One example of the old triangle trade via Social Studies for Kids The old triangle trade was slaves, sugar, and goods. The 20th century version was oil, bonds, and weapons. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Energy slaves, securities, and guns formed the circulation system of White Empire reincarnated. This triangle rang like a dinner bell for cannibals from Saudi to Japan to America. For centuries the White Empire has devoured a world divided up into triangles, but like a Leaning Tower of Pizza hit with multiple missile strikes, it's going down hard. We have talked about all of these data points separately – oil, bonds, and weapons – but let's look at them as they are. One shape, one petrodollar, one phenomenon. ## The Triangle Today, Saudi oil is on fire, Japan is dumping bonds, and White weapons are blunted and gone. These are separate points in the news, but one shape if you look at them in historical perspective. A triangle, broken now. Oil is blocked in West Asia, the carry trade is broken in East Asia, and people are wondering what America has to do with Asia at all. This triangle was the clothes-hanger that the White Empire hung its invisible clothes on. Even after they stopped wearing real (gold) clothes in the 1970s, they pretended like Asian resources and industry were theirs to wear forevermore. And people went along with it, even enemies, until the Empire acted like its invisible clothes were armor. Now they've been disrobed in war, and dethroned soon enough. Yemen and Iran have said _a siege for a siege, a blockade for a blockade_ and that if they can't sell oil, no one can. This cuts one corner of the triangle off, the oil. The Empire then tries to force that corner open using weapons, but that makes the weapons break. Meanwhile, its vassals are backed into a corner themselves, and start selling treasuries, driving up the rate. So this triangle trade that spanned the world becomes a 'Bermuda Triangle' real quick. Now people are looking at the $40 trillion US debt, up from $30 trillion just last year, getting refinanced at worse and worse rates, wondering _what is this shit?_ Why pay tribute to an Empire that's losing its main tributaries. This debt has been unsustainable for years but now it's becoming _unbelievable_ , which gives the whole game away. Remember that the Emperor in the story walked around naked for a while before people called it. In the same way, the White Empire has been banking around naked for decades without people saying anything. But that moment is coming. No prizes for saying the Empire has no clothes first, but the prize for saying it last is that everybody gets fired, ie the White economy implodes. Second prize is a set of steak knives, of course. ## The Trade The US rate is, as of press (publish) time 5.58% lol > _"The long-term Treasury yield is the most important price in the world." > > – Some Bloodsucker_ The triangle trade has many signs and cosines but if you could condense it to one number, it'd be the long-term Treasury rate. This is really just a transparency rate, how invisible the Empire's clothes seem, and how much compensation its courtiers demand to pretend like there's something underneath. After the 1970s oil 'crisis', the Empire looked 20% naked by the 1980s. Spending on interest went to over 18% of revenue by the 1990s. The Empire only solved the 1970s 'crisis' (from another perspective, opportunity) by redefining the triangle trade. They cut energy slave traders in the Gulf in on the spoils, as long as the money was USD and recirculated into US Treasuries. They pumped these spoils through occupied Japan, creating a Yen carry trade, funding White profligacy with Asian savings. Then, completing the triangle, they sold goylocked weapons back to the Gulf Apostates, for their idiot failsons to play with. But this solution was never complete. Because Iran still existed, and Palestine still resisted, among other pockets of sovereignity. Which is the one thing the Empire can't stand, people that aren't on their knees. So in 2001, the Empire Pearl Harbored itself (they worked with Al Qaeda before and after) and moved to take the oil more bloodily. They had a list, as Wesley Clark admitted, and they went through it methodically, knocking over Iraq, Libya, and Syria, and terrorizing and staving all and sundry. But it was too little, too late, and as of 2026, there are no more easy wars to be fought. The Empire is fighting 21st century opponents with 20th century weapons, and are losing their triangle trade entirely. The oil shock today is _more_ than the 1970s oil shock, and the consequences will be even more consequential. The strategic oil reserves they built up in the 1980s provided some buffer, but that is now losing structural integrity, as the Empire is entirely. What is a petrodollar without petrol, and what is a triangle trade without trade routes? Nothing, really, and the nakedness rate of the Empire's clothes is trending up accordingly. A 30-year rate of 5.2% (already out of date) may not seem like a lot, but consider the base. In 1982, the _total_ US debt was $4 trillion adjusted for inflation, compared to $40 trillion today (2026). Interest payments will be over $2 trillion this year, and if the rates go up to 10% the interest alone will be more than the entire debt in the 1980s! 10% sounds crazy, but that's only in a world gone mad, it's actually reasonable. Rates went up to 21% in the 1980s in response to a _smaller_ problem than today. What is happening now is not some realignment of the triangle trade. I think they've given up on that and are simply busting-out the place. The cannibal capitalists turn inwards, and eat their own face. This isn't the 1980s when they still had manufacturing and a functioning state. The Empire today simply doesn't have the weapons, the resources, or the fiscal space. What is happening is the only marginally controlled demolition of the White Empire, as it blows up oil fields across West Asia – from Russia to the Gulf – and throws vassals into the fire for a little temporary warmth. None of this had to happen, they could have gone on much longer with undeserved privilege, but at the same time it had to happen. What's an empire without imperializing? _Les jeux sonts faits_ long ago and the Jews have long since gone feral in the place they were deported to divide and conquer. Whites, by definition, cannot trade normally with other people. They have to divide the world into unnatural shapes and violently take. And so, as Shakespeare said, these violent delights have violent ends. And so the triangle burns on throth ends. The oil in West Asia, the spoils in East Asia, and the bond market in distant America, which really has nothing to do with anything. The last capital of capitalism, the final retreat of Whiteness after World War II, now meets its end in World War III, though not soon enough for the concentration camp of Gaza. But Palestine started the beginning of the end, which will never be forgotten. When the world, _inshallah,_ breaks free of triangles and turns round again.

_"Dick is abundant & low-value,"_ as the dead Internet saying goes. And what comes out of dick? Natural General Intelligence. What is the rush to make artificially what anyone can make naturally? And how are they going to capitalize on it when communists have already made AI a commodity? ## First, Why? First off, why are men trying to make a copy of human intelligence at all? Have they met people? I, myself, have made intelligent life twice myself, by being dumb. Having released my own NGI models into the wild, I can assure you that they're charming but wildly incompetent. It's not their fault. Humans are just unreliable and dumb. To err is human, as the saying goes. It's what gives us our magic and our fun. Computers call these errors, but computer intelligence is an entirely different form. Computers are reliable and dumb, they are useful engines, like Thomas. You can set them to a task and they won't get distracted and hallucinate or invade Poland. Making a computer a human is possible, I guess, but that would mean increasing the error rate by definition. Allowing for hallucinations. And lying. Because that's what being human _is_. To err is human. You can't debug a bug. And, furthermore, do we not have enough humans already? You can run a human for 0.1 grams of gold a day. OpenAI alone has committed to 11,000,000 kg of gold ($1,5 trillion dollars) to Artificial Intelligence, enough to feed and even educate millions of people. Why are they investing so much in theoretical artificial people when we already have real people? **Why would you make a human in a lab when you anybody can make love at home? Women make humans all the time but Men are real Pygmalions about it.** ## Second, Why Pay? It's strange to explain this to a capitalist, but it's not about whether a project is cool or not, it's what people will pay for it. And who's going to pay for this? They keep saying the next model is going to hack the government or solve math problems I can't spell, but what's the TAU here? There's not that many 'Israelis', and they won't exist in 10 years. Most people use AI for dumb shit and want to pay little or nothing for it. And we can. AI is abundant and low-value. If I ever want to do a task twice, I just run a 中文 model (Qwen3-8B) on my $1,000 laptop. It's fine. I'm not trying to solve frontier math, I can barely add above ten reliably. I just want some de-enshittified search, light translation, and copy/paste code. Cheap/free AI is fine for my purposes which are probably _more_ than the mass market. The Whites keep advertising the latest greatest model but **this is like getting Einstein to review a patents. Nobody really needs the latest model except the guys selling the latest model. Most people are basically _en retarded_ , and _en retard_(behind or late) AI is fine for our purposes.** There is no mass market of billions of paying customers here, and what there might have been under monopoly capitalism has been competed down to a nub by communism (FTW). > Scam Altman and Wario Another Man are on the hook for trillions in commitments and there is no big market for this. AI is low-value and abundant. The only chance would be monopolization and enshittification, but the bloody 中文 have ruined it. This puts a lot of real dicks on the hook for trillions. Scam Altman and Wario Amodei promised trillions of dollars, but neither of their companies has made a profit, ever. And Oracle, which laundered their scrip, is already declaring _force majeure_ on these projects, the _force_ being they're idiots. **The whole US economy is a MLM for LLMs, it's a bunch of IOUs for GPUs, and it's DOA because the CPC.** The Multi-Level Marketing scheme is that NVIDIA makes graphic cards, Microsoft installs them, and OpenAI says it'll pay for them. But NVIDIA and Microsoft pay OpenAI and everything's done on credit and double-billing, what are we doing? I've heard of pyramid schemes, but **this is a dodecahedron of scamming**. Many hyperscalers don't even want to unbox their GPUs lest they start the depreciation clock and have to declare that they make no money on these things. They're keeping them wrapped up like Pokemon cards because that's what this economy is. The US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, pretending to be a real economy. Meanwhile, real economies do real things, like compete AI down to a commodity. Even worse than commodification, Comrade Xi has called AI an _'international public good,'_ sending shudders through the heart of capitalists. Xi said, at the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, _"As a responsible major country,**China is always committed to providing international public goods relating to AI.** " _And, _"We must carry out extensive international cooperation and help Global South countries with capacity building to bridge the AI and digital divides, promote sustainable development, and**prevent creating new historical injustice in AI**."_ The White Empire's profit margin _is_ historical injustice and China is hitting them right where it hurts, the technical hegemony. Contrast this to the 2025 America's AI Action Plan, which quotes Trump saying, _"it is a national security imperative for the United States to achieve and maintain**unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance.** " _But this is already gone, and all that's left is a bunch of dominos left to fall. It's not just me using local AI and not paying for it at all. The White Empire is rapidly losing both world and home markets. As CNBC reports, _"Chinese AI models have gone from a relatively small share of usage to a majority on two major developer platforms that provide gateways for companies to access models from different providers. On OpenRouter, they accounted for 57%-67% of tokens used in the week of Sept. 14, up from 6%-13% in February. On Vercel, their share rose to 55% in August from 11% in January."_ The speculation among AI speculators was that they could monopolize, enshittify, and increase prices on the technology. This time, however, the crony capitalists can't, because communism. The commies have already seized the means of production (the first plane hitting the tower) and are sharing with the rest of the world (the second). America will not be the world trade center for AI. Nobody wants to pay for these White AI models that cost and arm and a leg and blow them off if you criticize 'Israel'. ## Third, More Words **Unable to compete, the AI speculators have to pull a gun on the US government, saying,_"bail us out or we'll release SkyNet and kill us all."_ But everyone knows that's bullshit. We already have SkyNet, it's the US government. ** AI has _already_ enslaved the world. That's such old news it's history. Corporations are legal persons, this is long-settled law, and they've long had the write to political 'speech', ie to buy elections. Most of the world has been literally enslaved by corporations already. Slavery under Corporate AI built the greatest fortunes in history, the VoC, the Mississippi Company, the South Sea Company. The question is not whether these corporations are intelligent, but whether we are. Just as White men got really excited about human slaves back then, they're excited about artificial slaves now, but their greed crashed their precious markets in 1720 and it's going to crash them now. The difference is that they actually did monopolize the world for centuries, but they won't be able to play that trick again because the world has moved on. Communists have seized the means of production, made AI into a public good, and now nobody is going to pay through the nose for AI when everybody knows it's abundant and low-value.

> **_Lucretius,_ -75, **via > > In ancient times the arms with which one fought > Were hands, nails, teeth, **stones** , branches which were sought > From forest trees and broken off, then flame, > Then iron and bronze both came > > Into man’s ken – bronze first, since it was more > Easily worked, comprising a greater store. > **Men tilled the earth with bronze, with bronze as well > Stirred up the waves of war** and rushed pell-mell, > > Inflicting dreadful wounds, and took away > Cattle and lands. Men readily gave way, > When naked and unweaponed, to a foe > Well-armed. The iron sword would slowly grow > > In stature, while the scythe of bronze would fill > Mankind with scorn, and **they began to till > The earth with iron, and the odds of war > Were equal, as they had not been before.** * * * **People been throwing rocks at each other for millions of years, but now the rocks throw themselves.** Rock-throwing has evolved from stones to copper, from copper to bronze, bronze to iron, and iron to steel. Now it's gone, via a nuclear dead end, to rare earths. The latter are effectively magic rocks, ferocious dust which – when sprinkled upon weapons – makes them fly wherever you want, like Uber for bombs. In this, the Rare Earths Age, dumb rocks have turned into smart rockets and left the White Empire at a loss. They call this the nuclear age, but why name an age after two bombs when there are millions of the other sort? Using sophisticated but cheap drones and rockets, Iran, Yemen, and Russia have outflanked (and spanked) the heavy Empire in West Asia, and East Asia cannot be attacked without attacking their own supply lines (because China controls the dust). Historically, when the ground shifts this much under one's feet, empires fall. And it's happening once more. To paraphrase Lucretius, _"they began to till, The earth with [drones], and the odds of war, Were equal, as they had not been before."_ ## Historical Digression Which You Can Skip **The paradigm shift in rockery is as momentus as the transition from the bronze to iron.** As Patrick Fitzsimmons said about that, _"This new technology had momentous political implications. Since iron could be smelted locally,**previously peripheral communities could arm themselves with weapons that were, for practical purposes, comparable to the weapons of the elite in the empire’s core. In contrast to bronze, iron democratized violence.** "_ And, connecting it back, _"the violence potential that had been concentrated in palaces was distributed to the lowest farmer, ending the equilibrium that had sustained imperial lineages for a thousand years. The next millennia [now, bro] will be similarly shaped by the military technology of today."_ Of course, iron worked weapons are _worse_ than bronze, but quantity is its own quality, as Stalin showed though perhaps didn't tell. The difference was that iron could be worked by villages or city states, while bronze required importation at an imperial scale. As the Material Sciences coursework at Penn State states, > Bronze weapons were indeed of higher quality than the common iron weapons typically produced. However, tin, which is required for the production of bronze, is not abundantly available [had to be imported from as far as Cornwall]. As a consequence, bronze weapons were the weapons utilized by nobles, royalty, pharaohs, etc. The common foot soldier was not going to possess bronze weapons; there were not enough to go around. > > Unlike tin, iron ore is readily available. So, although inferior to bronze, an army of hundreds or thousands could be equipped with iron weapons, which was not practical with bronze weapons. So, the ability to produce large numbers of iron weapons overcame the advantages of bronze. **One may, at this point, ask whether man is evolving through metals or metals are evolving through men. To an alien anthropologist looking through our graves, they would see the metal evolving and the bones staying dead still.** We have discussed this before, but it's simplest to understand such commodities as artificial life, certainly when they're taking human lives. No point debating the existence of a tiger when your head is in its mouth. Artificial life has evolved the way evolution goes, through competitive adaptation to its environment, ie people throwing rocks at each other until the rocks themselves evolved. Since artificial life, like virii, depends on human beings for reproduction, that has been through human intercourse like war. For whatever reason (call it materialist dialectics), materials seem to evolve in an oscillating pattern. Like the clash between prey and predator. One get ahead of another for a while, but things balance out by wobbling back and forth, violently of course. As Fitzsimmons says, > History has seen the ebb and flow of centralized and decentralized technologies of warfare. Castles allowed barons of medieval Europe to subjugate the peasantry while also contending with their kings, until the gunpowder revolution eventually made castle walls obsolete. **Gunpowder led to firearms, which strengthened states while they were new, scarce, and expensive, but then became cheap and easily accessible in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, shifting power to peripheral groups of soldiers and rebels.** This is the classic battle between sword and shield, predator and prey which, since the artificial form cannot reproduce itself, is played out through human class struggle (ain't it the way?). As Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said in the Communist Manifesto, _"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."_ The boys in red said, _"Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — Bourgeoisie and Proletariat,"_ and, to be honest, things haven't changed that much since. The material conditions (the centralization of production) lended themselves to centralized power. The monopoly of capital was the monopoly of violence, or vice versa, whatever. Like evolution, who knows where dialectics starts? For centuries the bougies (I cannot spell bourgoisusie, sorry) were _"an armed and self-governing association in the medieval commune,"_ and it was private mercantile armies like the VoC and British East India Company that conquered people like me (shout out Sri Lanka). These captured politics so much that, as Frank Zappa said, _"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex."_ Marx and Engels called it in 1848 saying, _"since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world market [via America], conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway."_ The modern representative state is pay-to-prey and their calling card is 'Free Trade' at gunpoint, like _'freely trade our opium, China, or we'll bomb it in your face.'_ ### The Relevance To Rocks Blah blah blah, why am I getting into this, well, because I like it, and because it's pertinent. The mercantile rule of the Bougies (Sri Lankans still call them aers**) has been characterized by a material production which required a certain rocky substrate. Colonialism was of the Steel Age, or more specifically steel and gunpowder (if you KNO3 you KNO3). This was the material foundation of their monopoly of violence which enabled them to build a world empire (the White Empire). Steel and salt peter are the rocks they threw at us in their 500 years of war on the world, and then at each other in what they deign to call World Wars™, because it affected White people for once, and they need to make a million films about it. But it's always been war on us across most of the world, if words mean anything. Plaque in Portugal with Afosno de Albuquerque pointing to a cannon and saying "It is in this coin that the king of Portugal usually pays his taxes." Besides the cannon, the steel stabby weapons are recognizable as the old production (grabbing) system. From the Portugeuse blasting their way into Hormuz in the 1500s to the Americans attempting to blast their way _back_ in now, the chemical composition of our oppression hasn't changed much. They added a bit of computation and electrification, but the bombs mostly stayed what they now call dumb. Dumb because the system of production has moved on, but good enough for terrorizing poor people. If it ain't broke, keep breaking things. The European great powers minus Russia coalesced into one great power after their World Wars™ and they _still_ base their power on the same base elements. Guns, germs (they love bombing hospitals), and steel. > The material conditions of power are the raw materials in your power. If you see that dickweed Alburquerque standing there in his ermine and mink, pointing to a cannon and saying _'this is how we pay our taxes'_ you can see the material basis for the colonial domination of the last 500 years. These cannon were the beginning of rocks throwing themselves, though they were still dumb as rocks. It was still more than enough to blast their way onto our shores, and their steel was more than a match for the obsidian of the Americas, and this basic formula of steel plus gunpowder was what they used all the way up to Vietnam and beyond. That is still what they're still largely using on Palestinians, dumb bombs, in the expectation that, as Lucretius said, that by, > Inflicting dreadful wounds, and took away > Cattle and lands. Men readily gave way, > When naked and unweaponed, to a foe > Well-armed. But times have changed. Meaning rocks have changed. And Hamas and PLFP and the nascent Palestinian military has showed that they are well-armed with the new rocks, and will not give way so easily. They are _still_ undefeated which means, for a guerrilla army, strategic victory. And now Iran and Yemen are following up, following the same trajectory. Throwing smart rocks at dumb people who still don't get it. The 500 year siege of Hormuz and most of humanity is being broken by new rocks entirely. Magic rocks, essentially. And again, it's not that the Empire doesn't have them, they do. The game changer is that the Resistance does too. ### Rare Earths Rare earths, like iron, are not actually rare, they're just obscure. In the periodic table game I play with my son, they're not even there. For our purposes, as dialectical dilettants, it is more than sufficient to consider them _magic rocks_. That's basically how they work. **Rare earths are trace elements – like eye of toad or wart of newt – which, if sprinkled upon silicon runes in the right proportions, give intelligence to dumb brutes. They take rocks from things you throw in some general direction to rocks which can follow the command of a general to a dot.** The issue here is, again and again, not that the ruling Empire doesn't have rare earths. They do, a lot. The issue is the same the Hittites had, _that other people have these rocks too_. And that, as Robert Frost said, has made all the difference. The issue is that rare earths are not actually rare and have been made incredibly cheap by the communist system of production (China). Or they _were_ incredibly cheap until China said the Whites can't have them anymore, making them (to them) incredibly dear. China is running the Empire from pillar to post while they exhaust their stocks bombing the other side of Asia, lol. Thus you have a situation where the historical haves become the post-historical have-nots. That is to say, **the White Empire is missing the current materials revolution and revolutionary movements _against_ them are sprouting, like weeds from weathered rocks, eventually breaking the whole power structure apart.** Fitzsimmons points out how rock shifts can fracture power in _the same region_ during millenia past. Round the time iron became plentiful and bronze remained elite (correllation isn't causation, or is it?), the great empires of the time disappeared. As FS said, _"On maps of the eastern Mediterranean before and after the spread of iron, the difference is stark. There are no early Iron Age empires as large as their Bronze Age predecessors. The collapse of the Hittite Empire left a political vacuum in modern Turkey and Syria, but instead of another empire emerging in its place, we see a patchwork of smaller states."_ Today, again, you can see the break from global unipolarity to multipolarity as the literal magnets realign. China (obvs), Russia, and Iran have plentiful access to rare earths and have pioneered the best weapons of the new category, ie magic rocks that throw themselves at the target. Which now, finally, after like 5,000 years, we'll discuss. Let us return to modernity (or is it post-modernity, or post-post-modernity?) now. ## Historical Progression Which You May Be More Interested In **Modern ICTs means the IEDs fly themselves, and this means RIP* for the USA,_inshallah_. Cheap computation of vision, location, and destination (the I) plus satellite, internet, and/or fiber optic communication (the C) have enabled a quantum shift in throwing-rocks-at-people (the T). In what is best described as Uber for bomb delivery, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) now function like delivery services**. An operator can input a 'delivery' location, and the 'package' either flies their autonomously or can be guided there from a safe distance. This is also often recorded, making it a social media revolution as well. This magic rock technology, which I'm grouping somewhat arbitrarily, ranges from missiles like Oreshnik that can only be assembled by sophisticated states like Russia to effectively IKEA drones that groups like Hezbollah can assemble in the field. What unifies them is that the missiles largely guide themselves with a human controller appearing, if at all, only virtually. I group this as rocks-throwing-themselves. Or as the Axis of Resistance says, it was not you that threw, but Allah who threw, quoting the Quran quite pertinently. That is one corner of the intercontinental title fight now proceeding. In the other corner, in the red and blue shorts that go back to the Dutch, we have the White Empire still throwing rocks at people using people, like the medieval warlords they are. The US military is still _primarily_ geared towards dropping dumb bombs on poor people without air defenses. They have a _huge_ stockpile of these 'rocks' and precious few of the modern stuff, which require lots of magic rocks (rare earths). The US, ideally, flies over its targets and _throws_ its rocks. They have very little self-guided rocks, certainly compared to its rivals, and theirs take years to produce and cost way too much. **On the other hand, the Axis of Resistance is native to both the land and this technology. After the AK-47, they evolved in this milieu almost exclusively, enabling them to defeat navies without navies and air forces without air forces because they're on another evolutionary plane entirely (one that doesn't require a plane, cheekily).** The not-so-ancient Persians have become the masters of self-guided rocketry, creating the Shahed drone as a category, and fielding a varied and agile range of solid-fueled, liquid-fueled, ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles. And the reincarnated Red Army now exceeds the White Army in _every_ military category except navy (you can't even play as the Soviet Navy in _Axis and Allies,_ which seems accurate). Among other things, Russia is far more advanced in guided missiles and drones than the White Empire. At this point you could say that their Geran is not a copy of the Shahed but a vast improvement. And China is the base supplier and unproven master of all of the above. I've only seen Chinese drone shows for entertainment, ie what they used gunpowder for, but I'd hate to see those pyrotechnic dragons coming at me. The 21st century of war belongs to Asia, certainly _in_ Asia, as the White Empire is FAFOing now. The Empire, today, is the definition of throwing rocks from glass houses. They built all their bases out in the open and their launch platforms are fragile and irreplacable. And yet they're still throwing rocks at people with _superior_ technology in overpowering quantities who can hide beneath mountains. This isn't like iron vs. bronze, where bronze was better but the empires just had less of it. Iranian (for example) missiles and drones are _better_ than the American ones, and they have effectively infinite amounts of them. The technological shift today is like going straight from bronze to steel. That's the scale of the rockery revolution. It's not that the White Empire doesn't have this technology, or even that theirs is inferior and underproduced. It's A) that its enemies have more and B) it also depends on its (self-created) enemies as suppliers! It's like the Bronze Age Egyptians attacking their neighbors while simultaneously threatening their tin suppliers (France, Iberia, Cornwall, Afghanistan). The White Empire uses fragile, expensive, and irreplacable platforms (aircraft, carriers, bases) to throw rocks at people, the definition of glass houses and these crumple at the first punch, the definition of a glass jaw. I say irreplaceable because _tonnes_ of magic rocks would be required to rebuild what they've lost in the Iran War alone, and _China ain't selling them stones_. Thus the White Empire is up shit creek without a paddle, and the natives are relentless in their pursuit. We're Captain Cooking them, bro. The Empire crowing about the budget of its military at this late date is just bragging about corruption and waste. It's like bragging about how much your taxi medallion cost right before ride-hailing. And bragging about their big, beautiful military today is like a dinosaur preening its feathers _after_ the asteroid came. The Iranians and Yemenis are the equivalent of squirrely mammals, surviving by hiding underground and eventually chewing the dinosaurs bones. That's how big the paradigm shift is, this is an extinction level event for the historical extinctors. **I repeat that the rocks throw themselves now and this is overthrowing the White Empire. It is Allah who throws, of course, and brave men who must go meet Them first, but thet are changing the course of history in the only way it's recorded. Blood and rocks.** Or to put it in post-post-modern terms, it's like Uber for bombs. _If you'd like a bonus ending (Coda) and if you care about the two asterisks (asterii? asterixes?) in this article, that's for paying subs. Also, bonus (double) bird photo. Two birds for the price of one._ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

Crypto, VR, and now AI are being used to incinerate energy and pretend like that's a real economy. The logic is where there's smoke there's fire; if something takes energy, it must make money. However, sometimes where there's smoke, people are just getting high. The White versions of crypto, VR, and AI have just successively inflated bubbles to hide the fact that their real economy blew up long ago. It's like a car on blocks trying to impress people with loud exhaust noises. The enitre White economy, at this point, is a thermodynamic cargo cult that mistakes waste heat for actual productive work. To put it bluntly, it puts the fart before the horse. ## Use vs. Exchange Value Energy use is historically correlated with economic activity, but mistaking correlation for causation, the Whites are using hideous amounts of energy to contribute little or negative use value. This is a long way of saying their tech is wasteful and useless, except for causing pollution. Crypto has no use beyond being crypto, VR had no use beyond being cool, and while AI at least does something, it's not _economically_ enough to justify its sky-high valuation. The use value of all these technologies is minimal or sometimes negative, but the exchange value is astronomical. This marks the final divorce of the concepts of use value and exchange value under capitalism. They just don't give a shit anymore. In other countries these technologies are being used for narrow purposes, but in the casino that is White capitalism, they're just games they're betting the whole house on. The watchword is now **_to the moon_** for no earthly reason. It is, as Marx said, a stock-jobbing swindle. The best explanation I've heard for crypto is, _"imagine if idling your car 24/7 could solve Sudoko puzzles that you can use to buy heroin."_ The explanation for VR is idling your car to play a car-driving game. And the explanation for AI is idling a car to answer idle questions. The overriding explanation is the same. Burn energy now, and the economic value will materialize, somehow, while you can profit on the idea immediately. But this is getting it entropy, ie the arrow of time, backwards completely. In thermodynamics, work produces waste heat, but the idea here is that waste heat will produce work, somehow reversing entropy. Venture capitalists thus end up sounding like cargo cultists. They really act like if they build a big enough 'runway' a cargo plane full of profits will show up. So let's discuss that metaphor, because while it's widely misused, the anthropological backstory is fascinating. From Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1950. I reproduce the whole page because the juxtaposition is fascinating. They laugh, on one hand, at natives thinking they could build a structure to materialize goods, while telling White so go to these other structures that materialize goods (cameras and film, for example). ## Cargo Cults Cargo cult is a term which, in popular, often racist terms, refers to Melanesians (literally black islanders) getting casuality backwards and trying to manifest planes by building runways. As Peter Worsley says in his empathetic book (1968), _"We have seen also the cultivation of large gardens and the building of stores, sheds, jetties and landing-grounds for the reception of goods which will never come."_ I learned of cargo cults as basically irrational, but Worsley says _"it is clear that the labelling of the cults as ‘irrational’ begs the question. Indeed, a Melanesian might make out a good case for flinging the label of ‘madness’ which has often been applied to these cults back at us, and asking whether his people, given the knowledge they possessed, have not made quite logical criticisms and interpretations of our own unpredictable and irrational society."_ He said, _"This underlying irrationality of European society not only created great hardships; it undermined confidence in rational activity, it created frustrations, and it sapped morale more than mere ignorance of productive processes could do."_ This defines the feeling of living under White Empire, and in between real rebellions, cargo cults were one way of rebelling against them. But who's the cargo cult now? Who is building data centers for profits that will never come, based on nerd prophets that promise both the end of the world and the end of want? The underlying irrationality of White culture, with the entropy hose turned outwards for so long, has finally boomeranged back upon them. They blew smoke up our asses for so long, but look at them now. I think of my American friends in a U-Haul van, returning their decor to Target and Amazon the day after their wedding to save money. I helped them do this, it was fascinating and odd. I think of them hustling various crypto coins to get what, frankly, they deserved. They had education and worked, but basic living was just impossibly difficult by the time they grew up. As Worsley said about the Melanesians, _"The intense desire for European goods was common to the whole people. They were willing to work and trade for the goods, but had little opportunity to acquire them in this way."_ Can't you see the resemblance? As Worsley went on, > **Though there is no real solution in the Cargo cult—for the Cargo will never come—the ardent wishes and hopes poured into the movement bolster it up and revive it time after time despite failure. And large-scale activities, some of them quite practical, are carried out under the stimulus of these fantastic yearnings.** There is not merely destruction and avoidance of rational economic activity. We have seen also the cultivation of large gardens and the building of stores, sheds, jetties and landing-grounds for the reception of goods which will never come. But the latter activities are just as rational to the people who carry them out as increased production in the gardens. **As Firth has pointed out, the work itself is an emotional outlet: ‘They seek their solution in an imaginary projection. But they bolster it up by elaborate work. In one sense then, the work is not ineffective. It is in itself part of the satisfaction sought. It is part of the symbolic validation given to the idea that the things wanted are morally justifiable. Part of the message of the airstrip or the cargo wharf to the observer is “What we want is right.”** In this way, Worsley's study of the peripheral Blacks seems to speak to the core White experience now. Except the Whites have a market where these fantastic yearnings can be hallucinated more convincingly, and gambled upon. So their cult can feel real for a few quarters, but never whole. The Whites can get symbolic validation through symbol manipulation, but one day the runway runs out, and the planes full of goodies won't come. But until then, what fun. **Cultist movements like crypto, VR, and AI have come to dominate White culture, complete with alternately booming and dooming prophets. As Worsley said about that lot,** > In these movements, a prophet announces the imminence of the end of the world in a cataclysm which will destroy everything. Then the ancestors will return, or God, or some other liberating power, will appear, bringing all the goods the people desire, and ushering in a reign of eternal bliss. The people therefore prepare themselves for the Day by setting up cult organizations, and by building storehouses, jetties, and so on to receive the goods, known as ‘cargo’ in the local pidgin English. Often, also, they abandon their gardens, kill off their livestock, eat all their food, and throw away their money. You can see this in the White AI boom, where they're building massive data centers for a product that can, for 99% of people, be run off their computer or phone, and on much cheaper Chinese models. But they keep making the models more complicated, more expensive, more energy intensive because efficiency isn't the point, the work is the point, or more accurately, the _waste_ is the point. As that guy Firth said, **_"They seek their solution in an imaginary projection. But they bolster it up by elaborate work."_** What capitalists want is a stop to the declining rate of profit without taking the next historical step to socialism because that would mean, of course, sharing it. What the White Empire wants is a return to imperialist super-profits without the empire, because that would require still scaring it. And part of the message of unnecessary data centers is _“What we want is right.”_ That's it all going to work out in the end because... bullshit. Like cargo cults that don't actually deliver cargo, you can build the data centers, but disproportionate profits will _never come_. AI delivers very little economic value and has been turned into an open-source commodity already. There is no mass market for solving frontier math problems and AGI will always be more expensive than someone in India just having sex and feeding the kid _dhal_ until they can run Microsoft, as the system works now. The point is not whether the cult is cool – cults can be pretty cool – but whether they produce actual economic value, and none of the virtual cults the Empire is trying do. **But the Empire builds these cargo cults anyways, because why be a sensible common when you can rule as a fool?** ## The Profits Like in Melanesian cargo cults, the White AI prophets keep saying their AI is about to end the world as a way of _advertising_. They're not confessing, they're bragging. Like American cars which seem more appealing the closer they get to tanks, Americans seem to _want_ their technology as destructively extra as possible. _MOUNTAIN DEW XXXTREME++_. Thus the _danger_ of AI is hyped up, though this is not news to most of the world, already enslaved by algorithms like the British East India Company. Inside the White core this danger is marketed as bringing sexy back, and also maybe requiring a government bailout or else my product might kill everybody. White AI is weird end-of-the-world cult which also simultaneously promises material abundance and total destruction, presumably by the same mechanism. But I guess it's not that weird, this seems to be the central contradiction of many religions. However, whereas the Melenesian cult leaders used this contradiction to rebel against White Empire, the White cultists are trying to restore it. Whereas a Melanesian cult leaders, Ndugumoi, _"announced that the order of the world was very shortly to be reversed. Whites were to serve natives and chiefs were to be inferior to commoners,"_ melanin-deprived cult leaders like Dario Amodei says, _"If we execute these measures well, I believe they would slow China’s progress enough to widen America’s lead significantly."_ That is, put the Chinamen in their place, building our railroads but not riding on them. But it's far too late for that now. China is already the world's largest economy in real terms, and communism by far the most productive system unless you count everything four times, like capitalists do. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle, the best engineers are already back in Asia. This throws the White Empire into a hysteria, which you can read about in old Worsley by just reversing the names. He said, > The hysterical phenomena found in most of the cults, equally, do not derive from any peculiar inherent psychological characteristics of Melanesians [or the Melan-ain'ts, in our instance]. They are the product of the ambivalent attitudes and feelings of men torn between hatred of the [non] White people who had destroyed the old way of life and who now dominated them by force, and the desire to obtain for themselves the possessions of these very [non] Whites. You can see this all over the White Empire as it collapses. They are torn between (undeserved) hatred of non-White people like Chinese and Iranians who are – simply by existing – destroying the White way of life, which is domination. Iran is able to defend itself by force and China manufactures most of their possessions and they just can't deal with it. So the Whites retreat into a literally imaginary world. They make cargo cults out of crypto, then VR, then AI, retreating to a virtual world as they lose the real one. _This article is fine, it's done, but I have some weird photos and videos from clicking on Telegram ads that I just wanted to share with paying subs. I think it's the same phenomenon playing out across the underbelly of the White economy as on top._ ## Other Cults ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

