my DNA. So imagine my disappointment, not to say shrieking, doom-laden horror, to find that every Heinz baked beans & tomato soup can in our cupboard from pre-2017 has blown. 

It turns out, quelle surprise, that peace might have always been the better option than stashing food.

Yes, you clever preppers, your shining moment is almost upon us. Well done you. But don’t count on your food stockpile lasting the fallout from the Iran War like the famous cans from Scott’s 1910 Polar expedition. Anything acidic like tomatoes eats through the PBA plastic lining, through the metal & into you.

How about following George Monbiot’s stockpile list? You might end up staring forlornly at those mountains of rice and dried chickpeas if we run out of water purification chemicals. Even if you are lucky enough to have your own air-conditioned bunker with Olympic swimming pools of potable H2O, you’ll only be fighting off marauders who will be bigger, nastier and better armed than you and your cricket bat. They will steal your stuff, fuck you and eat you – and not necessarily in that order.

Learn from Mad Max, grasshopper, and stash your pets’ kibble. That stuff is radioactive & will last until World War IV. 

Or we could always return the compliment and Eat the Rich.

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Shakedown Timeline of America’s 21st Century War on China: https://www.annachen.co.uk/china/shakedown/

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