The US press is attempting to manufacture consent for the US army to invade Iran.

A Washington Post article, dated Saturday, 6 March, states that the US army has:

abruptly canceled a major training exercise for the headquarters element of an elite paratrooper unit.

Which is:

fueling speculation within the Defense Department that soldiers specializing in ground combat and a range of other missions may be sent to the Middle East as the conflict with Iran widens.

The article goes on to state that the 82nd Airborne Division, an elite paratrooper unit which specialises in ground combat and other “fraught missions”, will attempt to take Kharg Island, in the Persian Gulf.

The island is one of the most “strategically sensitive points in the global oil network.” It has a loading capacity of around 7m barrels per day.

Importantly:

At times, around 90 per cent of the nation’s oil exports have passed through Kharg. Pipelines connect the island to offshore oilfields in the Persian Gulf, as well as major oilfields on the Iranian mainland

Only last week, Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, said that sending US ground troops into Iran wasn’t part of the current plan. However, she was not going to remove one of Trump’s options.

US and the second coming of Christ

However, on the ground, reports suggest that the government has activated far more military units than they’d like the public to know.

Phone has been ringing off the hook. A LOT more units have just been activated for deployment than the public knows about… https://t.co/qax3F23lwM

— Mike Prysner (@MikePrysner) March 6, 2026

One US soldier told their parent they were going “boots on the ground” before losing access to all communications. His commander had told him they were going to bring the “second coming of Christ”.

I just spoke with the mother of a service member in this unit. They were given one last call home before having to turn in their phones. He told his mom the were going “boots on the ground” tonight. pic.twitter.com/3OCupSfp9Q

— Mike Prysner (@MikePrysner) March 7, 2026

Of course, this has not been confirmed by official sources — but it appears that the US is preparing to invade.

I was part of the buildup to invasion of Iraq. What I’ve heard today from troops & families is so reminiscent of Feb-Mar ‘03. Doesn’t prove the US is invading, but that they are definitely preparing to. Will they? Probably weighing many factors… and our resistance is one of them

— Mike Prysner (@MikePrysner) March 7, 2026

Now, we are watching media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic manufacture consent for a ground invasion of Iran. This is exactly what we saw in 2003 with Iraq.

From the Washington Post and the BBC, quoting a UK military source who said it was:

probably the most dangerous time of the last 30 years

To *Sky News,*talking about the potential deployment of an aircraft carrier to the Middle East.

The media is doing exactly what Western politicians and Benjamin Netanyahu want them to do. Create the illusion of a huge and endemic threat to Western civilisation that only murdering muslims will solve.

What they want you to believe

Israel is carpet bombing Iran and southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, the establishment media pushes the narrative that Israel is only targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, a bunch of “Islamist militants”.

What they don’t want you to know is that Hezbollah was only formed in 1982, in resistance to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Israel is literally the reason Hezbollah exists.

Yet Israel, the US, the UK and the entirety of the corporate media want us to believe that they’re terrorists who hate the West, instead of resistance fighters who have watched Israel systematically destroy the homes and lives of people in the region for over 60 years.

Now, media outlets on both sides of the ocean are about to let politicians continue and expand Netanyahu’s illegal regime, which is nothing but a colonialist, terrorist conquest.

Feature image via euronews/ YouTube

By HG

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