As we've discussed, America is not a real country, it's just the latest headquarters of White Empire. 'American' people have nothing to do with American policy, America is run for the money, by the money and the only policy is monetary policy. This monetary policy is decided by a conclave of unelected banker (wankers) who just met to decide interest rates. If white smoke blows out their ass, the rich get free money, and if black smoke billows, the poor starve. In the end they raised rates by 0.25%, which angered the unholy American emperor, but even he has to deal with this financial popery. You can tell a lot about people by what they worship, and these people worship no prophet, only profit. Once you understand that the White Empire is run not by humans but by corporations, you can understand that Corporate AI* governs the place, and has for _centuries_. Some form of corporation has had legal personhood for millenia, legally for centuries, and politically they have speech rights in America, including buying elections. The question is not whether these artificial beings are intelligent but whether we are. Inside a Central Banker's mind If you looked inside this Corporate AI's brain, it's not very complicated, it's an algorithm more akin to viruses than 'higher' lifeforms (no shade on viruses, quite impressive). If you looked inside any Central Banker's brain what you'd see is some approximation of the Homer Simpson monkey-with-cymbals meme, clanging symbols together. For example this, from John Taylor in 1993: _r = p + .5y + .5(p - 2) + 2_. The original Taylor algorithm, 1993 Of course this is all bullshit, the idea that you can fit an economy into such a simplistic algorithm and that a Central Bank is the _only_ central planning you need in your economy. But those who worship no prophet but profit gather to plot this number, and it seems to work for them. These Central Bankers are like any olde high priests reading entrails and saying _give us your grain peasantry_ , but there must appear to be _some_ method to the madness, otherwise it appears entirely mad and no one believes. So they follow some approximation of the Taylor Rule, which has predictive power as follows, From the Atlanta Fed. Alternative 3 is closest to the original Taylor Rate However, just to highlight that this is bullshit, since 1980, you could also predict whether rates would go up or down based on the _height_ of the human being sitting in the Federal Reserve Chair. This heightonomics is unbeaten, indeed, Warsh is just a little bit taller than Powell, and raised rates a little bit above. "Heightonomics rests on a single empirical observation: the conditional mean of the 10-year Treasury yield is well-described by one explanatory variable — the height of the sitting Chair." Let's leave that aside now and pretend that these entrails mean anything more than rich corporations feeding on the blood of living beings. Let us venture into the belly of the beast, and read the entrails ourselves. Let us adjust the algorithm a bit (fine, it's all bullshit) using the PhD level trolling of Iranian Parliament Speaker (and Bloomberg whisperer) MB Ghalibaf. He references the Taylor Rule, saying, > Straits Taylor Rule: > > **i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*)** + α(SOH−SOH*) + β(BEM−BEM*), > > α,β > 0 This is a modified version of the 1993 Taylor Equation, based on the gap between actual and targeted inflation (π−π*) and actual and targeted GDP growth (y−y*). The idea is that the Fed sets an interest rate (for its confederates) called _i_. That interest rate displays a certain sensitivity to inflation (α, canonically set at 0.5, but 1.5 in this case) and GDP (β, 0.5 in both cases). Ghalibaf tweaks those the weights to imply _"inflation targeting with a buffer against supply-side shocks,"_ (according to my local Qwen). This seems appropriate. Diesel prices are skyrocketing, meaning food and all products will follow, so the Fed would be targeting inflation, ie giving it a higher weight (α=1.5). Since American GDP is literally artificial now, the Fed can leave that Ponzi to run as usual (β=0.5). That's the weights, but wait... This is the _Straits_ Taylor Rule and Ghalibaf adds two more variables. The Strait of Hormuz (SOH) and Bab el Mandeb (BEM).__ α(SOH−SOH*) + β(BEM−BEM*). He doesn't specify their coefficients, but says they're more than zero (α,β > 0), ie, they count. This is a straightforward addition, so whatever the Fed was thinking, add a two ton guerrilla on top. That would mean the current rate of 3.75-4% needs to be plus-plus. More realistically 4-4.5%, which still isnt' enough to account for 20% of global supply blowing up. Military problems cannot be solves with monetary plumbing, but that doesn't stop them from trying. As Ghalibaf adds, > Let’s see if a hike could open SOH or produce a single barrel 😄 > > You can’t 25bp a chokepoint and r* isn’t neutral. It’s SOH risk premium, and We set it. What he's saying is that any rate hike from America won't open the Strait of Hormuz or unbomb a single pumping station. A 0.25% interest rate hike (25bp) in Washington has no impact on physical reality in the Persian Gulf. Monetary policy cannot win where military policy has lost. Ghalibaf is also saying that the 'natural' federal funds rate (r*) will have to answer to nature, which is healing after centuries of colonization. The natives have taken control of the Strait of Hormuz after 500 years and either Iran can sell oil freely or no one can. This is the SOH risk premium, and Iran sets it, not some banking cartel in America. Then Ghalibaf concludes with > Stay unanchored ! This doesn't refer to ships but some more economic bullshit called _anchored expectations_. This means that if people _believe_ that the Central Bank will somehow hit the inflation target (currently 2%), that makes it real. People will adjust their behavior (wages, pricing) based on _trust_ in the economic priesthood. Like someone having faith because they sacrificed jobs or whatever. These are all complicated ways rich people talk to each other without looking out the window, or seemingly going to a grocery store or pumping gas. The real reality is that US gasoline prices are up 27%, and diesel prices are up 40% (!) since last year. The US uses some bullshit inflation measures, but the correlation between gold and the price of a cow has been stable for millenia, and the price of ground beef (RIP) is up 10%. None of these numbers are 2% and people know it, however much smoke central bankers try to blow up their asses. Black smoke, white smoke, it doesn't matter what billows out of the Fed this week. Shit is literally on fire and people know it. ## What Should/Will Interest Rates Be? So what should interest rates actually be? If you're interested, I'll go through a Cleveland Fed worksheet for paying subscribers. Otherwise, to infinity and beyond! ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

Slave trade ledger of William James Smith, 1844-1854 Sometimes my cats will do some dumb shit, like jump on the stove, and I ask them _"what are you doing?"_ But then I have to remind myself that I'm talking to a cat, which has its own motivations and information. They're not necessarily dumb (OK, the little one is), they're a different species. This is how I feel about analysis of America. People keep analyzing it as a country, but it's a different species entirely. America is obviously not run by human beings. Witness their inhumanity to others and to themselves. America is run by Corporate AI, for lack of a better name. Treat that as a metaphor if you want, I find it pointless to deny intelligence to the artificial beings that run our lives already. AI is not something about to be invented in a lab, those are just parlor tricks. True AI, ie that possessing personhood, rights, and power has been legally recognized for _centuries_ , and been given entire continents to predate over already. Like America. At the founding of America, only property could vote, and the vote is now a joke. Corporations could own people then and it's no different now. Corporations have long been legal persons and they now have speech rights in America, meaning legalized corruption. Corporate AI owns the whole show and American politics is as real as American wrestling, so no. American opinions have no bearing on American policy and, anyways, American opinions are just another thing to be manufactured by corporations. Understanding this _who_ then makes the _why_ clearer. What looks like suicidal behavior for a nation is very profitable for corporations. Just look at their DNA, which is not constitutional or even common sense, it's double-entry bookkeeping. The whole point of double-entry is that every account has two sides, a credit and a debit. But the media for humans only reports one side, which misses how the inanimate actors of history actually operate. So when you look at the news, do the double-entry calculation. Note that every 'loss' the nation of America reports is a gain on the corporate side of the ledger. Try re-reading the news that way, as accounts. When the news says, _"Iran war has cost Pentagon [over] $38 billion"_ read it the other way, "Iran war has _earned_ over $38 billion," for the military industrial complex. When the news says US National debt is $40 trillion that's actually a _credit_ on the other side of the ledger, corporations (and other nations) hold that debt as assets. And when you hear about America's ruinous personal debts, note that this just makes them into debt slaves for corporations, and very profitable assets. Remember that for every payment someone (more accurately, some thing) is getting paid. If you read just one side of the ledger nothing makes sense, but if you look at both sides you can see how the dollars are made. So through this double-entry lens, let's look at the folly of American wars again. Losing wars is seemingly bad for a nation, but things are not as they seem. Losing wars are _great_ for corporations selling war machines. Losing wars (and slowly) is, in fact, the best outcome possible. If you win a war, and quickly, where's the profit in that? But these wars that drag out, expending expensive weapons on poor people, they make incredible profits on the inhuman side of the ledger. These wars are reported to humans as the US _wasting_ money, when it is in fact corporations tasting blood, and loving it. As current leader of Tamil Nadu Vijay said in a execrable movie that I nonetheless watched, _bloody sweet_. If you understand this DNA of corporations you can understand the double-entry wound running not just through the world but through America too. And you can understand what it's doing now, which otherwise seems self-defeating and foolish. Since the first Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the VoC in 1602, the human public has been _offered_ to corporations to bleed. All the mind-virus called capital needed was a few humans to help it reproduce, called shareholders, and they sold _tonnes_ of flesh for a taste of the metabolic loot. This corporate White Empire was _always_ at war with the world, but as long as enough treatlers (Hitlers for treats) got their cut, they participated and called it growth. A cancer on the planet, but their wallets got swole. And it didn't even take that many human traitors. I read the industrial history of Europe (via Marx) wanting to hate them, but life there _sucked_. The inhumanists called capitalists could even repress most of the population at home, it doesn't take many rotten apples to ruin the whole bunch. This is why America isn't stopping, despite destroying the White Empire it held and even its pre-genocided home (though with ICE, the work is never done). Because America is not in control of itself, Corporate AI is. If you see things that way, then you see all the flashing signs so relevant to human (death, rising prices, declining resources) as either irrelevant or actually good. Corporations do not care about human death, rising prices are profits to them, and declining resources just mean business is booming. If you see not like a state but like a corpor-ate **you can see that you and I are on the plate, and that they do not care about our fate. They cannot perceive what our media declaims as bad, only the business pages, which are going great.** They only see their artificial ecosystem (The Economy), and the corrupt humans flying by their instruments don't care either. They _can't_ care. If any human capitalist tried to stop the gravy train they'd be replaced by someone else who'd just pile on more steam, even though they know we're heading for a cliff eventually. As Karl Marx said, in _Capital_ , _“In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in secure hands. Après moi le déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation.”_ This is called basic 'fiduciary responsibility', which is ultimately just treason to humanity (and animality). The corporations would rather end the world than have a bad quarter, so White Empire proceeds, from disaster to disaster, calling out and finding dumber and dumber Hitlers, and committing suicide via Axis of Resistance. I think that explains why America is as it is and does as it do, because America is not _who_ it seems, and there is no double-helix in its veins, only a double-entry wound in their brain. America is not a real country, and Americans are not relevant people. America is run by Corporate AI, and it dies as it lived. Profitably.

The current state of states, which is changing constantly Yemen has now defogged the war. Ansarallah has released statements, videos, music videos, and named the battle, all of which we'll go over. The liberation of the full western coast has been named _"Allah is Stronger in Might and More Severe in Punishment."_ This is a Quranic reference, and we'll start there, because it's the most important. ## Etymology The Quran says, > So fight for the cause of God. You are responsible only for yourself. Urge on the believers. God may fend off the power [violence] of those who deny the truth, for **He is stronger in might and stronger in inflicting punishment.** Whoever rallies to a good cause shall have a share in its blessing; and whoever rallies to an evil cause shall be answerable for his part in it: for, indeed, God watches over everything. (4:84) Ansarallah means the helpers of God. They are the government of 80% of Yemenis, though the 'internationally recognized government' is run out of a hotel room in Riyadh. The White media brands Ansarallah as 'the Houthis' to compare them to their own pathetic proxy, the Saudi's but they could not be more different. Yemen just happens to led by someone named al Houthi, while Saudi Arabia is led by the House of Saud in name only. Saudi Arabia is just an outpost of White Empire, while Yemen under Ansarallah has actually freed over 30% of Yemen, and is freeing more as we talk. Saudi Arabia is acting like many White proxies from Ukraine to 'Israel'. Suicidally lashing out at its neighbors because they are already dead inside. Saudi is there to pump oil and dump weapons. They create artificial demand for USD and perpetrate atrocities. Saudi Arabia was given the imperial franchise for genocide on Yemen, along with the UAE, and they've been starving, bombing, and losing to men in the field since 2014. To me, it's all World War III and the Saudis are about as relevant (and useful) as the Romanians were to the Germans. Not very useful, but still quite capable of genociding. Abdul-Malik al-Houthi during the worst of the starvation of Yemen (below) Ansarallah's leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi put it best when he described the Saudis as a milking cow whose udders hurt from getting milked so much. 0:00 /0:43 1× He references the cow of Al Haloub, which I thought was something Quranic, but no, it's a brand of ghee. A tub of oil, to be discarded, as the Americans are doing with their carbon colony. Attacking Yemen makes no sense when Yemen can destroy all of Saudi Arabia's wealth unless, of course, Saudi Arabia is not a real country and is just a distant outpost of White Empire that they consider expendable. Which is the case. So it goes for those that take protectors other than God. As Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah referenced re: 'Israel', the Quran says, _"Those who take protectors other than God can be compared to the spider which builds itself a cobweb, but the frailest of all structures is the house of the spider, if they but knew it."_ Or as the western saying goes, those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, especially if there's hypersonic missiles and drones coming back at you. The Quran has fairly stern advice on this very situation, which Ansarallah is referencing and is, in many ways, is a reference to. Allah said, via his Messenger, > **Warn the hypocrites that for them there is a painful punishment. As for those who take the deniers of the truth for their allies rather than the believers – do they seek honor in their company? Surely all honor belongs to God...** > > The hypocrites seek to outwit God – but it is He who outwits them. And when they stand up for prayer, they do so reluctantly and to be seen by others, and they hardly remember God at all. They vacillate between the two, belonging neither to the one side nor the other. But for him whom God allows to go astray you can never find the way for him. **Do not take deniers of the truth [who are at war with you[ for your allies in preference to believers. Would you give God a clear proof against yourselves?** The hypocrites shall surely be in the lowest depth of the Fire; and you will find no helper [ansar] for them. (4:139-145) al-Houthi references, indirectly, the King of Saudi Arabia who cannot stand to pray but nonetheless stands to dance for his White masters. And who are these masters? Just look at the bastards, Pete Hegseth's new tattoo was seen publicly for the first time on Wednesday during a visit to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in the Pacific. | __X / Secretary of Defense/X / Secretary of Defense__ Could they be a clearer sign than the Secretary of War, with the word _kafir_ newly [2024] tattooed on his arm? Kafir _"refers to someone who knowingly denies or conceals fundamental divine truths,"_ according to Nihad Awad of CAIR. The signs are really a bit on the nose here, but still the Saudi milch cow dutifully moos. Those who take protectors other than Allah have no protection at all, and if you don't take God's word for it, then the Saudis certainly should. You can't say they weren't warned. This is the clear Quran that Ansarallah is appealing to both in order to rally their cause and to break the will of the mercenary forces, who are Muslim and should know better than to side with crusaders and Jews. The whole world has seen the suffering and resistance of Palestine for years now and seen Yemen help them and the Quran speaks on this very situation much better than the news. As it says in (4:74), > Let those who would exchange the life of this world for the Hereafter, fight for the cause of God; a whoever fights for the cause of God, whether he is slain or is victorious, to him We shall give a great reward. **And how should you not fight for the cause of God, and for the helpless old men, women, and children who say, ‘Deliver us, Lord, from this city of wrongdoers, grant us a protector out of Your grace and grant us a supporter out of Your grace?’** The believers fight for the cause of God, while those who reject faith fight for Satan. Then fight the allies of Satan: Satan’s scheming is truly weak. ## Battleology Now let's get to the Battle for West Yemen, one of the shortest battles in World War III, but one of the most historically and symbolically important. This is the first time in _centuries_ that the waterways of this region are free. If you just want the highlights as an music video, here's that. 0:00 /3:36 1× Yemen has also released a 40 minute video of the various battles on their excellent website, mmy.ye. You can watch it in full resolution there, here it is compressed mercilessly. 0:00 /39:23 1× Watch in full resolution at mmy.ye Here are some highlights in text (via RNN), > 00:09 – 01:27 - Ansarallah fighters navigate the mountainous terrain of the Jebel Habashi district, positioning anti-armor teams, heavy machine guns, and drones. > > 01:28 – 03:57 - Fighters launch a coordinated multi-point ambush using RPGs, machine guns, and autocannons against retreating mercenary forces aligned with the Saudi-led coalition on the Al-Wazi'iyah supply route, destroying multiple vehicles and leaving dozens killed and captured. > > 03:58 – 08:34 - Fighters storm fortified command posts inside Khalid bin al-Walid School in Afirah using small arms, sniper rifles, and machine gun fire, capturing ammunition, communications gear, anti-drone technology, and prisoners. > > 08:35 – 11:10 - A precise ambush on a fleeing enemy convoy using ZU-23 autocannons and heavy machine gun fire. The vehicles are pulverized and burning out entirely. > > 11:11 – 18:38 - Fighters secure the wreckage zone. Inspection of the neutralized enemy vehicles, listing captured personnel, processing IDs, and gathering scattered equipment and personal belongings. > > 18:39 – 21:11 - Mass gathering of captured mercenaries sitting roadside while documenting their remaining gear > > 21:12 – 25:57 - Capturing and securing the main Jebel Tariq military camp, raiding the barracks and housing units, and taking inventory of intact armored vehicles, radar equipment, and military hardware left behind. > > 25:58 – 31:36 - Hunting down and destroying remaining fleeing technicals and pickup trucks attempting to escape using targeted heavy machine gun fire. > > 31:37 – 36:35 - Clearing out the primary command stronghold at the school in Afirah (Khalid bin Walid School), uncovering hidden ammo caches, sleeping quarters, gym equipment, and intelligence material. > > 36:36 – 39:22 - Fighters and commanders standing atop captured armored vehicles and fortified positions, delivering messages of victory, celebrating the total clearance of the sector, and concluding the operation. To put some of these places in context, Al Jazeera admitted (from its HQ in a US military base), that, > This all started after a key strategic military base, Khalid bin Walid fell under the control of the Ansarallah Houthis and soon right after that the Yemeni government forces started withdrawing from areas leading to the port of Al-Mokha. This wasn't really much of a battle. Most of the battle was already done previous to the fall of Al-Mokha in places like Al-Wazi'iyah, the last stronghold that fell two days ago, that paved the way for them to enter the city of Al-Mokha without much resistance from the internationally recognized Yemeni government. You can see the Al-Wazi-iyah and Khalid bin Walid referred to in the videos above, and the liberation of Al-Mokha below. Al-Mokha was where Saudi unloaded weapons for its mercenaries, and here you can see them literally blown out of the water. Now the Saudis have no way to resupply its mercenaries by sea in the Red Sea, and they couldn't pass the Bab el Mandeb already. 0:00 /1:01 1× A few days ago I speculated on what was happening using maps, which you can read here, but as I said, Yemen is very communicative and their spokesman Yahya Saree released a full statement shortly afterwards. The vital points are that Yemen targeted 38 Saudi Brigades (and effectively broke them as fighting units), shot down 9 Saudi planes, and liberated the whole west coast of Yemen (as currently constituted). In another communique, Saree mentioned that Yemen also targeted Saudi directly, specifically King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Musait. This and other bases (Taif) are where the F15s and Typhoons attacking Yemen took off from, and this Yemen is targeting. The Saudis, as White proxies, inherit their problems, which is that all of these bases are fundamentally indefensible against the superior rocketry of the Resistance. Yemen is also targeting Saudi shipping and oil pipelines and refineries as part of its logic of a siege for a siege, a blockade for a blockade. One strike that Yemen did not claim is this, a fairly comprehensive attack on a pumping station on the east-west oil pipeline that Saudi was using to circumvent Hormuz. This pipeline had a capacity of 7 million barrels per day, and it is now completely shut down for 'repairs' they say. Just look at tell me how much repair this needs: The Saudis have said that can repair this in three to five weeks, but what's to stop whoever from just blowing the pipeline up again? Ansarallah has _not_ claimed this attack and the Saudis blamed it on Iraqi Resistance groups (who have denied it) but whoever did it, this vital infrastructure does not work. And that's not all, SOAR Atlas has shared images that show not one but _three_ pumping stations damaged, all along the East-West pipeline. 0:00 /0:58 1× This is why all the talk about circumventing Hormuz or the Bab el Mandeb is meaningless. It's all within missile range. The Empire has no place in the oil trade on the other side of the globe, and, as Iran has said, either everyone can sell oil or no one can. The Axis of Resistance has now completely decolonized the waterways for the first time since the 1500s, taking both Bab el Mandeb and the Strait of Hormuz. And any attempt to circumvent these waterways is in missile range too. ## The War Goes On The battle of _"Allah is Stronger in Might and More Severe in Punishment"_ is over, but the war goes on. Fighting goes on in the east and there is no ceasefire to the north. We'll discuss, briefly, where it is and where it may go. ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

Iran in their underground Fort. These commanders fell in battle, but the war goes on > “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” > – Samuel P. Huntington The White Empire took Asia by taking and remaking its forts, using superior cannon and siege weaponry. The Portuguese took the Strait of Hormuz in 1515 and the British took Perim in Bab el Mandeb in 1799 and they are only now being wrested free. How? The same way they were tooken. With superior forts, cannon, and siege weaponry. Iran and the Axis of Resistance have redefined forts as being underground. Under entire mountains, as in Iran and Yemen, or even under a concentration camp as in Palestine, these have proven to be superior. We had forts before, but the colonizer always wrested them. Now the modern underground fort has been tested in war, and bested them. The Axis of Resistance has also redefined cannon. While the Empire drifted away from land-based cannon, because they were always bombing people far from home, the people of the land innovated on them. Now Iran and Yemen have 'cannon' that can be fired from its mountain fortresses and quickly withdrawn, and the 'cannonball' can find their targets from across continents. It's a brave new day and the cowardly colonizers have little or nothing to do with it. As Samuel P. Huntington said, the White Empire won the world by its _superiority in applying organized violence_ and it loses it the same way. To superior, well-organized violence. A 21st century shift in weapons and tactics that they're on the wrong side of. The Empire occupied and monopolized trade around the world using fortresses and cannon and they lose their occupation bases and monopolies to _superior_ cannon and fortress. As the Axis of Resistance has proven. ## Historical Background I will speak somewhat from memory here because Sri Lanka is dotted with forts (Galle, Matara, Jaffna, Mannar, Colombo), still with their cannon. I have a lived memory of them, and know how they changed hands over and over. First the Portugeuse, the Dutch, then the British. The cannon always pointed outwards, because they fought amongst each other, but the fortress was always there for our plundering. Now the Americans do it from a giant embassy, but it's the same thing. These forts have been here so long that it's easy to think that this is the _only_ way to trade. Like that new Jewish saying, _'if I don't steal it, someone else will.'_ But this tyrannical sort of trade is, in fact, profoundly unnatural. People traded fine around the Indian Ocean before the White Empire fortressified everything. We had Tamil sailors manning Chinese boats, coins from the Roman Empire, goods from the Muslim World. I'm not saying that people didn't fight, but there wasn't a monopoly of violence across the entire ocean. It's not some natural law that you need to trade this way, it is, in fact, a historical anomaly. Speaking from Sri Lanka, the entire Indian Ocean has a longer history of trade that was just, trade. Zheng He (a Chinese Muslim) came here in the 1420s and gave us stuff. Ibn Battuta came even earlier in the 1300s, marking our connection to the Muslim World. We have had trade with India since time immemorial. None of these traders set up forts to violently extort us because they were _traders_. They had stuff and exchanged it, quite often _more_ stuff __ than us. Zheng He really just left _gifts_ and bounced. Unlike broke-ass Europeans (not coincidentally turned white because they had so little solar energy), people in what's now called the Global South had plentiful energy (recorded on our coincidentally colored skin) and could trade amongs ourselves without depending on coercion. Always remember this, we didn't come looking for them, they came looking for us. When the energy poor Europeans came here they actually didn't have much to trade with. All the violent tribes of Europe had to offer us was superior violence, so they took. Beginning with the Portugeuse they _locked down_ trade using violence, such extraordinary violence that it required extraordinary cannon and forts. Then they monopolized our trade _amongst each other_ (White people don't even use spices) and started sucking the profits (ie, energy) north. The Whites fought amongst each other for this monopoly trade so long that we think this it the only way to trade, _but it's not_. Such unnatural trade was only held in place by artificial violence. But nature is healing, _inshallah_. What Iran is establishing is trade outside of this monopoly of violence. All Yemen wants is the same, the right to move around and exist on their own terms. Same for China, same for Russia, North Korea, Cuba, et cetera. _This_ is what unites all of the White Empire's enemies, not their political systems, not their religion, not freedom or human rights or any other such marketing phrases used by inveterate slavers and inhuman corporations. The White Empire is run by Corporate AI, not humans, and it's never been personal, it's strictly business. They want a monopoly on trade and they attack any independent nation that threatens this. When they first arrived, we hadn't evolved the organized violence to fight them because for centuries _we hadn't needed it_. Why would China need to violently impose trade with Sri Lanka when they had more stuff __ than us? They could just come here and trade stuff normally, which they mostly didn't because they simply weren't interested. Why would the Muslim World pepper us with forts? We were happy to trade pepper for their fancy system. It's only when broke-ass Europeans came that they broke the system, and quite effectively played us against each other. There was a _huge_ amount of energy released by them networking the continents (in their desparation) and for a brief period (500 years) they were able to profit from being middlemen with superior violence. Other people had, of course, evolved mostly land-based violence, but no one else was this aggressively amphibious (and later, avariciously avian). At the beginning Whites (their energy poverty reflected on their skin) had little to trade but organized violence and weapons, which is to say they didn't trade they're terrorized and took shit. Remember, they came looking for us, we didn't come looking for them! Much of the trade that enriched Europe wasn't between us and them, but between _ourselves_ , with them monopolizing the profits. For example, the Whites grew opium in India to violently force on China. Warmer peoples never resorted to such lows as inter-continental drug dealing _because we were not that broke_. We were really not prepared for the violence that came out of the Asian ghetto called Europe. **I can still see that violence dotted around my island as forts, and the historical lesson I learned over and over was that they fought over these forts, and whoever held the fort won.** That's how Sri Lanka passed from the Portugeuse to the Dutch to the British to now the Americans (their Embassy is horrifyingly large). They _violently_ controlled trade not just with them (which was negligible at first) but with each other (which was a lot, literally the world). The controlled trade with sieges then, now with sanctions, but it's the same phenomenon. Coming to its natural denounement. After many millions dead and the climate burning, unfortunately. Shout-out the whales, also, they got it the worst. That's why what Iran, Yemen and the Axis of Resistance is doing is so important, led by the heroes of Palestine of course. They are taking the Empire's forts, one by one. They very physical occupation they girded us with. And they are outshooting the Empire's cannon, silencing the guns they used to extort the world. What Russia and China are doing is also important, one in hot war and the other trade war, a revenge best served cold. They are showing us that trade and development is possible with or without the Empire, and even against its worst intentions. It's taken long centuries but the natives are relentless and nature is healing, _inshallah_. ## Present Foreground That's the historical background, I guess, did I digress? Let's connect it back to the present, the rise of Bab el Mandeb to the Yemeni and the Strait of Hormuz to the Iranians, long centuries since losing them. Previously, I've spoken about how the Axis of Resistance is winning the missile and tunnel wars, ushering in a new paradigm of warfare. But is it really so new? What is a missile but a cannonball and what is a tunnel but a deeper fort? Yes, it's still just cannon and forts, the age-old battle betwixt shield and sword. The Persian Gulf is lost the same way the Portugeuse took it, through cannon and fort. This was how they held power and how they lose it. This is the only language colonizers understand, superior violence. The great innovation of 21st century warfare has been _tunnel_ forts and smart missiles (and drones). Palestine first showed it, in their daring escape from and resistance from _under_ the concentration camp the Whites made of Gaza. Then Yemen showed the same model when they defeated the US Navy in the Red Sea. And Iran demonstrated the same thing when they not only held Iran but destroyed all the US bases surrounding them. The Portuguese conquered Hormuz in _1515_ and it's taken over 500 years to get it back! But we got it, homies, we got it. And these guys have changed history. Can you believe it? I see the same damned Portugeuse Fort in my own country, built by slave labor, passed among Whites so they can rape us, and I have to pinch myself. It's really happening. We're finally beating them. In West Asia, sure, but I'll take it as an Asian. The White Empire today is still dependent on 20th century weapons which are, in many cases, _worse_ than 15th century ones. Modern American forts are exposed containers and just regular buildings out in the sun. Their old forts were stone while the new ones are basically cardboard. And they do not have much modern cannon at all, they got so used to strafing the poor from air cavalry that their missile technology has barely evolved. **For many years the Empire has ruled by fiat, not forts, sanctions, not sieges.** I usually say it's the same thing because it has the same effects, but these are not the same _causes_. The White Empire has ruled for decades not by the consent of the government but by the lack of concerted opposition. Iran accepted American bases across the Persian Gulf and other countries accepted American sanctions. People, more than we should have, forgave and were content to live under the White Empire. Iran wanted to lift sanctions through negotiation, Russia broached joining NATO, China preaches win-win at ever occassion. Despite them being degenerate thieves and rapists, we gave the White Empire every chance to preside as elder statesman, but they can't do it. White supremacy is the only content to White Empire and they have to go out the way they came in, violently. They know no other language. Since the White Empire monopolized global trade it was held by force, literally by forts. And if you didn't like it you didn't get missives, you got missiles down the throat. This was the deal and they held it even after they lost the power to enforce it, by sheer inertia. I think there remained that foolish idea that Whites could become human and just trade like normal people if we gave them long enough but they can't and they won't and they forced the point themselves, by starting multiple land wars in Asia. The force was implied, but the minute they made it explicit, everyone could see that they were a spent farce. Now they're losing fortress Ukraine in North West Asia and every base in South West Asia and can't even start in East Asia, though I don't put anything past them, who knows. They monopolized global trade using superior violence, made real through unassailable forts and assault weapons, and they lose their monopoly the same way, to superior tunnel forts and missiles and drones. But lose to what? ## What Comes Next The common thinking among even avowed anti-imperialists is still basically imperialist. They think some empire has to replace this one, like the succession of Portugeuse, Dutch, British, inscribed in Sri Lanka's historical forts and collective trauma. _If I don't steal it, someone else will_ , as the new Jewish saying goes, or 'the dark forest theory' of Liu Cixin's _Three Body Problem_ books. But this thinking is a historical anomaly we need to think beyond now. You can't be an anti-imperialist imperialist, but you can try and be yourself, in your own land, without hegemony imposed by air and sea. Land-based empires, forts, trade wars, fine, that sort of fighting goes on all the time. But networks of naval bases to monopolize global trade? That's an anomaly that's seen its time. No one monopolized trade in the Indian Ocean the way the Whites did. Violent trade monopolies are not a necessary evil, they're just evil. I'm not saying there weren't trade disputes and that there wasn't violence and conquest, I'm saying that there wasn't a _monopoly_ of violence sold as peace and a monopoly of conquest sold as freedom. There wasn't one energy flow with most surplus going north (the unipolar world), there was lots of trade going across, in a multipolar world. And that is what we can and _inshallah_ are returning to. Iran is not replacing the Persian Gulf bases (though I think those borders certainly need to be redrawn, make UAE Oman again and, hell, make Saudi Yemeni). If you look at the way the Axis of Resistance is structured, it's not proxies and buffer states like the Empire does (and accuses everybody else of). Iran is not trying to dominate Yemen, on the other side of the horn. And if you look at the way China operates, they're not monopolistic with its Belt and Road. And Russia isn't owning the new Arctic route. Everyone is trying to just do their own thing, and what the vanguard in Yemen is saying is either everyone can trade or no one can trade. This is kinda the way it was before. And this is possible. This is what is at stake in World War III. The White Empire is fighting to hold on to the world by force, and the world is struggling to be free many different ways at once. There is no particular alliance between everyone fighting America, but they are all fighting for the same thing. Freedom. Freedom from what? Freedom from a monopoly of trade, that says everything has to go through them. And how is that freedom won? The same way it was lost, through cannon and fort.

