Last Friday, things were looking pretty grim for world peace.

The Radical Islamist F***wads who rule over Iran had incited an attack on sovereign American soil, in a very uncomfortable reminder of the 2012 assault on America’s mission compound in Benghazi, Libya. The Iranian-backed, Iranian-instigated mob broke into the US Embassy in Baghdad and ransacked the outer compound. They even went so far as to spray-paint the name of the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, on the walls.

Shortly after that attack, which was an unmistakable and absolutely undeniable act of war, made by a regime that has been at war with the USA since 1979, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei basically laughed at America and said that the Great Satan couldn’t do anything to Iran in response.

Evidently, His Most Illustrious, Noble, August, Benevolent, and Legendary Celestial Majesty, the God-Emperor of Mankind, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus Astra, the First of His Name, had other ideas, because pretty much right after Mullah McBeardy mocked him, he personally authorised a Reaper drone to fire a guided missile straight up the ass of said Quds Force commander as he was visiting Baghdad airport.

As if that wasn’t enough, apparently the warhead that sent General Soleimani to jannah to fornicate with 72 raisins virgins – all of whom are undoubtedly dudes who suffered premature detonations themselves – was of foreign manufacture.

As I have remarked before, it would have been truly hysterical if the forensics investigators who had to perform the unenviable task of scraping the good General’s carbonised remains off the nearest wall, found fragments of the missile casing with the words, “Made In China” stenciled on them.

Tensions in the region immediately shot up to very near the breaking point. There was a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth about how President Trump had doomed us all, ordered the assassination of a political figure, set a dreadful new precedent, and brought us right to the brink of nuclear war.

Yet it became apparent very quickly that the God-Emperor had in fact ordered a highly surgical decapitation strike designed to send an extremely clear message to an enemy that only understands and respects strength.

And that message was very, very simple:

DO NOT F**K WITH THE GOD-EMPEROR.

Evidently the message was received and digested properly, because Iran’s response has proven to be basically “a tale full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, told by an idiot”.

The Persians launched a bunch of projectile weapons at Iraq, aimed at American installations – but they alerted the Iraqi government a full hour before launching, thereby allowing everyone in the target zone to get to safety in plenty of time:

Iran‘s ‘crushing revenge’ strike against the US largely failed to materialise Wednesday as the country launched 22 missiles against two American airbases in Iraq but failed to kill a single solider.

While it appears some missiles failed to explode on impact or missed their targets altogether, US and European intelligence sources said the regime deliberately pulled its punches for fear of provoking a ‘disproportionate’ response threatened by President Trump.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi said Iran warned him about the attack on the Ain al-Asad and Erbil airbases an hour before they took place, allowing Iraqi and US troops to take shelter, while Finland and Lithuania said they were also informed to get their soldiers to safety.

Trump had threatened a large-scale attack against Iran, including on cultural sites, if Iran chose to kill US personnel in revenge for the killing of General Qassem Soleimani in a US strike last week. As the dust settled overnight he tweeted saying ‘so far so good’ and ‘all is well’.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei subsequently described the attacks as a ‘slap in the face of America’ though admitted they were ‘not enough’ to avenge Soleimani.

In a televised address he promised Iranians that the true revenge would be kicking US forces out of the Middle East altogether, but did not announce any further strikes.

Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted that the attack had ‘concluded’ while praising Iran’s ‘proportionate’ response, adding: ‘We do not seek escalation or war.’

Furthermore, His Majesty the God-Emperor noted immediately after the attacks that “all is well” – before any serious damage assessment could take place.

How the hell could he possibly have known that no serious damage had been done, and no lives had been lost, unless he expected this to happen, thanks to a direct alert from the Iraqis that an attack was coming?

Parse all of these statements and points, and it becomes very clear that the God-Emperor has pulled off a strategically brilliant move here.

Here is what I think is happening. Bearing in mind that I have absolutely no qualifications as a strategic analyst and political commentator, other than the ability to add 2 and 2 and come up with 4, at least some of the time, this is what I reckon is going on.

The Iranians thought that they could push America and the Western powers around. They watched the President taking massive political attacks from the Daemoncrats and assumed – incorrectly – that he was in a weakened political position.

There is a cultural reason for this that Westerners might have a hard time understanding.

You see, the Persians come from a tradition of god-kings and religious rulers. They don’t understand democracy and never have. The very idea makes absolutely no sense to them. And as far as they are concerned, the supreme leader’s authority is unquestionable. If he is so weak as to have his authority questioned to the point where his own government’s hold on power is threatened, then he will be weak, distracted, and in no position to respond effectively to Iranian aggression.

The Iranians have ample precedent for believing this. They remember quite well the utter disaster that was Operation Eagle Claw, the attempt launched by President Carter to rescue the hostages from the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. That failure was due in large part to significant lack of cooperation and communication between the various branches and forces under their command, and led directly to the creation of USSOCOM. It also helped cost President Carter the 1980 election.

The Persians also remember quite well what happened after Islamists stormed the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 – a raid in which 4 Americans died, two of them Navy SEALs and one of them a fully credentialed American ambassador. That was an outright act of war, but President Odoofus’s response was so weak-kneed, craven, pathetic, and supine that the mullahs realised that they could push America around pretty much at will.

