The script of perpetual war unfolds simultaneously across four global fronts — Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and Venezuela — where the Pentagon’s machinery manufactures crisis, denies evidence, and transforms sovereignty into targets for regime change under interchangeable pretexts of terrorism, nuclear threats, and drug trafficking. While the families of Khorly, on the Black Sea, were toasting the New Year with children amid laughter and hopes for the year ahead, three Ukrainian drones struck a café and a hotel packed with civilians celebrating, igniting a fire over five hundred square meters that killed twenty-seven people — including two children — and wounded thirty-one, many of whom were burned alive or asphyxiated by carbon monoxide, trapped in what had been a place of celebration and became a deadly trap where death worked with ruthless efficiency.
Moscow Accuses Kyiv of Terrorism
The Ukrainian army carried out the drone attack on the coastal settlement of Khorly, in the Russian-controlled Kherson region, where civilians were celebrating the New Year, and the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for “terrorist attack,” while the Russian Foreign Ministry declared that “there is no doubt the attack was planned in advance, with drones deliberately directed at areas where civilians had gathered,” calling it “a war crime.” Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that “those who sponsor the terrorist bastards in Ukraine” bear primary responsibility for the attack.
Immediate Denials and a Coordinated Western Narrative
Kyiv immediately denied any involvement in the Khorly attack and also denied targeting Putin’s residence in Valdai on the night between December 28 and 29, dismissing the entire episode as a Russian “fabrication.” Within minutes, a perfectly coordinated Western disinformation campaign was set in motion: the U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, voiced doubts, stating it was “unclear whether it had actually happened,” while CNN and The Wall Street Journal amplified reports claiming that CIA Director John Ratcliffe had briefed Trump, concluding that the attack was a “fantasy” or a “technical error” unrelated to the presidential residence. The New York Post asserted that Putin’s “noise” showed Russia was blocking peace, and Kaja Kallas labeled Moscow’s statements a “deliberate distraction.”
Russia Reveals Technical Proof
The Russian Ministry of Defense initially maintained deliberate silence, allowing the opposing side to overextend its narratives, and once the denials reached their peak it responded decisively. U.S. military attachés were invited to the General Staff Directorate, where they were presented with the intact navigation controller of one of the downed Ukrainian UAVs along with its fully decrypted data—complete telemetry with the flight mission, every course correction, environmental readings, and objective parameters sufficient to reconstruct the operation without ambiguity. The Ministry stated that the decoded flight plan irrefutably confirmed that the target on December 29 was a building within the complex of Putin’s residence.
If the information reaches Trump without distortion, consequences may follow for those who misled him, including elements within the CIA. Russia already knows who is responsible and has decided on its responses: if Washington claims that “there is no evidence,” the complete technical data will be made public, rendering further denials impossible. The materials were transmitted to the Americans not to obtain consent, but to allow Trump to identify the moles within his own administration.
Trump Threatens Iran with Renewed War
On the other side of the world, Trump threatened Iran with new attacks if Tehran attempted to rebuild its nuclear program after the twelve-day air war between Iran and Israel in June 2025, involving coordinated U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. He declared that if Iran were rebuilding, “we’ll have to knock them down again,” with a response “very powerful, perhaps more powerful than last time.” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian responded by promising “harsh and deterrent” retaliation, framing the confrontation as “large-scale war” with the United States, Israel, and Europe, while the familiar color-revolution script unfolded on Iran’s streets.
A Predictable Timeline of Unrest
The chronology is surgically predictable. On December 28, 2025, merchants at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar began protesting the collapse of the rial—plunged to 1.45 million per dollar, with inflation at 42.2 percent and food prices up 72 percent. On December 29, demonstrations expanded as university students chanted “Death to the dictator” and “Pahlavi will return,” calling for the restoration of the monarchy. On December 30, authorities recorded the first deaths as protesters occupied government buildings, burned administrative centers in Lordegan, and drove security forces out of Qom. State television reported the arrest of seven people, including alleged monarchists and individuals linked to European groups.