AFTER - Yemen on Rabi' al-Awwal 27 (green is good). Via WikipediaBEFORE - Yemen on Rabi' al-Awwal 26 (red/blue is bad) The fog of war around Yemen is very strong, but all reports are that they have taken Mocha on the coast. As I edit this there's reports that Ansarallah has already liberated the whole coast, it sounds like a rout. Mocha alone is important because it's A) the birthplace of mocha coffee (as Gaza is the source of gauze) and B) was the last White Empire port on the West coast. The Resistance has taken it, by all accounts. They are now (were then?) about 75km from the Bab el-Mandeb by foot. They already control it by rocket science. ## The Fog > The snake, the rat, the cat, the dog > How you gonna see 'em if you livin' in the fog > – DMX I mention the fog of war because Ansarallah is usually very transparent. Yemeni Armed Forces spox Yahya Saree is on Telegram. He posts infographics in English. On the 8th of September (26 Rabi) he only mentions bombing Saudis, which is basically a slow Tuesday. But this was the same day major ground battles were raging. This is radio silence obviously on purpose, it's a fog machine. _Someone_ used faked audio of proxy comprador Tariq Saleh telling his troops to withdraw to... get troops to withdraw. At the same time the Yemeni President and fellow Transitions lenses enjoyer (I told you it was cool, Shruthi) Mahdi al-Mashat has, _"issued a presidential pardon for all those deceived by the West Coast fronts for those who laid down his arms and returned to his senses."_ From their website The White media reports that, _"Houthi militants have taken control of the Yemeni Red Sea city of Mocha and are launching attacks on the strategic Red Sea islands of Hanish, the Yemeni sources told_ Reuters_on Thursday."_ The station inside a US military base (Al Jazeera) acknowledged as much, 0:00 /1:41 1× The Al Jazeera reporter keeps saying 'internationally recognized government of Yemen' meaning the imperial satraps operating out of a hotel in Riyadh. They keep calling Ansarallah A) Houthis and B) rebels against the Yemeni government when they _are_ the enemy government and are rebels against the Empire. But enough unexplaining, if you don't get it by now, forget it. For a bit of a palate cleanser, here's 'pro-Houthi' (meaning anti-genocide) journalist Hussain Albukhaiti putting things in context: 0:00 /1:11 1× Albukhati makes a point that Yemen is not trying to take the Bab el Mandeb, they're liberating Yemen. He also points out that Yemen controlled the Bab el Mandeb already. But still, it's good for the mandem to have Mandeb. They can squeeze the Empire's nuts at a range of 50 km instead of 150 km. And the narrow sailing channel is just 10 km. They can just sit there and pop khat and pop gats. This image is a detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula from "The World Atlas," published in 1967 by the USSR. Of course, the Saudi boys still have enough toys to blow Yemenis out of the water. But Yemen is, again, not Iran and has shown that they will absolutely ravage the Saudi oil infrastructure at the slightest provocation. And this is all the Saudis got. Pumping Mesozoic oil to buy 20th century weapons, and doing lines in the desert. But every time the use weapons, it blows up their own oil. Escalation is a self-tightening knot. The more they pull on it, they less they've got. ## The War > Y'all been eatin' long enough now, stop bein' greedy > Just keep it real, partner, give to the needy > Ribs is touchin', so don't make me wait > Fuck around and I'm gon' bite you and snatch the plate > – DMX From an OSINT Google Map This is what we can see through the fog. What is known is that Yemen good and White Empire bad. And that the real Yemen is led by Ansarallah in Sanaa, not out of a hotel in Riyadh. When the 'internationally recognized' Yemeni Defense Minister set foot in Yemen, his car was set on fire and he's disappeared (reportedly). They don't seem to recognize him. Abdul Malik al-Houthi is the leader of Yemen and his movement, Ansarallah, has 80% of the population in a third of the land. They hold the capital Sanaa and surrounding mountains. Their motto is, _"God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel,_ Curse be upon the Jews,_Victory to Islam."_ This might have sounded out there pre-genocide, but yeah, it's true. The White Empire has tried to starve them out (you know the genocidal drill), and their servants the Saudis have gotten other servants to attack Yemen for years. _'“Keep Yemen weak”, King ‘Abd al-’Aziz_ allegedly_advised his sons on his deathbed in 1953,'_ and that's what those weak leaders have been doing since. But the servant of a servant is a master of no one, and these proxies of a proxy have been defeated. According to Al Jazeera (itself a proxy), there was little fighting in Mocha because the farces had already scattered and fleed. Good riddance. Saudi was genociding Yemen for years. For years Saudi has kept food, flights, and freedom from Yemen. Only pre-approved people were allowed to fly in at all. When Iran broke this siege by sending civilian planes, the Saudis bombed the airport, which set all this off. As al-Houthi said (he's great, one of the last standing fighter philosphers), _"Freedom is our religion. We will be slaves to no one but God. But the Saudi wants us to eat, move and trade only by his permission – damn him. We are free."_ This is a paraphrase, I invite you to full phrases. He is one of the last philosopher kings left standing. 0:00 /1:56 1× Ansarallah is not like Iran in the sense that they did not wait to get struck. They immediately started blowing mercenaries and supply depots up. The mercenaries could not advance because they could not mass forces at all. At the same time, Yemen kept striking Saudi refineries, taking lakhs of barrels of oil off the market and hitting the White Empire in its second wobbly knee, the Red Sea. ## What It Means If we are going to clear the bong of war, then what is this all for? For the liberation of Yemen, yes, but what is Yemen? What are any of these lines drawn on a map by colonizers, to divide and conquer? For example, this old map from 1892 has some completely different borders, which roughly match up to the current divide in Yemen. Why not let Yemen have Mecca and Medina? They're certainly be better custodians than these Saudi wastemen. This work is a detailed map titled "Arabia," produced by D. Appleton & Co. in 1891. It is part of "The Library Atlas Of Modern Geography," published in 1892. During the late 19th century, the Arabian Peninsula was of significant interest to colonial powers due to its strategic location and resources. The map reflects the geopolitical interests of the time, showing detailed routes and divisions that suggest colonial and economic interests. The marking of steam routes and railways points to the era's technological advancements and the movement of goods and people. If we look at more modern (1990s) CIA maps – with Cleveland for scale for Americans – you can see the problem for the White Empire. The east barely has borders and can be easily gobbled by the Saudis, but the west is full of mountains. Indeed, precisely what happened is that Saudi was able to come from the east and gobble up the western coast, but they minute they faced any serious resistance, they ghosted. And they needed that bit of western coast, they were getting resupplied through Mocha. It will be hard to hold this open land, but if Ansarallah can, the sellouts won't be able to hold out much longer. The besieged become the besiegers. That's the 'tyranny of topography'. The work is a detailed map of Yemen created by the United States Central Intelligence Agency in January 1993. It is part of the "Atlas of the Middle East" The White Empire faces this geographic problem in two locations, the Bab el Mendeb and the Hormuz Strait, collectively forming its Suez Crisis. The CIA was also well aware of this, as they showed in the following illustration: CIA Map of Strategic Passes I honestly love it, they don't make government agencies like this anymore. The CIA today is doing memes and losing to kids playing with LEGOs. You can see the logical and topographical problem in this illustration clearly. The straits are narrow and the mountains are high. If you don't control either, you're going to die, _inshallah_. And if the Empire dies, people can live. Yemen has bled and starved for this day, and it's close. _Bonus maps for paying chaps:_ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

World War III is a world war in slow motion. Unlike the daily, massed clashes of WW1/2, we get much more precise, often almost symbolic fighting taking place over decades. I date WW3 to when America Pearl Harbored itself in 2001. Since then is has been open war across the world, complete with multiple invasions and genocides, reaching its climax, _inshallah,_ now. ## Context (Skip if you like) Like the Nazis, who romped pretty hard before breaking their teeth on West Asia, the White Empire was winning World War III until they also started multiple land wars in Asia. Now they've hit their Stalingrad in Gaza and are finally being pushed back on their heels. After failing to take Tehran, they have been pushed out of their Persian Gulf bases entirely and are fighting from their second offensive line, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Their historical peak has passed but these dumbasses don't get it. Hubris dies hard, and they accelerate their decline the more they squirm. The White Empire has lost two major naval battles in SW Asia (to Yemen and Iran) and a land battle in NW Asia (to Russia) and are only hanging around because, I dunno, aphasia. Like the Nazis after Stalingrad, this makes them no less of a dangerous or genocidal enemy, but they're on the same trajectory. A tryst with their own density. Again like the Nazis, the latest incarnation of White Empire is waging war on too many fronts all at once. They're still doing their traditional genocide of the Americas (illegals are the new 'Indians'), their usual war with the Soviets (though they're called Russians now), and the Carbon Crusader war with the Iran _et al_. They are also, engaging in siege warfare on China, opening fronts on both sides of Asia at once. All undeclared, of course, because they're cowards. This is, _inshallah_ , the final war of the World War series, the Empire trying to wage multiple land wars in Asia which is, as a Sicilian said, a classic blunder compounded. And if you read no further, leave with this. The resistance (in China and Russia's case, just existence) is winning. ## Text (What you came here for, right?) **People ask _why isn't Iran hitting 'Israel'_ and the answer is they are, that's exactly what they're doing.__ The real Greater Israel was the fiends they made along the way.** Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. Iran is systematically degreating this was-real, in order. The Gulf Bases have already been debased, which is why we're seeing more news from Jordan and Saudi now. This is Greater Israel being rolled up. **Understand, further, that it's all one White Empire and long has been. It is irrelevant which part of the dog is wagging the other, this bitch is rabid and needs to be put down.** Understanding this, you can see what is happening more clearly, past all the false flags and blind border. The White Empire being physically pushed back from one offensive line along the Persian Gulf to another, along the Red Sea. Make no mistake, this is a retreat turning into a rout. An Empire used to technological power and controlling trade routes is reduced to petty piracy and terrorism now. This cruel September started when the Empire, as is their macabre tradition, bombed a wedding. In response the Iranian army (Artesh) attacked the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain, ie the vanguard of Greater Israel. In response, the IRGC hit the US military's retreat positions in Jordan. As Middle East Spectator said, _"In exchange for bombing a wedding in Iran, 5+ US bases got boinked. This is simply not sustainable for the Americans. It's a humiliation ritual."_ This is all possible _because_ Iran methodically cleared the Persian Gulf bases before, specifically of early-warning radar. **Insomuch as anyone cares (Americans don't) American casualties are mounting.** Just one IRGC attack on RQ-4 and MQ-9 drone shelters at Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan _"resulted in the destruction of several American drones and the death of several pilots and technicians. In addition, several technical infrastructure facilities were set ablaze.’"_ This is according to the IRGC, which has never lied to me, and denied by the Americans, who have always lied to me, so consider it confirmed doubly. This is in addition to the ongoing MQ-9 Reaper genocide, as Amerikanets calls it. America's traditional uninvited wedding guest is now so regularly destroyed that the White media has taken to calling it a one-way drone, which it isn't. You can see that America has been reduced to the weapon of the poor, terrorism, while Iran is hitting rich targets with more and more sophisticated weapons. For example here, General Rezaei (please keep him alive, I have mourned a few of these guys) talks about using a 'special missile' to scare off US destroyers. There are speculations that this was a hypersonic missile, or a 'cluster' munition (MIRV), or something unusual. I don't know and he's not telling me. Any of these would cause havoc on a ship, which is what Rezaei reports as happening, but he only calls the missile 'special'. He said 'real hell' broke loose and the ships fled. This was a warning shot and, as we'll see later, two destroyers were later hit. 0:00 /1:14 1× General Rezaei via Sina **America talks about X or Y amount of tankers (and oil) getting through and up to a point this is true, but only with the full force of the US Navy _pushing_ it through! This is like a dialysis patient taking the piss. They can only pass oil _with the full force of the US military-industrial complex_ behind them. **America is trying to force the Strait of Hormuz 'open', which only (and barely) applies _as long as they use force_. But how long can they use force? Their crews are eating shoe leather and walking overboard out of desparation. **Using such force is costly on a good day, and Iran is showing that they can make it a bad day any time they choose.** ### Reverse Sanctions Iran is now confidently wielding a weapon that was previously Whites-only. Sanctions. As Rezaei said, via People's Daily, > Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei has said that **his country would announce a restricted zone outside the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days and place any ship attempting to transit the area on Tehran's sanctions list.** As Seyed M. Marandi has said, Iran cannot impose banking or other bureaucratic sanctions, so they'll just blow shit up (my paraphrase). Sanctions by fire, so to speak. As Rezaei continued, > In an interview with state-run IRIB TV, which was broadcast Sunday night, **Rezaei said that the zone would extend from "the line where the U.S. naval blockade begins to the Strait of Hormuz region and inside the Persian Gulf on the other side (of the strait).** This line has been discussed before (in May), but if it were to be seriously drawn, it would draw serious blood. Iran, right now, is evaluating ships on a case-by-case basis and letting quite a few through. If, however, they declare the whole region restricted, that is different kettle of fish stew. A zone (as opposed to a man) defense makes anti-shipping much easier and White shipping basically uninsurable. If it's there without permission, hit it, much simpler than going through manifests. This drives a wedge between the White fleet and the shadow fleet. Lloyd's of London, insurer of the White fleet, has banned paying the Iranian toll, but Iran has banned ships that _don't_ pay the toll. What is the White fleet going to do here? What's worse, losing insurance (which you can get elsewhere) or losing your ship? Testing Iran's will to enforce this, CENTCOM said. _“Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost —taking out three of yours. We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.”_ And this did happen, though not in the proportions he's talking about. The US struck three Iranian ships (killing three Indians) and Iran struck three back. The irony sinking to the bottom of the sea is that oil is a global commodity, whatever ship its in, and the Empire is tanking its own economy. Remember that America unsanctioned Iranian and Russian oil at the beginning of the battle, because they knew this. But then, cue hubris. 0:00 /2:16 1× "the punishment of the aggressors", a compilation of Iran's greatest shipping hits The Palestinian martyr Basil Al-Araq said this was a game of biting fingers (a nail-biter, I assume) and a battle of societies. And American society is weak. Yes, America can sink Iranian ships and expose the Iranian people to great hardship, but the Iranian people are united and can take it. Meanwhile the American people do not support this war, and once they start to feel the costs (we'll get to that) they won't want to pay anymore. The American people, if you can call them that, know they're fighting (another) unjust war. They just do not care as long as they get their treats and fuel in their gas guzzlers. But the minute they don't there will be problems, not because Americans are brave, but because they're the most cowardly people imaginable. So, as I'm sure Iranians are reading in the Quran, _"Do not relent in the pursuit of the enemy. If you are suffering hardships, they too are suffering similar hardships, but what you can hope for from God, they cannot. God is all knowing and wise."_ ### Personnel As Policy One more strategic point before we get back to shit blowing up. As they say, 'personnel is policy' and Iran has had a policy shift under Major General Mohsen Rezaei. He became head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), in what seems to be a power move by Supreme Leader of the Revolution Mojtaba Khamenei. Rezaei was previously appointed commander-in-chief of the IRGC at age 27 (!) and led them through the toughest part of the Iran/Iraq War. He is also an economics PhD, because Iranians stay stunting on these American fools. He (and Khamenei) advocate a more offensive strategy in what is still inherently a defensive war until the Americans leave the region. And the rules of engagement are publically changing now. Army (not IRGC) spokesman Brigadier General Mohammad Akraminia recently said, **_"When we face an American threat, we defend ourselves, and international law allows us to defend ourselves preemptively."_ **He also said that, since the Empire has been so debased, _“With the destruction of these systems, targeting the occupied territories and the Zionist regime’s bases in the region has become much easier than in the past.”_ This is a new doctrine under new people in a new situation, none of it advantageous to the invaders. It means that Iran will fire at will now, not necessarily in response. Since I was editing this, this has already happened, as we'll cover in the next section. Let us compare this to the personnel changes on the American side. At the bottom, American grunts are jumping overboard, and at the top they are quitting or being thrown out. American leaders are cowards and do not die in battle, they just go off to pasture as arms contractors. Most recently the Army Secretary was eliminated, following the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and _a lot_ of the military and civilian leadership. Unlike Iranians, these cowards rarely fall in battle, but from the top and bottom, they are starting to break ranks and run. ## Breaking News: Breaking Bases As a demonstration of its new doctrine, Iran has just (as of 9 September 2026) hammered Muwaffaq Al-Salti airbase in Jordan. As an important note, Iran _does not_ call this base Muwaffaq Al-Salti because that was a hero that fought _against_ the 'Israelis'. They call the base Al-Azraq, and I'll just call it Jordan going forward, though there are more bases than one. 0:00 /1:02 1× You can see impacts here, but the sheer expenditure of interceptors is a great loss for the US military After American attacks on Iranian oil tankers, their bases in occupied Jordan were _hammered_. Imperial oil tankers were also told to free and they're being hit (in the Gulf) as I type this now. But back to Jordan. 0:00 /1:26 1× America responded by firing dozens of Patriot missiles, perhaps even on auto as they weren't prepared for this. It's honestly just a waste. The person filming here reportedly counts 72 interceptors, which seems to match reports of 30-40 Iranian incoming. But this would be nearly 10% of the _total_ Patriots available. Explained in LWar3, but basically the orange is where they were yesterday As we discussed in Logistics War 3: The Missile Gulf, the Empire has less than a thousand Patriots (total, not just in theatre). The Empire simply doesn't have the munitions to go another round with Iran, even if the munitions worked as advertised, which they don't. As the fine print in an internal US report says says, _"If deterrence fails, U.S. strategy describes missile defense as a tool for “damage limitation.”"_ Well, it's not so limited now. Worryingly for the proxy king of Jordan, you can see Jordanians, below, cheering for the destruction of the bases occupying them. Nobody in the region (or the world, really) likes this Empire, we just lack the organization to face them. But Iran does and they are battering them. 0:00 /0:29 1× Previously, in July, you can see the hits on Jordan were highly targeted. Via Soar Atlas, you can see surgical strikes on specific troop barracks and aircraft hangars. Now they're just lighting shit up in general, you can see Iran using 'cluster' (MIRV) munitions that blanket a wider area. These are impossible to stop with conventional missile defense, the interceptor ratio would go from 2:1 to 25:1. The futility goes exponential. 0:00 /0:07 1× In addition to Jordan, the IRGC announced that _"2 American vessels [Destroyers], 8 oil tankers and 10 violating ships were targeted in the forbidden and unsafe area of ​​the Strait of Hormuz. We have navy, air force, radars, missiles, drones and everything necessary to crush the bones of enemies."_ The names of the Destroyers were the USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) and USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). I'll keep an eye out for them. Iran also captured an Anduril Dive LD autonomous submarine which will probably make them stupider for reverse engineering it. ## Yemen 0:00 /0:31 1× Yemenis saying "we don't care, make it a major world war" (via Ahmed Zaid) Yemen is also doing a lot, though for once not saying a lot. There is a currently a ground war waging for control of Yemen itself with Saudi proxies and an open air war against Saudi infrastructure. Ansarallah has asked people not to speculate, so (as much as this is possible for me) I won't. But they have released a few jaw dropping videos. Yemen hit on Saudi proxy concentrations As background, Ansarallah (incorrectly called the Houthis) do not control all of Yemen. Ansarallah doesn't even control the land directly overlooking the Bab el-Mendeb, though they control the strait by aerial weapons. 0:00 /7:33 1× I have downscaled this video to fit, but you can see that Yemen has 4K oversight over the battlefield and can seemingly hit whatever it wants to hit. Ansarallah has 80% of the population though the proxy-of-a-proxy government has more land, but that land seems mostly open and they're sitting ducks out there. This is not a case of guerrilla warfare against superior weapons. The weapons and tactics Yemen has are _superior_ to the over-hyped stuff the Saudis have bought from their American masters. 0:00 /2:15 1× Here, for example, is a desert meeting of Saudi/proxy commanders getting blown up by a ballistic missile. This is what the Americans did to the martyr General Soleimani being done back to them in HD. You can see that free Yemen has perfect oversight and can put the fear of God into people used to having air supremacy. 0:00 /0:18 1× At the same time, Yemen has a lot of motivated dudes with AKs and seem to be doing trick shots with mortar shells, here they are hitting a moving target with a drop of a presumably unguided munition. This is Looney Tunes shit and these mercs are crazy to be out there. Ansarallah is both a superior guerilla force, and can beat all the imported Saudi toys with native ingenuity. Hell, they already beat the US Navy. Most dangerously for the Empire, Yemen is also hitting Saudi infrastructure, and not quite as surgically as Iran, they're amputating it. Recently, Yemen has hit, via Fotros, > • ARAMCO Jazan oil refinery > • Multiple hits at Jazan Bulk Plant > • King Abdullah Airport > • Multiple hits at ARAMCO bulk plant in Abha > • Oil/gas depots at the Asir Central Power Plant in Abha > • King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait This takes more oil offline, increasing the pressure on Empire as a whole. How does this end? I don't know, but this is what the late, great Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said about Yemen long ago. 0:00 /0:32 1× Or as the Quran says, _"Among the believers there are men who have been true to the pledge they made with God. Among them are such as have fulfilled their vow, and some who [still] wait, without having changed [their resolve] in the least."_ ## Return to World War This world war is being waged by White Empire, which retreated to the colony America after World War II. This is a very defensible position for indefensible action. America cannot be hit even if the Resistance wanted to, but the carrying Empire can be hit, which is what they're doing. But unlike Hadria, who abandoned Mesopotamia so the Roman Empire could lumber on a bit longer, the modern White Empire cannot resist world domination, and so accelerates its own fall. As we've discussed in the Logistics War series, the Resistance has systematically drained the Empire's oil, shipping, and missile reserves. We are getting very close to the point where all shields are down, and past the point where the shields protect them from hurt. The pressure points Iran is aiming for, as MB Ghalibaf cryptically points out, are oil prices, bond yields, and oil reserves. Most specifically, diesel prices, Japan's bonds, and the Federal Reserve. And those are all squeezing them closer and closer to home. You can follow those links for further discussion, but suffice it to say that oil prices have just cracked $100, diesel prices are already on crack, Japan is dumping bonds, and the Federal Reserve will meet next week is with a red dot on their forehead. Either they make the mad king madder by raising rates, or they lower them and watch their whole bubblicious economy inflate. Ghalibaf predicted December for the Empire going splat and I think that's conservative. Really, it can't come soon enough, because the genocide in Gaza, at the heart of all this, is only getting worse. One wishes Iran would unload everything they have _now,_ to stop the suffering, but we're not the ones on nuclear knife's edge and they have to proceed with caution. They are able to hit Jordan now because they hit the Gulf Apostates before, and once Jordan is cleared they'll be able to hit 'Israel' and smash the horcrux of White Empire. They're going through this methodically. As the martyr commander Shahid Tehrani Moghaddam said, _"This wild bull, how can it be struck? How can you take it down? In Spain, how do they hit a bull? They bring the bull to its knees. This wild, crazed bull. And we got to bring this wild bull, guys, down into the dirt and blood."_ 0:00 /0:44 1× Shahid Tehrani Moghaddam on fighting the American bull

Previously, in The After Math, we discussed Iran's Parliament Speaker and MB Ghalibaf's cryptic statement "OQX26 | USGG10YR | DOESSPR". Iran has tried speaking in many ways, plain English, Dostoevsky, faith, but for idiot Americans flying by their instruments, this may be the only way. These are Bloomberg Terminal commands for people that can't look out a window. I don't have a terminal but you can jam this stuff into barcharts.com or whatever. The codes above just mean to watch the Oman Crude price (rising), the US Treasury yield (rising), and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve level (falling). That is still the basic dynamic, and the second and third order effects he talked about earlier [f (f (O))] are only compounding. Ghalibaf's latest tweet, sticking to the Coyoter/Roadrunner meme, says that America has strapped itself to a rocket and will crash by December. The fuel they'll run out of is A) diesel B) bond payments from dumb vassals and C) debt slaves for their army. He's also saying this will hit them the only place they feel anything, rich people's feelings. Let's break his tweet down piece by piece and forgive me for what I get wrong, this is god-tier vague-posting. Ghalibaf's, following the Roadrunner/Coyote theme, shows the Coyote (US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent) tying himself to a rocket in September, falling through October and November before crashing (the United States economy) in December. I hoped it would be faster, but irregardless, __disaster__. Ghalibaf's full tweet is, > Wheels up. Warm-ups before liftoff: > > Diesel ATH: Short it > > Your biggest creditor dumping: Good luck with Yentervention++ > > NOR cutting $80B: Rename Norway to Americaway > > Low recruitment: Debt-to-Service w/ DO[Israel's]W, per your puppeteers > > Oh. Fed's dot plot flashing red 😁 Ghalibaf is a trained pilot who flies himself around (honestly, Iranians need to chill out, stressing me out)._'Wheels up'_ mean you've already taken off, so _les jeux sont faits_ , or _les Jews sont faits_ more accurately. Therefore, when Ghalibaf says _'Warm-ups before liftoff,'_ I presume he's talking about things that already happened, or conclusions that are already foregone. Those things are, ### Diesel Shorts > Diesel ATH: Short it Diesel ATH means Diesel All Time High, ie the prices right now, and 'short it' means taking a bet that prices will go down. This is broadly what's happening. The Fed data has yet to show it, but Gas Buddy reports that, _"the national average price of diesel has reached a new all-time record high of $5.85 per gallon, continuing to climb and surpassing the previous record of $5.82 per gallon set in June 2022."_ Diesel is the main fuel for major industrial processes – farming, trucking, machinery – with major knock-on effects for the real economy. Higher prices for diesel mean higher prices for food, transport, and almost all production, incoming on a short fuse. If you were to 'short' diesel, that would mean betting that it goes down, which is what US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is doing. He said, _"We're going to be very much oversupplied in the oil market after this. We can see $50, $40 crude maybe, just because there's so much coming online."_ So if crude is $100 now, and will be $50 later, a short seller could pocket $50 if they're right. This is roughly what the US government is doing. To short a stock you borrow it from somebody and return it later when the price has dropped. The US government is doing this with their strategic oil reserves. The US government is 'borrowing' oil from their SPR, hoping that they can replace it later before the caverns collapse. I don't think they care about price as they're a bunch of private equity guys generally looting the joint. Like a bunch of mafia guys unloading whiskey out the back of a restaurant they're busting out, this regime is unloading the US petroleum reserve at a discount to refiners, who are wildly marking it up to the consumers like literal crack. Their profit margin is called the crack spread, and it's skyrocketing. The crack spread, ie the diesel price (HO1 * 42 gallons) minus the cost of crude. You don't actually get a barrel of diesel from a barrel of oil (it's 3:1, ie the 3-2-1 spread), but this is a measure people use. People keep posting the crack spread like it's bad, _but not if you're selling crack._ Refiners are making out like bandits. The US government subsidizing crude is actually encouraging people to refine more rather than conserve. Make hay while the sun shines out of Donald Trump's ass. US refiners are running their crumbling infrastructure overtime like the whole place is going out of business, which it is. We are witnessing an old-fashioned mafia bust-out of the United States of America from the worst mafia of all, Wall Street. Here's a documentary on the subject: 0:00 /1:33 1× ### Yentervention++ In the _Sopranos_ example above, they're busting out a sporting goods store and the owner asks, _'when's one of these vendors gonna realize I'm never gonna pay him and call the cops?'_ Then Richie 'The Jacket' Aprile replies, _"when your credit runs out Diamond Jim. Until then, get on the horn and order."_ This is what the mob does with businesses and this is what the white-collar mob is doing with the US government. In this case, the vendors that give America the mother of all commodities, money, are vassals like Japan and Norway. These losers aren't going to call the cops, but they will stop ordering bonds from the US, and in fact start dumping them when things get hot. Which is happening. A bond is your word, and America's word is increasingly no good round these parts. As Ghalibaf said, > Your biggest creditor dumping: Good luck with Yentervention++ via Barchart Yentervention refers to Japan spending 27 trillion yen this year (about $175b) to prop up its currency, and failing, and the US Treasury stepping in and also flailing. Japan imports all its energy and needs dollars for that so they've started selling off US Treasuries. This increases supply of what is increasingly looking like a junk bond, and yields are rising. The bond yield is basically a bullshit meter, it's how much rich people think a government is bullshitting. That perception is nearing 5% bullshit, for US bonds, which is psychologically important. As yields rise, the giant $40 trillion dollar pile of bullshit in the corner also rises and the whole premise gets a lot more risible. At some point some rich person is going to point out that the Empire has no clothes, and all sheep producing invisible wool will turn tail and run. Now the US Treasury is buying back its own bonds because there's so little demand for them. At some point this pressure becomes a panic. The Japan carry-trade (Japanese savings subsidizing American spending) is the engine of the imperial economy, and it seems to be breaking. ### Americaway > NOR cutting $80B: Rename Norway to Americaway Behold the vassals already breaking ranks. The White petrostate Norway has said they will A) cut exposure to government bonds from 70% to 50% and B) cut exposure to US government bonds from 34.1% to 21.9%. _"The changes would mean cutting nearly $80 billion from the fund's current holdings of about $215 ​billion of U.S. Treasuries as of the end of June, according to_ Reuters_calculations."_ This is getting closer and closer to a run on the US Central Bank. The US can never not pay its debt, it can just magic the money into existence, but this drives up inflation, which sheers the sheep at home. But not, I suppose, if you sacrifice them to 'Israel' first. ### Debt Slaves > Low recruitment: Debt-to-Service w/ DO[Israel's]W, per your puppeteers Here, Ghalibaf is pointing out the US military's chronically low recruitment figures. The 'American' population is too stupid, obese, drug-addicted, mentally ill, unwilling, or all of the above. As a solution, _The Jerusalem Post_ has proposed offering debt relief to go to war. This returns to the most ancient form of debt which was just slavery. As the Jerusalem Post__ said, _"Estimates for a successful ground campaign against Iran run between 750 thousand and 1.5 million American troops."_ Trying to square this proposal, they propose that, _"The economics of the indebted American 20-and 30-something make this the most efficient conversion mechanism available to the Pentagon and the Trump administration."_ You have to give the Jews props for just coming out and saying it. They want goy-slop to feed _Baal,_ such is the death cult Zionists have made out of that religion. This is not to absolve White people, they are their own death cult, but the optics of this are abominable. Or as the JPost says, _"the moral reading on this is uncomfortable."_ It really looks like the Department of [Israel's] War as Ghalibaf points out. If they try to actually recruit this way it won't break Iran, it'll break America. ### Fed Dot Plot > Oh. Fed's dot plot flashing red 😁 Of course, the opinion of American people does not matter. The place is not a democracy, it's an oligarchy, which is why Ghalibaf mentions the Federal Reserve. This is the banking cartel that actually runs the place by determining interest (re: usury) rates. For people that worship money, these are their high priests and their obscure religion. Nineteen members of the Fed get together, throw dots on a piece of paper, and everyone else tries to read the economic entrails. This only has 18 dots because the new governor, Warsh, doesn't believe in this shit and didn't vote The latest dot plot (June 2026) looks like a fighter jet in the long run, but if the next (September 15/16) looks like a Shahed drone all hell will break loose or something. This is honestly all bullshit, running an economy based on rich people drawing pictures, but that's how they do it. Donald Trump desperately wants rates to go down (more free money for da cronies) and has said, and I quote, _"LOWER THE RATE OR I'LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT."_ Not sure how this works but it's in all caps so he must be serious. Trump, here, is crowing about a high jobs report, despite them being historically bullshit and revised way downwards. But more jobs would normally mean _higher_ rates, because that means the poors are getting out of hand and must be unemployed to 'cool things down'. And rising inflation, which even the US's cooked books can't hide, would also mean a rate hike. More generally, one might think that pumping more fake money into a system that's running out of real oil would be a bad idea, but that's probably thinking too much. In lieu of an actually planned economy, America has a weird cartel of usurers throwing dots at a piece of paper and that somehow determines if people eat or not. This system is generally immune to reality, but Ghalibaf is saying the real pressure Iran is applying will be felt in the magic dots. ### Conclusion Iran gets that we're in one inter-connected economy and is trying to clearly signal their power of mutually assured economic destruction to simply get the Americans to leave town. But America is just a rogue algorithm at this point, it has terminal capitalist cancer. Its elites are attacking Asia and looting their own treasury and they win if America loses. There's really no point analyzing the place politically or even financially. It's like asking why the Coyote chases the Roadrunner. He just does.

