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5/28/2026 US-Israeli Imperialism and Iran: The Fault Lines of Global Hegemony By: Emrick BenedictoRead Now Our generation is faced with the rapid breakdown of a global order established over 80 years ago - an order which, in the past 30 years, has seen the rise of the US empire to the status of global hegemon. The confrontation of this reality is, more apparently by the day, the only universal in modern politics. In the United States and Canada - two regions comprising a greater American consciousness - the destruction of the Empire represents the new fixed point around which all politics is centered, drawing the lines of dissolution and reform of all preceding platforms. In the coming world, the divisive element lies not within the culture war, but about it - a society partitioned between those who agree amongst themselves to carry on the fight for empty ideals, and those who reject the fantastic nihilist ontology which has defined our collective reality thus far. As with the evolution of any natural system, the progression of our social reality is measured in time. The inevitable transition from the existing state to its successor is best understood as continuous, not discrete. We presently find ourselves in the period between identifiable states, during which the former bestows itself upon the latter, characterized by an apparent chaos amidst a crisis of identity. This crisis, which now presents itself at all levels of social life, embodies a paradoxical ambiguity - and subsequent clarity - of purpose. As the mythos of liberalism digests itself, our institutions are stripped of their public raison d’être, laying bare their authentic material function [1]. For the task of legitimizing imperialism, the so-called “rules-based order” has given way to the principle of “might makes right”. The sword of US hegemony, namely the multifarious institutions with which it wages hybrid warfare, no longer poses itself as a shield (a change literally reflected in the renaming of the US “Department of Defense” to the “Department of War” by executive order). There has been no better representative of this emergent order than the joint US-Israeli terror campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Launched in absence of any justification, the failed regime change operation has eradicated any shred of doubt regarding the true intentions of the United States. Iran and its Axis of Resistance are the only remaining regional powers which legitimately challenge US and Israeli interests, and for that reason their subjugation is a prerequisite to the completion of the zionist project. However, following the martyrdom of Ayatollah Khamenei and its failure to produce a regime change, it’s become apparent that Iran’s subjugation will demand its destruction, the “[death of] a whole civilization”. The continued existence of the Islamic Republic has proven essential to Iran’s sovereignty, and its hypothetical collapse may now only be understood in light of foreign intervention. Thus, challenges to the legitimacy of the Republic cannot be meaningfully delineated from the efforts to strip Iran of its sovereignty altogether through means of indiscriminate terror. Those who claim to oppose US-Israeli aggression while simultaneously calling for Iran’s immediate reconstitution have, in effect, only aligned themselves with the “moderate” wing of imperialism. They are critical of the means, but not so much the ends, of the current administration’s designs for Iran; indeed, Trump’s betrayal of the movement which elected him lies in the continuity of his objectives with those of the prior establishment. Trump’s administration only distinguishes itself from his predecessors’ in adapting its methods to America’s current political reality: that of imperial collapse. In this manner, the administration is also agentic in the downfall of US hegemony, its volatility mirroring the violent thrashing of a cornered beast. In its death throes, the imperial machine turns to increasingly drastic measures to fuel itself, though such efforts serve only to delay its demise. The United States seeks to continue its global rampage, for which its recent actions in Iran serve as a template. Any capitulation by the Islamic Republic is tantamount to a capitulation of the whole of West Asia, signaling that the US may then safely expand its efforts elsewhere. Iran’s perseverance thus far has already significantly limited the prospects of the US-Israeli military adventure, casting doubt on narratives of the omnipotent Air Force. Even so, the final chapter of the American empire is yet to be written in full, and the still-undetermined outcome of the war in Iran will prove essential in its dictation. This is a decisive moment in a global conflict, drawing the lines along which it will be fought in every theater. It is only a matter of time until the pedophilic regime turns its imperial apparatus on the American people, by which point the petty politics upon which our public discourse has long fixated will have already ceded all meaning. The only distinction bearing any relevance to our collective future is that of standing with, or against, the Epstein class. Footnotes
Author Emrick Benedicto, ACP Ontario Cadre Archives May 2026
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