Events since then had not really changed their perception. Iranian special forces were able to hijack a couple of British merchant vessels in July last year, and the response of the Western powers was pretty much nothing more than threats – because the USA and UK knew quite well that they could not risk naval operations in the Straits of Hormuz without putting thousands of their own sailors at serious risk of attacks by Iranian diesel-powered submarines.

The Iranians have a formidable submarine fleet of around 34 vessels, 7 of which are diesel-electric attack submarines They bought three from the Russians back in the 1990s when the broke-ass Russkies were selling off their old Kilo-class subs as fast as they could ship them from Murmansk and other ports.

The Kilo-class sub is a lethal opponent against even the most technologically advanced aircraft carrier. At any speed up to 3 knots, the Kilo is essentially silent in the water and undetectable by most passive sonar arrays. That means that it has the potential ability to sneak up undetected on a US carrier group and sink several ships – including a nuclear-powered carrier, the vaunted and feared symbol of American might and naval force projection.

It is against this backdrop of geopolitical calculations that the Iranians decided to push their luck and see where they could get.

The problem is that they didn’t realise that the President has changed, and so too have the rules of the game.

No longer does America have a weak intellectual in charge. This time around, the President is a man who, by his own admission, loves a good fight and stands up for himself and his people.

The result was that one of their top generals got splattered all over the wall of an airport in Baghdad.

Now this is where it gets really interesting.

The Iranian leadership respects only strength. They know damned well that their domestic economy is screwed. They understand quite clearly that their imperial ambitions in the Middle East are faltering. The Sunni kingdoms of the region have all turned against them. The Iraqis, their nearest Shi’ite neighbours, hate their guts and don’t want Persian interference in Arab affairs. The Islamic caliphate of ISIS is actually a serious existential threat because the top leadership of ISIS views Shi’a Islam as a heresy of the faith.

For all of their bearded Islamic stupidity, the mullahs know perfectly well that they are in no real position to fight a serious war. They would likely eventually lose a ground war against the American military, but they could bleed their enemy dry in the process, to the point where the American public would simply clamour to bring the troops home and eject President Trump from office.

Only one problem: the God-Emperor has shown very clearly through a highly surgical and targeted strike that he isn’t going to get suckered into fighting yet another pointless, useless, unwinnable ground war in the Middle East.

Instead, the God-Emperor showed quite plainly that he is more than willing to target Iran’s top leadership in retaliation for their mischief. He then doubled down on this position by telling the mullahs that if they attempted to kill any more Americans, they would lose 52 of their most important military and civic installations.

That number is highly symbolic. It is the number of hostages that the Iranians captured from the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979. Plainly, the God-Emperor understands symbolism and knows how to use it.

And that brings us to the position we are in now, where the God-Emperor has plainly called Tehran’s bluff. He has shown that he will not back down from a fight – but that he will not seek WWIII either. He has proven that he is capable of extremely violent, yet precise and appropriate, responses against Iranian aggression. And he has given them a serious bloody nose, because their military leadership has a big hole in it that will prove difficult to fill. It will take Soleimani’s successor some time to build up the same reputation, level of contacts, and personal cult of personality that Soleimani himself commanded.

Meanwhile, the God-Emperor has also made it very clear that he wants to get American troops out of Iraq. This dovetails perfectly with what Iran wants. There are roughly 5,000 or so of those troops left. Once they are gone, the Iraqis will be on their own and forced to fend for themselves.

Never mind that the Iraqi people can’t much tolerate Persian interference and don’t want Iranians meddling in their politics. All that matters to them is that their hated enemy will no longer be interfering in Iraqi affairs.

The Iraqis also want American troops out of their country, and in all honesty America should certainly give them their wish and just GFTO already. Enough American blood and treasure has now been spilled in the region. The God-Emperor has every right to simply declare victory, pack up, tell the Iraqis to foot the bill for that big-ass base that the Yanks have built, and bring the troops home – to stand on the southern border and send a 50-cal bullet up the ass of any illegal alien trying to cross over from Mexico.

What we have is therefore a very theatrical attempt by all of the various sides in the situation to get to one mutually agreeable outcome: the end of the American imperial presence in the Middle East.

Now, be honest: how many of us thought that was possible as recently as this weekend?

Certainly almost none of the talking heads on the news (((media))) did. Virtually all of them were screaming bloody murder about how the God-Emperor had sentenced the world to death by nuclear fire and war.

But it is becoming increasingly clear that war is not in the offing.

The Iranians tried to sneak up on the God-Emperor and steal his shoes while he wasn’t looking. He punched them hard enough to break their collective nose. Their response amounted to a rent-boy’s slap across the face, followed by a behind-the-back return of said shoes.

If this isn’t strategic genius at work, I don’t know what is.

The God-Emperor is far, far better a President than America deserves at this point. The more I see him working the foreign policy stage – the area of American policy where he has by far the most power – the more I am convinced that he is truly a brilliant chess player and negotiator. He has had a few missteps, certainly, but his overall achievements are staggering. He has done what his two previous predecessors never could, and has forced and forged mutually respectful relationships with Russia, China, North Korea, and now Iran.

Neither Dubya nor Odumbass could ever manage these things. They were always hoodwinked and suckered in by their own globalist ambitions. By sticking to sound nationalist principles, the God-Emperor has avoided the pratfalls of his predecessors and has instead put America right back where she belongs – as a respected friend and feared adversary that nonetheless has no interest in picking fights with people.

That is astonishing. Pray God that he keeps doing whatever he’s doing right now.