MB Ghalibaf, Iranian Parliament Speaker and last Tweeter standing, posted a cryptic statement which we'll decrypt here. He said, > OQX26|USGG10YR|DOESSPR > > Short harder, champ. Like your career depends on it (because it does). Or drain below the danger zone and watch your caverns collapse (along with your career). Or pray to the salt gods of Bryan Mound. > > The world's already got its popcorn 😄 What he's saying, most simply, is that oil and treasury yields are going up, and the US oil reserves are going down. The Empire is either going to run out of oil, or face a run on the on the Treasury. Or both, which is worse. Either Bryan Mound (the weakest of the caverns) will collapse, or the bond market (weakest in Japan) will. Or both, which is again worse. Get your popcorn as we go deeper. ## OQX26 | USGG10YR If we look at the first two symbols – OQX26 as Oman crude and USGG10YR as the 10-Year Treasury yields – we can see that something weïrd is going on. I have zoomed this graph out so you can see that the weirdness didn't start in 2026 (Iran) but in 2022 (Ukraine). These are both just battles in a World War III that's been raging since America Pearl Harbored itself in 2001. All riot on the West Asian front. As you can see, oil and bonds were trending together, until they weren't. A delta opened up after the Ukraine War 'started' and was obviously forced open again with the Iran War started (2026). Oil being sanctioned and literally blown up should mean higher prices, but no. Something weird is going on. You can see the playbook for market manipulation in the Ukraine War, what's happening in Iran is really a rerun. "This line chart displays the trend of crude oil prices within the analysis window [2021-2022] and indicates the reasons for the significant fluctuations in crude oil prices during this period." (Nature) In February 2022, Russia's special military action against Ukraine spiked oil prices immediately, along with America's special economic action against them (sanctions). Lower supply/higher demand, prices should go up, but they didn't. Because some invisible handiwork. We are in the realm of what Keynes called 'animal spirits', which the US Treasury seems to brewing into a witches broth. As Shakesepeare said (in Macbeth), > Round about the cauldron go; > In the poisoned entrails throw... > Double, double toil and trouble; > Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. First they added toothless negotiations to calm the markets by their very discussion, though nothing happened. The war kept going. Some Russian oil entered the market sideways, but the basic problem was still there. But the markets just didn't care. Prices went down as though something else was replacing the supply (which it was). We won't reveal what till the next graph, but the first graph contains a clue. Again, note oil prices and bond yields moving together (at least recently), until a Mississipi sized delta opened up betwixt the two. As the Bard said, > There hangs a vap’rous drop profound. > I’ll catch it ere it come to ground, > And that, **distilled by magic sleights, > Shall raise such artificial sprites > As by the strength of their illusion > Shall draw him on to his confusion** What artificial sprites draws markets on to their confusion? Let's wade into the delta and have a look. ## DOESSPR SPR supplies The third data point Ghalibaf refers to is DOESSPR, or the Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserves. I reproduce it above, zoomed out even further. The SPR was established in the late 1970s to prevent what they called the 1970s Oil Shock from every happening again, ie for this very situation with the Iranians. The oil reserves are a bunch of salt caverns that can't actually go below a certain minimum without structural problems. Historically (and politically) this minimum was set at 330-340 million barrels, since legislated down to 252m (see GAO-26-106918). From the Petit Prince In the SPR graph – which looks like the drawing of a snake eating an elephant from _The Petit Prince –_ you can see the Empire filling its belly with oil at the start of World War III and disgorging it violently since. You can see how the reserve is used for political purposes, the purpose here being market manipulation. If I may repeat the initial graph, you can see the illusion briefly break in 2026, when the start of the Iran War immediately spiked oil prices. Oil prices tried to meet bond yields before they were manipulated down by the SPR. 'After' Iran, the US did its second biggest SPR release (so far), which opiated the oil markets once more. I think traders know that this is bullshit, but there's no reward for being right early, so while the government oil is flowing, let it burn. But they're burning the candle on both ends, and Iran knows it. ## Short harder, champ That's why Ghalibaf is telling US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent _"short harder, champ."_ He is refering to the US government's active manipulation of both markets. I'll just use it as a metaphor because I don't take all this financial jiggery-pokery seriously. Shorting refers to 'borrowing' a stock from someone at a certain price (say $100) and betting that it will go down. If the stock goes down (say to $80), then you can pay them with that, and pocket the $20 difference. So on one end, the US government is 'shorting' oil by borrowing it from their own reserves. If the oil price goes down, they would make a 'profit' on this when they refill. I put profit in quotes because the US government does not care about losing money, it's all profit to the oligarchs that actually run the place. **The US government doesn't make money, they _make_ money. The US government can just make up US dollars as long as everyone believes in their bullshit, _but that's the problem_.** Bond yields basically measure rich people's feelings (as stand-ins for capital). Bond yields tell you how much rich people believe the government's bullshit. If they think the government is 0% bullshitting and they'll accept 0% returns, it's a safe bet. However, if they think the government is 15% bullshitting, they want to be compensated accordingly. Note that what the government says doesn't have to be true, it just has to be plausible enough for other rich people to believe, and then they'll all herd in. The bullshit meter is itself bullshit. The US government has been insolvent since it went of the gold standard in the 1970s, but nobody wants to kill the golden goose. There's is no reward for calling the bottom early, and every reward for pretending everything is cool. As Goldman Sachs's Jim Covello said in a report where he was calling AI a bubble, _"One of the most important lessons I've learned over the past three decades is that bubbles can take a long time to burst. That’s why I recommend remaining invested in AI infrastructure providers."_ He's literally saying that AI is a bubble, but a growing bubble, so get in while the getting's good. That is the whole US economy, in more ways than one. Again and again, this bullshit works as long as enough (rich) people believe in it, using the fake bullshit meter they call economics. The Empire has no clothes, but no one wants to be the _first_ to call it because they're all furiously spinning invisible silk. But no one wants to be the _last_ to call it either. And that day is coming soon. This is the day Iran is daring to draw closer, and which the US Treasury is desperately trying to stave off. The problem, however, is that this desperation itself becomes a signal that something is terribly wrong. Now the US Treasury is buying back its own bonds, which is not a good sign at all. **You could say they're shorting – introducing some temporary liquidity till demand improves – but sharting is more accurate.** They're terrified of rates going above some psychological 5%, at which point the animal spirits start biting them in the naked ass. Interest payments (ie, payoffs to usurious oligarchs) are already going to be $1.1 trillion this year (ie, more than the war budget), and **the $40 trillion budget is already ballooning. This number has always been bullshit but now it _smells_ like bullshit**, which makes rates go up, which makes the debt go even higher, which makes rates go up, and so on. It's a vicious cycle that has sunk every incarnation of White Empire before. What makes you think America is immune? Iran does not and Ghalibaf does not, which is what they're trying to point out. They know the Empire can bleed, they have drawn blood, and they're offering them a chance to retreat with the rest of their empire intact. The funny thing is that all of Empire's supposed enemies (Iran, Russia, China) _keep offering them a way out_. Iran will open Hormuz if the Americans _just go home_. America could just allow Iranian oil into the market, sweep their manipulation under the Persian rug, and refill their reserves once more. But like a thief who has never actually shopped, they simply do not know how to checkout. Foreign trade with anyone but beaten vassals is literally a foreign concept. Smash and grab is all they know, even if it means crashing their own economy. And so it goes. _The reports I cite for reference:_ Strategic-Petroleum-Reserve-GAOStrategic-Petroleum-Reserve-GAO.pdf2 MBdownload-circle Goldman-Sachs-AI-ReportGoldman-Sachs-AI-Report.pdf3 MBdownload-circle ## The Physical Reserves Now we'll get to the crumbling-ass salt caverns with data (and pics) proving what Ghalibaf refers to. That's for paying subscribers because this is already long. You can read more about the SPR in general in the Logistics War Part 1. Read on for cavern-nerdery and a bit of extra _Macbeth_. ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

The simplest political rules are 1) America bad and 2) they lying. If you just follow these two steps there is no third step. 99% of the time, you'll be right every time. The latest, greatest lies are A) the Americans are winning vs. Iran and B) they're not losing anything at home. This is an important distinction because America has not won without losing before. America has _not won_ many battles without losing anything they cared about. Take World War Too (Korea, Vietnam) or World War III (Iraq, Afghanistan) for example. All these wars gained them filthy lucre, spread chaos among competitors, and cost them little on the home front. **Just as a fishmonger profits from 'losing' his fish, these warmongers have profited from losing their wars.** Today, however, they are both not winning and losing, which is a new one. A new two, actually. America isn't winning in Iran much worse than it didn't win in Iraq, it hasn't even been able to set foot there. Even the idea of a ground invasion has the cowards in the Army purging in terror. And the reality of a naval siege has the seamen jumping overboard. And Reaper drones are now being marked as one-way because they lose so many. They are not winning hard and, worst of all, they're also losing. America is losing something, namely its empire overseas. Hormuz is the jugular connecting the American version of White Empire to Asia, and like Britain losing control of Suez, America now bleeds. They are depleting their petroleum reserve trying to lie themselves out of it, but this is a historical juncture where they lose something. Japan and Korea are already buckling, and those were load-bearing vassals. America can delay the effects on their home economy, but not deny them. A reckoning is coming. And as Iran's Esmaeil Baqaei said, quoting Fyodor Dostoevsky, who I am sure most Americans have read, _"The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others."_ Trump is lying about Venezuelan crude replacing their reserves (it's too thick and hard to get), he's lying about controling Hormuz, and lying about Iran being decimated and desperate. The press complicates all this by taking it at face value, when he's simply lying constantly. I won't even go into too much detail here, remember our heuristic. They lying they lying they lying. While this remarkably still works to stave off defeat in the news, it can't save them from historical defeat. You can't lose two naval battles, multiple foreign bases, many airframes, and still frame this as either victory or a chaotic loss to your benefit. I mean, you can, but you'd be lying. This is where both Trumpist and Never-Trumpists lie. Trump lies to everyone and who knows what they believe, but Americans who say it's just Trump are self-deceived. Both Make America Great Again and the Democratic Socialists of America contain America in the name, and that's the problem. It's Genocide and Diet Genocide. Like Scarface, Trump at least tells the truth when he's lying, while Democrats actually think they're the good guys. As Scarface said, _"You need people like me, so you can point your fuckin’ fingers and say, “That’s the bad guy.” So, what that make you? Good? You’re not good. You just know how to hide. How to lie. Me, I don’t have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So, say goodnight to the bad guy! Go on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on, make way for the bad guy."_ **There is no point you can go back to to make America great, nor is there a progression along the American way to make it OK. 'American' is a cursed identity and there is no redeeming it.** There is no imperializing better, America just needs to go away. Which Iran is doing to them in their forward bases, but then they need to go back home and keep leaving. It's time to break up the USA. Not winning against Iran starts them on this path, and losing control of their global empire accelerates it. Trump is just, as Cesaire said, the Hitler that this diseased society called out for, that is, for its own destruction. Americans today cannot distinguish the truth within themselves, which is that you cannot be a good person and a good American. These are mutually exclusive categories. **You're lying to yourself to think that there was either a great point in the past (MAGA) or a progressive path in the future (DSA).** America was evil, America is evil, and America needs to pay by going away. Iran is, _mashallah_ , pushing them out of their region, and the push is strong enough that fall goes all the way. It's not just Iran. It's not just Gaza. To return to our rules of thumb, America's wars are _all_ bad. Even their conduct in World War II is only justifiable as a distraction that helped the USSR. Their indisriminate firebombings and nuking of civilians would have been prosecuted as war crimes had they lost (as Curtis LeMay admitted) and liberating oppressors like the UK or France was a net negative (the French went onto nuke Algeria, and the Brits went onto concentration camp Africans). It seems simplistic but it really is that simple. America bad, on a categorical level. Americans lie constantly, about everything, especially about America. Their founding was never about human 'freedom', they were a bunch of rapists and slavers and only property counted for voting. And the whole narrative of World War II was a lie, A) that they won it and B) that they did it for the Jews. The commies won the war and Americans kept fighting actual liberation all over the world in World War Too. And America followed the Nazi's penultimate plan of deporting the Jews, placing them in a ghetto near the oil to serve kapo over the crude. It's all a lie including what's in front of you. And anyone saying America can America its way out of this is lying to themselves and you. The simplest rules in geopolitics are A) America bad and B) they lying. A lot of energy and words are wasted trying to untie their lies and a lot of asses are made assuming there's some conscience in Americans to appeal to. They have none and cannot be trusted and anyone telling you otherwise is lying to themselves worse than you.

If you have a look through Donald Trump's Truth Social feed (don't), it looks like the dude has full-blown AI psychosis. Here's a few examples, chosen at, effectively, random. Here he is hyping up an autism/vaccine connection using an obviously AI generated infographic (the cart only has three wheels). But let's not put the cart before the horseshit. This infographic contains its own debunking, which is just so complicated most people would miss it. It says that _'no published case has explicitly documented an unvaccinated Amish child with autism.'_ The actual context is that this was a conference paper _that never published the data at all_. They found 7 autistic kids in some communities, and also asked their vaccination status, but never published any tables to let anyone correlate the two. It's like I did a study on sunny days and diarhhea, and only reported that 7 people had diarhhea and nothing else. Then I guess the President can say 'no studies have explictly shown a sunny day without diarrhea' and that's facts. the conference paper Trump here is reporting an absence of data as proof, but unwinding the truth is much more complicated than just taking his falsehood and running with it. I won't even get to the underlying issue. Americans notoriously deflect their distrust of their government and leaders to abstractions (vaccines, Flock cameras, data centers) which they are encouraged to debate endlessly. The problem is not things but the corrupt class wielding these things, with the mad king Trump chief among them. And now add AI psychosis to the mix. Americans should try to discover 'I' first. Trump, of course, was a kook well before AI (see the Central Park Five, or Obama's birth certificate), but he used to have to write to the newspapers or go on TV. Now he (or his aides) can format crackpottery and publish it instantly, under the authority of the US government. There was once a filter on this horseshit, but now it streams out endlessly. August 31, 2026 In another example, here's Trump using AI to show _'Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!'_ This was as Trump was actually bombing Larak Island (martyring two brave Iranians) and again it's ambiguously vague what's happening here. Is it a threat to bomb Kharg later, or a brag about bombing Larak island now? It it was about Larak, the US military would have footage and it's embarassing that the President is AI. But if it is a threat, then it's only internally incoherent, with Kharg seeming to bomb itself. Wait a minute... I'm actually starting to wonder if this is AI psychosis or genius. He really knows the American audience, who are idiots. The ambiguity about what he means is to his benefit, and – like spammers who leave mispellings in to weed out the intelligent – Trump's idiocy may be reaching exactly who's intended. August 30, 2026 In another example, Trump trols Canada by releasing a video of Canada geese with assault rifles and Trump toupees. It's just dumb, but I'm beginning to think this is smart. Trump genuinely seems to understand the tacky art of artificial intelligence, and is an early master of the form. He's like the Renoir of retardation. So is this AI psychosis or genius? At one level, it's doubtful Trump is a sophisticated consumer of media, he seems to be the median uncle getting personally one-shotted by AI content. At the same time, however, it's indubitable that Trump is a god-tier _producer_ of content, and he's pointing the shotgun at even stupider people and blasting it. From the 80s to his 80s, he gets the zeitgeist which in this day and age is AI psychosis.

As ye olde Bible said, bemoaning the fate of Israel, _"How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"_ Indeed, so it is, though it's not quite finished. The mighty American Navy is doing donuts around the ocean, engaging in petty piracy. The might American Air Force is a farce, reduced to amateur drone warfare. And the American Army is nowhere to be seen. How the mighty are fallen, and their weapons of war perished. America's predominant weapons of war were its aircraft carriers, its aircraft, its bases, which were really one interconnected system. Those are all perished. They're still here, but expired and starting to stink. As some washed up war criminal said to the Military Times, _"The potential loss of NSA Bahrain is effectively the equivalent of losing an aircraft carrier."_ That loss isn't potential, it's been very kinetic. All of the US military bases occupying the region (it was already Greater Israel) are debased. Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, even Jordan and Saudi; they'll never be rebuilt without Iranian permission and Chinese permits, none of which is forthcoming. So where do aircraft land, and where to carriers refill? They're not done, but they're finished. The US Navy is now based out of Diego Garcia, which is even less hospitable than Bahrain, which at least was on a continent. Diego Garcia is just the tip of an extinct volcano and incontinent. There's nothing but coconuts there, no sustenance. The USS Lincoln has, effectively, mutinied and was sent to molest Southeast Asians. The USS Any Other President won't do any better, they still have the same supply problems. As the Hebrew Bible said, the weapons of war perished. Not the aircraft carriers _per se_ , but the land bases that supplied them. In the end (which is upon is), it's the same thing. The greatest aircraft carriers have been defeated by this unsinkable aircraft carrier called land. They lost to both Yemen and Iran, historic victories buried by the loser press. And the US Air Force has lost air supremacy over both West Asia and Ukraine (North West Asia?). This is also a historic change in the nature of air warfare, and the US is being left behind entirely. Meanwhile, the US Army is defeated before they started, they're hiding behind proxies and not showing up at all. They were always defeated by guerrila armies, and now they're deterred by them as well. These are all catastrophic defeats. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Look at them now. The US Navy has been reduced to petty piracy, harrying Iranian ships sailing Persian seas. And unlike Somali pirates, they're a long way of home with no hope of relief. And the US Air Force is reduced to isolated drone attacks and posting memes. Iran is just harvesting their Reapers at this point, you have to ask why America keeps feeding them. And don't get me started on the US Army, which can't even get started. If you look at the weapons of war, the US military is reduced to using the weapons of the poor, assassinations, terrorism, threats, and trying to appear bigger than they really are. In the new paradigm of 21st century warfare, Iran and Russia are far superior. America is literally a spent force, _they don't make weapons anymore,_ they just make money. They're announcing more spending but this just advertises their own corruption. Nothing they lose is actually getting rebuilt, they can't even get magnets anymore. What we're witnessing is a fire sale of the military industrial complex. They're going out of business and everything must go.

Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. If that sounds repetitive, thank you for reading parts one and two already. Previously, we discussed how the White Empire has used the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Reserve Fleet to avoid economic consequences for their imperializing. Now we'll discuss how they used Missile Defense to avoid military hits for their militarizing. Until, _mashallah,_ they didn't. Now all of the Empire's shields are down, including the most obvious one. Missile Defense was called Star Wars when I was growing up, mockingly. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan said, _"What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?"_ Senator Ted Kennedy called this idea 'Star Wars' because Reagan's idea involved shooting things down from space. Of course, no one is trying to nuke America, only Americans have used nuclear weapons. What America feared was not nuclear weapons _per se_ , but the idea that they'd ever lose the power to unilaterally aggress anybody and get away with it. What they really wanted was the ability to do evil and get away with it without consequences. That is the point of all these reserves. The oil reserve is to steal oil, the shipping reserve is to block shipping, and the missile defense reserve is to shoot missiles. There are no abstract principles at work here. They're just bad people who want to do bad things. > The oil reserve (devised in the 1970s) serves as an oil shock absorber and the Reserve Fleet (marshalled in the 1960s) serves as a military/commercial buffer. The third shield is missile defense. Missile defense is perhaps the craziest reserve because it means storing _many_ more missiles than you expect to get hit with, and all their accoutrements, like radar and launch platforms. And making the whole system mobile, because who knows where you'll be attacking next week. This doesn't seem like it would work very well and it actually hasn't worked very well, but it was a very successful _sell_. Missile defense worked good enough that people believed in missile defense and so its defensive power was real. It just wasn't really tested. The problem that becomes catastrophic at scale is that an interceptor has to be both smarter and more plentiful than the missile it's shooting down. It needs to track and manuever intelligently (while the other missile needs to just fall), and usually _at least_ two interceptors need to be fired (often much more). You can see the math problem here. It's theoretically fine as long as you're not really tested, but if the test goes on too long, you're guaranteed to fail. Economics aside, it's just a math problem. It's one of those graphs where the lines start close together, and then rapidly diverge (like India and China's economies). **Your reserves have to be many times deeper than your enemy's resolve. This is the missile gulf that the Empire finds itself drowning in now.** ## They Know Like every strategic reserve we've discussed here, _they know_. Somewhere deep in the hindbrain of the deep state this is all acknowledged, I rely on imperial reports for this entire series because these issues are all published, always to ask for more funding. However, as Upton Sinclair said, it's very difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him _not_ understanding it. All of these reports conclude with the need to invest (re: grift) more, and none even meekly proposes maybe _not_ attacking people. They keep devising more elaborate bulletproof vests for school shooters and never once consider just not killing children. It's just taken for granted that the Empire needs to be so massively offensive that it needs a massive stock of missile defenses. However, they do acknowledge base reality, at least in passing. A 2024 Congressional Insider Trading newsletter said, > U.S. BMD capabilities are not designed to counter the full range of ballistic missile threats. They are designed to deter and defend against (1) ballistic missile attacks on U.S. forces abroad, as well as allies and partners, and (2) attacks against the homeland from rogue states, like North Korea and Iran. **U.S. BMD is neither intended for or capable of defending the homeland against the ballistic missiles of peer competitors Russia and China; instead, the United States relies on its nuclear forces to deter these threats. If deterrence fails, U.S. strategy describes missile defense as a tool for “damage limitation.”** It's funny to say that missile defenses are not meant to defend against Russia and then sell them to Ukraine. It's also just racism to say that they would work against Iran and Korea when they obviously haven't and won't. Turns out that missile defense is a paper tiger, gone up in a puff of smoke. Missile defenses are, as they said, just tools for _'damage limitation.'_ This is, of course, not what they were sold as, so this is some serious brand damage. Witness the Empire losing all its Gulf bases in about five days. > Ignoring how well these missile defenses work at all (not great, especially against modern threats like drones and hypersonics) the question is how well they work at scale (terrible). If you look at how many interceptors they have left (via the warmongers at CSIS), their missile defense system was one and done. They had enough missiles for one sustained battle, they picked two (Russia and Iran), and now they're done. That's why they're talking about 'economic war' now. They lost the military war. Just look at the defensive missiles expended here (SM-3/6, THAAD, Patriot). Green is what they had before, orange is what they expended in a bit more than a month, and red is what if they did that again. I assume these are undercounts, but they're still down for the count. Even with resupply (which we'll discuss), the Empire cannot go another round without going into the red, meaning negative missiles, which is not a thing. They would need to resurrect 500 Patriots from Hades to go another round with the IRGC. I repeat what won't repeat, if the Whites were to go another round at the same intensity, _they would run out of defensive missiles completely_. Not just for the region. For the Empire entirely. I'm leaving out here is the fighting after April because A) there hasn't been as much and B) the White military has retreated. Describing the comparitive lack of offensive (Tomahawk) fire, Marc Cancian of the CSIS Offense and Insecurity Department, wryly said, _"the Navy has been outside of the Gulf and shot geometry hasn't always worked out for them."_ 'Geometry' is a funny way of describing a retreat. _'Yeah, I didn't punch the guy back because, uh.... geometry."_ What's really happened is that the Empire lost all of its Gulf bases and is doing donuts around the Indian Ocean, reduced to petty piracy. **The Gulf debasification means that the Empire simply doesn't that much to defend. Just a few loose satraps, flapping in the wind, begging for scraps on the dustbin of history.** Even if the Empire had enough interceptor (defense) missiles, _where would it put them?_ Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE? It's like the joke about the guy feeding stray cats to coyotes. At some point, it's like you're just feeding Patriots to the Persians. This is the missile gulf that's yawning so much it's almost boring. I'm not even discussing 'Israel' here, which lost on October 7th and is – besides the genocide they're still prosecuting – increasingly irrelevant. Iran is in Iran and moving them out would require leverage (re: Archimedes) which has all be blown to smithereens. As a former CENTCOM Commander said to his Jewish masters (JINSA, literally) years ago, _"It is the simple tyranny of geography."_ Geometry, geography, reality really oppresses these people. That's how logistics wins in the end. ## Reload With What > America is like a drunk that's been thrown out of the bar saying _'one more drink.. HIC.'_ Yes, there are still drinks in the bar, but you're not getting them. I cite imperial reports because, as Scarface said, _'they always tell the truth, even when they lie.'_ The CSIS goes onto lie about replenishment rates, like Scarface saying, _"OK, I'm reloaded,"_ while doing enough coke to build Machu Pichu. Scarface did reload, but he was dead about a minute later. That's the truth behind the lie about replenishment rates. They can reload maybe once more but then it's face down in the Strait. I don't think the United States will even exist by 2030. Via CSIS **The** CSIS**talks about producing 2,000 Patriots per year, but that's the coke talking. They delivered just 172 this year (2026). If you believe that the US is going to replenish these munitions at any rate, I've got a bridge in Baltimore to sell you.** Bridge for sale, slightly used. The Francis Scott Key Bridge just concrete and steel and they still can't do it. They haven't even started the main rebuild, they won't even hire the main contractor (after the last was fired) until 2027. They're just having meetings about meetings and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for PowerPoint presentations. I don't think the Francis Scott Key Bridge will _ever_ be rebuilt, it'll just be there in the water like a monument to hubris. Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner mockingly about runaway slaves that were fighting American hypocrisy, and this is a fitting monument to him. As his lyrics went (he's talking about the Colonial Marines, a British regiment of former slaves), > And where is that band who so vauntingly swore > That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, > A home and a country, shall leave us no more? > Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution. > No refuge could save the hireling and slave, > From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, > And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, > O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. Where's your banner and namesake now? In a watery grave. If the United States can't rebuild an ordinary bridge near its capital, what hope is there of rebuilding its empire on the other side of the world? None at all. But there's still a lot of money still in stitching invisible clothes for the invisible empire, even after its nakedness has been called. You heard it here first, the empire has no clothes and the thread is made in China lol. A machine at the factory sometimes mangled artillery shells, meant to be perfectly smooth, into swirls that looked like soft serve. Obtained by ProPublica As another example, the arms dealer General Dynamics got a half billion contract to build basic artillery shells and delivered nothing but the Turkish ice cream meme. You know, where the guy twirls the ice cream around in front of you and gives you nothing? They literally imported untested Turkish machines that seemed to just halt and catch fire. And now General Dynamics has been awarded even more billions to do more of the same (nothing). It's the grift that keeps on giving. Missile interceptors are much more complicated than either bridges or shells, and we're expected to believe they can 10X production by casting financial spells? No way in hell. Plus, each missile requires pounds of magic rocks from China that have been embargoed by both China and US government. They're literally between a rock and a hard place. Even if they did the hard work, they lack the rocks. The whole missile defense rebuild is a non-starter, like the Baltimore bridge rebuild, and like their attempt to build basic artillery shells. It doesn't matter how many contracts they award if they can't get the raw materials. This stuff is never getting rebuilt. Some arms dealers are just going to remodel their bunkers and that's it. ## The Logic Of Logistics All the shields are down and the missile defense took the shortest. They cannot last another round with a superior power like Iran or Russia, never mind a superpower like China. This is not to say the Empire couldn't fight, but they would take losses, and they're fundamentally cowards. The entire American World War III strategy has been the same as their World War III strategy, staying far away from it and profiteering. To that end, they built up (at least) three strategic reserves – oil, ships, and missile defenses – which were supposed to insulate them from the consequences of their own actions. But those reserves are all running out, and with them, their time as head of the White Empire. They are losing, first, the empire they pretended they weren't and all the benefits that came with it. All that exorbitant privilege. There are other reserves in place – like bonds, like currency, like media, like straight-up lying – but that was all based on really having energy, really having trade, and really having missiles. And now they really don't, and reality would like a word. Not tomorrow, sure, but historically speaking, yesterday already.

