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The War Israel Wanted: Draining America to Crown a New King of the Middle East

Photo Credit: The Jerusalem Post


The Iran-Israel War— now fully engulfed in a broader U.S., Israeli campaign, has erupted into one of the most consequential conflicts in modern Middle Eastern history.


What began as decades of shadow wars, proxy battles, and near-misses exploded into open warfare on February 28, 2026, when joint U.S. and Israeli forces launched "Operation Epic Fury" with massive surprise airstrikes across Iran.


In the opening hours, nearly 900 precision strikes targeted Iranian military infrastructure, air defenses, missile sites, naval assets, and leadership, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei along with dozens of senior officials in a decapitation blow that shattered the Islamic Republic's command structure.


Iran responded with waves of ballistic missiles, drones, and cluster munitions targeting Israel, U.S. bases in the Gulf, and allied energy infrastructure, pushing the conflict into a dangerous new phase of retaliation and escalation.


This is no isolated flare-up. It builds directly on prior escalations:


Now in its fourth week (24th of March 2026), the war has expanded far beyond nuclear or missile targets. Recent strikes have hit Iran's South Pars gas field (the world's largest), prompting Iranian retaliation against energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait, driving global oil and gas prices soaring and raising fears of a worldwide energy crisis.


Missile barrages continue to rain on Israeli cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa, while Israel deepens operations into Iranian territory, including naval strikes in the Caspian Sea. Casualties already exceed 2,000 across Iran, Lebanon, Israel, and other areas, with millions displaced and regional allies (Hezbollah, Houthis) increasingly drawn in. The U.S. has deployed additional forces, tankers and bombers, turning what Israel frames as existential self-defense into a grinding, resource-draining campaign that risks long-term attrition for American and allied militaries.



This conflict now raises profound questions:

Is it a straightforward decisive strike on Iran's regime, or a long-game maneuver for Israeli regional control, with something far more insidious in mind, where the U.S. is left bearing the heaviest costs in blood, resources, and global standing?


The evidence increasingly points to the latter. What began as targeted strikes has morphed into a grinding, open-ended war of attrition that disproportionately drains American military, economic, and political strength. All while positioning Israel as the unchallenged regional power once all the dust settles.


Let's break this down...


Military Depletion: Burning Through Stockpiles at an Unsustainable Rate

The U.S. military is expending precision munitions, interceptors, and aircraft at a pace that experts warn could leave it critically vulnerable for years. In the opening days alone, billions in advanced weaponry, Tomahawk missiles, Patriot and THAAD interceptors have been consumed. Analysts estimate daily munitions burn rates in the hundreds of millions, with some projections showing the U.S. could exhaust key stockpiles (like those for defensive systems) within weeks if the intensity continues.


This isn't merely a temporary setback. Replenishing these depleted systems demands a massive industrial ramp-up, yet the U.S. defense industrial base has been severely hollowed out by decades of outsourcing, corporate consolidation, and chronic underinvestment in domestic manufacturing capacity. The result? A stretched-thin force less prepared for other global flashpoints, from Ukraine aid to potential contingencies in East Asia or the Pacific, they are now solely focused on sustaining operations against Iran.


Allies feel the pinch too, as U.S. priorities shift and shared stockpiles dwindle. America's overreliance on limited, extremely expensive precision platforms designed for precision but not mass production, has created a vulnerability that no quick fix can resolve. Rebuilding would take years of sustained investment, workforce training, and supply-chain reshoring. Time the U.S. will not have if escalation continues or new threats emerge.


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Economic Hemorrhage: Trillions in Direct and Indirect Costs

Financially, the toll is staggering and accelerating. Pentagon estimates the first six days at $11–13 billion, with totals likely exceeding $18 billion by mid-March 2026 and climbing toward $50–200 billion or more if the conflict drags on. This doesn't include pre-war buildups, long-term veteran care, or replacement costs for lost hardware. The U.S. national debt has already surged past $39 trillion amid the fighting, with emergency supplemental requests potentially hitting $200 billion or higher.


Worse still are the indirect blows... Iran's retaliation strikes on Gulf energy sites, closing the Strait of Hormuz, and disruptions to oil/LNG flows, has driven Brent crude above $100–120 per barrel (up 40–50% since late February). This energy shock fuels inflation, raises gas and food prices, squeezes corporate margins, and risks a massive recession.


Global trade routes are choked, supply chains disrupted, and allies in Europe and Asia face even harsher hits. yet the U.S., as the primary military backer, absorbs the heaviest fiscal strain through direct spending and secondary economic fallout.


