By Mike Adams - March 13, 2026

Introduction

I am writing this in March 2026, as American and Israeli bombs are falling on Iran in a conflict President Trump promises will be brief [1]. But I do not believe the official justifications. In my view, we are being marched toward a catastrophic domestic false flag operation, engineered by elements of our own state, designed to sacrifice American lives on the altar of a forever war. This is not speculation; it is the recognition of a desperate, repeating pattern. The warnings about ‘Iranian drone’ threats are not intelligence — they are predictive programming for a coming atrocity meant to terrorize the public into full compliance. I believe we are on the precipice, and the target is us.

A History of Deception, A Pattern Repeating

The current drumbeat of warnings is not new. It is a well-worn script. The FBI has a long and documented history of manufacturing terror plots through entrapment, creating the very threats it claims to stop. As documented in the book ‘Shadows of Deception,’ the 1993 World Trade Center bombing involved the FBI switching an inert device for real explosives, resulting in an attack that killed six [2]. This blueprint of state-sponsored terror is not ancient history; it is the modus operandi of a corrupt institution that sees its own citizens as pawns.

When officials now warn of imminent Iranian terrorism on U.S. soil, we must view it through this lens. These are not credible threats, but the setting of a stage. As one analysis starkly put it regarding past government actions, ‘These covert operations are designed to appear as though they were carried out by other entities, thereby manufacturing public consent for political or military agendas’ [3]. The pattern is clear: create the crisis, then offer yourself as the only solution.

The Desperation of a Failing Empire

Why would the state turn on its own people? The answer lies in the stark reality of American decline. The strategic initiative has been lost. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical energy chokepoint, through which a significant portion of global oil flows [4]. In March 2026, President Trump felt compelled to order the U.S. Navy to begin escorting commercial tankers through the strait, a move I see not as strength but as a ‘desperate, deadly gambit’ by an administration that started a war it cannot finish [5].

The petrodollar system, the foundation of American financial dominance, is . . .

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