israel – Ecological Era

Role of Conflict in Society. Goals and Effects of This 5 12 2026

Donald Trump has been president for two terms now. His war machine now has attacked 3 countries, Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Iran. He is now calling what was the defense department the “Department of War”.

The war effort in Afghanistan did not work out; at least it brought home no capital. In Venezuela, Trump had a coup d’etat against Nicholas Maduro. It remains to be seen if a profit can be made pumping the oil there, assuming companies will be willing to take the risk of going there and working given nationalization could be the result.

Trump’s latest war against Iran, in a cease fire currently, has also not resulted in victory, like Afghanistan. In the latter the Americans spent a lot of money, and got no real return.

The purpose of war is, one, conquer the country and take anything you want, then, two, put the conquered population to work supporting the conquering country.

In Afghanistan only number one was achieved. There was no profit made there, this tells us the Americans and NATO did not win there.

At this point, Donald Trump’s Department of War looks like a non profit organisation. One may say adventures like Afghanistan and Iran are for the public good, but it remains to be seen if Iran is like Afghanistan, a large expenditure of capital and men with no profit coming home.

Our casino owner seems to have pious wishes. But pious wishes do not always bring popularity, and the bourgeois effort to conquer Iran is deeply unpopular, like Afghanistan towards the 20 year mark of war.

Don’s coup in Venezuela seems to have emboldened him to attack Iran. The result was Iran fought back, and now the Americans are getting no military help from NATO, who seems to have learned about Middle Eastern military adventures with the bourgeoisie.

Now that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices have doubled. The gains of war in Iraq, control by Chevron and ExxonMobil of the oil wells there, expropriated from their nationalized state by Americans, are now unable to ship through the Strait. Every day that goes by is a loss for ExxonMobil, it is unable to sell oil and make a profit.

Don feels he is helping society by attacking Iran. Even if he was, the fact of the matter is capitalists expect to make a profit anytime there is labor involved. And although war may seem unproductive, a profit can always be made employing the conquered population in capitalist factories.

But all we have ever seen with Don is a non profit effort, in Afghanistan and Iran.

It makes one wonder how much longer capitalists will tolerate this. With control of both Houses of Congress and the presidency, the Republican bourgeoisie can only blame themselves for their inability to bring home the capital from Iran. And they can blame Joe Biden for ending the war after 20 long years in a defeat, but it was Trump who made the peace agreements with the Taliban; Biden just honored them.

The mid term elections are coming, and the Republican bourgeoisie may lose its majority in the House of Representatives due to these factors. The Senate rarely falls, it is dominated by large landowners. They are reliably more reactionary than the big bourgeoisie, who sometimes support the radical democrats. The possibility of losing has sparked a desperate effort to draw new lines in voting districts to keep a Republican majority. It’s been most effective in the South, dominated by large landowners. Fear of nationalization of the land drives forward the most reactionary measures to control suffrage, for instance requiring people to show up to vote on the day of the election rather than just being mailed a ballot.

The Trumpers will only have themselves to blame if they lose the war in Iran. If it stops tomorrow, it remains a non profit effort by Don. Who will buy the weapons used, if they cannot achieve victory in a developing world country, with little resources?

That is how it stands, and time is ticking. The midterm elections could change the course considerably, but nothing will change if perfection is the only way a person votes. The radical democrats are the liberal progressive bourgeoisie, but in the past they have sided with the proletariat, for instance in Europe in 1940. The sentiment is not so strong today, but nevertheless they appear less extreme than the reactionary bourgeoisie. It remains to be seen if this can translate into victory for them. It is only by being flexible one will achieve change, unbending objects break when pressure is applied. Obstructionist tactics will not be effective, workers representatives are needed who can try to legislate change. This is not the end all result of worker organization, but begins to address the political movement. At this point obstructionism will only isolate the workers movement further. With elections coming Don’s machine could be dealt a decisive blow.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

5 12 2026

In respect to the conflict between Donald Trump. Benjamin Netanyahu, and Iran, it remains to be seen what will come of it. At this point it looks like a successful coup de tet, killing Ayatollah Khamenei, and many of his following who were in power.

But no territory was gained by Israel or America, indicating the lack of a clear victory.

And there is yet to be talk about American capital flowing into Iran, to employ the conquered people, with the goal of making a profit for America.

So it is not a victory yet. There is currently a cease fire agreement, but the American power is blockading Iran’s ports in the Strait of Hormuz, in retaliation for Iran stopping traffic there.

The strait carries massive quantities of oil to foreign markets, including all of Kuwait and Iraqi oil. At best Trump bombed some industry there that was pumping oil in Iran, I guess this looks like victory?

Israel has yet to remove Hamas from Gaza, even with F35 aircraft the Americans gave them. Hamas, with no air force, like Afghanistan, again shows the limitations of airplanes bombing cities. It has been more than 2 years now, Israel has yet to declare victory.

Yet Trump thought this same group was capable of easily conquering Iran, that have industry, and a population twice that of Iraq.

Clearly Trump picks winners. The way we will know if he won if the oil becomes property of ExxonMobil, like it did in Iraq. In which case, it brings home profit for the bourgeoisie, which says the adventure had a purpose rather than simple punishment with destruction of a developing world power.

It will be very difficult to secure the Strait of Hormuz if Iran decides to block it again, as it recently did. You would almost have to remove Iran from the coast, where they could attack boats they didn’t want in the strait.

And if the goal is simple destruction, it is too easy with a missile or grenade launcher to effectively stop the shipping companies from wasting their capital to traverse a dangerous strait when they can do business elsewhere without insurance needed for a trip through the passage,

OIl prices have almost doubled, and American industry is still building fossil fuel vehicles. The non metric trucks from Detroit cost a small fortune to commute in. They are feeling the pressure, as China continues to build electric cars, and the solar panels and wind power to recharge them. By 2030 about a third of China’s energy will be produced by renewable energy.

I guess if they win they get the Standard Oil monopoly’s fields back. But that cannot stop climate change, driving the economy to renewable energy. All the oil in the world cannot stop the fact that burning fossil fuels is damaging the ecology, causing the temperature to rise. It causes freak storms, high temperatures for short periods up north. It is a monster the likes of which no human has ever seen or had to live with.

And there is no question that if Iran’s oil returns to the bourgeoisie they will pump as much as possible, with little or no concern for ecology. At best they will create some surplus value for ExxonMobil, and it will come home to America.

If it stops now it is hard to call it a victory. They know that, and that is why more men are going there in the Army to fight. Nothing has been gained financially from bombing Iran, if anything closure of the Strait of Hormuz has cost capitalists money; the shipping companies cannot sail the ships, oil has doubled in value, and rebuilding Iran will cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

Trump looks like he has committed the young men to another endless war in the Middle East. They just never stop. Real estate there keeps motivating the bourgeoisie to attempt to conquer. This is no different than Iraq or Afghanistan, and the latter should show us the limitations of this style or warfare they think will easily win with.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

4 16 2026