We have been studying how the US, more properly called the White Empire, has been running out of reserves in the connected battles more properly called World War III. Yesterday we looked at a well known reserve, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and how it's running empty. Now let's look at another load-bearing reserve, The National Defense Reserve Fleet. The NDRF is (really was) a fleet of merchant ships that's supposed to let the Empire start shit and get away with it, without damage to its military or economy. These are not warships but the Empire can't wage war without them. As the saying goes, amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. As a 1976 government (GAO) report says, _"The National Defense Reserve Fleet provides supplemental merchant shipping capacity that the United States relies upon during a military or commercial shipping crisis."_ The White Empire is, of course, _is_ the crisis to the rest of the world, but this buffer fleet allows them to avoid consequences. It allowed them to surge materiels to attack people and supplement commercial shipping to keep their own sheep from noticing. At the 'end' of World War II, the US owned _"4,900 war-built ships of over 1,000 gross tons."_ The US sold off much of this fleet, but retained access to many of them as what was called a National Defense Reserve Fleet. World War II, of course, never ended for the colored/communist world, for us it was just World War Too. To that end, the Reserve Fleet was immediately put to use subduing independence movements across the globe. As a 1976 report said, _"The importance of these ships can be seen from the fact that 40 percent of the materiel moving to Vietnam in 1967 was transported by NDRF ships."_ The mundane way they do war crimes The Reserve Fleet was used for _"both military requirements and the Nation's overseas foreign trade."_ That is to say, they were used to both offend militarily and defend the empire from economic consequences of the same. The Reserve Fleet moved men and materiel _there_ , and loot back _here_. This has always been the play, the White Empire has always been naval, but in typical American fashion they privatized it and rented it back to themselves. During war time (which is all the time) the Empire didn't just depend on their Reserve Fleet. They relied on US commercial shipping in general because colonialism is, after all, a business proposition. However, America's stewardship of the White Empire has been receding so rapidly that, at this point, US shipping is a rounding error. This is the total US Flag Merchant Fleet, which drops from 17% of the world's shipping in 1960 to a rounding 0.4% last measured. Data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. I graphed this myself in WPS And here you can see the subset of this is the National Defense Reserve Fleet, private ships that can be commandeered by the military (and/or run privately under government direction). This also dropped precipitiously. I made this through Kimi K3, manually added the 2020+ data points, and checked the other major ones. Forgive me By the 1970s, most of these ships were barely shipshape. The GAO said, _"In 1975 there were no privately owned break-bulk ships less than 5 years old operating under U.S. flag."_ The ships were, on average, 30 years old and barely habitable. As the GAO said,_"The Victory ships in NDRF fall far short of habitability facilities provided by modern merchant vessels."_ The seaman also had limited motility. In the Vietnam invasion, _"shortage of licensed marine engineers and deck officers [was] the principal cause of delayed and short-handed sailings."_ **These ships were shippy back in the 1970s, but back then the US government still gave a ship.** That 1976 report recommend _"additional financing"_ and also _"to acquire newer ships to maintain the useful life of this national asset beyond the 1980s."_ By 1991, however, the recommendations were very different. By 1991, the GAO report was basically saying, _'who gives a ship?'_ They said, _"Recent media reports have described part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet as the “ghost fleet” and its ships as “rust buckets.”"_ Rather than replenish, they recommended scrapping much of it. At this point the fleet had already divided into the Ready Reserve Force (96 ships that could actually be called upon) and the Rusty Reserve Force, 116 ships that were basically falling apart. This report recommended basically ditching the latter, which is what happened. The _whole_ Reserve Fleet is about 100 now, what the RRF was in 1991. The 1990s reasoning (after the end of history) was that _, "It is difficult to envision a scenario in which the non-RRF ships would be needed... the probability of a global war, which could include large losses of merchant ships, is probably lower now than it has been since the Reserve Fleet was formed in 1946."_ Famous last words. If you look at the Ready Reserve Fleet now, they're like the NDRF was 30 years ago. The ships are 45 years old, on average, only 40% were actually ready in the last test, and the crews are old and unready too. via Sal Mercogliano What happened here? Well, after the two Iraq Wars, America literally got high on their own supply. They had bases in Kuwait and then Qatar and they thought they could freebase forever. Why bother with shipping from America when you had a whole conquered empire? They even came up with a new acronym. PWRM. Pre-positioned War Reserve Materiel. As a 2024 insider trading newsletter said, _"Pre-positioned war reserve materiel (PWRM) reduces demand for strategic airlift and sealift assets by locating heavy and bulky materiel closer to the theater of operations."_ The experience they learned from the Iraq Wars were that, _"During Operation Desert Shield in 1990-1991, PWRM enabled the delivery of Marine Corps armored units to the Persian Gulf one month before the arrival of other armored units shipped from the United States."_ And so they expanded these occupation bases all over. Rather than requisitioning ships doing other shit (which could take weeks) and sending materiel all the way from the center of White Empire, they used that empire to store war materiel closer to the war front. But this has the obvious problem of said materiel getting blown up. In 2024 they kinda acknowledged this problem, saying, _"The effectiveness of large PWRM stocks, however, alsomakes them potential priority targets for adversary long range weapons in conflict scenarios."_ No duh. Their solution to this was wishful thinking. They said, _"DOD’s Joint Concept for Logistics envisions a “comprehensive array” of large and small PWRM stocks that can be selectively accessed and quickly shifted between theaters of operations, even in contested environments."_ The plan was, in case of war, to move the materiel between bases. But how? You'd need to ship it, and with what ships? You just abandoned them! As honest war criminal Sal Mercogliano said, _"You're going to need big boats, I cannot lie."_ In 2026 this plan got punched in the face. The PWRM for the Iran War got blown up by Iran's long range weapons almost immediately, caches in Bahrain and Oman chief among them. This meant that warships like the USS Lincoln couldn't resupply properly and began running out of supplies. Pirates started walking the plank on their own, morale was so low. The Empire tried to resupply from Diego Garcia, but that is just the tip of an extinct volcano, and that too had to get resupplied from somewhere. Look at the map, where? And again, how? There are very few US flagged ships in general, and even fewer in the reserve fleet that were available. People like Mercogliano have been warning for a long time that the merchant marine was the backbone of the war machine and that it was geriatric and creaking, but no one gave a ship. Now they're in deep ship and there's nothing they can do about it. Iran had a strategy to take down American logistics, which sinks their Navy without sinking a ship. * * * _Sources:_ National Reserve Fleet 1976From the GOANational Reserve Fleet 1976.pdf2 MBdownload-circle National Reserve Fleet 1991National Reserve Fleet 1991.pdf5 MBdownload-circle Congress Report on Pre-Positioning Fleet 2024CRS-PWRM-Fleet-Report-2023-Pre-Positioning-Fleet.pdf525 KBdownload-circle

As the old war saying goes, amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. This post will talk about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (spoiler alert: it's running out) and the next will talk about the National Defense Reserve Fleet (spoiler alert: it's running aground). But first, some necessary context. 1. **We have been in World War III since at least 2001.** Multiple invasions? Mass genocides? This has it all. 5 million mostly Muslims were dead _before_ Gaza and the Whites invaded multiple countries _before_ Iran. It's been war across the world since the Pearl Harbored themselves, what else do you want to call it, unless you're being racist about it? This is important because it allows us to connect the two fronts in West Asia and actually understand what's going on. For further context, World War I and II were fights among the 'first' world for world domination, World War Too (the Cold War) was an ongoing struggle against the USSR (the second world), and World War III is the final battle (_inshallah_) to recolonize the third world completely. This is where we are now. 2. **America is not fighting this war alone, it's is one White Empire.** I won't bother saying America and Europe for Ukraine and America and Israel for Iran/Palestine because it's all one thing. And I won't bother differentiating between the actions of non-entities like Saudi Arabia and Japan either. I have personally been colonized by the Portugeuse, Dutch, British, and now America via the IMF. To us on the bottom, what's the difference? Sorry for the long intro, but this unwhiting of history is important to understand the present. What we have today is not one 'conflict' in Palestine and another with Russia and another with China. No, we have a White Empire still trying to take over the world and take (or at least break) Asia once and for all. If we know their strategy (take over the world) and we understand their tactics (genocidal violence), then we can move onto what's more important. Logistics. Starting with oil. ## The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) When they took over the White Empire, the US military became the single largest consumer of oil, and they got a lot from the tangential spoils of World War II in West Asia. However, when they lost direct control of this with the 1970s oil embargoes and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, that put the fear of God in the Great Satan. Never again, they vowed, which finally gets us out of history into the present. That is why the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created. As their Government Accountability Office stated (in May 2026), _"The purpose of the SPR is to provide energy security through emergency stocks of crude oil. In the aftermath of damaging international embargoes in the 1970s—a time when the United States was heavily dependent on crude oil imports—Congress authorized DOE to create a reserve in 1975 with the aim of reducing the impact of severe disruptions in the supply of petroleum products."_ Sound familiar? Did you even read the quote? The SPR is, well, I'll let them explain, _"60 active storage caverns that were solution-mined out of naturally occurring underground salt domes at four storage sites located in coastal Texas and Louisiana. These caverns are located thousands of feet underground and accessed from the surface through one to three injection and withdrawal wells per cavern. Crude oil is released from the SPR by pumping in raw water (e.g., fresh water from nearby rivers or lakes) to the bottom of a cavern—this displaces the crude oil, which is pumped out through the well and then through pipelines."_ These caverns have been filled with millions of barrels (worth) of oil, to protect the Empire from the consequences of its own bad behavior. And when they finally tried to take (or break) the only fully independent nation in West Asia it worked. _So far._ EIA At the start of World War III, the Empire was stacking oil, as they became net exporters and stole from Iraq, Syria, and Libya. This was (for the bad guys) the good part of World War III. **The spoils before the ruin, the rise before the fall.** Since the tide started turning in Russia and Iran, however, they have been forced to make withdrawals. Let's zoom in and scrunch up a bit to look: First, the Burger Reich overthrew Ukraine in 2014 and threw them at Russia for decades before Russia 'invaded' in 2022. This took a lot of oil (especially diesel) offline, especially when the Empire blew up the Nordstream pipeline in occupied Germany. To relieve this pressure, on March 1, 2022 the Energy Secretary said, > Today, I chaired an emergency ministerial meeting of the International Energy Agency where the United States and 30 other member countries agreed to collectively release an initial 60 million barrels of oil from strategic petroleum reserves. This decision reflects our common commitment to address significant market and supply disruptions related to President Putin’s war on Ukraine. You can see how the White Empire operates here. It hides behind acronyms like the IAE or NATO, in many names as well as none. These 'member' countries are, of course, just empty vassals making a lot of noise (it's all one White Empire) and 'Putin's' war in Ukraine was actually _their_ latest affront (it's World War III). The drawdown from the SPR 'after' Ukraine ended up being much more than 30 million (the US's share). As their 2026 GAO report says, it was _"180.0 million barrels—the largest single sustained release event to date."_ Or as Homer Simpson would say, the largest single release event _so far_. ### Iran The other unfinished business of last century – besides sowing civil war in the USSR – was taking down the only fully free nation in West Asia, Iran. Despite the Empire's strategic reserves being lower than _almost_ any point before, they decided to open two fronts at once. When the Empire attacked Iran in 2026, Iran cut off the Strait of Hormuz, immediately throttling global supply. And when then Empire attacked Yemen, that cut off the Red Sea also, creating a Suez Crisis in aggregate. On top of this, the United States Navy blockaded the blockade, when it wasn't getting defeated by 'toilets', 'laundry', and suicidal mutinies. At this point you have to conclude that the Empire _wants_ these supply disruptions (for reasons we'll discuss). As one must always repeat in the face of an empire that has no name and 'conflicts' that are obfuscated by many names, POSIWID! The point of a system is what it does. ## POSIWID The media analysis of events still operates from the position that America is a real country and that its political leaders are just not completely, comically corrupt. But once you abandon those pretences, what's actually happening makes complete sense. America is controlled by _narrow_ business interest and they are making _wild_ profits from oil, weapons, and the volatility itself. People keep asking why America is doing such dumb stuff, but follow the money. The system is operating exactly as intended (at founding, only propertied men could vote). It's just not intended to to help Americans, even less the world. POSIWID. **Cornering the oil trade has been very good for the American oil business, whatever it does to the rest of the real economy. The American economy is just a multi-level marketing scheme for graphics cards at this point.** It's all fraud. All the higher prices their media reports about so mournfully are actually higher _profits_ for the elites that own the same media outlets. The FT**talks about the rising diesel crack being bad, but it's not bad for many FT readers, who are crack dealers.** Keep this in mind as you read, > The pump price of diesel — the lifeblood of the economy because of its essential role in powering industry and agriculture — hit $5.47 a gallon on Tuesday, approaching its all-time high of $5.82 as wars in the Middle East and Europe hobble production and throttle global supplies. > > Prices have jumped 8 per cent in the past month while the gap between the cost of diesel and crude oil, known as the “crack spread”, has hit a record high in recent days in a sign of the deepening supply shock. **The FT acts like these wars in the Middle East and Europe just happened, when they were wars of choice. And they act like they're separate wars, when it's one White Empire on a warpath.** America is literally just a gas station with nukes, as that war criminal John McCain accufessed once, and they're holding up the competition. What the FT describes here as stuff that just happened is really cause and effect. White Empire _attacked_ in order to drive up their own profits. POSIWID. That 8% increase for plebs at the pump is someone else's profit, plus they can gamble on tweets using insider information. **Everything's going swimmingly, if you're a shark.** The credulous newshounds act like this is bad, but c'mon, FT readers paying $75 a month can read between the lines. One man's penury is another man's profit, this is the entire capitalist model. Capitalism is not having markets (communism has markets, the ancients had markets). Capitalism is _coercing_ everything into a market. Like communism, it's a direction, not a destination. In this case, the Empire forced Europeans into its natural gas markets, forced Venezuela into its markets, and is running its refineries full tilt to _profit_ from the closure of Hormuz. Outlets like the FT give you this news without naming the actors, because they're part of the same manufactured drama. **Like actual crack, the US government is not mad about the crack spread. They're the ones selling it!** ### Wait but why You might be like, _'but why would a country do this, it's suicidal'_ and this is again missing a vital point. America is not a country, it's White Empire, and the White Empire is not run by people but corporations. From the Dutch East India Company to the East India Company to this present company of rogues, it's nothing personal, it's strictly business. I call the actual rulers of White Empire Corporate AI because it's accurate. Corporations are algorithmically driven to only increase profits and they are completely agnostic to political concerns except as marketing slogans. And they'll crash the whole system before they have a bad quarter, they're quite happy hard restarting. You have to think not like a state, which is outdated, but like a corporate. A corporate raider, to be exact. So what is the actual business model of White Empire? Look to private equity (white word for oligarchy). When PE raider take over a company, they do not care about the actual needs of the company, its employees, and certainly not society. They care about money. So they drive up debts in the company's name, fire the people that actually make things, sell off assets, and profit as much as possible in the short term before leaving the company for dead and moving onto the next one. This is how White Empire operates. Ask Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and now America. It's the same game with different shells. **Like a private equity company taking over a company to burn its assets, the corporate interests that have (completely) taken over the US Government are using the military to scare up profits and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as an asset to just sell of for quick profits.** Like any PE bust-out (leveraged buy-out) this will spin out a lot of money for them and kill the host eventually, but the who cares? Corporate AI is not human. **What's happening isn't the suicide of America. It's its murder.** ## The Race To Empty The SPR The White Empire is trying to keep the con going so it can loot and Iran is trying to expose it so they can live. And the White Empire has a significant shield built up in the SPR. They can avoid the consequences of the 1970s-style oil shock (despite a bigger physical shock) as long as they maintain the reserve to avoid those very consequences. But they can't avoid them forever if Iran drives those reserves down. This is the tussle going on in front of us. And you can literally see the Empire cracking under the pressure. **Remember that the United States stores crude oil in its SPR, not finished products like diesel. Just as it releases US dollars to primary dealers to make usurious profits, it is releasing US oil to private refiners to make crack. The profit margin on finished products.** The profit on three barrels of oil is an important measure here, called the 3-2-1 Crack Spread. For every three barrels of crude you get two barrels of gasoline (RB1) and one barrel of diesel (HO1). To get the spread you divide that all by the price of a barrel (USOIL) x3, creating a measure called the 3-2-1 spread. Note that I'm _not_ graphing the spread here as one number, but showing you as a literal spread, between the revenue from one barrel of refined products (red) compared to the cost of one barrel of government crude (black). The crack is the gap is double now, whch is unheard of. At a time you'd think they'd be encouraging saving oil, the US government is encouraging refining it like there's no tomorrow. Which is a self-fulfilling prophecy, no? In Trading View, red is the 3-2-1 Crack (2*NYMEX_DL:RB1!*42+NYMEX_DL:HO1!*42)/3 and black is the crude oil price as USOIL The US government is subsidizing the rich (refiners) and the rich are taxing the poor (schmucks). Like with COVID, like with Ukraine, like with tariffs, White oligarchs are using every crisis to just increase prices, and eating any government subsidies up. This is not an oopsy, it's not some strange phenomenon. Remember, always, that POSIWID. The system is working exactly as (the founders) intended. The rich get rich and the poor get poorer. **Remember that at founding only (White male) property owners could vote and that's still the governing principle of America. Their only interest is interest on principle. For a while this was balanced by some interest in not killing the golden goose but now they've put it in the oven with full gas on.** **Let's look at diesel, for the sake of one more graph. The diesel crack spread is a completely artificial measure, you don't get a barrel of diesel from a barrel of oil, but it's still useful for understanding how cracked out everything is.** This spread is wider than ever and it forms a gigantic fault line between the real economy (agriculture, mining, everything important) and the financialized economy (lines, graphs, and everything on them). And believe you me, there's an earthquake coming. **Having such a high 'crack' is actually a huge incentive to _refine as much crude as possible_ and rapidly empty the reserves. **While places like Sri Lanka and China are doing what rational people would do, reducing usage in the face of dwindling supply, the Americans are actually _increasing_ usage because they're high on their own supply. Selling government oil at subsidized rates to your mates only encourages them to refine _more_ , because the profits are so great. And this is not for American use! This has nothing to do with the American people, itself a cursed category of suckers and losers. It is just about the money, and making as much of it as possible. As the FT writes, _"US refineries have been running at full tilt in an attempt to fill the gap, shipping record volumes of fuel to global markets, which analysts said would be difficult to sustain because of falling inventories."_ The FT again positions this as _'oops a bunch of stuff is happening'_ but the US military is at every crime scene, making this stuff happen. No, none of this is coincidental, this is what the mafia calls a bust-out. Or as the private equity mafia calls it, a leveraged buyout. An LBO is when you take over an establishment and strip its assets to make a quick buck, with the emphasis on quick. **This is an LBO of the US government (elections only cost a few bill), and they're selling off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and everything that's not bolted down. And they're doing it as quickly as possible. Make hay while the sun shines, and burn oil while the world burns.** ## The Weird China Thing Let me briefly interlude into China, because they're doing something unusual. If China was trying to destroy America like America says, they could have just kept going as usual. If China imported, refined, and used its normal quantity of oil, America would be at tank bottom already. But they didn't. China has somehow reduced imports by nearly 50% without feeling much stress. I was just in China and they're chilling. It's not like Sri Lanka where we have fuel rationing, this doesn't seem to be effecting them. Something weird is happening. Wall Street Journal At one level, China is doing what you'd expect during a supply shortage and using less _._ They are also dipping into their national reserves for national reasons, as such things are for. And China has a lot of (opaque) reserves, they stored Russian and Iranian oil when it was cheap and can make 300 million barrels of 'oil' a year (as they did in 2024) from coal. The imperialist sources differ on how much they're drawing their reserves, but they agree that it's about 1.2 billion barrels worth. I think it's more, but who knows. The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg China has at least 3-4x the reserves of America, is rapidly transitioning to renewables for many purposes, and they're not looting the nation to benefit one class of parasitic speculators. They have central planners who seem to have planned wisely and put, to use a crude phrase, China first. It's like the grasshopper and the ant story (where the ant saves and the grasshopper squanders). In a way, China is incidentally saving America, but maybe everything's not about America. China may also be doing what a superpower _should_ be doing, which is using its power to stabilize the world. This helps America, but only so much as America is another place in the world (a position it needs to get used to). Again, none of America's enemies actually want to fight, and they want even less to destroy its empire outright. We all live in the White Empire in some way, even if it's not right. Everybody keeps trying to give America a way out of its madness (even if it's madness to expect this) and to control the demolition of its empire as much as possible. Which may be what China's doing here. Communist China is a Confucian government in this sense. Ruling by _wu-wei_ , ie ruling by not ruling. They take a ritual position facing [global] south and hope that people follow their example. Even morons like Americans, as little as that is possible. As the commentaries on Confucius say, _"it is far more likely that ruling by wu-wei refers to ruling by means of Virtue: the ruler morally perfects himself and thereby effortlessly transforms everyone around him."_ An even longer digression into Confucius, if you're interested ## Iran As Historical Actor Meme posted by Ghalibaf Iran, however, is not in China's position. They are in Iran, getting bombed and blockaded and need to, as quickly as possible, move things along. Iranian Parliament speaker (and last tweeter standing) MB Ghalibaf recently said, _"They wanted to punish Iran. Punished themselves with triple-digit oil instead. 10/10 strategy."_ This is more a statement of intent than the state that we're in, unfortunately. Oil is _not_ triple digits (though it's pushing it), Iran _is_ being punished (though they're united and resilient), and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is _still_ working as intended. **A 1970s style oil shock is still being prevented by 1970s decisions, so far. However, a 1980s style crack binge is leading to a 1991 style collapse, inshallah.** **Iran keeps pointing to the real economy and America keeps pointing out how high they are in the stock market, but reality will have the last world (they may scheme, but God is the best of planners, as the Quran says).** Hormuz isn't just a closure of oil, it's a block of fertilizer, of raw materials, of the very feedstock of modern society. To explain this, Ghalibaf posted an equation in April, > ΔO_BSOH > 0 ⇒ f(f(O)) > f(O) You can write this in English as _"If a Hormuz blockade pushes oil prices up, then the cascading after-effects will be even more severe than the initial shock."_ This ain't wrong, it's just taking a little long. The oil price after the blockade (O_BSOH) has gone up more than nothing (0), that's known. And therefore (⇒) the second order effects (f(f(O)) have already been more damaging (>) than just the first order effects f(O). The Empire has been able to suppress f(O) as in the crude price of oil, but not (f(f(O)) like diesel. And they have been able to suppress consequences in the imperial core, but not at the edges anymore. The yen-carry trade in energy-starved Japan is breaking down and the energy-starved AI bubble in occupied Korea has already popped. And these are load-bearing lackeys, the whole imperial financial system is shutting down, and (as Iran knows) that's all they really care about. One of the biggest (but still fake) metrics that will cause the Empire problems is bond rates. They are going up all around the core (France, Japan, Germany) and US rates are rising also. This doesn't mean anything (they can just make up more money) until it does (inflation). This is a psychological thing more than anything, all the courtiers are still pretending the emperor has clothes because they're also swimming naked. Nobody wants to be the first to cry out 'the emperor has no clothes!' but nobody wants to be last either. It's a delicate game. And the stakes are slowly rising. Just ask Hemingway how bankruptcy goes. He said slowly, then all at once. The debt payments this year already are $1 trillion dollars, the US military budget is $1.5 trillion, and there's an obvious madman in charge. US bond rates (basically how rich people feel about a country) are already going up, and every effort from the US Treasury to force them down doesn't work. When Soros failson Scott Bessent tried to goose the Japanese yen by dumping Euros, that intervention lasted maybe a day and could not contain the contagion. And when he tried to suppress bond yields by announcing buybacks, that only lasted a few hours. He still has a few tricks left in his bag, but they have limited power. America has already issued half of its debt in the last decade, now it's just getting absurd. Bond markets are one of those second or third order effects that Ghalibaf was talking about. The effects of these effects will be higher interest rates, mortgage rates, and quite likely a Greatest Depression (long time coming). The trillion dollar question is _when_ , but zero points for saying never. The funny thing is that both Iran, Russia, China, America's declared enemies, are trying to avoid this situation. They're trying to give the Empire a way out. And it's honestly easier than what they're doing now. All America has to do to resolve the Hormuz situation is _go home_. All they have to do to resolve the Ukraine situation is _go home_. All they have do to resolve the trade war is trade normally. But no, they're rather blow up their home front than abandon a bit of imperializing abroad. This is how empires die I guess. The way they came in, just less successfully. * * * _I know this was long, but I've already written a Part 2, the Strategic Boat Reserve. That article will be called The Logistics War Part 2: The National Defense Reserve Fleet and it'll be out soon._

Hitler just wanted what America already had. _Lebensraum_ is a town in Wisconsin. In the utterly unreadable _Mein Kampf_ (should really be called _Dein Kampf_), Hitler pointed out the superiority of the American White supremacy, saying, > **Many contemporary European States are like pyramids standing on their apexes. The European territory which these States possess is ridiculously small when compared with the enormous overhead weight of their colonies, foreign trade, etc**. It may be said that they have the apex in Europe and the base of the pyramid all over the world; **quite different from the United States of America, which has its base on the American Continent and is in contact with the rest of the world only through its apex.** Out of that situation arises the incomparable inner strength of the U.S.A. and the contrary situation is responsible for the weakness of most of the colonial European Powers. Even a stopped Nazi is right now and then. The Nazis that won had a base on the pre-genocided American continent and this gave them an incomparable inner strength. _Until_ they occupied Europe and inherited Europe's problems. As George Slavetooth Washington said in his farewell address, _"Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?"_ Why indeed, but the deed is done. As the Notorious BIG said, more territory, more problems. ## The Pyramids A pyramid can stand on its base a long time, but on its head not long. If I may illustrate the Hitler quote, let me draw the two pyramids. America right-side up, Europe upside down, and their connection to the world as a blue circle above. I don't know why I put it above but I'm not redoing it now. Any resemblance to states living or dead is purely coincidental You can see Europe, in grey, with its base in the big blue world, India, Africa, and parts of Asia at the time. Then you can see America right-wing up, with a whole genocided continent to rest on, and another America to spare. You can see how this gave America a stronger base and plenty of _lebensraum_. Meanwhile France and England's resource and population bases _were not in Europe_ , which made them inherently unstable and easy to topple. As both the American 'Revolution' and Hitler proved. However, after 'winning' World War II, America inherited the European world empire and all of its discontents. America had its Americas base, true, but another upside-down triangle tacked on too. And all the time, the wide world grew. America running White Empire was fine as long as the world (in blue) remained the size it was – and as long as they could cut communist rebellions down to size, making Hitler proud – but as the world grew 'bigger' this meant the _relative_ size of America became smaller and smaller. A pyramid that rested on its base became more like a Star of David, resting more and more uneasily on its apex. This shape is _always_ on one point somewhere, necessitating forever war, everywhere. When America was young, they were like a young vagabond playing with Shakespeare's Falstaff, _"Why then, the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open."_ They had a wide base and a sharp point to their sword, giving them leverage to move the world. But when America won the world in World War II (1937-1991) their situation quickly became another Shakespeare play, _"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,"_ as Henry IV bitterly intoned. Until, finally, weighed down by their own usurpations, they are end up like Macbeth, slain by enemies they thought impossible. Macbeth thought he could only be slain by someone 'not born of woman' and America suffered from that other European malady. White supremacy. As Carl von Clausewitz said, _“We will never find a savage who is a truly great commander, and very rarely one who would be considered a military genius, since this requires a degree of intellectual powers beyond anything that a primitive people can develop.”_ Well, ya did. Just as Macbeth was slain by Macduff (c-section), America has been slain by Yemen and Iran (emerging from tunnels). Now they stand over the decapitated Fifth Fleet, saying _"Behold where stands, Th' usurper's cursed head. The time is free. I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl."_ ## The Falling Rate Of Profit **The kingdom's pearl was energy. Hitherto floating in inflated dollar rafts from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea. America is now net energy exporter, but remember that America has not just been America for nearly a century. It is the White Empire now, with many moths to greed. Now – with its chips in Taiwan and its bank in Japan – it has stretched its supply lines _permanently_ over the oceans. And if you cut these lines, they do bleed**. As we've illustrated, White Empire is two conjoined triangles, the more stable colonization of the Americas and the more upside down European legacy. Now it's all teetering over Palestine, like an unbalanced Star of David. Remember that colonization has _always_ been a business proposition and always in the shape of a pyramid scheme. New colonies and colonizers must constantly be procured because what's an empire if it's not imperializing? As Ryan Perkins puts in his current magestrial work along the same lines, > For five centuries, the system survived its internal contradictions—the falling rate of profit, the crisis of overaccumulation—by reaching for a **spatial fix** : new continents, new labor pools, new markets. But the map was finite and by the dawn of the 20th century, the imperial powers had divided it between themsleves. Trapped in a closed system, they turned on each other in two world wars of inter-imperialist rivalry. The violence that had built the system turned inward, consuming the old empires in a cataclysm that cleared the ledgers and balanced the books with corpses and opened the door for a new hegemon. Let us discuss his first point, the most important one, _the falling rate of profit_. This is discussed by Marx and further back but economists keep having to rediscover it. It's basically the second law of thermodynamics, things fall apart. Entropy, or the arrow of time under words. In thermodynamics, heat goes from warm areas to cool (in an isolated system) until it reaches thermodynamic equilibrium. In colonialism, this almost literally happened with energy going from warm south to the cold north (the source of Whiteness, they got less sun) until, now, we reach some sort of global equilibrium. This defeats the point of colonialism and the colonizers cannot live as equals, so they shake things up again with world wars to keep things unlevel. The rate of profit is both the doing and undoing of capitalism. This is the vital subject, really, because profit is the point of colonialism, not land per se. Colonialism started, in earnest, as joint stock companies like the VoC (Dutch East India Company). It's not a coincidence that the first IPO (1602) was for such a colonial company. Capitalism and colonialism are connected in that colonialism offers a **spatial fix** to this contradiction of capitalism. If you run into a declining rate of profit somewhere, _just colonize somewhere else_. The problem with winning a world war, however, is that you run out of world. You create an isolated system (world trade) which trends towards a declining rate of profit, ie thermodynamic equilibrium with _colored_ people (color is just the imprint of solar energy on generation) and this is, to White Empire, intolerable. But it's happening. The rate of profit has been falling across the core White Empire for generations. The post-war order, in fact, defaulted in the 1970s and has just been going by default. America defaulted on gold in the 1970s and has been running on fossil fumes ever since. Around the same time, they opened up to China, and began depending on communist production to paper over their own contradictions. The empire has no clothes, but everyone was too afraid to call it, until now. The Bretton-Woods economy died in the 1970s and since the 1980s they've just been making it up. That's literally what financialization is. Like a pyramid scheme, they have depended on promises of future growth and when that couldn't materialize, _they just made it up_. So we've got successive booms of speculation and overproduction followed by busts. The dot-com bubble, the property bubble, then failed attempts with crypto and virtual reality before settling on AI as scam that worked. Capitalism was always like this (see the South Sea Bubble, the biggest ever) but now the cycles are getting tighter and tighter as they spiral. What capitalists are fighting, artificially, is the declining rate of profit, which is almost a law of nature. Everything that lives dies, including the greed they incarnated as corporations. It's well known within even White economics that competition forces profits down. Even monopolies will eventually get competed _around_ (where's the VoC and IBM now?). To put it plainly, what goes up must come down. Marx discusses this in Capital Volume III. Talking about the falling rate of profit, he said, > **The main thing about their horror of the falling rate of profit is the feeling that capitalist production meets in the development of its productive forces a barrier which has nothing to do with the production of wealth as such; and this peculiar barrier testifies to the limitations and to the merely historical, transitory character of the capitalist mode of production** ; testifies that for the production of wealth, it is not an absolute mode, moreover, that at a certain stage it rather conflicts with its further development. Marx was talking about this in the 1800s, the contradictions were already creaking, but the capitalists kept deferring a transition to socialism through imperialism and internal fascism (you'll see this repeating). You can see this in practice in what the West calls 'outsourcing' or 'deindustrialization' as if they were just choices capitalists made which could have been made differently. But Marx explains this theoretically, and the theory checks out. Sectors like mining and manufacturing saw declining rates of profit, which led to declining investment. Western countries should have nationalized those industries, but that would be _communism_ , which is anathema to them. So they just outsourced it to actual communists in China lol. Now they're like, _why do those damn commies control all the vital minerals_ (or the precious bodily fluids, as the man said in _Dr. Strangelove_). Well, it's because communism is the next stage of development which you just refuse to advance to, standing athwart economic history with a gun, yelling STOP! I'd say put the gun in your mouths and shut up, but you don't even have the raw materials to make bullets now. Karl said the falling rate of profit forms a natural barrier to the development of the productive forces under capitalism. He said, > _The rate of self-expansion of the total capital, or the rate of profit, being the goal of capitalist production (just as self-expansion of capital is its only purpose), its fall checks the formation of new independent capitals and thus appears as a threat to the development of the capitalist production process.**It breeds over-production, speculation, crises, and surplus-capital alongside surplus-population.** "_ He also said, _"Capitalist production seeks continually to overcome these immanent barriers, but overcomes them only by means which again place these barriers in its way and on a more formidable scale.**The real barrier of capitalist production is capital itself.**_ I dunno if you're reading this fully, but the highlights are important. They explain what's happening now. Facing declining rates of profit and unwilling to evolve to communism, the capitalist moves onto over-production, speculation and, if we're being honest, outright fraud. White capitalism has lurched from one bubble to another, the over-production and speculation of the dot-com bubble, the over-production and speculation of the real estate bubble, and now the over-production and speculation of the AI bubble. It's one everything bubble because they refuse to move onto the next stage of historical progression, which would _finally_ be post-colonialism and post-capitalism. They keep trying to get past the natural barrier that _should redirect them to socialism_ and instead try to continue capitalism with some bullshit. Leading up to the AI bubble, they tried crypto and VR first before finally settling on AI as some bullshit that at least appeared to have use value. But even with AI, you can see that communist China can produce the same use value without some inflated exchange value. Which ruins the whole proposition, which was not making AI, but making a bubble! Capitalist America actually _needs_ the costs to go up, because they are using AI as a vehicle for speculation, not to go anywhere in particular. They keep trying to push past the barriers that should redirect them to communism, but they can only "_overcome them only by means which again place these barriers in its way and on a more formidable scale."_ Hence you get the everything bubble today. A pyramid scheme in place of a functioning economy. ## The AI Bubble The entire (growth in the) US economy is AI now, and it's all a bubble. It's NVIDIA loaning customers money to buy its chips and then packaging that 'compute' like ENRON packaged energy, as objects of further speculation. It's SpaceX changing the listing rules at NASDAQ to quickly dump its shares on retail investors. It's all a 'stock-jobbing swindle' in Marxian terms. In modern terms, Jamie Merchant talks about how the rise of index funds (like the ones forced to gobble SpaceX up) have led to the 'abolition of the market without planning.' Markets no longer process information because they only thing anybody wants to see is 'line going up', and if anything happens, the US government just prints money to make it happen. As Merchant said in The Brooklyn Rail, > As the premier capitalist country, the US essentially takes on the mounting costs of reproducing the deteriorating conditions for global capitalist production, which show up as an exploding Fed balance sheet and national debt. At the same time, the expansion of governance into private finance and of finance into government erodes the basis for the market’s competitive function. The further this dynamic progresses, the more the scope for the market shrinks; the more the market shrinks, the less profitable private production becomes relative to the revenues to be collected through finance; **the less profitable private production becomes, the more the accumulation of capital is exhausted, requiring ever more drastic state intervention just to keep its heartbeat going, which further erodes the basis for the market. Traditionally, some form of planned economy is taken to be the alternative to market institutions, but there is not much planning happening here. Rather, this is something new: the abolition of the market without planning.** What they are trying to to is prop up the deteriorating conditions of capitalism with fraud and, if that doesn't work, with violence. The deterioration of capitalism, diverted this way, leads not to naturally to communism, but artifically to fascism. So we end up where we started, with Herr Hitler. What Marx understood intelligently, Hitler also understood in his artificially intelligent way. You can't stand a pyramid on its head, and if people start catching onto your scheme, just hit somebody instead. Which is precisely what America, as the heirs to White Empire and Herr Hitler, are doing. But the productive forces are not strong with them anymore and it is, _inshallah_ , a losing battle. As you can see from all the battles they're losing.