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Political and Strategic Erosion: Exhausting the Will to Fight

Politically, the war is eroding U.S. domestic support and global standing. Public fatigue from "endless wars" is resurfacing, with polls showing declining enthusiasm for prolonged involvement.


The conflict risks alienating key allies, straining relations with Gulf states hit by Iranian reprisals, and emboldening rivals like China. Who benefit from higher energy prices, diverted U.S. attention, and perceptions of American overreach.


Long-term, a depleted U.S. military and treasury could make Washington far less willing (or able) to intervene abroad in the future, exactly the outcome that aligns with a vision of unchallenged Israeli dominance in a reshaped Middle East, surrounded by weakened and compliant neighbors.


In essence, this war risks transforming the U.S. from global hegemon into a depleted enforcer, while Israel reaps the strategic gains of a neutralized Iran and a region remade in its image. The deeper the U.S. commits, the more it fulfills the role of unwitting proxy in a broader power play. So as strikes continue and off-ramps vanish, the true cost may only become clear in retrospect. A hollowed-out America, crowned not as victor, but as the exhausted guarantor of someone else's vision.


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Why Israel SECRETLY wants America to Lose this War - Prof Jiang Xueqin



Prof. Jiang Xueqin, the Beijing-based geopolitical analyst and host of the Predictive History channel, lays out a damning theory in his interview with Tucker Carlson:


Israel is orchestrating a cynical, long-term power grab through the ongoing Iran war, deliberately dragging the United States into a brutal, unwinnable war of attrition that bleeds America dry, militarily, economically, and politically, while paving the way for Greater Israel to emerge as the unchallenged hegemon of a devastated Middle East.


According to Jiang, Israel harbors an ancient, religiously fueled ambition rooted in the biblical promise from Yahweh to Abraham, to seize vast territories stretching from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates in Iraq, swallowing parts of multiple Arab nations. The current conflict with Iran is no accident or mere self-defense, it's a calculated maneuver to destroy Iran's capabilities, cripple the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states through Iranian reprisals and energy chaos, and force the U.S. to exhaust its resources until Washington has no choice but to withdraw from the region entirely.


With America gone, Israel would stand alone as the dominant power, surrounded by weakened, compliant neighbors reduced to vassal-like status, with their sadistic Greater Israel plans coming to fruition.


Jiang stresses that rational actors would seek de-escalation, but Israel's eschatological "fever", combined with Christian Zionist influence in the U.S. and shadowy networks, overrides logic. The result is a deliberate trap: America pays in blood, bankrupt treasury, eroded global standing, and domestic fatigue from yet another "endless war," while Israel reaps the strategic jackpot of a remade Middle East under its unchallenged control.




This was never a spontaneous clash between Iran and Israel, it is the deliberate final act of a decades-long Israeli master plan that began in the ashes of 9/11. As I exposed in my article “Benefiting from Chaos: How 9/11 Advanced Israel’s Agenda” (linked below), Israel has coldly used the United States as its disposable pawn, sacrificing American blood, treasure, and global standing to systematically destroy every neighboring Arab power that stood in its way.


From the engineered 2003 invasion and destruction of Iraq, through the engineered chaos in Libya and Syria, to the current total war on Iran in 2026, Washington has been repeatedly dragged into endless, bankrupting conflicts, all while Israel stayed safely on the sidelines, watching its rivals crumble and its own power swell. Each U.S. led campaign has cleared another obstacle, installed compliant vassal regimes, and advanced the Zionist dream of Greater Israel, an empire stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates, surrounded only by broken, submissive neighbors.


Now the plan reaches its triumphant climax: Iran, the last major adversary, is being ground into dust, the Gulf states are reeling from the fallout, and the United States militarily, depleted, economically hemorrhaging, and politically exhausted, is being deliberately discarded.


When the dust settles, Israel will stand alone as the unchallenged imperial bully of the Middle East, while America, having fulfilled its role as the ultimate useful idiot, collapses at the very hands of the power it empowered. The strategy has succeeded exactly as designed...



For more details on the Greater Israel and how post 9/11 events in the Middle East have advanced Israel's long-term strategic goals, check out my in-depth article:


"Benefiting from Chaos: How 9/11 Advanced Israel's Agenda."



Scroll to the bottom of the article for the dedicated Greater Israel section, where I break down the biblical roots, territorial ambitions (from the Nile to the Euphrates), Zionist advocacy (including figures like Netanyahu and Herzl), and how decades of U.S.-backed destabilization, starting with 9/11 and the War on Terror, have fragmented Israel's enemies, cleared paths for expansion, and aligned with this vision of regional dominance.

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