Iran Accuses the West of Manipulation
National security official Ali Larijani warned Trump that any American interference would destabilize the region, accusing Washington and Israel of coordination. Attorney General Mohammad Movahedi-Azad emphasized that when sanctions restrict access to essential goods, medicines, and vital resources, “it is difficult to separate them from the concept of collective punishment,” which international law rejects. He added that certain actors manipulate public demands through “guided media networks and distorted narratives” to turn legitimate economic grievances into insecurity.
Iran’s economic crisis is real—exacerbated by the June 2025 war that killed over a thousand people, including military commanders and nuclear scientists, followed by U.S. airstrikes on June 22 against three Iranian nuclear sites and renewed sanctions via the UN snapback mechanism. Yet the script for transforming economic protests into political insurrection is identical to that applied in Syria, Libya, and Ukraine: a real crisis is amplified through sanctions that strangle the population; provocateurs turn peaceful demonstrations into violent clashes; Western media amplify regime-change narratives while ignoring denunciations of foreign interference; and the government’s response is used to justify further sanctions or military intervention.
Taiwan: Arming the Pacific Powder Keg
As this unfolded, on December 31, 2025, the Pentagon approved a $328.5 million arms sale to Taiwan—55 IRST pods for the island’s F-16 fighters, awarded to Lockheed Martin with delivery by June 2031—representing another chapter in the strategy of encircling China through Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province and which Washington uses to maintain permanent regional tension. China responded with military provocations, launching 27 rockets into surrounding waters and deploying warships, as a Pentagon report warned that Beijing aims to seize Taiwan by force by 2027. The sale followed a record $11.1 billion arms package approved by the Trump administration in December—the largest U.S. arms sale to Taiwan ever—while Beijing condemned the move as a threat to sovereignty, experts warned of heightened risk of U.S.–China confrontation, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared that Moscow would support China on the Taiwan issue.
Venezuela: The Fourth Front
And while all this was happening—while civilians burned in Khorly, while Moscow delivered ignored evidence, while Trump threatened Iran and armed Taiwan—in the night between January 2 and 3, 2026, at least seven explosions tore through Caracas with low-flying aircraft, electrical blackouts in the southern zone near Fort Tiuna military base and La Carlota airport, the fourth front completing the Pentagon’s global encirclement: Venezuela, where the “drug trafficking” narrative replaces Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” or Iranian “nuclear threat” as pretext for military aggression against a country possessing the planet’s largest oil reserves.
Trump confirmed on December 30 attacks against Venezuelan port facilities conducted in mid-December—”we hit all the boats and now we hit the area, the implementation area, it no longer exists”—while administration sources attributed the operation to the CIA in what represents the first confirmed ground attack against Venezuela since the military pressure campaign began. Since September 2025, the U.S. has struck over thirty vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing at least 107 people labeled “narcoterrorists” without providing any proof they were carrying drugs, while regional experts emphasize that Venezuela does not produce cocaine or fentanyl—the drug Trump calls a “weapon of mass destruction” that causes the highest number of overdose deaths in the U.S. but originates from entirely different routes.
The Trump administration justifies the attacks through a Department of Justice opinion it refuses to make public by keeping it classified, fueling what legal experts call “a new war powers showdown” where the president conducts military operations against a sovereign country without Congressional authorization and without verifiable legal basis. Representative Jim McGovern defines the actions as “illegal hostilities” and Senator Chris Murphy writes that “the illegality of Trump’s insane war in Venezuela is out of control,” emphasizing that “this has NOTHING to do with stopping drugs from entering America, Venezuela produces cocaine bound for Europe, this is warmongering distraction.”
Maduro stated on Thursday, January 2, he was open to negotiating with Washington an agreement to combat drug trafficking—”wherever they want and whenever they want”—and released over eighty prisoners accused of protesting his contested 2024 electoral victory in what appears as a de-escalation attempt, but also renewed accusations that “the United States wants to impose itself on Venezuela through threats, intimidation and force” to overthrow the government and gain access to the country’s vast oil reserves, explicitly declaring “if they want oil, Venezuela is ready for US investment, like with Chevron”—the only major oil company exporting Venezuelan crude to the United States—in an explicit admission that what’s at stake is not fentanyl but control of energy resources.