The shameless Obama 'pivot to Asia' is ending in shameful retreat. Occupation bases are crumbling from Japan to Hawaii. Destroyers are breaking down in the South China Sea. Aircraft carriers, missile defenses, and attention are being pulled from East to West Asia, to be fed to Iran*. The long-strategized pivot to Asia has ended up on the wrong side of Asia entirely. _It was supposed to be East Asia, not West Asia bro, that's last century._ In 2011, the war criminal Barack Obama talked about returning to the core mission of colonialism, finding Asia. Obama said, _"After a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, in blood and treasure, the United States is turning our attention to the vast potential of the Asia Pacific region."_ That's what sex slavers like Columbus were looking for _in_ America and after over two _centuries_ , America was finally going to take it. Why Asia? It's really not that complicated. In the geopolitical game of RISK, Asia simply has the most resources (7), the largest population (the Valeriepeiris Circle), and the largest market for finished products. The White Empire under Europe took India easily but failed in China and under America they're doing the same thing. America is just the latest head of an undead White Empire and what do empires do? _The same thing we do every day,_ Pinky_, try to take over the world!_ You can dress it up in liberalism or dress it down in Trumpism, it's the same naked imperialism. Obama (and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) proposed doing this the classic liberal way, using Democracy™ and Human Rights**®** as Trojan Horses, keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Trump just went in with a battering ram and declared Trade War immediately, but it's the same strategy, just differing in velocity. Everybody since Columbus has been trying to 'pivot to Asia' because that's where the stuff is/was. **This pivot to Asia is broken now, on the Axis of Resistance.** Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy boldly predicted everything that could and would go wrong saying, _"America will always have core interests in ensuring that Gulf energy supplies do not fall into the hands of an outright enemy, that the Strait of Hormuz remain open, that the Red Sea remain navigable."_ That's exactly what happened lol. Iran controls Gulf energy, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and the Red Sea too. The US Navy has been beaten by _both_ Yemen and Iran and the school-shooters (they targeted Minab) of the USS Lincoln are effectively mutinying by jumping overboard. Pivot to Asia on what axis? The Axis of Resistance has made that impossible. Iran is _why_ the last aircraft carrier in East Asia (the USS George Washington) is being dragged across the board unceremoniously. To relieve the Lincoln which died of canteen, which relieved the Ford which died of toilets. The Axis of Resistance has broken the US Navy not by sinking its ships but stretching its supply lines to the breaking point. Exchanging aircraft carriers doesn't change the logistical problem, it just puts a different dog on the short leash. Which Iran yanks as it pleases. When the Washington follows the Lincoln and Ford into ignominious retreat is just a timing difference. **Iran's** debasification**strategy has made aircraft carriers useless without even using hypersonic missiles. Just make the pirates miserable and they'll walk the plank of their own volition.** Now consider _why_ the US had carrier groups in East Asia, at least nominally. It was, in the Trump regime's words, to counter, _"Threats against our supply chains that risk U.S. access to critical resources, including minerals and rare earth elements."_ Like the joke about Australia spending $30 billion dollars to protect its trade with China from China, this was a fool's errand in the first place. Like Hormuz was open before they went to war, China was trading all this stuff to America before they want to trade war. But the White Empire can't tolerate trade on equal terms with anyone, especially non-White people, so they went on a tirade that blew up their own supply lines. I've gone into it in detail, but China's tit-for-tat sanctions on certifications, rare earths, and dual use products plus its invocation of a new Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law plays _UNO Reverso_ on America. Whereas America could enforce bureaucratic sieges (sanctions) by punishing third parties and avoiding any retaliation, China has turned all this on their head. They've sanctioned US military companies from rare earths – meaning everything destroyed by Iran will not be rebuilt – and sanctioned third parties (like in Singapore) that collaborate with them. As some stink tank said, _“The new rules essentially force companies to choose between access to the Chinese market and access to the US market, with penalties possible in either direction.”_ And who does almost everyone on earth (including America lol) trade the most with? China. The only thing America could do is force the issue, like the British did with gunboats to force opium on China, but this incarnation of White Empire is history repeating as farce, a spent farce. America no longer has any naval advantage (just look at the Chinese fleet), their air advantage is dangling from a thread in West Asia (behold their recent defeat), and they're just embarrassing themselves (literally drowning in their own shit). The 'Israelis' were mocked as the diaper army, and the Americans have become the toilet Navy. For example, the USS Benfold (a Destroyer) recently stalled in the South China Sea which _"meant sailors were without galley services, toilets and air conditioning. Potable water was also affected, Comer said. He did not respond to a question about how sailors handled waste."_ They were using buckets or just hanging their asses off the sides, if you're wondering. And in their Japanese bases, _"A Defense Department Inspector General review found widespread infrastructure problems, including moldy housing, failing water lines, deteriorating concrete and maintenance and storage facilities in need of repair."_ And in Hawaii, where the US military already poisoned everybody's water supply once, _"About 4,000 soldiers are in barracks without central air conditioning due to mechanical failures at a water treatment plant."_ These guys are not pivoting anywhere. 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Something deep in the deep state is screaming _please... kill me_ and Russia, Iran, and China are like _OK???_ America is blowing up its own world trade to somehow dominate world trade. I don't know why. I don't make the rules-based order. None of these countries wanted to attack or have attacked America. They all wanted to trade with America normally and move on. They simply wanted to exist outside the White Empire, and exchange with them as equals. But like asking a rapist out for dinner and a movie, Whites do not understand the concept. _Normal intercourse? What's that?_ All they know is threats, violence, and intimidation, so they started not one, not two, but three wars across Asia out of congenital cussedness. And lost them all. America, as the custodians of White Empire, have destroyed Europe by cutting it off from the continent it's actually in. They have destroyed their Gulf vassals by going genocidal maniac across the whole region. And they have attacked their own supply lines by attacking China. Now what? No pipeline energy from Russia, no shipped energy through Hormuz or the Red Sea, and no resources from China to even keep violating. What's the endgame here? Just the end of the great game they'd _already won_. America already had everything they wanted from Asia, but they started World War III because, I dunno, aphasia. Brain damage. America's like someone demented in life, dying of dementia. Calling out the names of old enemies and lashing out at shadows. America had some (evil) brains once, and this brain trust said the USSR was a threat last century, Muslims were a threat presently, and China would be a threat imminently. By this century, however, those brains had turned to dust, personified by a senile and evil Joe Biden and an even older and more vile Donald Trump. With no one competent up top, the deep state, without even a shallow level of civilian control, simply executed all of its plans at once. _Attack Russia! Attack Iran! Attack China!_ It was a fire sale of firepower, everything must go off all at once. As the war criminal Madeleine Albright said, what's the point of this great military if you don't use it? Where Napoleon limited himself to one front, and Hitler dared two at once, braindead America went for the trifecta, three wars in Asia. Two bloody, one bloodless siege warfare. America was not only attacking phantom enemies from the past, it was attacking its own supply lines to ever fight again in the future. This seems dumb, but that implies that anyone is in charge, and not a deep state of permanent violence and corruption. As Vladimir Putin said in 2017, > I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration. Or as Ali Khamenei said in 2025, > The arrogant nature of the US wasn’t compatible with the independence-seeking nature of the Revolution. This is what I want to emphasize. The conflict between the Islamic Republic and the US isn’t a difference in tactics. It isn’t an incidental disagreement. It’s an inherent difference... The US’s arrogant nature accepts nothing other than submission. This is something that all the US presidents have wanted. They just didn’t state this openly. But the current [US] president has stated this. He said Iran must surrender. He essentially gave this matter away. He exposed the US’s inner nature. Comrade Xi Jinping plays his cards much closer to the chest, but in March 2023 he said, according to foreign sources, > Western countries led by the United States have implemented all-around containment, encirclement and suppression of China, which has brought unprecedented severe challenges to our country’s development. In the text of his official speech, he said, > With this new security architecture, we will be able to better safeguard China's new pattern of development. We should comprehensively promote the modernization of our national defense and our armed forces, and build the people's military into a great wall of steel that can effectively safeguard our nation's sovereignty, security and the interests of our development. Of these three, you can see the martyr Khamenei was the most fed up with the albinos' perfidy, but even he couldn't stop Iran's elected government from negotiating. Russia, too, has always been willing to negotiate, China is negotiable to a fault, but everybody tries to base their negotiations on the basic idea of reciprocity, which is fundamentally intolerable to a White Empire. As an Empire it only tolerates submission, and as a White one, it cannot parley with Muslims, Slavs, Chinese and _untermenschen_ except as a strategem of war. These wars were all unnecessary; Empire could have faded into the background and ruled as undeserved elder statesmen for a century more, until you understand what Khamenei called _Istikbar_. Arrogance. Speaking of the continuous White Empire, he said, _"A government – for instance, it was the British government in one era, and it’s the US today – grants itself the right to establish, for example, ten military bases in a certain country that lacks a strong government or an aware populace, to create facilities for itself, to take their oil, to seize their interests, and to plunder their underground resources. This is Istikbar. This is the Arrogance we object to, the Arrogance we speak about, and the Arrogance we chant slogans against."_ How do you reason with such arrogance? You don't, but you must, if only to to buy time (while they commit war crimes) to manage their decline. Russia even suggested joining NATO, under Clinton and negotiated the Minsk Accords under Obama, which the Empire promptly violated of course. As Obergruppenführer Angela Merkel said in 2022, _"[Ukraine[ also used this time to become stronger, as you can see today. The Ukraine of 2014/15 is not the Ukraine of today... And I very much doubt that the NATO countries could have done as much then as they do today to help Ukraine."_ Same thing with the JCPOA negotiation with Iran, with the trade negotiations with China, with every negotiation with the Native Americans. Whites do not negotiate with non-Whites, these were all acts of war, insomuch as war is the art of deception. At any point America could have negotiated fair trade with the world _but that's not what they want_. They want unfair trade, and they'll get it by hook or crook. They'd rather rule over a ruin than share resources with anyone. So they both literally and figuratively blew up their position as a center of world trade. They had their (before and after) contractors blow up their World Trade Center and Pentagon in order to launch World War III. What else do you call all this genocide and all these invasions, if you include the Muslim World in the world? And they didn't stop there, of course, Venezuela, Russia, Cuba, everyone can get it. The only comfort in all this murder is that it's a murder-suicide, that most American of traditions. A bunch of school and hospital shootings done by a state, before they finally put the gun in their mouths, _inshallah_. Every President since Obama has campaigned against forever war but the minute they get in men in dark suits take over and the deep cultural istikbar that Khamenei mentioned takes over. China has tried to propose, again and again, a shared future for humanity, but as much as America can understand this, _they don't like it at all_. They don't want a world, they want an empire, and they don't want trade, they want terror. That's why they tear it all apart and call it a 'War on Terror'. Every accusation is a confession. But in the same way, every call for killing is a cry to be put out of their misery. Something deep in the deep state is screaming out _please, please kill me_. Like the sailors jumping off the USS Lincoln, after launching 10,000 strikes that killed civilians, maybe they know that there's something deeply evil inside of them that needs to be ended. Or maybe this is just how evil ends, impaled on itself. I'm tired of trying to think like these uncommon villains. They had the world in their palms and what did they do? Drenched their hands in so much blood that it all spilled.

I try to subject myself to Chinese propaganda but all I get is this. They're either really bad at this or really good, I can't tell. People's Daily marking Xing Mei's 15th birthday When I was in China, I read China Daily in the morning and watched CCTV in the bathhouse and it was all so fascinatingly boring. The paper is always about trains or tunnels or something autistic. And the TV is robots directing traffic or flood relief or people having meetings. You have to turn to the very back of the paper to get any explosions. I never saw anything blow up on TV, I just left the tub to eat the unlimited durian. This is all to say, when China fights the White Empire, it's like one of their tunnel machines. _Boring_. But don't mistake their boringness for weakness. China is fighting a trade war of (rare) earth-shattering proportions. ## The Trade War The Chinese Trade War parallels the Iran War in many ways. America aggresses and violates, and China progressively escalates. And in both cases, the steps the good guys take are delayed (closing trade routes) while the White Empire flailing around makes immediate headlines. So appearances can be deceiving, and it can look like China isn't doing anything, unless you're willing to wade through a bit of boringness about rocks and lack thereof. The fact is that China has America by the subatomic balls (rare earth elements) and also, increasingly, has the cojones to call their bluff. When America tries to third-party sanction them, they third-party sanction back. It's like what the Yemenis say, a siege for a siege and a blockade for a blockade, just much more bloodlessly. But this is a war, believe me, and it gets to the subatomic heart of the imperial war machine. The pressure got so bad, in fact, that the Empire declared a nominal 'ceasefire' last November, but that's about as real as the Iran one. Since then, there have been more tits-for-tats than a herd of cows. ### (No) More Minerals In Iran, the basic tempo has been that America escalates and then Iran retaliates, trying to teach them a lesson they don't learn because they're insane. Same thing is happening with China. For example, in April the American FCC voted to ban all Chinese testing labs, affecting the certification of 75% of US consumer electronics. The Great Satan is plucking American stockings, they'll be empty by Christmas. China responded by going even deeper, they banned the Responsible Business Alliance (among others), which produces the Reliable Minerals Initiative, which is some boring certification required to source even more boring rocks. Those minerals are the literal bedrock of most products. Now Americans won't even get coal in their stockings because they won't be able to certify it lol. You can see how the escalation ladder goes, and America is somehow hitting every rung on the way _up_. ### Rare Earths The elemental elephant in the room is rare earths, which are not actually rare. It's more that the industrial ecosystem to produce them is big, unprofitable and better suited for communism than capitalism. The US Geological Survey reports that, in 2025, 71% of US rare earth imports (18,100 tons) came from China and the rest were basically China in a trenchcoat. Even American 'made' rare earths probably require some inputs from China somewhere _and are not the finished product_. As the NYCrimes reports, > The Trump administration and the European Union are each trying to build mines for critical minerals and construct refineries that can turn ore into pure mineral powders and eventually into strong metal alloys. The production process is complex and can be dirty: Converting the powders into metals involves sometimes toxic chemicals. > > Almost all of the world’s capacity for rare-earth-metal conversion and alloy making is in China. Many of the European companies targeted by China on Friday are small and medium-size enterprises that hold what little expertise remains outside China for the advanced processing of critical minerals. You can see the subtle squeeze. The White Empire can, in many cases, make the dust, but not necessarily the metals and alloys required for actual products. And where they can, China is being surgical and targetting _that_ production, hitting them where it hurts. When the EU(nuchs) imposed sanctions on Chinese companies, China responded with sanctions against obvious Rheinmetall but also obscure manufacturers like Sindlhauser (a rarest-of-the-rare yttrium alloyer) and Italy's Lafert Group, which makes motors for industrial automation. Thus the Empire's self-harm is doubled. They can no longer import the reliable, cheap stuff to power their own industrial, and their own meager rare earths industry is mogged ruthlessly. These elements aren't even on my periodic table but China obviously has them ranked by importance and is tightening the screws every time America escalates. What Iran is doing to oil and fertilizer, China is doing to minerals and raw materials. According to the USGS, > In April 2025, China tightened its export controls on rare-earth elements, adding specific controls on alloys, compounds, metals, and oxides of samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium. In October, China expanded its rare-earths export controls to include europium, holmium, erbium, thulium, and ytterbium. In November, China suspended the October export controls for 1 year. **The April export controls remained in effect, although China began to issue general export licenses to selected exporters.** As you can see, while American sanctions whip back and forth, China steadily tightens theirs, like a noose. The April 2025 export controls were never actually lifted. They were simply made more fine-grained through selective licensing. This makes for denial without denial, companies just get lost in the paperwork. And the sanctions on the good stuff snap back in November, which the markets are already pricing in. See erbium oxide, which goes into fibre optic cables, or doesn't. As the FT reports, _"“Market participants both inside and outside of China believe that export controls may be reimposed on erbium, cutting off erbium supply to the rest of the world,” said Maeve Flaherty, rare earths pricing lead at price-reporting agency Argus Media. Buying had “sharply increased” as users looked to stockpile ahead of a possible November cliff edge, she added."_ Erbium is just an example, this is happening to the whole category. The effect of this is like Iran's closing of Hormuz. As Moody's (rating agency) said about occupied Europe's deindustry, _"The impact on creditworthiness “is likely to be gradual and may initially be masked by inventory buffers” and “limited disclosures”."_ Like the fallout of the war with Iran, masked by (Chinese) buffers and American lying, the damage from the Trade War with China is all pending, while America keeps offending. You can kinda see what America's doing here, but they're being wildly unstrategic about it. If you want to get around China's control of this industry, OK I guess, but then you'd actually want to get _closer_ to China to get the capital transfered. You know, like China did with many industries, though non-maliciously. America would need to spend decades building up capacity before blowing up the relationship. Instead they've come in guns blazing and only to find they've turned to sausages. Even their guns have 'Made In China' when you zoom in. "_More than 40% of the semiconductors that sustain DoD weapons systems and infrastructure depend on Chinese suppliers._ " As I've said, they're attacking their own supply lines here. Lockheed Martin's CFO told investors they [only] had enough rare earth material for a year last year, so I wonder how that's going. Trump's been crowing about ordering more weapons, but where's Lockheed going to order the raw materials from? **All of the Empire's promises of rearming to fight the Iran War are built on sand, and the sand is made in China.** ### Sanctions Like American attacks on civilians in Iran which ended with their own military assets getting blown up, every attack America makes in the trade war makes their own position worse. In June 2026, the Pentagon released a 1260H list of companies they suspect of aiding the Chinese military. These included _"ecommerce giant Alibaba, internet search provider Baidu, and automakers BYD and NIO,"_ (via Reuters). The Chinese military is probably not ordering drones on Alibaba, looking up American positions on Baidu, and driving there in a BYD Shark to release them. These are civilian companies, sanctioning which only denies American civilians better products. Beijing responded by sanctioning very specific companies, including MP Materials and USA Rare Earth, the champions of the rare earth rejuvenation attempted above. These two companies are suing each other, btw, to show you how well things are going. Reuters quotes some ignorant George Chen saying, _"Most of the companies are U.S. defence industry players or they have close connections with the U.S. government... Those companies are not going to ​do business in China, so the impact will be quite symbolic."_ If you've been clicking links above you'd know that's not true. Defence companies, especially, depend on China for raw materials. As a 2023 Govini report says, _"Data from Govini’s Ark.ai, the software system for defense acquisition, shows that between 2005 and 2020, the level of Chinese suppliers in the U.S. supply chains quadrupled."_ And these supplies are in everything America is using up against Iran! You can see how the fronts are connected. On all counts, from military to manufacturer power, the White Empire is fronting. Defence companies and defensive companies like MP Material and Rare Earths USA _are_ affected by Chinese UNO Reverso sanctions, while Trump crows about holding all the cards, with a mirror behind him, Twitter-telegraphing his every move. America still needs Chinese inputs to make their outputs, _especially_ for the weapons systems they're expending so wastefully in Iran. ## UNO Reverso Sanctions US sanctions are weird because they're not US sanctions. Most of the world ends up complying with them, out of fear of punishment. For example, Huawei's CFO was kidnapped in Canada because of Huawei dealing with Iran. But China doesn't have sanctions against Iran, what's the problem? And why is Canada getting involved? You can see the outlines of the invisible White Empire here, and how it works. Since 2021, China has had a legal gun in its belt, though it hasn't pulled it. In response to lies from known genociders about a non-genocide, China passed an Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law. This law says, > **Article 3:** The People's Republic of China opposes hegemony and power politics and opposes any country's interference in China's internal affairs by any means and under any pretext. > > **Where foreign nations violate international law and basic norms of international relations to contain or suppress our nation under any kind of pretext** or based on the laws of those nations to employ discriminatory restrictive measures against our nation's citizens or interfere with our nation's internal affairs, **our nation has the right to employ corresponding countermeasures.** And, > **Article 12:** Organizations and individuals must not enforce or assist in enforcing the discriminatory restrictive measures employed by foreign nations against our nation's citizens or organizations. > > **Where organizations and individuals violate the provisions of the preceding paragraph and infringe upon the lawful rights and interests of our nation's citizens or organizations, our nation's citizens and organizations may initiate litigation in the people's courts, requesting that they stop the infringement and compensate losses.** The basic principle here is reciprocity. I sanction you if you sanction me, and if you want to involve third parties, I'll involve third parties. For years this law was basically theoretically, not enforced except quietly in 2024, in arbitration. But now the UNO Reverso card has been played quite publicly, in a court case we'll explore now. _You can just read about the case in_ SCMP_, which does a good job (obviously?). But if you want my snark on the subject, that's for paying subscribers to proceed._ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

Via David Rumsey via Michael Minn I point you to a map that shows the United States of America 10,000 km away from Iran. Most empires have been limited by _'can I walk there?'_ but White Empire has overcome this with naval power, air power, and the power of Satan. But that power is (historically speaking) waning. A brief anomaly returning to normalcy after a few centuries, just a bit longer than the Roman Empire took falling. Now Yemen has shown that you can defeat a navy without a navy and Iran has shown that you can defeat an air force without much of an air force. So the map slowly returns to normal, with White Empire and its Jewish ghetto soon gone from the region. ## Recent History There have been empires, historically, but the White Empire was different in that it wasn't land-based. The Europeans short-circuited the usual land problem via sea, and the Americans supplemented this with air power, which made them even more greedy. They could rain death from above and steal a land's resources without even being on it. What sorcery. It took about 500 years, but the natives have finally done it. There are rebellions all across Asia, and they're winning. These are not anti-colonial wars, which have been won, but anti-imperial wars, to put them on the run. Yemen has defeated the US Navy in the Red Sea. Iran has destroyed US air supremacy and taken the main source of energy. All the wealth that accrued to the corrupt will accrue to the clean. Meanwhile, Russia has defanged NATO conventionally and China is in another league entirely. It's not that these countries could invade the other side of the world. It's that the very idea of invading _the other side of the world_ is becoming stupid, as it should be. It's a few centuries late and a carrying climate short, but nature is healing. ## More Maps If we map it, again, you can see the two arms of White Empire stretching over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to draw resources and labor in. This was the _point_ of colonialism, reaching the 50% of population that lives within the Valeriepieris circle. That's why they kept discovering 'Indians' everywhere and never corrected themselves. South America getting done dirty here This natural center of gravity around the biggest continent, with Europe and the Americas at the periphery, was only wrenched westwards (west of what? nevermind) by force. By naval and then air force. To answer my own question, west really means west of Jerusalem, the dative and locative center of Western Civilization (a good idea if they could get around to it). Al-Quds is the locus around which those broke-asses ruled the world. But the world turns on its Axis (of Resistance). Jason Davies If we look at the arms of White Empire now, they are broken. Black X's mark the spots where their reach has exceeded their grasp – Vietnam, North Korea, Ukraine, Iran – and where they have been beaten back. It's becoming obvious now, but the die was cast long ago. Historically speaking, the Empire fell in the 1970s. The 1970s was when the USA defaulted on gold, when the Middle East took control of its oil, and when communists kicked them out of Asia. These are still the battles they're fighting, but from a worse and worse position. Iran and Yemen have now replicated the Suez Crisis by cutting the main trade route off at two junctions instead of just one. China can do nothing and win, America cannot attack them without attacking their own supply lines. The White Empire _almost_ conquered the world, but like most conquerors couldn't complete Asia, and now they're losing it all. The US can make a lot of sound and raise an epic fury about it, but this signifies nothing. ## In Deep Ship So now the US President is hiding in a dinner cart and golfing behind barbed wire and missile defenses. US troops are trying to jump off aircraft carriers. Historically speaking, this is the end, which can take years, decades, or even centuries after it's become obvious. Like the Roman Empire, it wasn't exactly clear to the Romans when it ended, they just noticed that bridges and roads stopped being maintained. Americans are, in American fashion, speed-running the process. I point you to a bridge in Baltimore, near their capital, knocked down and never coming up. The mandate of Satan is withdrawn. The brief short circuit that directed most of the world's resources to Europe and its colonies has been grounded. The idea that France, or Britain, or America should control another side of the globe has run its historical course, and they will be historically cursed. This short circuit happened because water is a great conductor of energy and the world really is one ocean. The flat-earthers are, in their own way, not wrong. You can see it in the Spilhaus projection. Wind and then fossil-fuel power created an unusual state where the whole world could be ruled like the Mediterranean. It took a long time for the natives to adapt defenses against 'the people from the sea', as Chris Nolan puts it in _The Odyssey_ , but the adaptation has happened and things are returning to the mean. Land has its own gravity, especially when you're under it, and the ability of Muslims to simply dig in has given them permanent custody. Palestine was able to not lose in Gaza (a victory for a guerrilla army), and Yemen and Iran were able to defeat the White Empire entirely. The combination of tunnels and drones/missiles has changed the paradigm of warfare entirely. The White Empire has lost both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf and there's not much they can do except loiter around the Indian Ocean, indulging in petty piracy. Sea power is, quite literally, fleeting. You can have a great fleet, but at some point it has to land to get something to eat. US troops aboard the USS Lincoln have, for example, spent 250 consecutive days at sea, with only two stops (Guam and Oman) where they couldn't get off to stretch their feet. As Press TV reports _"Democratic Congressman Mike Levin of California described conditions aboard the carrier as “moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste.”"_ MS NOW Crew members have been trying to throw themselves overboard, where they, honestly, deserve to go. They're a bunch of child killers working for pedophiles and morale is, understandably, low. An army marches on its stomach and a navy sails on chow. These goons are now exceeding the length of colonial voyages just to (not) keep places colonized. The Mayflower journey was 66 days, somewhat typical for a transatlantic crossing. The 'perfect age of sail ship', a British 74-gunner, carried five months (150 days) of provisions. Humans need fresh food more frequently than that. Though modern refrigeration and energy have negated the hard physiological limits of scurvy, they can't negate the psychological limits of such lengths at sea. And these are much softer sailors, with no victory or conquest in front of them. Only humiliation and disgust. Air power is also airy-fairy. Yes, the White Empire can rain death from above, but they have to come back to earth eventually. In fact, frequently. As one former CENTCOM Colonizer said, _“the thousands of short-range missiles that Iran possesses are a factor here. There is no strategic depth. An F-35 is very hard to hit in the air. On the ground it is nothing more than a very expensive and vulnerable chunk of metal sitting in the sun.”_ I made this with Kimi (Chinese AI) and checked it a bit, forgive me America's bases near the Persian Gulf are all indefensible and they've had to retreat to Jordan, Saudi, and 'Israel', but even those are still in range. They can extend their range with refueling tankers, but only as far as Cyprus/Romania (which Iran could still hit) and your refuelers still need to park somewhere. And Iran has methodically attrited these refuelers. You can fly B-2s, but you'll eventually lose some. This is like hitting mailboxes with a '65 Mustang. They don't make them anymore and the enemy is putting concrete in the mailboxes. You can fight like this, but you will lose planes, and the Empire has been losing planes, and they can't build these planes anymore, they're effectively from a lost civilization. These are permanent losses. These bases are permanently unusable which means the whole naval and air basis of their Empire is useless. The range of American fighter planes is the range of Iran's missiles. Iran has thought this through while America has blundered in without thinking. Iran can just sit there, on their land, using missiles which it can build faster than it expends them. They are now permanent bosses of the strait, which is logical because they're native to it. This basic logic has been suppressed for centuries, but now – thanks to Iranian innovation and sacrifice – the land is reasserting itself. The very definition of air power has changed, giving defenders a natural advantage again, and the Empire is on the wrong side of the equation. ## Iranian Innovation The White Empire was a naval empire that ruled for nearly 500 years with air power that made them fearless. They could rain death from above and besiege you endlessly with sanctions. This was the status quo that even Iran acknowledged, until the Empire itself broke it. Why? Why not? Until then, they always got away with it. For centuries the natives didn't have navies or air forces and when Trump crows about destroying Iran's navy and air force, he probably means it. What he can't understand is that military technology has evolved beyond this. It's like crowing about having the most horses in an age of mechanization. You'll just eat it. Iran was decades behind having a conventional navy or air force so they evolved a relatively unconventional naval system of fastboats, unmanned subs, and mines; and a really unconventional aerospace force of missiles and drones that could put a dot on a dime. This was all hidden deep underground, where the Empire couldn't find them. Iran can't attack America with any of this, but they can defend Iran, which is precisely the battle that America walked into. And now, as Nasrallah said, they enter vertically and leave horizontal. This is what should have happened to the colonizers when they first came, but it took centuries for the gravity of land to reassert itself. The idea that defenders have an advantage and that it's hard to attack places far away. Horses once negated this, as horsepower did since, but regression to the mean is a thing, nature is healing, and the natives are restless.

