EDITORIAL
The U.S., with Its Ally Israel, Pulls the World’s Peoples into World War III

Mar 30, 2026

What follows is the editorial that appeared on the front of all SPARK’s workplace newsletters, during the week of March 22, 2026.

When the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, they kicked in the door opening onto World War III.

Of course, Trump had excuses for starting the war against Iran. Warmongers always do.

He reproached Iran’s regime for killing its own people, imprisoning thousands of them.

Both true, but if this reasoning were followed, the U.S. should have been attacking Israel, given the slaughter that Israel carried out in Gaza. Other countries should have been attacking the U.S., given the numbers the U.S. imprisons.

No. The U.S./Israeli bombardment of Iran was an unprovoked war. The U.S. hadn’t been invaded. Iran posed no real threat. It had no missiles that could hit the U.S., no nuclear weapons in hand, unlike the U.S., which is the only country ever to have used such a weapon.

To launch the war against Iran was a choice, a conscious choice, a deliberate choice.

That’s only a way to say that this war is a product of U.S. policy, not just Trump’s policy, but the policy of the U.S. capitalist class. If the rulers of this capitalist society were opposed to Trump’s war, he would have been sliding out of the White House on his rear, his golden baubles with him.

Today, the whole world is being battered by a long-term financial crisis. The economy of this country is not immune.

The major part of the American capitalist class is doing well, individual capitalists make money speculating on AI ventures, crypto and real estate. Corporations are paying out more money to stockholders than they make in profit—and they are putting their companies in hock to do it. But the productive economy is running only tepidly. Debts are piling up: corporate debt, government debt. And the population is choking on debt.

The economies of the U.S. and China are closely tied to each other, dependent on each other. And yet, China and the U.S. are in an increasingly poisonous competition with each other.

Economists wonder how long this contradictory situation can go on. In other words, when will it break out in war?

Such a war may still be off in the future. But U.S. capitalism, with Trump acting for it, is clearing up some loose ends today. It is trying to impose discipline on countries which diverged even a bit from where U.S. capitalism is heading.

Iran is one of those countries, as was Venezuela, as is Cuba, as is Russia, not to mention much of the Middle East, which sits at the hub of world trade. Its oil and natural gas is not only needed for transport, but is key for the production of fertilizer and of helium for semiconductors.

And what about Greenland and Canada? Are Trump’s threats to them just Trump being Trump? Another Art of the Deal? Maybe. But Trump being Trump is the front man U.S. capitalism needed on its road to World War III.

Trump has spent the last year trying to discipline the U.S. population, preparing us to accept wars people don’t want. Opponents are tied up in lawsuits and criminal cases, which eventually are thrown out of court—but not until the people attacked have wasted a lot of time and money. Opponents of the wars or of Trump’s other policies are accused—unofficially—of treason. But laws from World War I targeting “sedition” are being dusted off to use again—officially.

The attack on immigrants is key to the disciplining of the whole population. Today, one part of the working class is cut out, isolated from the rest of our class. ICE, a military force, is thrown into the cities; concentration camps are set up in warehouses and tents; legal rights are denied.

Capitalism is showing its hand. A world at war will mean a devastating war at home.

We should not let ourselves be taken by surprise.