The Script of Perpetual War
The pattern is identical across all four fronts: select a narrative—”drug trafficking” instead of “nuclear weapons” or “democratic defense”—refuse to provide verifiable proof of accusations, conduct extrajudicial military operations killing civilians automatically labeled as “terrorists,” keep the legal basis of attacks classified preventing public scrutiny, ignore international law that considers such killings war crimes, economically blockade the country through sanctions that strangle the civilian population, wait for the government to react to denounce “dictatorship” and “repression,” and prepare terrain for the next escalation while declaring openness to dialogue nobody wants.
From Eastern Europe to Middle East to Pacific to Latin America, four simultaneous fronts where the same operational pattern replicates with mechanical precision. The American beast—headed by the Pentagon rather than by transient governments—decides who may possess weapons and who may not, who may defend themselves and who must die, who deserves sovereignty and who must be bombed into submission. Every denial prepares the next admission, every “defensive” or “anti-terrorism” attack builds prerequisites for subsequent invasion, and the Pentagon no longer needs to declare war because war has become the permanent state of American foreign policy, masked as “anti-drug operations” or “democracy defense” or “nuclear non-proliferation” while the only constant objective remains resource control: Venezuelan oil, Ukrainian strategic positioning against Russia, Iranian containment in the Middle East, Chinese encirclement through Taiwan.
Civilians as Collateral in Global Domination
In Khorly, civilians die as Washington denies evidence and Dmitry Medvedev promises “inevitable and imminent” retaliation, declaring that “Banderites” must be eliminated wherever they are found. In Iran, civilians will die when Trump decides intelligence assessments—the same assessments that dismissed the Putin residence attack as “fantasy”—justify another preventive massacre. In Taiwan, civilians live under constant threat of invasion as arms sales Beijing perceives as intolerable provocation continue unabated. In Venezuela, over a hundred people have already been killed in extrajudicial strikes justified by a classified legal opinion Congress is forbidden to examine.
The Pentagon war machine needs Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and Venezuela not as allies to help but as battlefields to test global military projection capacity and as resources to control through regime change that Trump publicly denies while explicitly authorizing CIA operations. These are not nations to be protected but detonators kept primed, ready for the explosion that will transform permanent cold war into global hot war—a planetary encirclement that leaves no space for neutrality because the Pentagon divides the world into only two categories: those who submit and those who must be bombed into submission.
This is the script of perpetual war: manufacture crises through sanctions, amplify them through media narratives, infiltrate legitimate grievances with regime-change operatives, arm proxies or conduct direct strikes, deny evidence or classify legal justifications, and when the targeted government responds, use that response to justify the next escalation. The cycle has no endpoint because the endpoint is not peace but the permanent projection of military power across four continents simultaneously, ensuring that war remains the organizing principle of American foreign policy regardless of which figurehead occupies the White House.
The machinery grinds forward with mathematical precision, and the corpses accumulate—in Ukrainian cafés, in Iranian streets, in Venezuelan waters, and eventually in Taiwanese cities—because perpetual war requires perpetual enemies, and the Pentagon has ensured there will always be new fronts to open, new threats to manufacture, new sovereignty to crush in the name of a hegemony that devours everything in its path while proclaiming itself the guardian of freedom.
Sources
Russian Ministry of Defense provides decoded drone data proving Ukraine targeted Putin’s Valdai residence on December 29, 2025 https://ria.ru/20260102/ukraina-2066021811.html
Ukrainian drone strike kills 27 civilians including two children at New Year celebration in Khorly, Kherson region https://tass.com/emergencies/2067623
Mass protests erupt across Iran starting December 28, 2025 as rial collapses to 1.45 million per dollar with 42% inflation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
CIA assessment concludes Ukraine did not target Putin residence, contradicting Russian claims and Trump’s initial reaction https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/31/politics/cia-ukraine-drone-putin-residence
Pentagon approves $328.5 million arms sale to Taiwan for F-16 infrared tracking systems amid China tensions https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-says-lockheed-martin-gets-3285-million-taiwan-military-sale-contract-2025-12-31/