US Reorganizes Forces and Proxies in West Asia + What is “Project Meridian?”

• the US has only redeployed troops from Iraq to elsewhere in West Asia as part of its ongoing war on Iran;

• the US maintains immense administrative, economic, and covert/proxy military power over Iraq and until that changes, Iraq remains subordinated to/occupied by the US;

• The so-called “Mecca Alliance” is little more than US burden sharing extended over Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan;

• It remains to be seen how extensive the “Mecca Alliance” will be mobilized as part of the wider US war on Iran and its network alliance which includes Ansarallah in Yemen;

• US “Project Meridian” is a desperate attempt to leverage technology to reassert US military dominance over the world, but fails to recognize, let alone address the actual systemic problems causing a US decline in the first place;

Resources:

Reuters – Explainer: How the US controls Iraq’s oil revenues (Sep. 30, 2026):
https://www.reuters.com/business/ener…

AJ – Turkiye, Pakistan agree Saudi Arabia military deployment under Mecca pact (Oct. 5, 2026):
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1…

NYT – Saudi-Backed Yemeni Government Declares War Against Houthis (Oct. 4, 2026):
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/wo…

US DoD/DIA – Intel Memo (2012):
https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-cont…

Reuters – US defense firm Anduril faces setbacks from drone crashes (2025):
https://www.reuters.com/business/aero…

Militarnyi – SSU Abandons Altius Attack Drones after Failures at Front (Nov. 2025):
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ssu-ab…

Business Insider – Inside America’s $66 billion bet to beat China’s shipbuilding empire (Oct. 3, 2026):
https://www.businessinsider.com/insid…

NEO – US Cannibalizes Its Proxies and Itself as War on Multipolarism Expands (Sep. 29, 2026):
https://journal-neo.su/2026/09/29/us-…