Well, it’s been quite a day for Iran.
My geostrategic preferences, as I’ve mentioned more than once in these pages, are generally much more on the JQ Adams / Monroe-Doctrine / Gathering-of-the-Hemisphere side of things, but what the hell: I can’t say it isn’t gratifying to see Iran get this richly deserved spanking, to see Ayatollah Khamenei rubbled, and to see China lose its gas-station. (And I hope Valerie Jarrett is having a bad day.)
Managing the aftermath of this is going to be tricky, though, and I hope we don’t have to do too much of it. Above all, an implosion into factional chaos and civil war, followed by a cataract of refugees heading for Europe and the U.S., would be a most unwelcome sequel. I have no idea at all whether the people of Iran are going to be able to brace themselves up in the aftermath of all this, but we should all hope so.
My word, what times these are! And I think 2026 has plenty more in store.
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I think our country has done more than enough of Israel’s bidding. Everyone younger than 40 is fed up with being the servant of their interests. Besides, I thought we obliterated their nuclear capability the last time we bombed them unprovoked? Funny how that works.
Turner,
The place we now call Iran has been a pain in the rest of the world’s ass for 2,500 years, and a murderous, brutal foe of the United States for most of my adult life.
As far as “interests” are concerned: sometimes they coincide.
Agree 100%. I am also a Monroe Doctrine guy, but I will make an exception for the mullahs and their thugs. They are murdering scum. Burn in hell, all of them.
I think we’ve had quite enough Yankee nonsense and empire building, especially since we’re currently building for Israel. And yet here we go into another quagmire in a land where we never belonged, squandering safety afforded to us by two large oceans. Evidently it was hurting too much to hit our finger with a hammer and was time to shift to our face.
I don’t want a quagmire any more than you do, Vince.
I don’t, however, think quagmires are Trump’s style. We’ll see.
Because destabilizing sovereign nations in the Middle East at the behest of Israel while creating refugee crisis after refugee crisis that has destroyed much of Western Civilization has been an excellent foreign policy decision post-WWII?
Hell Europe would have been better off losing to the Germans than winning to an occupation that has allowed a permanent invasion force.
It would be interesting to know the role David Goldman, the Jewish theorealist columnist Spengler who now works for Trump’s foreign policy staff, has had in the initiation of hostilities with Iran. I suspect it was quite high, an example of how influential mandarins can have a significant impact upon history.
Malcolm and I, as best I recall, have been from the beginning in opposition to us [the US] being involved in Ukraine.
“Whoa whoa whoa JK” I hear the protestations, “Ukraine! What has that to do with today? !!!
Ironically enough:
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Irans-Military-Role-in-Ukraine-Is-Clearly-Shrinking.html
But not every media source will be pointing out that there’s more than one way to skin a cat (or a bear).
Unrelated to your post…
As you are probably aware, Red Horizon is now down.
Here’s a guide I prepared to help you get back on. You’ll need to do some cloud hosting of your own, but it’s minimal and cheap: https://smallpdf.com/file#s=c263bb82-0ec4-42d8-b384-08cb609503e6
The only thing I’d add is that you can still log onto redhorizon.com to download your pier and key, and you should do that ASAP.
Thank you ~bacdul-ribdes! My Urbit ship is back up and running. Very much obliged.
Some of us, of a certain age, are sure glad the draft ended when it did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDhLYJMPlYg
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/arts/music/country-joe-mcdonald-dead.html
(Birthdays are coming up eh?
For some anyway.)