2023 On
October 7, 2023, the entire Middle East war exploded with intensified U.S. and Israel vs Iran and its Hamas supporters in Gaza. All belligerents enacted the ancient Anunnaki ideology of unremitting domination dementia.
From Lebanon, Hezbollah fired missiles and drones at Israel; Houthis in Yemen fired similar flying bombs at Israel and at ships in the Red Sea. Israel’s multi-layered air defense system and U.S. warships intercepted most of the ordinance that flew at them.
2026: America & Israel Attacked Iran During Peace Negotiations
February 28, 2026: While nuclear negotiations were still underway, the United States and Israel launched massive coordinated 900 airstrikes on Iran’s military, governmental, and religious leadership.
All sides in this conflict repeated the ancient Anunnaki-inculcated pattern of competition to dominate.
Programmed for greed, rulers took ever-greater control of resources for their wars and profits; opposition to them built, violence escalated, civilians suffered, children died, and infrastructure collapsed. Only arms production surged. Trauma embedded itself into the next generation.
This sequence is DOMINATION DEMENTIA—a pathological pattern in which governing powers dictated the theft of society’s resources, snuffed out cooperative efforts, and destroyed the sustainability of life in the countries attacked, creating suffering for all of us.
Middle Eastern Power Systems Heated Up; Strike Logic Fails Humanity
A U.S. strike on a structure in Iran in 2026—believed to have military relevance—resulted in the deaths of schoolgirls. Reports indicated that the building’s function may have changed, or intelligence assessments misidentified its use.
Whether through miscalculation, flawed intelligence, or systemic bias toward aggressive action, the result remained the same: children died.
This is the defining signature of dominator systems: When uncertainty arises, they strike anyway.
This moment exposes the core logic of dominator warfare: once escalation overrides restraint, civilian life becomes expendable, reduced to a targeting variable within systems designed for control rather than protection. The language of “precision” collapses under the weight of shattered classrooms.
Following the strikes inside Iran, the conflict widened rapidly. Hezbollah intensified cross-border fire from Lebanon, and Iraqi militias targeted U.S. bases, Houthi forces escalated Red Sea interdictions, and Israeli strikes expanded deeper into multiple theaters. The region entered a state of continuous retaliation, where no strike stood alone.
Trump Attacked Iran to Serve His Armageddon Apocalyptic for Bringing Jesus Back
Iran and the U.S. both employed maximal military projection as their primary policies with which to assert themselves against the other.
Civilians in Iran and Lebanon suffered from drone, artillery, and missile attacks by America and Israel. Israeli settlers in areas of Palestine supposedly reserved for Palestinians looted, tortured, and mutilated them.
Missiles from Iran and its allies started hitting Israel once it spent most of its shielding counter-missiles.
War was and still is a lucrative industry for the U.S. and Iran. Civilian lives, infrastructure, and health become business expenses to warmongers.
Civilian Reality: The True Battlefield
Civilians fled collapsing urban zones as conflict expanded. The dominant narrative frames war as strategic maneuvering between states, but the lived reality is displaced families, buried kids, cities reduced to rubble, and whole generations of innocent people who die from the ambitions of Trump and the Iranian leadership.
The vast distance between decision-makers and the horrid conditions they spawned lets them continue the slaughter and destruction. When will we ever learn WE MUST–in my humble opinion–SEEK MUTUALLY ENHANCING PEACE.
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1987–Now: Iran, Israel, & the U.S. Part III ~ 2023–2026 — The Civilian Becomes the Battlefield
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When leaders call it strategy, civilians call it death, displacement, terror, hunger, grief, and rubble.
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By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Contributing Author: Janet Kira Lessin
Research/Editorial Support: Claudia Lenore & Minerva
© 2026 Aquarian Media
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Part III of this series examines the years 2023–2026, when the conflict among Iran, Israel, and the United States escalated into a widening theater of military retaliation, regional instability, civilian devastation, and moral collapse. Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., with contributing author Janet Kira Lessin, frames this period through the lens of “domination dementia,” the inherited Anunnaki-patterned impulse to rule through threat, strike, revenge, and fear.
