If you have
many friends in the “end time discernment” group then your social media will be
especially buzzing right now with the current attacks of Israel against Iran,
cue the “Israel is just defending itself” rhetoric. This all fits in with their
end times timeline, never mind that the timeline has been changed time, after
time, after time, after time, still war between Israel and Iran, based on an
obscure and hard to interpret passage in Ezekiel (38:5), is on their end time run
sheet. And now it is happening, at least beginning, and it may escalate further.
But the end times lens is not the lens we are going to examine in this piece, nor is it the lens through which we should view what is happening. What I want to show you is what they are not talking about in the Western media, at least as far as I have seen, about this call for conflict with Iran.
Many of the
people I see commenting on this are sharing one Neo-Con or another talking
about how we cannot let Iran get nukes. That is the dominant discussion and the dominant message. Iran has been two weeks away from
getting a nuke for several decades now, even longer than we have waited for a decent new Star Wars movie. This has been a continual war cry of
the Neo-Cons for some time, and it is now reaching a fever pitch at the moment.
But why right now? Well, there are probably several reasons, but there is at
least one core reason that the media is not talking about publicly in the West
in any meaningful way. What is that reason?
Iran is succeeding
to grow its economy, and it is succeeding in a way that it should not be under
some of the harshest sanctions in the world. It is succeeding in a way that
presents a challenge to the US dominance of the world economy, and the
US/Israeli dominance of the Middle East.
You have
probably heard of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative? This is China’s attempt
to create a trade network all across the world, with interlocking infrastructure
to increase China’s trade power in many regions of the world. But did you know how
closely China is working with Iran to achieve this trade dominance in the
Eurasia? China and Iran have jointly created a successful China-Iran railway
corridor, and guess what, it just went operational,
“On
May 25, 2025, the first freight train from Xi’an, China, arrived at the Aprin
dry port, Iran, marking the official launch of a direct rail link between the
two countries. This new logistical artery significantly reduces transit times
(from 30–40 days by sea to roughly 15 days by land) yielding a direct impact on
transportation costs.”[1]
This railway
is part of a much larger and broader East-West Corridor that is designed to
link China, physically, with a trade route directly to Africa, and to Europe,
without having to use the more traditional sea trade routes. Think of it as a
new railway-based silk road, the very concept that China implemented in the
past to make itself an economic powerhouse is previous eras.
According to Special
Eurasia this railway corridor has massive implications for our world economy.
It allows
both Iran and China to avoid maritime routes that are vulnerable to being shut
down by other powers,
“The
advantages of this new infrastructure are not merely commercial. The route also
circumvents vulnerable maritime chokepoints often patrolled by hostile actors,
offering Tehran and Beijing a potential tool to bypass sanctions imposed by the
United States and the European Union.”[2]
This makes it
much harder for globalist powers to use sanctions to punish these countries
economically. Though I think it might increase the likelihood of economic wars.
Which is what we are seeing in the works right now. Iran is not supposed to be
able to circumvent western sanctions which entrench America’s dominance over
international trade. But necessity is often the best teacher, as they say. When
you are faced with need to find a work around you often do, and Iran and China
have,
“Over
30% of global maritime oil trade passes through the South China Sea, more than
90% of which transits the Strait of Malacca, a critical chokepoint over which
Washington maintains strategic control through the Seventh Fleet and regional
alliances, enabling it to close the strait at will. Against this backdrop, the
China-Iran rail axis assumes crucial importance, offering both countries a
structured alternative shielded from American military pressure.
This railway
also allows these countries to avoid the ever-escalating shipping costs that
many countries and companies are currently facing.[3] They achieve these lower
costs by increasing transport competition and allowing for more options for
many nations to move their goods between each other. Nations which stand to benefit
from this new railway corridor are China, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,
and Turkey, and many other Eastern European nations. This railway corridor, in
other words, helps build the infrastructure that is in the process of changing
the world’s economy, and makes it even easier for Eurasian countries to avoid
having to work with western powers that disapprove of them for whatever reason.
And this corridor also competes with a proposed corridor that would turn Israel
into strategic trade hub[4] which would also benefit her largest ally, the United States. Hence, there are
motivations for both the United States and Israel to want to oppose this
transport corridor.
How often are we given one reason for war, but when we examine the details we see that power and trade dominance are just under the surface lurking? New justifications are always offered by the same motivations underlying past wars are always there. War has not changed all that much in the centuries.
This does not
mean that this is all sunshine and roses though for Tehran, because this places
Iran squarely in the middle of the two fastest rising world powers, India and
China.[5] However, “The close ties
between India and the United States may lead Iran to lean toward China, not out
of ideological alignment, but as a matter of strategic pragmatism.”[6] America does not want
other resource rich countries moving closer to China, but its aggressive foreign
policy is having just this effect.
Hence, not
only have western sanctions failed to cripple Iran as intended, they have
actually motivated several of America’s competitors to join together more
strongly, and more efficiently. This is part of what is being called BRICS. And, what makes this more of an issue is the fact that many of these nations are all situated geographically. America is primarily a sea-based
power. Its strength is its navy and especially its aircraft carriers, but now
many parts of the Eurasian world are joining together to nullify this strength
of the US military, and therefore, to nullify its influence in the region. They
can simply trade with each other and ignore western demands for things like
sanctions and favourable deals for the West.
Hence, there
is obviously more going on with this situation than we are being told in the
western media. Which we all should know by now is the case. In fact, if you look up this China-Iran railway corridor on
Google or Bing you will hardly find any mention of it in the Western media,
even though it is one of the most significant strategic events to happen this
year, and it is recent and very important news.
We have been
lied into too many immoral wars. It is not likely what you or I know about this
war will change what happens, what influence do we have? We are just guppies swimming in an ocean filled with sharks and whales. But at least we can avoid being led along in another lie. What we are seeing right now is the decaying older world order trying to maintain its dominance and the new multipolar world seeking to break
those shackles. Going to war with another country because it wants to trade
with someone you don’t want it to trade with is as about as old a reason for
war as you can get.
“1 From whence come wars and fightings
among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight
and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”
James 4:1-2 KJV.
List of
References
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Ibid.
[6]
Ibid.
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