Epic Fury: the new normal

What incredible technology the patriots (missiles) have been, and lasers will soon do work of patriots – Trump speaking about Epic Fury at press conference in Florida on 10 March 2026.

John Curr’s article “So the new normal is …” tells a story of great-power wars and geopolitical instability. Smaller nations today are like birds trapped in a cage. The U.S. war against Iran 🇮🇷 has sent shockwaves through the global economy, destabilising finance and deepening uncertainty. Real recovery will not come from the oil wealth of the Gulf, but from ending Israel’s genocide in Palestine. The deeper question is moral as well as political: can humanity recover from a world that permits such brutality? And why would Australia choose to align itself with the United States and Israel in a criminal war that offers Australia no benefits—only grave risks?

“Trump’s trap”
The Labour government in the United Kingdom has lost its way by supporting Israel. The consequence, “So the new normal is …” argues, is that the only political beneficiaries of Keir Starmer’s failure will be Reform or the Greens. Anthony Albanese now appears to be following the same path—one that can only end in failure. Australia has little energy security, with less than three weeks of fuel reserves, and the financial shock is yet to come. So why would the Australian government fall into line with a group of war criminals?

The Canadian Prime Minister who seemed to have Trump’s measure over Greenland then folds on Iran saying: “Canada supports efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and said Canada would “stand by our allies.” – Mark Carney choosing the wrong side of history by siding with the U.S. against Iran rather than defending international law.

— Ian Curr, Editor, 9 March 2026

So the new normal is …

The cover story for U.S. global hegemony is blown. The Pax Americana lie has been put to rest. Surely, now the veil has been drawn from the eyes of the American people. Internally, their showbiz-style electoral democracy has been shown to be nothing more than something to be bought by the highest bidder. It has delivered a narcissistic clown to the Presidency—a humiliation to most Americans. He is in the process of destroying the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. He is also dismantling international institutions built to shield us from the scourge of war and declaring that he is not bound by international laws to which his country is a signatory. The U.S. Congress and Senate are impotent logjams, conducting interminable debates between narrow guardrails.

One percent of Americans own 30% of the wealth. Fifty percent of Americans own 2.5% of the wealth. Poverty, hardship, and despair abound. The disparity in wealth and power perpetuates a false national narrative, which further extends the disparity in wealth and power in the United States, rendering it effectively an oligarchy—one which now eschews the U.S. citizens’ constitutional rights-based bulwark against tyranny.

For 36 years, the U.S. has been the sole global hegemon. Its economic and military power has enabled it to consume more than it produces and its government to spend more than it taxes. The rest of the world carries the burden of producing the shortfall.

Since the end of the Second World War, the U.S. has conducted its foreign relations in a duplicitous manner, using the discretionary application of its claimed rules-based order—punishing its competitors and opponents and granting impunity to its compliant allies.

Until now, the U.S. modus operandi has often been concealed or justified by the Deep State apparatus and Western propaganda. The current U.S. administration is so incompetent and so imbued with a sense of impunity that it is acting overtly and declaring its intention to engage in the raw exercise of power to pursue the interests of its oligarchs.

If a country has a government which the U.S. administration declares to be tyrannical or authoritarian or “socialistic” (whether that declaration is well-founded or not), it will attack that country through the following methods:

• By imposing sanctions against the country (and its leaders), prohibiting U.S. citizens and corporations from dealing with that country.
• By imposing sanctions against the country (and its leaders), prohibiting other countries, their citizens, and corporations from dealing with the sanctioned country under pain of exclusion from access to the huge and powerful U.S. economy and the U.S. dollar—the major currency of international trade. All acts which impinge upon the sovereignty of other nations.
• By blockading access to and from the target country through various means, such as denying shipping access to U.S. ports and other ports throughout the world which are controlled by or subject to the U.S.
• By blockading access to and from the target country by attacking or threatening to attack shipping transporting goods to and from the target country.
• By means of sanctions and blockades, undermining and degrading the economy and government-provided social supports (health, education, etc.) of the target country and impoverishing its citizens, denying them the necessities of life as a means of generating disaffection for the government. At the same time, it publishes in the Western media a narrative which blames the disintegrating economy of the target country entirely on the incompetence, corruption, and “socialistic” tendencies of the government.
• By infiltrating the target country and its dissident groups with agents provocateurs to elevate the dissidents and prepare for and pursue violent insurrection.
• By financing dissident groups and influencers inside and outside the target country to spread misinformation about the government or the target country.
• By providing financial incentives and even comparative wealth to individuals to take up a dissident cause and to destabilize the government of the target country.
• By providing weapons and training to dissident groups and encouraging them to undertake violent insurrection.
• By infiltrating moderate groups with large memberships who have legitimate grievances against their government and influencing them with misinformation, provocation, and false promises of support from the U.S. to undertake mass protests.
• By seeding crowds in mass protests with violent agents provocateurs who undertake violent attacks on police or government supporters to provoke a violent response from them and repressive measures against dissidents, which the U.S. and Western press then denounce as evidence of the illegitimacy of the government of the target country.
• By publishing false and exaggerated accounts of conflict within the target country and encouraging disaffected members of the diaspora to demonstrate against the target country.
• By declaring the government of the target country illegitimate as justification for a military attack on the country and assassination of its leaders.
• By bombing and shelling the target country, destroying its infrastructure and killing its military and many of its citizens, thereby reducing its capacity to resist or defend the country, its citizens, and its very existence. This creates a breakdown of law and order, failure of institutions, and destruction of families—an environment of chaos which breeds violence and corruption.
• By installing a regime which is subservient to the U.S., made up of opportunistic individuals who are attracted by wealth and the trappings of power.
• By imposing institutions with a culturally foreign and ignorant ethos to provide aid in a way which shores up the puppet government and provides avenues for corruption both in the country and in the U.S.
• By enabling the puppet regime to establish powerful security services to carry out, with impunity, the brutal suppression of any surviving or nascent nationalist organizations or movements.
• By establishing U.S. military bases and a security presence in the country to shore up the puppet regime and to ensure that U.S. dictates to the puppet regime are enacted without demur.
• By insisting that the puppet government permit unregulated incursion by U.S. and Western corporations and businesses to allow them to take advantage of any resources and economic opportunities within the target country and to “repatriate” the profits to the U.S. and Western countries (thereby establishing the modern form of colonialism).

The U.S. regime has gone rogue. It must be isolated by a coalition of the world’s nations with a campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, excluded from international institutions and opposed by all if it seeks to impose its will by military force. The nations of the Earth must suffer the economic pain of its divorce from the U.S. and restructure international institution which genuinely seek to protect us from the scourge of war and which foster international cooperation in trade and preservation of the planet for the good of all.

John Curr
9 March 2026