At the center of this section stands the civilian: the child under rubble, the family fleeing bombardment, the elder without medicine, the refugee without shelter, the mother searching for the missing, and the generations who inherit trauma long after the politicians and generals leave the stage.
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1987–Now: Iran, Israel, & the U.S. Part III ~ 2023–2026 — The Civilian Becomes the Battlefield continues Sasha Alex Lessin’s sweeping critique of modern war, imperial conditioning, retaliatory violence, and the psychic inheritance of domination.
This section focuses on the years when the regional crisis intensified and civilians once again became the bodies upon which governments wrote their claims of power. The language of national security, deterrence, counterterrorism, retaliation, and preemptive strike masks the human cost: families shattered, neighborhoods erased, children killed, hospitals overwhelmed, refugees displaced, and entire populations forced to live beneath the machinery of fear.
Sasha identifies this pattern as Anunnaki-inculcated domination dementia: the ancient wound of hierarchical conquest repeated through modern states, militaries, intelligence agencies, weapons systems, propaganda, and religious-political absolutism. Janet Kira Lessin contributes the experiencer, humanitarian, and consciousness-based perspective, asking readers to see beyond the official narratives and return to the central moral question: Who pays the price when rulers choose domination over empathy?
Part III does not excuse violence by any state, faction, or empire. It challenges the entire retaliatory architecture that turns civilians into targets, pawns, shields, statistics, and “acceptable losses.” The article calls for humanity to interrupt the old program and choose mutually enhancing survival before the next escalation becomes irreversible.
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When governments call it strategy, civilians call it terror.
Part III of Sasha Alex Lessin’s series, with contributing author Janet Kira Lessin, examines 2023–2026 as the period when Iran, Israel, and the United States moved deeper into escalation, retaliation, and civilian devastation.
This is not just a geopolitical analysis. It is a moral indictment of domination dementia: the ancient, inherited pattern that teaches rulers to answer fear with force, force with revenge, and revenge with mass suffering.
The civilian becomes the battlefield.
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1987–Now: Iran, Israel, & the U.S. Part III ~ 2023–2026 — The Civilian Becomes the Battlefield
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1987–Now: Iran, Israel, & the U.S. Part III ~ 2023–2026 — The Civilian Becomes the Battlefield
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Contributing Author: Janet Kira Lessin
When rulers call it strategy, civilians call it death, hunger, rubble, exile, and grief.
This section examines the escalation spiral through the lens of domination dementia and asks whether humanity can interrupt the ancient program of retaliation before it consumes us all.
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1987–Now: Iran, Israel, & the U.S. Part III ~ 2023–2026 — The Civilian Becomes the Battlefield
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Contributing Author: Janet Kira Lessin
Part III examines the devastating escalation of 2023–2026, when war logic, retaliation, militarized politics, and regional instability pushed civilians into the center of the battlefield.
Governments speak of deterrence, defense, security, and strategy. But civilians experience the reality in shattered homes, lost children, overwhelmed hospitals, displacement, hunger, grief, and lifelong trauma.
Sasha frames this through the lens of Anunnaki-inculcated domination dementia, the ancient program of hierarchy, conquest, fear, and retaliation still operating through modern states and militaries. Janet contributes the humanitarian and consciousness-based perspective, calling readers back to empathy, accountability, and mutually enhancing survival.
The question is no longer which side claims justification.
The question is whether humanity can stop turning civilians into the price of power.
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New Article: 1987–Now: Iran, Israel, & the U.S. Part III ~ 2023–2026 — The Civilian Becomes the Battlefield
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Contributing Author: Janet Kira Lessin
This article examines the 2023–2026 escalation among Iran, Israel, and the United States through a humanitarian, historical, and consciousness-based framework.
