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The Apex of the Escalation Nightmare

President Trump initiated a phone call to President Putin, asking for help to find an exit to the war against Iran. Surprisingly, Putin actually took the call. This is a good sign that perhaps the war will end in the next few weeks rather than escalate into global economic disaster.

It is also a sign that Trump now realizes that he is losing that war and that that if this continues, his political party will lose the November elections by a landslide. He thought Iran would capitulate after about 4 days, thinking that a decapitation strike would bring Iran to its knees. That did not happen, of course, and (very much like the 12-day war last June) the US and Israel are running out of interceptor missiles.

Hegseth claims that Iran is the one running out of missiles, because it is firing fewer missiles now than they did at the start of the war. Surely he knows the real reason for this! When Iran was preparing for this war, they established known targets ahead of time, each in its own sequence of missiles. But after a week, they must reassess the situation. Which targets were struck, and which remain intact? Then the military planners must update their plans and pick new targets. So naturally, the flow of missiles will slow down. They are not going to shoot barrages of missiles just to keep up the flow.

Furthermore, Iran has probably used up a high percentage of their older missiles and drones, which were launched in part to use up the stocks of US-Israeli interceptors. Now they are using more advanced weaponry, including hypersonic missiles for which there is no defense.

Trump’s call to Putin suggests that he is worried, perhaps even desperate. Analysts always make a big deal of who initiates a phone call. Whenever Putin has initiated a call, analysts have insisted gleefully that “Putin is desperate” (in the Ukraine conflict). Well, now the shoe is on the other foot, but the western media is treating this very differently.

Here is an interview with an expert (and author) in such matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCKv3HbTjA

From a prophetic standpoint, I am looking ahead to March 22-24, 2026, because it corresponds to the third and final spiritual battle that we fought back in 2001. Recall that the present attack against Iran began on February 28, which, back in 2001, marked the end of the first spiritual battle. The second battle in 2001 took place on March 8, and in 2026, for the first time in the war, Israeli strikes targeted Iranian oil facilities.

These strikes marked a shift toward energy-infrastructure warfare, which is now affecting the global oil supply. Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz and targeted oil facilities and refineries in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, etc. I was expecting to see a financial/banking event on March 8, and this is how the battle manifested. Cutting off the oil supply from the Persian Gulf threatens to bankrupt the entire West.

This is probably the most important reason that Trump called Putin asking for help. Putin probably told him that the US must first stop sending money and weapons to Ukraine. I heard today that Trump has lifted all sanctions against Russia, hoping that Europe will reverse its decision to boycott Russian oil and gas. If Europe refuses Russian oil and gas, it will quickly turn into an economic disaster for them, now that they can no longer get it from the Persian Gulf.

It appears then that this war will not turn into a global war but will be limited to a regional war. That is good news, although it will take years to repair the current damage to oil infrastructure and supply lines.

Yet we must continue to watch how the Israelis react to the prospect of peace. My guess is that they will bomb the mosque on the temple mount, claim that Iran did it, and then seize the site and immediately start building their own temple. If they do that, it will spark the great disaster prophesied in Isaiah 29:1-6 and Jeremiah 19:10, 11.

We live in interesting times.