The Strait of Hormuz rn How does America fall? Wrong question. America is an empire. So how does American Empire fall? Still wrong. The empire is older than America, let's call it White Empire for short. OK, OMG, so how does White Empire fall? Well, how does a cookie crumble? From the outside first. White Empire is an M&M cookie, being vigorously dunked in the ocean. ## The M&M Model What defines an empire in the first place? I use the M&M model. Does it have Military & Monetary control over something large? Everything else is dispensible, including calling itself an empire at all. By this definition, White Empire is _obviously_ an empire. Their military has nearly a thousand military bases, they're always at war, their currency is the monetary basis of most trade, and they collect US Treasuries as tribute. What else do you call this but empire most foul? The American military spread across the world in World War II and _they never went home_. They took over British and European bases and occupied those countries too. Japan and South Korea were brutalized and conquered and they almost got Vietnam. Today, every country on earth is either garrisoned or surrounded by White troops. If you're not fighting the empire, you're in it, and if you're not sanctioned by them, you sanction their existence. We discuss these countries independently (UK said this, Australia thinks that) but it isn't true. They're only independent as long as they do exactly what they're supposed to, if not they get corrupted, couped, or overthrown. And independence is an illusion when you're physically occupied by foreign troops. In historical terms this arrangement isn't even unusual, from the British Empire to the Roman Empire, they ruled through local princes and satraps that had a lot of decision-making power. But real power was, and is, behind the throne. The other M is monetary control. That is the point of the military control, to take resources and extract tribute. White Empire follows the same historical system, hidden in the distracting details of the news. The American monetary system spread across the world too, continuing even after they defaulted on gold. People continued to use dollars to trade because they militarily controlled the trade routes. They (even 'enemies' like China) continued to pay tribute by buying US Treasury bonds. What are they bonded to? It's ye olde empire in modern terms. People point to false flags like the UAE or Japan or even the UK or Germany and say, 'those are independent countries' but are they, really? It's like pointing to Wales at the Olympics. Like, yes, they have their own team on TV, but it's just a sporting fiction. If you follow the M&M model, does the UAE have military control, or are they used as a military base by America to attack their neighbors? Does Japan have monetary control, or were they gelded in the Plaza Accords? Does the UK have military control when it's still a base for foreign soldiers, long after World War II? And does Germany have monetary control, when America blows up its gas pipelines and economy too? No, no, no, and no. Just follow the trail of M&Ms. If a country doesn't have military and monetary control, it's not a real country at all. ## The Cookie Using this M&M model, then, how does the cookie crumble? How does the White Empire fall? Well, how do cookies crumble? From the outside in. Looking for American collapse in America is the wrong place to look. By most measures America already has collapsed, its people live like shit, its bridges fall and don't get rebuilt, and its rulers are obvious degenerates. But the center can survive vigorous dunking, for a while, because it's protected by an outer cookie, in this case the new colonies and occupied territories. ### M Iran, today, is vigorously dunking the White Empire in the ocean and entire chunks are falling off. Military bases, radars, missile defenses, troops, vassals. Once we abandon the fiction that places like Bahrain, UAE, and Qatar are real countries, we can see them for what they are. Crumbs. Iran is dunking these 'countries', dissolving their bases, and destroying the basis of White hegemony over the region. Yemen is also dunking the Saudis in the Red Sea for good measure. As Nasrallah said, they may not even have to fight 'Israel', these apostates were the Greater Israel all along. Missiles, missile defenses, and entire military bases are melting away, like M&Ms in the sun. These were just the edges of a colonial cookie, now crumbling in the ocean. _Matérielly, aussi_ , you can _voir_ that their _pouvoir_ is done. Former Ukrainian commander Valerhii Zaluzhnyi listed everything the White Empire _didn't_ try against Russia, which ended up being what they _did_ try against Iran and they (quite publicly) failed all around. Zaluzhnyi said, 0:00 /2:48 1× > By the time we had reached 2026, Ukraine had already deployed every single type of weaponry, well, except perhaps for Tomahawk missiles, except perhaps for nuclear armaments, except perhaps for massive aircraft carriers, or except perhaps for the F-35 fighter jets that NATO current possesses – and it had applied all of their highly complex operational doctrines. Look, the available resources have been completely exhausted. Russia has managed to find a specific countermeasure for every one of them. The Empire demonstrated the uselessness of its highest tech against Russia and then blunted the rest of their weapons against Iran. Now the Tomahawks have run low, the aircraft carriers have run away, the F-35s have been downed, and even nuclear weapons have been neutralized. Iran can threaten mutually assured _economic_ destruction, which (_inshallah_) works good enough. So what do you say about an Empire whose military power is so visibly crumbling in front of us? The proof is in the pudding, or the eating thereof. Massive rebellions across Asia are tearing the White Empire apart. ### &M For a long time, America seemed to have the cheat code on empire. _How can an empire fall if it isn't there at all?_ And they seemed to have the cheat code on warfare. _Is it really a loss if you really don't care at all?_ But every bull has its bear, and every dog has its day. And we're nearing the point, when the yen can't carry trade, and we're well past the point, of them losing the strait. And the spoils of World War II can't avert their ruin in World War III. The monetary fallout of these military losses is already crumbling the edges of the dollar regime. Remember that it's all one White Empire and the Japanese yen is just the cutting edge of the dollar. Japanese savings are what let Americans spend like drunken sailors. This is called the yen-carry trade, zero-cost loans in Japan becoming the engine of global liquidity. However, when American sailors cannot secure trade routes, does this trade still carry water? That's the trillion-dollar question America does not want anyone asking. But it's happening. Due to multiple pressures, including importing much of their energy through a strait the drunken sailors just lost, Japan's currency has been weakening. To keep their own economy from imploding they have to shore it up, which they can easily do because they hold US Treasuries. But no, that gives the came away and brings the consequences home to their American masters. So to keep Japan from dumping US Treasuries, the US Treasury has dumped euros to prop up the yen. This is robbing Peter to pay Paul, playing one conquered territory off another to keep up the illusion that there is no Empire and that it's not bleeding in this war. However, as we've discussed, it's one system and the collapse is closing in from the edges first. The US doesn't have that much forex in these fake currencies and will have to start spending dollars (once it runs out of swaps), raising their own inflation at home, making their bond rates go up, and giving the whole game up. The US can and will never repay its debts, and the growth to keep defraying them is gone. There's a fire in the engine room of global capitalism, Japan is not some isolated problem. Where was this yen being carried to anyways? In lieu of a functioning economy, the late-stage Empire built a financialized one, culminating in a completely artificial one. The imperial economy is now a giant AI bubble, resisting all Chinese attempts to gently deflate it with more energy-efficient models. No, the waste is the point. Their Platonic ideal of an economy is one that just burns energy and money without doing anything useful at all. They tried to find this with cryptocurrency and then virtual reality before finally finding a con that worked with AI. The Empire keeps producing more and more energy-hungry AI which is a feature, not a bug. There are little to no productivity gains from their AI, but who cares, like doing cocaine off a toilet bowl, it makes line go up, which is all they care about. Making money today. This bubble, however, depends on cheap energy, which is a problem when you've lost control of the energy trade. America seems somehow insulated from this bubble popping, but they're not. As Ryan Perkin said in March 2026, > The first markets to feel this pain are not necessarily the most indebted, but the most liquid and the most foreign-owned. Investors need to exit positions quickly, and they do so where they can sell large volumes without collapsing the market entirely. South Korea’s KOSPI, with 30-40% of its free float held by foreigners and dominated by the most liquid semiconductor equities in the world, is the perfect shock absorber. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are not just Korean companies; they are global risk assets. When the margin call comes, they are among the first to be sold. This is precisely what happened in August. KOSPI dropped 40%, 'recovering' to 30% down. This happened when Broadcom reported slightly less growth than expected, triggering people to dump the whole sector (including Samsung and SK Hynix). That's because the whole imperial economy is a Ponzi and there must be _more_ new suckers to pay out the old ones. As such it's very sensitive to growth merely slowing down. The AI bubble has already popped in occupied Korea which means it's already happened in the occupying White Empire. When the signal reaches their distant brain is just a timing difference. South Korea's market is just another M&M in the same crumbling cookie. ## How The Cookie Crumbles This is how the cookie crumbles. Military losses at the edges of White Empire trigger financial losses at the edges of their monetary empire. The center seems like it's fine for a moment, but the center depends on the periphery and also crumbles inexorably. Thus imperial collapse coming home is just a matter of time, like a cookie crumbling from the edges. The whole cookie is being vigorously dunked in the ocean, with entire bases falling off, while invisible hands are trying to pull their pieces out, making it crumble even faster. This is the M&M cookie of White Empire, baked in Middle Eastern oil, bought with Japanese spoils, now crumbling in a disorderly pile. So how does America fall? How does a cookie crumble? From the outside in.

Via Port Economics, Management and Policy These days it seems all quiet on the West Asian front. Just the quiet, ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and the usual affronts. However, if you look at a map, the White Empire is getting choked out, and if you look at their markets, it's starting to hurt. The Empire has lost control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran and now the Bab el-Mandeb to Yemen. This is America's equivalent of Britain's Suez Crisis, it marks the nadir of their power and their collapse as an imperial power. You can already see the imps cowering and running for cover. The South Korean stock market has collapsed and the Japanese yen has to be stabilized with euros. None of this will hold, none of this can hold, without holding onto the trade routes, _which the Empire cannot hold_. America is returning to its natural position, 10,000 kilometers away, with nothing to do with it. It's taking time, but look, it's already begun. The quiet is the storm. ## Bab el-Mandeb The Strait of Hormuz is where a lot of stuff comes from, but through the Bab el-Mandeb is where even more stuff must go. Iran took the Strait of Hormuz months ago and has imposed a new security architecture on the region, which they marked by breaking the siege on Yemen, imposed by the American proxy, the Saudis. The Saudis harried the civilian planes Iran was sending, and in response to that Yemen retaliated in force. Yemen has imposed a maritime blockade on the Saudis since July 22nd. As of August 5th, they have targeted eight tankers and turned back 29 (see Yayha Saree, who's never lied to me). Saree has called this 'a blockade for a blockade' and a 'siege for a siege'. After decades of starving and attacking Yemen, you can't say that the Saudis don't deserve it. And now the pressure on the White Empire behind them has been doubled. Damage to Jazan Refinery Yemen hit Aramco facilities in Jazan and Yanbu, taking Jazan (and 400,000 barrels per day) offline entirely. The Saudis say they're going to 'tentatively' reopen by August 15th, with Oil Price saying _"Tentatively is doing some fairly heroic work there."_ Saudis, of course, are anything but heroic and are trying to blame (and bomb Iraq) to save face. Meanwhile, they're using proxies on the ground to attack Yemen, which is not going well. Saree reports _"the death and injury of hundreds of Saudi mercenaries."_ When your proxy needs a proxy, and they get sent back in boxes, things are not going well. Things are not going well for the White Empire here. After losing the Persian Gulf, they have retreated to the Red Sea, where Yemen already defeated them. The Empire has been surviving by the grace of China, really, and also by pipelines and shipping through the Red Sea. But now Yemen has cut off their retreat. ## The Persian Gulf What are they retreating from? The Persian Gulf, where they took a beating and lost all their bases. Before the war they started, the United States controlled the Persian Gulf by default. They always knew that their Gulf bases were indefensible in the case of hot war with Iran, but the status quo held _as long as America didn't go to war with Iran_. But that's over now, as is their control of the Persian Gulf. We are witnessing a process that Amerikanets calls 'debasification'. Distant America held the water of Hormuz because they held land tribute from satraps like Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait, but now that's all gone. The US Fifth Fleet was based in Bahrain, but they withdrew all vessels in February and, chaotically, at least 1,500 colonizers shortly afterwards. Now they're back in Tampa, Florida where they belong (until land back, _inshallah_). This debasification has happened all across the region. As American state media reports, _"there have been evacuations at other U.S. military bases in the region, though the exact details are unknown at this point."_ What is, increasingly, known is the satellite footage. These bases are blown. The Fifth Fleet base in Bahrain burningAmazon data center in BahrainThe destruction of a 117-FPS radar at Al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait As predicted in their own report, called the 'tyranny of geography', Iran is just too powerful in Iran. The indefensible White line across the Persian Gulf has been rolled back, and even their retreat to Jordan and Saudi has been cut off. None of these bases are safe, and Iran is increasingly targeting troop barracks to make the message plain. As Nasrallah said, when American troops enter vertically and horizontally, the Americans will leave the region, and then they may not even have to take Jerusalem, _inshallah_. Muwaffaq al Salti Air Base in Jordan, showing hangars completely destroyed I return to the geographical point, which is that the United States is 10,000 kilometers away on another continent and has no business in the Middle East, or even in America, honestly. America can only stand athwart geography yelling 'stop!' if it has a foothold, and now it does not. Just two feet in the ass, showing it the way out. ## The Map Let's look at the map again, but differently. This is a Spilhaus projection which is fun because it turns the world into a Mediterranean world. You can see the world as one big ocean with land on the sides, which is kinda true, especially if you're a boat. As a boat sees it, the ocean is really one big road going from Panama to Malacca, with a toll booth in the middle (east). As Port Economics, Management and Policy puts it, _"the configuration of the global maritime shipping system is relatively simple. The central axis is a circum-equatorial corridor linking North America, Europe, and Pacific Asia through the Suez Canal, the Strait of Malacca, and the Panama Canal."_ The Suez Canal is the choke point that broke the British Empire and the Bab el-Mandeb/Strait of Hormuz is the same choke point moved over. This is what breaks the American Empire now (it's all one White Empire to us on the bottom). 'Americans' will be like _'we don't need the Middle East, we've got our own genocided continent, we're just genociding abroad recreationally.'_ Which is true. America can survive without this shipping lane, but American Empire cannot. And in that Empire is where they're feeling the pain. ## The Imps of Imperialism The US Treasury Exchange Stabilization Fund report for June 2026 White Empire has always been a financial proposition, the wallet is the only place they feel anything. After World War II, America inherited the empire from Britain, with occupied Europe and Japan as spoils of war. It still holds European euros and Japanese yen on its books as, effectively, stabilizers. But now we are describing the point described by Marx in relation to Britain/India, but it applies as well to America and its conquered territory in Europe and Japan. He said, _"These systems have in common the relinquishment, by the native States of the right to self-defence [NATO], of maintaining diplomatic relations, and of settling the disputes among themselves without the interference of the Governor-General. All of them have to pay a tribute, either in hard cash, or in a contigent of armed forces, commanded by British officers."_ Does this not describe the situation of Europe, Japan, and South Korea? It's the same phenomenon, it's one White Empire, as I keep going on and on. As Marx said,_"'It was,' says an English writer, 'a system of fattening allies, as we fatten oxen, till they were worthy of being devoured.'"_ That is what's happening now. As pressure from the choking in the Middle East builds up, 'America's' is using its colonies to delay consequences. The US Treasury is selling euros to buy yen. But they cannot avoid consequences, only delay them. They're robbing Peter to pay Paul. Reuters America is doing a 'joint intervention' in the yen, pretending both that Japan is a real country and that this isn't just market manipulation. They're doing this because Japan would otherwise sell US Treasuries and impact them. So they're dumping euros instead. They're jumping from one colonial foot to another, while the ground is shifting beneath them. The man doing this certainly knows something about currency manipulation. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was George Soros's hatchet man, tanking various currencies, from Asia to Great Britain. Putting him in charge is like appointing an Al-Qaeda guy as a flight attendant, I don't think he can help himself. He might pretend to fly for a while, but he's going to crash the whole thing. Bessent described the recent joint manipulation, saying, > Intervention is a signaling mechanism. And the US wanted to signal that we have confidence in the Japanese policies so we will need to see follow through from the Japanese policies. But I do believe that part of the inflation uptick in Japan was a result of the weak yen and also the energy prices. I think we will get to the other side of the Iranian conflict, energy will come down, and then as we no longer have excess yen weakness, that that will also contribute to inflation coming down and that Japan and the yen can go into a virtuous cycle. The yen, of course, has only been trending upwards, the country is, on average, 400 years old and has -3 children, there is no virtuous economic cycle incoming. And Japan, of course, has no real policy control. It's a colony, America made them seppuku their economy in the Plaza Accords. There was nothing they could do about it then and there's nothing they're going to do now. Japan is just downstream of America's misadventures in the Middle East and they'll be first to drown. The crash has already come to South Korea, their stock market is down over a third, but it's the same imperial bubble. Bessent talks about this being a temporary intervention like Trump talked about Iran being a temporary war. It's nothing of the sort. There is no 'other side' of the Iranian conflict in sight and the pressure building up will hit the imperial core soon. For many people, it has hit them already. A lot of signals are flashing like 1929, and a Greatest Depression is incoming. You can look at the relative quiet on the homefront and think that they have somehow avoided consequences but _the quiet is the storm_. They have lost the map, they are losing the markets and soon – though not soon enough for the people of Palestine – they will reap the whirlwind.

Getting behind the 'Great Firewall' While I was in China I finally completed my digital migration behind the 'Great Firewall'. I have all HarmonyOS devices now, meaning no Google, no Apple, no Facebook, no Palantir's dirty looks. It's all sanctioned for Huawei's use, so if you use Huawei, you're free of all them crooks. I do not, however, recommend doing this drt home. HarmonyOS is only merot for the Chinese market (for now) and it shows. It's a pain to get the hardware (I'll explain how), and you need a Chinese phone number to use many features (I'll also explain how), and most of the software is in Chinese (I'll explain workarounds). A global user _can_ use HarmonyOS, but, reasonably, should they? No. ## Philosophical Background HarmonyOS is an operating system built by Huawei, a Chinese company. It's actually called Hong Meng (鸿蒙) in Chinese, meaning something like primordial mist or 'Vast Obscure' as personified in the ancient philosophy of Zhuangzi. Zhuangzi is my favorite Chinese philosopher, but also the one I understand the least. He's literally the most obscure, and it's a fascinating place to draw inspiration from. I'll include the relevant bits from the Ziporyn translation: > Generalissimo Cloud wandered eastward over the wind-whirled branches until he happened upon a certain Vast Obscure. Vast Obscure was at that moment enjoying himself, slapping his buttocks and hopping about like a sparrow. Generalissimo Cloud saw him and stopped short. He then stood at attention and said, “Venerable Sir, who are you? Why is the venerable sir doing this?” > > Without pausing in his buttock slapping and sparrow hopping, Vast Obscure answered Generalissimo Cloud: “I’m enjoying myself.” > > Generalissimo Cloud said, “We would like to ask you a question.” > > Vast Obscure lifted his head to look at General Cloud, saying only, “Uch!” So this (effectively) cloud operating system is based on a 'guy' that goes around slapping his ass in the clouds. OK, awesome so far.. > Generalissimo Cloud persisted: “The energies of heaven have become disharmonious, the energies of earth have become knotted and clogged; the six energies have gone out of proportion with one another, the four seasons have been missing their marks. What I wish to do is combine the purest kernels of the six energies to produce nourishment for all living beings. How can this be done?” > > Vast Obscure went on slapping his buttocks and hopping like a sparrow. Dropping his head away he said only, “I have no idea! I have no idea!” > > Generalissimo Cloud could ask no further. Hong Meng OS ('Vast Mist') emerged at a time when technology platforms have become disharmonious. A computer platform, Linux, has a mobile platform, Android, which has been shoved into everything from cars to watches to TVs. At the same time, people usual interact with these things via _other_ kernels, Unix for Mac, or something Unix-like for iOS, or Windows (NT), which is rapidly becoming a Satanic adware/spyware device. The user experience has gotten _'knotted and clogged'_ because people naturally move from screen to screen, like from season to season, and a lot of complicated code has to be written to create the _illusion_ that all these devices actually play nice. What 'Generalissimo Cloud', in our case Huawei, was/is trying to do here is 'combine the purest kernels' to _'produce nourishment for all living beings'_. Trying to unify the operating systems, in modern parlance. But in the classical Taoist way, the great sage Hong Meng is wandering around slapping his ass and doesn't answer the question until Generalissimo Cloud asks him twice and then thrice. Finally, Hong Meng says, > Vast Obscure said, “Ach! The nourishing of the mind! Just stay in the state of non-doing and all things will transform themselves. Drop your body away, vomit out your precise powers of hearing and vision, sink yourself into the forgetting of things, become vastly merged in fluidity and darkness, unleash your mind and release your spirit until you are left like a still and silent desert, like there is no soul in you. All things throng and flourish, but each returns to its root. Each returns to its root, and yet they do not know it! Mixed and blended, in chaos and confusion—as long as they live they are never separated from it! If they knew it, they would then be separated from it! They do not ask its name, they do not spy out its character: thus do all things generate themselves!” So, interesting. What his saying is abandon the old paradigm of tying an OS to a 'body' (a device), and have the OS _'sink into the forgetting of things_ ' to _'become vastly merged in fluidity'_ , and become a sort of cloud OS where _'all things throng and flourish'_ , _'mixed and blended'_ , and _'never separated from it.'_ Fascinating, fascinating. I always thought Zhuangzi was the least practical Chinese philosopher, but he seems to have had a deep impact on real life. ## Political Background > How sad it is that the possessors of territory do not understand this! For to possess territory is to possess a very great thing, and one who possesses so great a thing cannot do so by being a mere thing himself. Only by never becoming a thing even when he is a thing can he let things be things. > > – Zhuangzi, 11 However grand a philosophical idea a unified OS is, however, it would not have emerged so quickly without a farce of nature like Donald Trump. Like a storm isolating some Darwinian finches on an island, where they could evolve independently, Trump blew across the face of the water by cutting Huawei off from existing technology. Besides abducting the Huawei CFO via their colony Canada, America gradually cut Huawei off from access to Google Services (meaning stock Android), to Windows, and to certain chips and technology. American technology, with reasonable data protections, possessed Chinese territory, but they ruined it all (for themselves) by making a thing of it. Huawei had been working on their own OS for years, but there wasn't really a market for it until Trump _made one_. Huawei suddenly had to make its own OS, and Chinese users had to use it. Like the Strait of Hormuz, America possessed great territory _as long as they didn't make a thing of it_ , and Trump did, ceding that territory forever more. As Zhuangzi said _"How sad it is that the possessors of territory do not understand this! ... Only by never becoming a thing even when he is a thing can he let things be things."_ ## The Hardware Can I do anything, even a technology review, without a long philosophical interlude? I guess not. Let's get to it now. As much as you can _imagine_ HarmonyOS as a 'Generalissimo Cloud' OS, it still runs on physical hardware. Huawei has not created a primordial Taoist 'vast mist' but instead a better simulation of one in terms of user experience. Hardware is what Huawei specializes in, building everything from routers to cars, and for a long time they were devoting their energies _to_ supporting US technology! Huawei was (briefly) the #1 smartphone maker, making nid phones and differentiating almost completely on hardware. And their hardware is great, especially cameras. Best in class. I got one of the cheaper phones available that runs HarmonyOS (a Pura 70 Pro) and that camera and screen are the best I've ever seen (outside of China). In China one our guides had a Xiaomi flagship phone which seemed better, but I assume the Huawei flagship is better still. The one place sanctions did bite was on chips and 5G. Huawei makes both, but it depended on Western tech for some components nd that got choked But not for long. For a generation at most. The first-gen hardware I'm using uses fully domestic chips—the Kirin X9010 (phone) and X90 (laptop)—which are a bit behind. These are 7nm chips, which is apparently worse than 5nm, but it's really too small for me to notice as a user. And my Pura 70 doesn't have 5G, but the newer Pura 90 does. But, again, I had a 5G phone before and I really can't tell the difference. The 5G problem is already solved for new phones and China's domestic chips are evolving so fast that South Korea's Samsung and Hynix are evaluating their equipment to hedge against the White master's increasing madness. China has long had a communist philosophy of owning the means of production, but they still rented US operating systems _as long as they didn't make a thing of it_. But when Trump did make a thing of it, suddenly this created _perfect_ market conditions for a (hitherto mythical) third OS to evolve. And hardware has never been a problem for Huawei (or Xiaomi, etc). In fact, it's the US getting cut off from the better hardware now. **Any hardware tradeoffs in HarmonyOS are temporary while owning the means of production is permanent. And while the pain of losing Android/Windows is temporary, the gain of controlling their own OS is, again, permanent.** America tried to take its toys and go home, but the toys are made in China lol. I have a first-generation HarmonyOS smartphone, but it's still a hundredth generation smartphone. Huawei was applying all this energy to growing the Android ecosystem but now American hubris has given them the _entire_ Chinese ecosystem to grow. It's an incredible self-own. Huawei is already bigger than Apple in China and have set a target of 1/3rd of the global smartphone market. Having used the Chinese version, I think they can do it. Anybody can get and (sorta) use the Chinese version from someone like Wondamobile (make sure it says Chinese version) though, again, I do not recommend this. Getting the phone is the easy part. The phone is just a phone, really. Getting the phone to work, however, is difficult, but I am a difficult person. ## The Phone Number To truly enter the Chinese cloud you need to ideally be a Chinese person, or at least have a Chinese phone number. Otherwise a lot of services don't work. For example, the most basic use most people have for a smartphone, getting notifications. To my shock, when I first got the phone _I could not receive (digital) phone calls or message alerts_ from most 'normal' apps at all. My wife went almost a year without, effectively, being able to call me until I got a Chinese phone number and we switched to Weixin/WeChat. Let me explain. HarmonyOS isn't based on Android _at all_. You can run Android apps on it, but these run in a container _which doesn't have access to the messaging layer_. I didn't realize this, but when any app (be it Signal or WhatsApp) 'rings' your phone, it's going through either Google or Apple services. So while I could install these apps and while I could call or message people on them, they couldn't call or message me back. I could only see what happened if I consciously opened the app, which is not normal (or polite) practice. For example, when I first got my Pura 70 I was in Oxford visiting my wife. I went to the cemetery, where I liked to hang out because it's one of the few places you can just be without being a student or paying somebody. When I got back, I discovered that my wife had been (Signal) calling me frantically. I was confused because I had the app installed (through EasyAbroad) but I did not receive any notifications. After weeks of mucking around I discovered that _I could not_ receive notifications at all, I didn't have the setting wrong. These apps were using Google for messaging and Google, of course, was gone. Thus my wife—and this went on for almost a year—could not make my (Internet) phone ring. Which is a pretty big problem for a smartphone, which is supposed to do this one thing. For this reason alone I would not recommend what I'm doing. Until they develop native versions of Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc, you can use these apps, but not normally. People will think that you're dead to the world, like in a cemetery. In this way, using the Chinese version will make you into a Chinese person. The only way to get notifications is to use what they use (Weixin) but you can't use that without a Chinese phone number. Even the international version of Weixin (WeChat) has to be sideloaded and also doesn't deliver notifications. And it's not just that, many of the basic system and Chinese apps do not work without a Chinese number for verification. This is not a problem with HarmonyOS, but just with a global user trying to use it before they've released a global version. But you can do it. After a lot of fruitless searching and trial and error I found out how to get a Chinese phone number. I used this service called eSender from MultiByte. They have an app but that didn't work for me, I used their WeChat eSender mini-app on my international WeChat account, and I got a number that let me receive SMS messages, ie OTPs. Then I used that WeChat account to open another Weixin account (the Chinese version). This is hardly the Taoist way, it's even more tangled than before, but it is a way. However, even after I got a Chinese phone number, that still didn't work. You have to know an actual Chinese person who can recommend you as a Weixin user. It took me months to find a Chinese human (thank you Amy) and even now you can only call me on WeChat. So now my wife can called me, but everybody else I still leave on read, or they honestly still think I'm in the cemetery, dead. ## The Operating System You can see how difficult this is and, really, only a difficult person would do it. If you're even thinking about it, just wait for the global version to come out. But here's what it's like behind the wall. HarmonyOS has the most essential quality of an operating system, which is that 99% of the time I don't notice it at all. It's fast, it's logical, the settings are simple. On the phone, it looks enough like iOS that I could switch easily and functions enough like Android that you can even install those apps (in most cases). At the same time, it's different enough that it still delights me periodically. On desktop it looks enough like Apple that I've barely adjusted and is not like Windows in that there's no bloatware at all. Both mobile and desktop OS are fine on their own, but remember that this is _Harmony_ OS, the magic is in how it harmonizes across. The magic is that _between_ phone and laptop, I can move files by just touching my phone to the screen, or grabbing them in the air (with a hand gesture) and _literally_ air-dropping them across. You can replicate this functionality on Apple, but it's slow and obviously hacked together. On HarmonyOS, the harmony is built in. I have/had a lot of Apple devices – phone, laptop, Mac Mini powering a TV – but they never really connected this naturally. iOS is a different OS, Mac is a different OS, as is WatchOS and Apple TV. You could coax the hardware into collaboration, but they obviously evolved separately. HarmonyOS, because it started from scratch, was able to design an OS the way people use screens rather than the way people made screens. We transfer from screen to screen without thinking, and HarmonyOS does this naturally. I can have a video on my phone, show it to someone on a TV (it casts to Samsung easily), or edit it on my laptop. You _can_ do this with legacy systems, but it's janky. On HarmonyOS this is the base case. It's built for multiple devices from the beginning. I have yet to scratch the surface of this functionality, but it already feels like a modern OS should. Easy. ## The Apps However, nobody gets an operating system for the system. They get it for what it operates, the apps. And for most functions and certainly for China, HarmonyOS is quite functional. The Huawei App Gallery has over 400,000 apps, downloaded 45 million times across 70 million installs. It obviously works fine for most Chinese use cases, but I am not a Chinese user and I do find it difficult. Most of the apps are in Chinese, which I can just barely translate with Celia (the built-in AI), and you often don't get a one-to-one replacement. I end up using Android for a lot of core functionality. This will obviously change once the OS goes global, but Huawei will still have a lot of work to get developers to go native. For some core apps, however, I have gone native. I use WPS for documents, DingTalk for email (it's really more of a Slack replacement), Huawei Books for music, Huawei Music for music, their built-in 2FA app and password manager for security, AurioClub for podcasts, et cetera. The one glaring omission is Google Maps, which I think I could sideload, but I don't on principle because I hate Google and would rather be lost. In China, AMap or Petal Maps are much better, and you can _sorta_ use them in Sri Lanka, but the information is a bit dated and sometimes wrong. This is just me being difficult on top of a difficult situation. Like I said, you can sideload almost all Android apps and they work fine besides notifications. You can install them through the container EasyAbroad (for Chinese travelers) or more directly (through DroiTong). I use Signal, Telegram, my international banking app, my gym app, the school app, most of what I need. Sometimes it's a pain to find the APK (I often use APKpure and then xapktool.com to break their proprietary format), but I can usually do it. My local bank app and mobile phone app don't work at all, but they have web versions. I have adapted. As you can see, it's early doors for this OS (a good opportunity for developers). As a user, I'm a very early adopter in a completely unsupported region, so it's honestly surprising that things work as well as they do. ## Journey From The West Like the Monkey King made the arduous journey to get scriptures from the West (India), I have made a much more comfortable journey to bring a laptop and phone back from the East. Though, like the monk Faxian, it will take me years to translate things, this is useful technology. We'll obviously have to adapt it locally, but HarmonyOS is good philosophically and increasingly essential politically (don't want your phone to blow up because you don't support 'Israel'). White people will be like, _'But then China will spy on you'_ but they really don't get it. I do not care about this and the Chinese government does not care about me. **Just like the Great Wall is not moving around, the 'Great Firewall' is just there to protect Chinese people, not to project power abroad.** When I'm outside China, HarmonyOS does not block anything. In China, the OS still doesn't block anything, if you're roaming on a foreign number there is no firewall. Some things are blocked _for_ Huawei, but not by Huawei, and that tells you more about the evil White Empire than anything. China does not care about censoring a broader global empire _because they aren't one_. I have a strong will to leave the White Empire's tech stack, which is why I've done things this way, and so early. Someone with a real job or less understanding wife would not be able to do this, and someone wiser would just wait. Most of the problems come from me using HarmonyOS in ways it's not intended to be used (yet), not anything wrong with the system. Once they release a global version they'll have to iron all these issues out, they are non-issues in this way. So why am I doing this? I've always been an early adopter and now I'm an early orphan. I simply don't want to use products made by child killers and pedophiles as much as possible. I find it shocking that you can't completely avoid this – there seem to be load-bearing child sex rings – but I try, as much as possible, to deliver myself from evil, even if it's far less convenient. I've discovered that the main way they corrupt you is _convenience_ , which is why I'm happy to inconvenience myself (and my long-suffering family). As Jesus said, _"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."_ He wasn't talking about sideloading APKs, but that's one way I interpret it.

