The wars in this world may seem far away. But the political leaders belonging to the G7 rich countries led by Trump and his Starmer-poodle - who have been holding their latest summit meeting in Canada - are all fully engaged in them.
For 6 days now the Israeli military has been pounding targets in Iran. And not one of these G7 leaders has said "stop". Instead, they use the word "de-escalate"...
Worse, the one leader who was in danger of losing his regime, due (only partly) to his final solution inflicted on the Palestinians of Gaza - that is, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu - is claiming that he is killing Iranians for their own sake, so that they can overthrow their "evil" regime! How the world is being turned on its head!
Whose regime needs changing?
So let us take a step back and try to understand this situation... Isn't the Israeli state the only nuclear power in the Middle East? Yet the fact of the matter is that its nuclear weapons are, up to now, a secret! Officially ithas none!
But possession of nuclear weapons is meant to act as a deterrent. The deal is that no country would use a nuclear bomb against another nuclear-armed country, because an exchange could result in mutual annihilation. But that "deal" depends on full disclosure!
So why does the Israeli state not disclose its own nuclear capability? Is it because itintends to use it? And it's worth remembering that when Donald Trump walked out of the Iran-nuclear treaty talks in 2018, it was at the behest of the Israeli government then led by this same Netanyahu...
Anyway, there was and is certainly no sudden danger from the Iranian regime's "nuclear" weaponry, given what is well-known about the state of its uranium enrichment and weaponisation capability. Or no new threat, anyway.
So in fact this lethal exchange of missiles, and much more lethal from the Israeli side - was only initiated in order to prop up the Netanyahu regime and nothing else.
In the meantime, the horror of Netanyahu's war against he Palestinians in Gaza is escalating if that were even possible. And again, (of course!) the G7 turns a blind eye, when it is not actually complicit.
Every day people - mainly men, because of the risk involved - are being killed just because they are trying to fetch aid from this so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US backed and funded outfit with its own security force. Yesterday it was 51 men shot, the day before it was 38. How or why, is utterly incomprehensible.
However this is also in the context where the Israeli Defence Force brazenly admits that it has armed criminal gangs in Gaza (for instance a former well-known drug mafiosi) supposedly to "fight Hamas", but certainly to act as brutal provocateurs.
Does Netanyahu really think anyone can find the scenario he paints, of Gazans overthrowing Hamas or Iranians overthrowing the Ayatollahs, even slightly plausible? No doubt Starmer and the other leaders would assist in such a travesty - aided by the M16, Mossad and the CIA...
No, "Iran" cannot win
Trump says "Iran is not winning". And that it should "talk". Of course "Iran" cannot win. The lopsided distribution of wealth and power in favour of - precisely - the G7, led by the US state, means no other country in the world can win wars. Not even if several get together in a bloc... like the so-called "axis of evil", as Russia China, North Korea and iran have been hypocritically described.
Of course using words like "evil" is to point a moral and mystifying finger. Never mind that power is wielded in this capitalist world simply and only by the size of a country's assefs - its wealth measured in GDP/head, which puts all of these "evil" ones in the poor country category.
As for the Israeli state, it is and always has been a western creation and as such is utterly dependent on its US/G7 sponsors. If it is perpetrating "war crimes" according to the imperialists' own "international law", so are they.
The working classes of this world can be sure of one thing. That they have no interest whatsoever in supporting any of these wars and proxy wars. And that if there is a danger facing any of us, that it comes from the capitalist class in crisis which has always used wars and the threat of wars to try to convince workers to accept a new turn of the screw against it.
Today the Starmer government doesn't even try to hide its austerity programme, although it has used the excuse of a "necessary" increase in defence spending given today's "uncertain world".
The so-called employment reforms which deputy PM Rayner promised are already diluted so much they will make little difference to the precarious state of today's working class youth. And indeed, this is the big issue facing all workers. But we can keep in mind that when we fight against the capitalists' latest turn of screw, we can also strike a blow for all those who are under the heel of this system in the rest of the world...