The Specter of Nuclear War Raises Its Head

September 7, 2026

When Trump recently declared the shift in his war against Iran from military to economic sanctions, I thought he had found his exit strategy.  But no sooner were the words out of his mouth than Netanyahu had him again bombing Iran at the cost of American lives and military bases.  

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In recent podcasts and a recent article,  I suggested that Iran’s membership in the Mecca alliance would present Israeli America with a military alliance of 458,000,000 people armed with Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, thus possibly neutralizing the Israeli American use of nuclear weapons against Iran.

Mike Whitney this morning reminds us that Andrew Anglin reasoned that Netanyahu’s plan from day one was to put Trump on a path to the use against Iran of American or Israeli nukes. I conclude that Iran’s absence from the Mecca mutual security agreement is a direct invitation to the Israeli Americans to nuke Iran.

For some time I have argued that a mutual security agreement between Russia, China, and Iran would halt the Israeli American violence in the Middle East.  But the three governments lacked the wits to take decisive action that would have stabilized the Middle East.  

Now Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan have begun an effort to unify the Muslim world.  Certainly Netanyahu is alarmed by it.  If Iran becomes a member and the alliance is real, it would mean end days for the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel.  My conclusion, as I wrote, is:  “The longer Iran plays tit-for-tat with its proxy enemy (Washington), the longer Zionists have to orchestrate an event that creates Washington’s acceptance of the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.  The inability of the Muslim world to make important decisions is Zionism’s greatest asset.”

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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week’s first outside columnist, columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, contributor to the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and columnist for the main French and Italian newspapers, and for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. He served in numerous academic appointments in US universities and was  appointed to the William E. Simon Chair for Political Economy at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies where his colleagues were Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James R. Schlesinger (one of his former professors), and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Thomas Moorer. His article, “How the Law Was Lost,” was published in the January 1999 Cardozo Law Review.