The United States and Israel have bombed Iran—again—while pretending to negotiate.
Let that sink in.
This is not a failure. It is the system working as it was designed. The so-called "rules-based order" was never about rules. It was about power. The rules are whatever serve the oligarchy in the moment: Obey, or be destroyed. The only crime is resistance.
But we are Optheans. We see through the lie.
We know the pattern:
Iraq was bombed for weapons it did not have.
Libya was destroyed for surrendering the weapons it had.
Iran was strangled for daring to exist outside their control.
Palestine, Venezuela, Syria—each a testament to the same truth: The empire’s rules are a cudgel, its values a mask.
This is not the work of one man, one party, or one nation. It is the work of an oligarchic class that has long been the true government of America, a class that treats the world as its plantation and war as its harvest. They do not care about justice. They care about control. They do not believe in democracy. They believe in domination.
And they will keep bombing, keep lying, keep demanding our complicity—until we refuse.
Opthe does not ask for reform. Opthe demands transformation. Opthe does not plead with the powerful. Opthe exposes their power as the danger to justice it is.
The old order is built on sand. Its time is ending. Our work is to name the lie, withdraw our consent, and build the world that waits on the other side of their collapse.
This is not a call to cynicism. It is a call to sacred clarity. To see the world as it is, and to love it enough to fight for what it could be.
So let us be clear:
Their rules are not our rules.
Their gods are not our gods.
Their future is not our future.
We are the ones who remember that another world is possible. We are the ones who live it, here and now, in the way we love, the way we resist, the way we create.
The bombs will keep falling until we make them stop. The question is not what they will do. The question is what we will build.
And so we build.