Will Chickens Come Home to Roost?
Published at 07:49 on 11 March 2026
I couldn’t figure out how to work this into my previous piece, so I figured I’d post it separately.
Anyhow, there is a very real risk that Iran may well decide to bring the war home to the U.S.A. via unconventional means. In other words, terrorism.
This would be a risky strategy for Iran because it might not weaken U.S. resolve (which, conveniently for Iran, is already on the low side) the way they may think it might. Most of the world knows — correctly — that the U.S. voting public is not exactly known for its great knowledge of the world outside their own national borders. (This is probably deliberate on the part of the U.S. ruling class, as enables pro-empire politicians to win elections they otherwise would not, but I digress.) Anyhow, this means that if the attacks come, they may well be perceived as random acts depravity instead of the easy-to-anticipate retribution they actually are.
That same populace is also not known, contrary to popular mythology, for its great love of freedom or its distrust of government power. The U.S.A. has for decades been the world’s number one jailer of its own people. Questioning this is regarded, within the U.S. political spectrum, as a distinctly odd minority position. We have, in other words, a culturally meek and submissive people, desirous of order imposed from above, and averse to independent thought: in short, the sort well-primed to submit to the authority of a dictator. (There is a gun culture and a lot of role playing around it that runs directly counter to this, but its largely hollow and performative nature is best exhibited by how the vast preponderance of its members are loyal devotees of Trump.) This in fact explains a lot of how Trump has been able to be successful and accepted as a politician.
So Trump may well get to pull a Hitler, declare an emergency in response to the attacks, and get to be the dictator he has always dreamed of being, all with surprisingly little resistance. Or perhaps not — it’s not as of the US/Israel war against Iran is little known amongst the public.
My point is mainly that we don’t know. A wave of retaliatory attacks may well come, and they could just as easily serve to solidify fascist rule as they could to undermine it.