Part III argues that modern war language often conceals civilian reality. Political leaders and military planners speak in terms of deterrence, retaliation, defense, precision, and security. Yet the consequences land on ordinary people: families, children, elders, refugees, patients, workers, students, and communities that never authorized the violence carried out in their names.
Sasha Alex Lessin identifies this cycle as domination dementia: the inherited pattern of hierarchy, conquest, retaliation, and control embedded in human political systems. Janet Kira Lessin contributes the wider moral and experiencer-based perspective, emphasizing empathy, accountability, and the urgent need to evolve beyond weaponized fear.
Part III asks a direct question:
Can humanity interrupt the escalation spiral before civilians become the permanent battlefield of empire, ideology, and revenge?
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Iran, Israel & the U.S. Part III: 2023–2026 — The Civilian Becomes the Battlefield
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In Part III of this series, Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., with contributing author Janet Kira Lessin, examines the years 2023–2026, when conflict among Iran, Israel, and the United States escalated into a devastating cycle of retaliation, militarization, civilian trauma, and regional instability.
Governments call it strategy. Civilians call it death, hunger, rubble, displacement, fear, and grief.
This episode explores the humanitarian cost of modern war through Sasha’s framework of Anunnaki-inculcated domination dementia: the inherited pattern of hierarchy, conquest, revenge, and control that continues to shape human conflict. Janet adds the consciousness-based and humanitarian perspective, asking whether humanity can finally interrupt the ancient program and choose peace, empathy, and mutually enhancing survival.
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1987–Now: Iran, Israel, & the U.S. Part III ~ 2023–2026 — The Civilian Becomes the Battlefield
By: Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Contributing Author: Janet Kira Lessin
Research/Editorial Support: Claudia Lenore & Minerva
© 2026 Aquarian Media
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“When rulers call it strategy, civilians call it death, hunger, rubble, exile, and grief.”
“The civilian becomes the battlefield when governments confuse domination with security.”
“Retaliation does not end trauma. It multiplies it across generations.”
“Domination dementia teaches rulers to escalate. Humanity must learn to interrupt the program.”
“The moral question is not which empire wins, but how many civilians must be sacrificed before humans remember they are one species.”
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Author Bio — Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Anthropology from UCLA and has spent decades studying human origins, ancient civilizations, consciousness, counseling, tantra, power systems, and the Anunnaki legacy. As an author, teacher, counselor, and Dean of the School of Counseling and Tantra, Dr. Lessin explores how inherited patterns of hierarchy, domination, trauma, and control continue to shape human society.
His work examines the ancient roots of modern conflict and asks humanity to move beyond fear-based rule, religious programming, militarized authority, and retaliatory violence. In this series, Dr. Lessin identifies war as a symptom of Anunnaki-inculcated domination dementia, a repeating pattern that humanity must recognize, interrupt, and transcend.
Contributing Author Bio — Janet Kira Lessin
Janet Kira Lessin is an author, experiencer, broadcaster, researcher, publisher, and co-founder of Aquarian Media. A lifelong contactee and consciousness explorer, Janet writes at the intersection of extraterrestrial contact, human origins, disclosure, spirituality, geopolitics, trauma recovery, and planetary transformation.
Through Dragon at the End of Time, Aquarian Media, Enki Speaks, and her many interviews, articles, books, and broadcasts, Janet brings a humanitarian and experiencer-based perspective to the crises facing humanity. Her work calls for disclosure, empathy, peace, sovereignty, and the healing of ancient wounds that continue to shape war, domination, secrecy, and separation.
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By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.
Contributing Author: Janet Kira Lessin
Research/Editorial Support: Claudia Lenore & Minerva
Published by Aquarian Media
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Endnote / Closing Paragraph
Part III leaves readers with a choice. We can continue to let rulers, generals, religious extremists, intelligence agencies, and inherited domination programs define reality through fear and force. Or we can recognize the civilian beneath every flag, the child beneath every ideology, and the shared humanity buried under every bombed street.
The old program says retaliation proves strength.
The new human says empathy prevents extinction.
