A sublime Sunday. Under a grey sky. Drizzle n damp is the forecast. Quiet is the air. Flora and fauna remain hunkered down. Dogs all curled in their straw beds.
I am pondering a world where history, sorry, I should say “History”, is no longer regarded. No longer faithfully taught. Of course, the “victor’s version” of history, is the foremost of “concerns” any Historian must contend with. But factual history is available. All one must do, be prepared for is to read, read, and read some more.
One history we have, I believe, failed to remember is that of the 20th century. The wars therein. The realities of those wars. The division of the spoils between the victors. And the progression of life and developments that has led us to where we are today…
10:10am my time… News Plash… US drops big arsed bombs on Iranian Nuke sites.
Hmmm… I was heading in this direction with my words, but, damn… gotta change tack…
Where was I?
Need to reassess my post, need to see where we are and what I see happening next… A profound sense of History is important. What has just happened is an important point of time, in History. Make no doubt about it…
OK, gathering my thoughts and marshalling my words I shall go back a few days and revisit some posts from my past:
Just recently, I discussed the fact that it do appear as though Iran is standing alone. Looking at a map of this region we clearly see that Israel does not live in a friendly neighbourhood…
One might be forgiven to think that Israel does not have an ice cube’s chance in hell – IF – the countries that surround were to combine their resources against them. Look at the map… Islam surrounds the Zionists. Israel, even before it was an offical Nation, knew such to be true. Israel has known this for a century (or more). They are prepared, and have demonstrated huge strength in such a critical scenario.
I wonder why Iran has no real allies? They have their paid proxies, but are they allies? One of the reasons Rome fell was because it relied on mercenaries to man its armies. Paid soldiers are not as committed as those fighting for their homeland. We’ve seen his play out time and again. I wonder, do average Iranians support their Mullahs?
I’m not so sure.
No country in the region, not Yemen, or Lebanon, or Egypt have jumped up to join Iran’s “holy war” against Zion. Some claim it is the split between Sunni and Shia, but I think it’s more. I think that most modern Islamic States are rejecting fanaticism, have rejected fanaticism. I sure hope I’m right.
Iran was founded upon a fanatical religious base. I might suggest it is too late for it to change its position, at this point in time. It may well, now, be a moot point.
Iran’s totalitarian theological regime, like a man with explosive diarrhoea, can no longer flinch, move too quickly. Their feet are glued to the floor. It’s too late not to end up in a puddle of shit.
Its too late.
As a reader of History one must not shy from those prickly truths, those pesky facts… such as the fact that the US and the UK did play dirty when Iran stood on the brink of democratic self-determination all those decades ago. By putting their finger on the scale, then, they have given us today. Shame on those long dead King makers.
One can certainly understand the history of Iran’s HATE for all things USA/ Western.
History is long, deep and certainly dark. And this region, the area we colloquially refer to as the “Middle East”, is a bed of History. Noting well Iran as a Nation, a land, a people waring amongst each other, with their neighbourhood, for many 100s of years… https://www.britannica.com/place/Ottoman-Empire
In their initial stages of expansion, the Ottomans were leaders of the Turkish warriors for the faith of Islam, known by the honorific title ghāzī (Arabic: “raider”), who fought against the shrinking Christian Byzantine state. The ancestors of Osman I, the founder of the dynasty, were members of the Kayı tribe who had entered Anatolia along with a mass of Turkmen Oğuz nomads. Those nomads, migrating from Central Asia, established themselves as the Seljuq dynasty in Iran and Mesopotamia in the mid-11th century, overwhelmed Byzantium after the Battle of Manzikert (1071), and occupied eastern and central Anatolia during the 12th century. The ghazis fought against the Byzantines and then the Mongols, who invaded Anatolia following the establishment of the Il-Khanid (Ilhanid) empire in Iran and Mesopotamia in the last half of the 13th century. With the disintegration of Seljuq power and its replacement by Mongol suzerainty, enforced by direct military occupation of much of eastern Anatolia, independent Turkmen principalities—one of which was led by Osman—emerged in the remainder of Anatolia.
The battle, the war is, has always been, one of religion. Religion v Religion and the power to dictate, control the “faithful”.
I see few halos over the heads of the various leaders and proponents of either, any religion.
All wars taint all parties. There are no clean hands at the “end” of any war.
Unless, of course, you have god on your side…
https://youtu.be/5y2FuDY6Q4M?si=3913ROgguL88o4bn
More later
Wood not war
The Native Iowan 
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