A Pattern Beneath the Headlines?

June 20, 2026 – EMM Editorial

As EMM looks at the latest news and various narratives, we get a confusing picture of what is happening. Donald Trump did sign the MOU in France at Versailles. It was a set up to make him look like a failed monster by his good friend Mr. Macron. But Trump's adversaries in the West are claiming it is a lost war. More likely, it is a less effective battle — if you understand that the whole Iranian mission was about harming China's productive capacity. Regime change was a on a Zionist wish list. Iran is projected to be unable to export oil for months to a year. That was the real US imperial agenda. But if it turns out that the Zionist agenda is abandoned by the White House, it does not mean Trump is at the helm of foreign policy. It means the Blob is.

The Iranian delegation never went to Switzerland. But they signed the MOU. They received credible warnings from Pakistan that there was an Israeli hit team sent to assassinate members of the delegation from Tehran. What a way to start another peace negotiation! Haven't we seen this before? Another well worn pattern emerges: a peace deal signing and an Israeli attempt to murder an Iranian delegation. Is it real, or a Trump approved trap? For all of Trump's bleating about who is or isn't in control in Tehran, who is in control in Washington? It does not appear to be Donald Trump. Worse still is the fact that whoever is in control, doesn't want that fact to be known.

What happens in the next few days will be crucial to understanding America's real foreign policy objectives. The central question is this: how far is the U.S. willing to go in allowing Israel's appetite for a "Greater Israel" soaked in genocidal blood of civilians. Will America back away with its fleets of obsolete aircraft carriers, or will it continue to keep afloat its unsinkable aircraft carrier, Israel?

At this hour, headlines are full of fighting, phantom ceasefires, and skies thick with drones and missiles. There are reports that some U.S. KC 135 tankers are being pulled back to the United States or to more remote airfields. Some see this as the beginning of a U.S. pullout. But that is not certain. It may be a head fake. There is speculation about secret bases in Azerbaijan that could be used for air and drone attacks against Iran. That speculation is unconfirmed, but it would be consistent with another pattern, the 1,000 drone attack on Moscow. The identifiable pattern is a move away from piloted aircraft to increased drone swarms. It may only be a change of tactics and weapons systems: fighter jets replaced by drones, boots on the ground replaced by proxies. Somehow, we don't think it will be peace.

Israel has long described itself as facing an existential crisis. In the past, that language has been performative. Now, with Iranian missiles that outrange and outmatch their own, the posturing has given way to something closer to panic.

The real question is not what Israel will do, but what they won't do.

What many of us suspect is that Israel is cashing in its remaining chips — calling in favors from members of Congress to weld the IDF to the Pentagon. That would be as nakedly treasonous a maneuver as America has ever seen. Will Americans be able to stop it? There is little time before the vote comes to the floor.

At EMM, we ask if this is only one leg of a larger, more ambitious plan.

Some of our readers may have noticed that we've also been tracking a parallel development: the manic drive by a handful of billionaires to build massive data centers — in America, in space, underwater, even on the moon. Virtually all of these billionaires are ardent self proclaimed Zionists. But there has been growing pushback. In Utah, the response has been so fierce that it feels like a Midway — a turning point against an effort that seemed unstoppable.

People have been stunned by the scale, the forcefulness, and the dubious numbers that make no business sense. You can't service that kind of debt with projected income — unless you're printing your own money. And they are. We know this because the amounts of money they want does not exist in the US treasury.

Two more cosmetic arguments are employed by Data Center pitchmen: The environmental impact of these operations is one. The industry claims are easily debunked fantasies. Scientists and engineers are pointing out glaring contradictions between the environmental narrative and the actual numbers. The industry also says this is about national security — that China is beating us in some imagined race. But America already has far more data centers than China does. That argument doesn't hold.

Moreover, the way these projects are being introduced is secretive and coercive. In Utah, a state commission was empowered to confiscate private property for the express purpose of data center development. When the commission held a public meeting, it was packed with angry citizens. The commissioners tried to force the crowd to silence, then left early — for their own safety. The project was cancelled. Make a note, skeptics: that's a victory.

But the question remains: what is the point of a project that costs astronomical sums but can't make enough money to justify its own existence? That is not capitalism. That is something else.

Why would anyone want to be in a business that nobody is asking for, at that scale? Why would advocates brag about eliminating jobs and expect that to make a project popular? How do they expect us to believe data centers are environmentally safe when the numbers — for power needs, fuel consumption, heat radiation, noise — are unmatched by anything in history?

What are these people after? It cannot be profit.

At EMM, we are left wondering: once you have more money than you can spend, what is it you're after? Money, or power?

What many of us are coming to suspect is that data centers aren't about computation. They're about control — the infrastructure for counting, tracking, and managing every person, place, and thing. And if control is the goal, the question is who gets to wield it. The same forces pushing for the Pentagon-IDF merger, the same billionaires rushing to build data centers, the same actors who have spent decades seeking a "Greater Israel" — they're not going to stop at national borders. They're building a new American order. The question is whether we'll recognize it before it's too late.

— EMM