Iran War Consequences: West Unprepared to Beat Dictatorships

April 2, 2026April 9, 2026

A month of war with Iran clearly showed leading democratic countries of the world never thought to study Ukraine’s 4-year war and draw useful conclusions from it. This confirms the old truth that generals always prepare for the last war. But politicians and military-industrial complexes of these countries don’t prepare even for the last war. One of the clearest consequences of the Iran war is exposing how authoritarian regimes wage total war without moral limits while democracies handicap themselves with civilizational rules.

Iran can’t be called a technologically advanced military state. But Iran quite successfully opposes two very militarily developed states — the USA and Israel. Iranian methods of counteraction are essentially terrorist in nature. They’re directed not against USA and Israel military force but against civilian populations of all Gulf countries and the world economy. And therefore, these inhuman methods are extremely effective. Combat methods of the Rabid Federation and combat methods of Iran clearly showed authoritarian and dictatorial countries of the “axis of evil” (Russia, China, Iran, DPRK) won’t limit themselves in any way in destroying civilian populations of any states, even ones not involved in war.

Destroying civilian populations doesn’t have to be direct, for example by bombing. You can destroy living conditions, making territory unsuitable for life. The Rotten Federation did this, destroying energy infrastructure of Ukrainian cities and villages during terrible frosts. Iran promises to do this, openly threatening to strike power plants and water desalination stations in Gulf countries. Iran has both means of turning these threats into reality and determination to do it.

Why Can’t Win Fighting in White Gloves

We don’t forget Iran’s leadership forces giving orders to launch drones and missiles are religious fanatics. They’re incapable of thinking in categories of rationality and adequacy. Like Khuilo¹ with his gang — only there it’s not religion but Lenin with Stalin and Rurikids. The main mistake of world democracies is that even today they consider it appropriate to talk with assatollahs² or Khuilo from positions of reason, rationality, and benefit.

The war in Ukraine didn’t influence democracies’ understanding of the fact that the Kremlin doesn’t think in categories of expediency. For the sake of destroying Ukraine and Ukrainians, the Kremlin lays thousands of its Orcs³ in the ground daily and kills Russia’s prospects for generations forward. The West, especially the USA with Trump administration, never understood this. Therefore, they started war with Iran repeating the same mistake — waging war with Assatollahs from positions of rationality and expediency. By the way, Israel made the same mistake, fighting Hamas and Hezbollah in white gloves.

The USA and Israel try to observe civilizational and moral rules of waging war. Don’t hit civilians, don’t destroy civilian infrastructure, don’t hit neighbors. But the Rabid Federation and Iran don’t limit themselves with any moral rules at all.

Israel and the USA should have looked at least a little at events in Ukraine. When in 2022-2024 Ukrainians sat without light and gritted their teeth, Orcs joyfully watched war on TV and were proud of Khuilo. Strikes on Russian refineries caused diarrhea in USA and EU politicians. But in 2025, and especially now in 2026, when Ukraine started turning off lights in entire Rotten Federation oblasts, Orcs sharply changed their opinion to “but what did we do to deserve this?”

Knife vs Gun Doesn’t Work

With this example I want to show you can’t wage war against scum humanely. You must wage it mirror-like. Knife against pistol doesn’t work. Against pistol you need minimum a pistol, better yet an assault rifle. Understanding the consequences of the Iran war means democracies must abandon white gloves and fight mirror wars against regimes that recognize no limits.

Stopping or freezing war in Ukraine won’t change anything because the Rabid Federation will lick wounds and prepare for even bigger war. The only normal solution: federation collapse into independent national states and complete liquidation of its nuclear arsenals. Everything else won’t work.

Same with Iran. Stopping war right now won’t automatically return to status quo as it was before war. Iran will continue blocking sea routes, demanding money for passage, threatening neighbors, and creating nuclear weapons. Very likely also taking some Gulf countries under full control. This will lead in the future to a real, already nuclear catastrophe.

What Germany and Japan Taught Us

Eighty years ago Germany stopped fighting when its cities and industry turned into rubble, despite civilian population losses. Japan stopped fighting after nuclear bombing. History repeats, only on a new development turn. Without total destruction of “axis of evil” countries, wars won’t stop but will only expand. “Axis of evil” countries learned perfectly to use democracy flaws and developed countries’ inhabitants’ thirst for peaceful quiet and well-fed life. The West’s attempts to “not notice”, “democratize”, “mutually beneficially trade” with dictatorial regimes will lead only to evil strengthening and democracy countries’ decline. War between democracies and dictatorships already started and so far democracies are losing. They lose because democracies fight in white gloves. For Western democracies, as for Ukraine, the rule “change or die” is now more relevant than ever.

Regime stability both in Moscow and in Tehran is in one thing — money. As soon as the dollar flow stops, both these cesspools will stop wars and crumble along national borders. But the West stubbornly allows Iran to continue receiving dollars. Moscow gets a third of energy sales revenue. The long-term consequences of the Iran war will mirror Ukraine: unless democracies cut off dictatorships’ money flows completely, wars will multiply and spread.

Moreover, with each year of war in Ukraine, the situation in the EU also worsens. Stopping war on Pootin’s terms, with Ukraine’s destruction as an independent state, will lead to complete catastrophe in the EU. All adequate EU leaders understand this — precisely why they finance Ukraine. But simultaneously these same countries stuff the Rabid Federation with money for continuing war.

When Wealthy Citizens Matter More Than Danger

Now from EU countries and especially from the USA come requests and signals to stop strikes on the Kremlin’s oil industry. Because crisis approaches and wealthy EU and USA citizens start earning less. We think about our survival and work precisely on our own survival. But Europeans and Americans think about elections and cheap gasoline. They don’t think about armed barbarians on the border ready for invasion. Therefore, we’ll survive, but what will happen to those unprepared?

Attempts to use Rotten Federation frozen assets for financing Ukraine showed all the impotence of developed EU democracies. But UAE without extra meetings and expressions of concern simply took and confiscated 500 billion Iranian dollars as compensation for damage inflicted on the Emirates. Fast, decisive, without extra snot. But UAE not only confiscated money – they also expelled all Iranians from the country and canceled all visas including “golden visas”.

European leaders will say this isn’t according to law and you can’t confiscate money like that. But precisely therefore Europeans lose the battle with dictatorships. War a priori cancels all laws. Especially war with Orcs or Assatollah fanatics with Apocalypse cult. The final consequences of the Iran war are becoming clear: democracies that prioritize law over survival will lose to dictatorships that recognize no rules.

¹Khuilo – the most popular nickname for Russian dictator V. Putin. First used during the 2014 invasion, and since 2022 most Ukrainians call him only that. See more on Wikipedia.

²Assatollahs – sarcastic term used for Iran’s regime and IRGC. Offensive? Yes. Context matters when they supply Shahed drones used to kill civilians.

³Orcs – a common term for Russians who support or participate in the armed aggression against Ukraine. Dehumanizing? Yes. Accurate? Also yes.