World-War-Next is in motion!
What is World-War-Next? Pick your favorite historic milestone. Fall of Rome, The Nine Years War, American Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II - or another?
If you organize all of these as wars waged by the financial mavens, eventually the British Empire, against freedom loving peoples, you can see a different, untold history, where those with real wealth and power bet on both sides, manipulating their way to increase infinite power and wealth . . . all at the expense of We the People, global version.
Killing billions, stealing trillions.
In 2026, World-War-Next is a Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) where everything, especially information weaponry is in play.
Only hours into this very dangerous new chapter, into a war that many argue has lasted decades, there is little information presented to indicate whether the most consequential decision of the Trump presidency is trending to a great victory, or a trap to ensnare a noble agenda.
An intensive review of social media, mainstream press, open-source intelligence sites won't offer that much in determining which of these two paths we are on.
Why?
In this writer's opinion, there has never been a period where false information, propaganda, deep fakes, and censorship were more a part of the battlespace.
Perhaps the wisest perspective to assess the early moments of the Iranian campaign is:
"Not enough data available to assess."
Yet . . .
As the president announced "Operation Epic Fury" in the wee hours, the pre-written articles, social media posts, think tank papers were immediately dumped into the system.
Before the first jets returned, an interested reader or listener could read that President Trump was either the most brilliant and courageous wartime president, or that the U.S. was well on its way to an embarrassing quagmire that would bring humanity to the brink.
In reality, the only thing we could determine from the first hours is that the president had in fact, made a very serious, risk laden decision, whose outcome is not yet determined.
One can easily couple up to their ideologically favorite news source and buy in to a narrative that reenforces a bias, either pro or con, Trump Good/Trump Bad, etc.
Those who adopt this will quickly assume that this is a U.S. led Middle Eastern war with main belligerents being Iran and Israel.
Who needs critical thinking when you have CNN?
To subscribe to such simplicity is to ignore the rest of the 5GW variables:
- Rogue elements of government (Deep State)
- Epstein operations and fragmented disclosures
- Compromised politicians, judges, staffers, bureaucrats
- NGO laundered dark operations (DOGE exposed)
- U.K. resisting Venezuela and Iran operations
- Digital Services Act – European Union
- European globalists resist Ukraine diplomatic end
- War on cartels
- Election fraud U.S. and Europe
- COVID-19
- And . . . many more …
None of these things live in separate silos.
They are all the interlocking puzzle pieces of World-War-Next.
Are we looking at an undeclared war with Iran?
Or is it a more comprehensive war, for the future of humanity where the Trump administration takes on a craven City of London army of the most powerful who are deadly serious about their battle cry: "You will own nothing, and you will like it."
If you think this enemy isn't serious about 15-minute cities, depopulation and one-world-government, go look at the death toll in Ukraine.
To date not one globalist, WEF-anointed, European leader has lifted a finger to bring the war to an end: quite the opposite.
President Trump has been attacking at the very foundations of the most powerful like the vascular system of the financial mavens; the drug cartels whose tentacles enable all of their vast global crime empire. If you have departed the retail narrative, then think; where next, is this World-War-Next going?
They are desperate.
President Trump has effectively put a fire blanket on no less than eight potential global war flash points. Perhaps the highest imperative in the Trump strategy is to stop a false flag that ignites a much bigger war.
Back to Iran-Israel.
As this very dangerous war, in its infancy, evolves, the financial mavens who have deep histories of betting on both sides could well seek to induce an event with rogue actors, loyal to these global aims, well before their own nations.
If that is a concern of President Trump's, wouldn't it then make sense to send massive, overwhelming American power to the region to block any attempt to spiral the war to such a biblically prophesied place?
There is not enough data just yet.
World-War-Next is nearly 400 years old.
The real enemy: the ones whose families, wealth and power seek to move We the People to checkmate are pulling out all the stops to win now.
President Trump is not a perfect man. But he is in the way.
The Iran-Israel part of this ancient war could well be the final battle which might possibly spawn civil wars, revolutions, financial collapse and more.
Perhaps we should all pause before we can discern success from failure.
Brig Gen (ret) Blaine Holt is a former Deputy Representative to NATO, lifetime member on the Council on Foreign Relations, tech entrepreneur, host of the Dangerous Intellectuals podcast and Newsmax Contributor. The views presented are those of the author and do not represent the views of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, or its components. Read more Brig Gen (ret) Blaine Holt Insider articles — Click Here Now.
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