Futility of Nuclear Weapons. Detente with the Iranians. 6 29 2026
As you may remember, on 6 15 2026, I published an article about the war in Iran ending. It looked then like Donald Trump was done trying to overthrow the Persians. Things began to change then, and what looked like a defeat for Israel and the Americans, was continued.
Well the war was not done with. The grandiose ideas of putting the Shaw’s son to power, whose father Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was overthrown by the Islamic revolution there in 1979, is still being taken seriously by some.
I’m not going into detail about what the son of the Shaw Reza Pavlani does, but he is politically motivated to rule Iran, and it looked like he had a live one with the American bourgeoisie. According to Reuters he is pretty rough, there have been politically motivated murders attached to him, and hooliganism like attempting to have Iranian publican places fly the old Iranian flag.
Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have had to accept less lofty goals, as Iran refuses to give up. The jet aircraft bombings have not removed the government there, and the Iranians have shown their drones and missiles have been able to hit the Army’s planes, about 50 so far have been destroyed.
The manufacture of cheap drones, which require advanced anti missile defenses like Patriot missiles to knock down, are able to reach the other countries where the Army takes off its planes from, like Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), etc. They even have had some luck striking farther, but long range drones rarely work with missile defenses and modern capitalism warfare.
We can say though; each Patriot missile fired costs a million dollars. Iran’s drones cost a fraction of that, probably very little or next to nothing without a bomb in it. Every time they fire them it costs the Arabs millions of dollars in American weapons.
So things haven’t been so cost effective.
“WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – The cost of the United States’ war in Iran has risen to $37.5 billion so far, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday, as he faced skeptical lawmakers for the first time since heavy bombings resumed to seek urgent funding for the unpopular conflict.”
“With just six months before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump’s Republicans may face an uphill battle to keep their House of Representatives and Senate majorities, Democrats are riding high in public opinion polls as they attempt to link the unpopular Iran war with affordability.”
“Hegseth told lawmakers at a hearing in Washington that the $37.5 billion included certain aspects of the war as well as anticipated costs through September 30. “
“It was unclear how the Pentagon arrived at the figure. A source told Reuters in March that Trump’s administration estimated the first six days of the war had cost at least $11.3 billion.”
“Trump asked Congress last month for nearly $90 billion in additional funding, most of it related to the Iran conflict, setting the stage for another fight with lawmakers frustrated with the war and facing the November midterms.”
Reuters July 21st 2026
For someone who went into power promising to make government smaller, who with Elon Musk vowed to reign in excess spending, in particular the DOGE efforts, Trump has managed to tax another 90 billion dollars on the countries bill. Is this supposed to somehow reduce the cost of government? Is it getting any smaller in the pentagon?
Although there has been a smaller civilian government, the Army just keeps costing more and more. Trump has asked for 1 and a half trillion dollars for the military this year. It’s the largest amount in history. Yet we are supposed to believe government is shrinking not growing.
The first 6 days cost 11.3 billion dollars. It has been off and on, but is now 37.5 billion dollars, and Trump wants 90 billion more.
I was wrong to suggest the war was ending. One thing I am certain about though, is how stupid the Iranians would be to build an atomic bomb. Clearly they have shown that even without control of their skies they remain powerful, and able to send out drones and cause considerable damage ot petroleum facilities and US Army bases in Iraq and Kuwait.
A nuclear bomb has not been needed. Congress has already voted to end the war, Trump refuses to accept this even though some of his own Republican bourgeoisie voted for it. It is sort of in limbo; it passed without effect.
Afghanistan was also lost without the Taliban having nuclear weapons. If Iran was smart they would realize the futility of enriching uranium, and join the nonproliferation treaties. They should call Trump’s bluff, and give up enrichment and building a bomb. It would remove one of Trump’s supposed reasons for why he is attempting to make private property again Iran’s petroleum. That would be detente; Trump would be left with no spoils for his Persian adventure. Iran would lose nothing. If anything they could start really demoralizing the bourgeoisie by closing the Strait of Hormuz again, which also does not require atomic weapons. It make the ships voyages longer, and now Iran’s fiends the Houthis in Yemen are cutting off the Red Sea, meaning Saudi oil has to flow through the Mediterranean.
You can see where this ship of fools is going. A small spill in the Mediterranean would endanger the whole enterprise. Iran doesn’t even have to bomb the ship, with the quantity moving through a spill is inevitable. It is just a matter of when.
Trump is running out of options. He needs more money, and the reason for what he is doing is he is claiming to be stopping Iran from building an atomic bomb. Which we have seen would be true folly by the Persians. If it makes him happy to suggest he stopped Iran from getting the bomb, good for him. In the meantime, capitalist warfare technology is catching up on the aircraft and carrier ships paradigm. The hand of technological progress continues moving forward., even in Iran.
Nicholas Jay Boyes
MIlwaukee WIsconsin
American Democratic Republic
7 29 2026
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