_I just got back from a few weeks in China, after spending a month there in 2012. These are my second impressions._ A spectre looms over Beijing, the spectre of communism China is... China. The tourists are mostly Chinese, seeing different sites in China. The food is mostly said Chinese taking different bites of China. There are many different cultures, but each still a slice of China. The technology is recognizable to an outsider, but every byte stays in China. And the money is ephemeral, but the platforms are emphatically China. China is obviously not part of any empire, nor are they trying to adapt to the foreign eye, either. China is just... China. This should go without saying. Sri Lanka should be Sri Lanka, Korea should be Korea, Ghana should be Ghana. But it doesn't, because the colonizers keep staying and calling their imperialism other names, like tourism, like culture, like technology, like money. This is why I say we (the above and more) live under one White Empire and have for centuries. We live under what Karl Marx called _double government_. We had the appearance of (and chance at) independence, but for most of us that got rolled back posthaste. What they call the Cold War was, for most of the world, World War Too, with them putting down every socialist rebellion. But China made it. And now you can see that they made it made it. You can see when you just visit that China is different, and I could see even plainer that Sri Lanka ain't the same. Sri Lanka has an extremely servile relationship to tourism, with many foreigners-only spaces (unofficially) and foreigners-only bathrooms and queues at the airport (officially). Sri Lankan culture is still deeply Trojan Horsed with White democracy (beware Greeks bearing gifts) and education and their depraved culture in general. And our tech stack is almost all Western (beware geeks bearing gifts), there's very little indigenous that they can't periodically use to bamboozle or overthrow us. And don't get me started on money, our merchants pay a 3% tax to our White Mastercards every time we swipe. Sri Lanka is obviously part of a White Empire that hides behind no names and many names all the same. Sri Lanka is _not_ just Sri Lanka, as you can see when you go some place actually independent. Is Sri Lanka China? Could Sri Lanka be China? No, as mentioned, China is China, and any development lesson from them is that you have to develop yourself your own way (though Marxism-Leninism is a good starter base). Sri Lanka got independence indirectly through India, and I fear that we're not free until India's free, and India's getting less free by the day, and messed us up pretty bad along the way. This is all inside cricket, irrelevant except that this White Empire is big and you're also, probably, inside of it. My rule of thumb is that if you're not fighting the White Empire, you're in it, so look around. Do you see yourself where you live, as tourists? Do you see your products on your screens? In your wallet? If not, your wallet is being picked, your eyeballs are being poked, and any idea of independence is a joke. I never quite understood _'the master's tools won't dismantle the master's house'_ but I kinda get it now. You've got to get _out_. If your people don't have enough money and wherewithal to see their own country, is it really theirs at all? Or are you just a servant class for the invisible White Empire and its risible heirs? I look around my country, or even worse off places like Bali, and see a neocolonial elite of 'nomads' and 'expats' and 'sexpats' and other 'paupers of aristocracy', as Marx said about the detritus dumped on India in the 1850s. You look at all the (increasingly brown) Whites dumped on us as consultants and NGOs and advisers and IMF administrators and it sounds like what Marx called the _"invention of alleviating exhausted countries by burdening them with new sinecures for the paupers of aristocracy."_ There is no substitute for developing your own people to develop your own country and if that means closing off your tourist 'industry' for decades as China did, so be it. It makes for a very different tourism when they reopened, one with distinctly Chinese characteristics. If you don't control and preserve your culture, aren't you in the cult of Whiteness instead? White culture is really the act of erasing all traces of other communities in the consumerist worship of the self. It rotates around a White Hole of nihilism and hedonism, never-satisfied attachment, leading to continuous suffering in the Buddhist sense. This inexorably leads to Epsteinism or Dubaism out of the sheer boredom at the 'end of history', these people have to do more and more depraved things to feel anything. Epsteinism is not some aberration in White culture; it is its ultimate expression, as you can see from the wide cross-section of elites in participation. As Uncle Ho Chi Minh said, "_They disseminate a depraved culture to poison the youth in areas under their temporary control."_ Give it a generation or so and their control is not so temporary, no? Hence you saw corrupted satraps also on Epstein Island, pimping out their children too. Also (I'm going through the same list in different paragraphs), if you don't control your technology, have you not just dragged a Trojan Horse inside your walls? At any time a cannibalizing color revolution can pop out, or they can molest you by cutting you off from (what you've made) normal intercourse. Finally money, the point of it all. If you need a Visa in your own country, are you Mastercard of your fate at all? These are all pitfalls I see China having avoided, painfully at first, but look at them now. Instead of getting modernity on credit from colonizers, they built it themselves and are truly free now. Each pit starts off well-lined and convenient, but that's what makes them so hard to climb out of, even before the spikes get you. It is _easy_ to take the money from tourism, but what are you doing? You are prostituting your country out in an unequal relationship that just replicates colonialism. Often quite literally, with 'sexpats' raping your men, women, and children. They say prostitution is the world's oldest profession, but it's hardly the most profitable one. In the same way, it is _easy_ to adopt White culture. You can assimilate into existing imperial education and employment systems immediately, but _at what cost?_ You lose your natural-born children and they lose or, worse, sell out their motherland. It's easier still to just adopt the White tech stack, it's a simple subscription service instead of blocking them and building your own (for which you also get scolded and possibly overthrown). But if you rent, then what do you own? As they say, if you're not paying (the capital cost) then you're the product (to capitalists). Your people become theirs to data-mine, psychologically experiment on, and use for political perturbation. And finally what comes easiest still, in their rule by fiat. The money, always the money. The dollars very dear to us, which they just print it whenever they feel. If you have an 'independent' Central Bank (independent of your own democratic oversight), if you depend on foreign moneylenders and banks, and bureaucratic leg-breakers like the IMF, you may have a sovereign currency, but you're not really sovereign at all. _At what cost_ is what the White media always asks about China, which is an accufession of course. We've been made to think that developing our own systems is too expensive and we are poor, when it is their systems that keep us poor in the first place. China obviously paid the cost for all of the above, but look at us who got it all for free. We lost our freedom in the process. When I came back to Sri Lanka this time, with Uber and gambling ads in the airport and the same poverty in the streets, I wanted to weep. It's not that we should be China. We should be we. _Random gallery of China photos for paying subs. Includes me meeting Xi Jinping and holding a goat:_ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

Robert Frost said,_"I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."_ I'm telling you this is why, the current mayhem makes sense. Two roads diverged in the Iran/Iraq (proxy) war, and Iran took the road less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. The road less travelled by was _missiles_. Iran pursued unmanned missiles and drones while everybody else purchased fighter jets like clones. That road led underground, where missiles could easily be stored, while everybody else stored their expensive assets above ground, easily exposed. Now Iran can fire straight into the eye of the cyclops, who searches blindly for people they _still_ consider nobodies. Iran took the road less travelled by, and this has made all the difference. It's important to largely ignore the white noise of the White news and look at the historical moment as a whole. These decisions, including the decision to go to war at all, were made _decades_ ago. The White Empire was _always_ going to attack Iran, it cannot stand independence anywhere in the world, and certainly not near the oil. And Iran knew it was going to get attacked, so it developed an underground missile program to strike the Empire back. People talk about what Trump says today, but he's just the last joker in the pack that was shuffled, dealt, and stacked many years back. _Les jeux sonts faits_ , these decisions were all made in the 1980s. An American President can change the velocity of the atrocities, but not the warship's tack. They've got a Department of War, what do you expect it to do? They gonna attack. The targets, the technology, this was all planned back when Trump was bankrupting casinos. As Frost said, _"knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back."_ The facts on the ground is that Iran is under it and America is above it, _and this has made all the difference_. The tracks in the air are that Iran sends missiles and America sends men, _and this has made all the difference_. These two great powers (yeah) chose vastly different strategies last century and this century is merely brass tactics. Thus, American soldiers are taking tactical dumps in their pants while their commanders leave them to die and their commander-in-chief kills them for what? You cannot fight underground armies from above ground. You cannot suppress such fire without going there and digging them out. You cannot terrorize a population with its back to the wall, and the memory of Hussein and now Khamenei as spiritual fuel. The US bases in the Gulf are indefensible and using them for offensive activity just gets them defenestrated ahead of schedule. Iran is debasing America across the Gulf Apostates and America is merely debasing themselves by killing children and fishermen in vain retribution. The losses are mounting and Ary Jeay is counting (@fotrosresistancee on Telegram or @AryJeayBackup on Twitter). The proof is in the pudding that was baked decades ago (I don't know how to make pudding). American bases, situated on a Cold War basis, are indefensible while Iranian missile cities are impregnable. Thus the US is taking unrecoverable losses while Iran is getting _stronger_ as time goes on. American missile defenses get more depleted and Iran can manufacture missiles largely unimpeded. Don't take my word for it, see the WSJ and other vulgar sources, the Pentagon is leaking like a sniveling sieve; blood drips from every pore, but no one wants it on their hands anymore. I'd link but I'm on a high-speed train heading to Beijing and only have an hour before my noodles board. Forgive me, dear readers. I'm saying the same thing because in this long historical moment, _it's the same thing_. Two roads diverged in a wood _long ago_ and while everybody was putting men in planes, Iran was putting missiles underground, and the former now looks insane. How do you even explain fighter jets to the children of today? We put a man on a drone, and sent him directly above what he was bombing? Why? Why would you do this, when the bombs fly themselves now? And why, in the Great Satan's name, would you park these expensive assets above ground, when everyone has some level of satellite access, and can harry you to death with even cheap drones? The road most travelled by has led nowhere while the road less travelled by leads us to the denounement of the present moment. Iran _defeating_ America in the Persian Gulf, chasing them back to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and beating them there too. The senile White Empire, of course, won't get the message because they left their brain (addled with cocaine) back in the 1980s, but the bodies coming home in bags should disabuse them soon enough. As the late, great Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, > **When the coffins of American soldiers and officers begin to be transported. When they came in vertically and return horizontally, it's then that the Trump administration will realize that they have lost the region. And will lose the elections. If we achieve this goal, and it will be achieved inshallah, the liberation of Al-Quds will be a stone's throw away.** When the US leaves our region, these Zionists will pack up and leave. We might not even have to fight a battle against "Israel" * * * The full Robert Frost poem: > Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, > And sorry I could not travel both > And be one traveler, long I stood > And looked down one as far as I could > To where it bent in the undergrowth; > Then took the other, as just as fair, > And having perhaps the better claim, > Because it was grassy and wanted wear; > Though as for that the passing there > Had worn them really about the same, > And both that morning equally lay > In leaves no step had trodden black. > Oh, I kept the first for another day! > Yet knowing how way leads on to way, > I doubted if I should ever come back. > I shall be telling this with a sigh > Somewhere ages and ages hence: > Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— > I took the one less traveled by, > And that has made all the difference.

Image from FotrosResitancee (on Telegram) / AryJeayBackup (on Twitter). Follow him Iran and America are at war. This is where I'd usually say Iran vs. the White Empire, but that's not where we are. 'Israel' is sitting this one out (with Beelzebub Smotrich saying as much) and the European rump states are getting spanked in Ukraine enough. The White Empire is divided amongst itself, if not yet conquered by the Resistance. ## Background This Iran War (calling it the American War wouldn't narrow it down) is what Bikrum Gill calls the first anti-imperial war. While White Empire lost in Algeria, Vietnam, Afghanistan, et cetera, it nonetheless held together. This is not what's happening. The Whites barely set foot in Iran. They're on the backfoot in Kuwait, Bahrain, and now Jordan – the whole Greater Israel. The Empire is not merely failing in its attempts to recolonize Iran, it is flailing to hold its regional imps at all. The Iran War is also the first smart-missile war. This is a shift as big as the smartphone (consider it Uber for bombs) and the White Empire _is on the wrong side of it._ Riding airplanes into battle today looks like riding horses. Why would you do that, when the missiles can fly themselves now? It's not just the cost difference (which is massive), it's the _quality_ difference (which is an order of magnitude). Iranian missiles are _better_ than American bombs. They're more accurate, they're more flexible, they're more hidden, and quantity is its own quality, of course. Using a billion dollar platform to launch a million dollar missile is like Nokia vs the iPhone. It might be bigger (for the moment) _but that's not an advantage_. We are in the age of smart-missiles, and America is a dinosaur used to dumb bombs. ## The Missile Gulf During the Cold War, the United States talked about a 'missile gap' with the Soviet Union. What is opening up against Iran is a missile _gulf_. Iran has lots of cheap missiles and drones and effectively endless productive capacity while America has a few, manufactured in bespoke quantities. Iran's missiles are stored underground, where it can conserve them, while America just parks assets in the open, and has to expend _more_ missiles to conserve them. Thus the delta (the difference) gets exponentially wider as Iran destroys American positions while the Americans literally pound sand and try, like Xerxes, to whip the ocean. If I was to graph it – which I won't because I'm on terrible hotel Wi-Fi in Shangrila – the missile gulf between American and Iran starts out small and then gets exponentially wider. America starts with stand-off missiles that they can use to blow up schools, but it's hardly what they specialize in. They specialize in dropping 'gravity' bombs on people without air defenses using manned aircraft. That's the battlefield they're used to, F-35 vs Toyota Hilux. However, Iran's _good enough_ air defenses have made this approach too costly in terms of airframes. I'm not saying America couldn't gravity bomb Iran, but they'd take losses worse than Vietnam or WWII, which they no longer have the stomach (or reproductive organs) for. Iran has already destroyed multiple F-Frames, refueller tankers, and command-and-control AWACS, some on the ground. Thus America is dragged to a battlefield they are not specialized in – horizontal vs. vertical – and the missile gulf opens. Missile warfare is precisely what Iran _does_ specialize in. Iran barely has an Air Force, it's called an Aerospace Force in the IRGC. Iranians can do amazing things in vintage airframes (see the Kuwait strafing run) but their missile program is _more_ modern than America's (see Kuwait, in general), both in terms of quantity and quality. When it comes to the missile domain, this is asymmetric warfare in Iran's favor. Iran bet the farm on missiles decades ago and now it's MQ-9 Reaper time. They reap what they sow. Furthermore, Iran's defensive requirements are very different. Its Aerospace Force operates from tunnel cities under literal mountains. Their launch platforms are (for many missiles) basically just trucks. America can only bomb the tunnel entrances, which a simple bulldozer can dig out. The key to guerrilla warfare is dragging the enemy to a battlefield of your choosing, which negates their advantages. This is what Iran has done. The missile gulf didn't just happen. Iran strategized it for years, stockpiled for decades, and now we're seeing the inevitable tactical result. The missile gulf was, perhaps, not as apparent during the 40-Day War when America was able to commit massacres, assassinations, and chemical attacks on Tehran. But note that this isn't really happening anymore. Instead, they're reduced to strafing the coast and blowing up fishermen from afar. Over the 40-Day War, America was able to go band for band, but as they lose more and more land, they have less stuff to fire and less places to fire it from. This is why I say the gulf widens exponentially. When Iran hits missile systems, America has less, and when America tries to defend themselves _with_ missiles, they have even less. Using two (or eight) missiles to shoot down one incoming makes the missile gap astronomically _worse_. Even if Iran doesn't hit, they attrit. Now the missile gulf is yawning so much that Iran hitting American bases is _boring_. Staging areas in the Gulf Apostates were barely hit in the Iraq Wars, but now Iran is causing major drama going into reruns. Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, are getting hit again and again. And now Jordan and Saudi are being cleared of occupation, despite their satraps protestations. There is not a single US bases that hasn't been debased. These bases are not actually usable anymore, though they're still using them. And again, missile defenses do not solve this problem. That is solving your problem with more problem. They just make the missile gulf even more yawnsome. Why is this happening? Because Iran spent decades planning for _this_ war while America spent decades planning for forever war, everywhere, all at once. The American military is like a Swiss Army Knife. It has (almost) every possible type of weapon, but specializes in none of them. Thus America has standoff missiles, but only in the sense that a Swiss Army Knife has a knife. HIMARs and ATACMS are highly portable, usable systems, but they simply don't compare to purpose-built systems dug into mountains. America has brought a Swiss Army Knife to a knife fight. This is not the age of the fighter jet. That concept is as antiquated as knights on horseback. We are in the age of missile and drone wars. This is also not the age of the aircraft carrier and aircraft hangar. We are in the age of tunnels and satellites, and anything you can see you can lose. We are also not in an age where someone 10,000 kilometers away can tell other people what to do. Nature is healing in that sense, and 500 years of white supremacy by sea and air are burning across the Persian Gulf. The most obvious sign is the missile gulf opening between Iran and America. As the Quran says, _"there are indeed signs for people who use their reason."_

The Iran War is going on and on, and I've been AWOL. I'm in China with family, and trying to move my tech stack behind the Great Firewall, so either I'm breaking things or my son is on the verge of, excuse my mess and absence. With your leave, this is a short update. Zerothly, if you want up-to-the-minute information, I refer you to my 'How To Follow' guide from the first iteration of devastation. My sources, and song, remain the same. The only thing I'd add (to the sourcing) is that Fotros Resistance is the best (and least voluminous) source for Iran in particular. All the usual disclaimers apply, merely possessing this information is dangerous in the White Empire, especially since the IRGC has been designated a terrorist organization in terrible places like the UK. I assume you know all this by now, but if you don't, get out of here now. There's very little you can do with this information, but much can be done to you. With that/them out of the way, here is my unsolicited opinion. I refer again and again to the report a former CENTCOM commander made to his Jewish masters (literally, JINSA). This McKenzie character's point was the all of the US Gulf Bases were (militarily) indefensible in the case of all-out war, which is the case now. He advocated retreating to a second line of defense in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and 'Israel', which is what's happening now. But this is still indefensible, as we are finding out. The current phase of war has Iran hitting Greater Israel's frontline of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, and even Oman, but also their backline of Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. They're near the goal now. People ask 'why not 'Israel'' and I repeat that we are facing the final boss of colonialism now, the White Empire entire, and 'Israel' is increasingly irrelevant. Indeed, they're currently sitting this one out, and even asked 'America' to leave Ben Gurion Airport ('Israel' is, ironically, the one place 'America' _doesn't_ have a base). It has been a journey, and the real Greater Israel was the fiends they made along the way. The Arab Apostates that paid to occupy themselves, who preoccupied themselves with football teams and toy planes. Now that's all in flames. 'America's' debasing across the region is being methodically cleared out by Iran, as much as the White media tries to hide it. But follow Fotros for a day and see, Greater Israel is getting hammered on the daily. This is the first war (what Bikrum Gill calls the first anti-imperial war) where the natives have not only missile defense but _air superiority_. 'American' bombers are too scared to fly over Tehran (which as of press time has not really been bombed) and Iran is unafraid to bomb every 'American' position in the region. Iran's smart-missiles are superior in both quantity and quality to 'America's' and 'America' cannot use their dumb-bomb advantage without losing _some_ planes, and they are fundamentally cowards. So they continue targeting cancer hospitals and fisherman and flee from men in the field. I would say like the 'Israelis', but it's the same thing. This is thus the first war where the Empire can't just bomb from afar, have a Burger King, and laugh about it. 'American' soldiers are being killed, as you'll find out from all the hiking accidents and people falling off boats and dying of explosive diarrhea in the weeks and months to come. Those HIMARS and ATACMS don't fire themselves and 'Americans' are in the line of fire. They are arriving vertically and leaving horizontally. They are even being hit, like at the Crowne Plaza in Oman, in targeted assassinations. US bases on the frontline of Greater Israel (along the Persian Gulf) were well-nigh uninhabitable after the 40 Day War, and things are even worse now. And now things are getting as bad in Jordan (which hilariously says it doesn't have US bases, but just US soldiers hanging around) and Saudi Arabia (which also wants to start a war with Yemen for some reason). These were never morally defensible positions, and now they're obviously not militarily defensible either. The other point (chokepoint) is Hormuz, which is even more closed than before, but not before Iran scooted a bunch of oil out during the MOU. Now China has turned the teapots on again and the imperial economy is going to boil soon. I'd make some money if I knew exactly when, but Trump said they had four weeks about four weeks ago. Trump trying to whip the Persian Gulf into shape is as useless as Xerxes the Great trying to whip the Hellespont to take Greece. Trump is no Xerxes and both attempts failed. 'America' will never take Iran, as you could see from the Imam Khamanei's funeral. The Islamic Revolution has been reignited in _millions_ of hearts. At this point. the Islamic Republic is holding its people _back_ more than driving them forward, they want revenge, and they want Trump dead, as they have said through red flags and posters. They are protesting _for_ the regime, and have been since the day Khamenei was martyred. Trump said a civilization would be destroyed, but as the oracle story went, he didn't say which one. What is happening is that the White Empire is being pushed _back_. Not out of Iran, as in anti-colonial wars like Vietnam, but out of the frontline of Greater Israel, out of its backline of Jordan and Kuwait, and finally 'Israel' itself. As the late, great Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, when 'American' soldiers arrive vertically and leave horizontally, they will eventually leave the region, and we may not even have to fight 'Israel' at all. And this is happening. Follow Fortros for a day and you'll see it happening. But today, from behind the Great Firewall, let me just say, 'America' lost the Iran War long ago. Now they are losing Greater Israel and soon, _inshallah_ , the White Empire itself. _Please forgive me for barely editing this, I'm sleepy. Some completely unrelated China photos for paying subs:_ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

From Khamenei's burial procession in Iraq (Anmar Khalil) This is a long post, most of which is the holy ghost of Imam Ali Khamenei. He was my favorite living philosopher (to use a vulgar term), until they killed him, but he gets the last word. Khamenei lives on in the Islamic Republic he built, and the shining example it has shown to the world. I rely upon here, and reproduce below, some excerpts from _Islamic Beliefs: Reclaiming The Narrative._ These are the 1974 Ramadan sermons of Khamenei _before_ the Islamic Revolution, before he was leader of the revolution, and before I was born. I am embarrased by things I wrote just a year ago, but I think Khamenei's words hold across generations. As the Quran says _‘Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah. Some of them have fulfilled their vow, and some are still waiting, and they have not changed in the least.’_ ## The Main Points Khamenei's main points, as dimly as I got them, were that 1) individual faith alone is not enough, one must _do_ something 2) one is not enough, many must act collectively and 3) _many_ must act as one, following prophetic leadership through an authoritative imam is essential. The terms he uses for each section are _iman_ (faith), _tawhid_ (divine unity), _nubuwwah_ (prophethood), and _wilyah_ (authority). ## Did He Get To The Point? I won't attempt to define these terms, suffice it to say that Khamenei laid the foundation of what I (as a complete outsider) can now see a towering edifice, the Islamic Republic of Iran. This was Khamenei's mission and vision, to use more vulgar terms. As he said, _"If I cannot finish this edifice in my lifetime, can I not at least add another row of bricks? Can I not ready its foundations? Can I not make preparations for other to do the work? If someone says that they cannot do anything at all, this is a lie."_ So did he do it? Did he try? The proof is in Iran's defeat of the Great Satan (we'll get to that also) in the Ramadan War of 2026, and the millions that came out for his funeral, and pledged to carry out Khamenei's vision, the Prophet's mission, and God's mission, with their lives. As his son and successor as leader of the revolution, Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei said, _"Peace be upon the Imam whose life-giving call to rise became a mighty and resounding echo of the Prophet’s mission, extending into the farthest depths of history, and through whose influence the Islamic Revolution of Iran came into being."_ As Khamenei the Elder said, from the past, _"You must always try to draw a lesson from history! Do not content yourself with stories and tales from the past. See instead what message history has for us today."_ When I (personally, ignorantly) read the Quran or Khamenei, I swear to God, it sounds like they're talking about the present moment. As Khamenei said (citing Ali), _"No one sits down with this Qur'an save that he rises with an increase or a decrease; an increase in guidance or a decrease in blindness."_ Hence I feel like Khamenei is talking about the brave city of Gaza, today, and the vilest specimens of humanity, the Jewish supremacists among White supremacists, when he said, > The Umayyads always made sure to appoint the vilest, cruellest, and most obedient of their servants to govern the city in order to deal with these elements... Because they could not bend these people to their will, they destroyed the land which made them instead. And it feels like he's talking about the Al Aqsa Flood—the rise of rebellion and the scum it exposed across the White Empire—when he said, > God begins by saying 'He sends down water from the sky whereat the valleys are flooded to [the extent of] their capacity', whether they are big or small, 'and the flood carries along a swelling scum'. So God says: 'As for the scum, it leaves as dross, and that which profits the people remains in the earth.'.. 'That is how God draws comparisons' for you: He wants to show you how truth endures. > > The mission of the prophets is truth. The uprising of the prophets are truth. The falsehoods that stand against the prophets vanish. They fade away. They collapse. They are the scum. The dross. The foam on the water. When you examine them, you see that they are really nothing. I know the news today contains a lot of scum—what Donald Trump said yesterday, when the White media says about it, the half-hearted condemnations from White institutions all around—but what will be left, when history is written down? As Khamenei said, _"What is ten, twenty, fifty or even a hundred years compared to all human history? It is but a minute, a fleeting moment, and nothing more."_ ## Khamenei's View Of History If you look at the Muslim world—indeed, the world—under _ongoing_ colonialism, it certainly looks like the bad guys won. As Khamenei said, _"This is how many Muslims see the world today: They think having faith means to take a beating! To be a Muslim, to be a believer, to be striving in the way of God, means suffering, means persecution, means oppression. The Qur'an wants to say the opposite is true—that from the moment religion came into being it was always moving forwards, it was always advancing, it was never going backwards."_ This is what Khamenei repeats again and again, faith and action, faith and perserverance, faith and _hope_ , not in the corrupt Barack Hussein Obama way but in the sense of Hussein of yore. Not as a suicidal urge but a drive towards life, towards humanity, towards shared humanity even while taking individual losses. He said, _"This is a fundamental doctrine of Islam and an integral part of the Islamic worldview, namely that a happy future lies in store for the human race."_ Of course, White Empire has occupied Islam's holiest sites, promoted Islam's unholiest minds, and this vision (if you only see within the Empire's proscribed timelines) seemed (from my unfortunately Western perspective) out of place and out of time. As Francis Fukuyama said in “The End of History?” > Modern liberalism itself was historically a consequence of the weakness of religiously-based societies which, failing to agree on the nature of the good life, could not provide even the minimal preconditions of peace and stability. In the contemporary world only Islam has offered a theocratic state as a political alternative to both liberalism and communism. But the doctrine has little appeal for non-Muslims, and it is hard to believe that the movement will take on any universal significance. Other less organized religious impulses have been successfully satisfied within the sphere of personal life that is permitted in liberal societies. Fukuyama's wrong, but he's right. The White Empire really tried to promote a defanged version of Islam like their corruption of Christianity, where it was a 'permitted' personal belief which should have no impact on the shape of society. This is precisely the opposite of what Khamenei was building in the Islamic Republic of Iran, for reasons he outlined before it started, which is why the Empire tried to kill it time after time. Addressing Fukuyama directly from the past, Khamenei said, > If a thinker grew up in an outwardly Christian environment and knew nothing of the religon except corrupt practices like the selling of indulgences or the false forgiveness of sins, perhaps he had the right to form this opinion of religion. But you, who live a hundred, or eighty, or fifty years after him, at a time when Islam is more or less showing its true self, and producing the most wonderful and dignified manifestations of humanity the world has seen, you do not have the right to say the same thing about Islam as he does about Christianity. If this is what you mean to do, then this is being intellectually dishonest. People today (including, if not especially, Marxists) will be like _but Islam is a theocracy_ as if that is a bad thing, ignoring both the living example of Iran and what dead philosophers like Aristotle said, _"there are more species of democracies than one,"_ and how he spoke about _"which is best suited for particular people."_ The Greek idea was that there are many Greek ideas, suited for many different city states, but the White Empire has corrupted this into one form of Democracy™ for the world, which they liberally corrupt and load into bombs. This is their pseudo-religion, their corruption of both Greek philosophy and Palestinian Christianity. As Khamenei said, _"Pseudo-religions become a tool, a stick, and a weapon in the hands of the oppressor."_ Khamenei and Iran rejected the corrupt Islam accepted and exported from the Gulf Apostates (especially Saudi Arabia), which was a personal (and punitive) form of Islam which offered no resistance to their occupation. As Khamenei said, _"The kind of belief in God that has no effect on the global economic and social order belongs to the same category of belief as believing that a certain plot of land is barren or fertile—it has no use for us. It has no impact on the world. If a country's political leader believes in God but belief in God, for him, means nothing more than answering an abstract theoretical question, then what use is this?"_ Looking at decades of Iran suffering under sanctions and war while the Gulf Apostates got richer and richer, however, you could say that submission to the Great Satan _was_ very useful. As Khamenei said, _"In a society where people live without a correct worldview, no matter which way they look, they see only this world and its trinkets. No matter which way they look, they see only enjoyments and opportunities for selfish pursuits."_ But what trinkets! While the Gulf Apostates were flying fancy planes and buying football teams, it was a hard ask, what Khamenei asked, when he said, _"Are you ready to turn your back on the side that offers you wealth, rank, prestige, comfort, influence, and power in exchange for your loyalty? If you are ready, then consider yourself fortunate: Had you been alive at the time of Ali, you would have been one of his supporters."_ Extending this to the historical Hussein, such followers would of course be _dead_ , that's what resistance seems to have always cost. So is it worth it? Khamenei answered this, saying, > Now, some will say that, looking at history, wherever the truth is proclaimed, wherever its notes reach people's ears, it is ultimately fruitless and without result. The truth is suppressed... This is a logic that bullies want people to beliee in and to make part of their creed. They want people to believe that there is no possibility for change, that none of their actions ultimately matter, and that nothing they do will produce any positive or lasting results. This is precisely what the tyrants want. As he said about the consequences of this, _"I must remind myself that it is this fear what causes people to lose this world and the next. It is fear of poverty that causes people not to spend for God, it is fear of persecution or harm that causes people to stay quiet when all matter of crimes, injustices and humiliations are being heaped upon them. The fear that they might not be able to live another day or two in this world! And what kind of life is this, to be lived in fear? Fear of losing this lowly life for which there is no guarantee that it will last more than another day or two!"_ ## The Shia Scale Of The Task This is the difficulty of Khamenei's task, not that he was fighting the White Empire, itself formidable, or 'Israel', itself cunningly evil, but that he was fighting for the very soul of Islam. Indeed, when he died, Iran was the only (fully) free state left standing in the region (shout-out Yemen, Lebanon, and Palestine)! The Empire talks up a Sunni/Shia split and tries to exacerbate it, but that's not quite it. Hamas is, of course Sunni, and on the side of the Resistance. But it's not _not_ it. I won't weigh in on this, but this is what Khamenei said, > Here is a fundamental difference between Shia and Sunni thought. We say that 'those vested with authority' are those who meet the God-given criteria for leadership. On the other hand, they do not consider this a necessary condition. I cannot say I have thoroughly researched the contents of their works of jurisprudence. However, what they frequently say in their public statements is that anyone who occupies a position of power and authority should be respected and recognised as legitimate. The split goes back centuries and it comes down to resistance, ie the path of Hussein (who died rather than submit to what he considered an illegitimate ruler or not). That is to say, the Islamic Revolution wasn't just an Islamic Revolution but a _Shia_ one. As Khamenei the Younger said, recently, _"It was a revolution that was Husseini at its very foundation, built and nurtured upon Hussein’s slogan and way. Iran’s martyred leader also grew according to this same way. He was Husseini; he thought in a Husseini manner, acted in a Husseini manner, struggled and resisted in a Husseini manner, lived in a Husseini manner, and offered his blood in the path of Hussein’s school, attaining martyrdom."_ What Khamenei the Elder said, in a way commenting on his own funeral, > When you sit in the majilis of Imam Husayn and shed tears, you are doing something good—it is good and proper to cry for him! However, you are doing something bad indeed if you believe that shedding these tears is enough to qualify for wilayah. The Penitents (Tawwabin) gathered at the grave of Husayn ibn Ali and spent one, two, or three days weeping for him. But what was the outcome of their weeping? The outcome was they made a pact of blood and self-sacrifice. They said: We are going to the battlefield and we are never going to turn back. We pledge not to return alive! This is crying for Husayn—and no one opposes this! And, indeed, this _is_ what the people of Iran, _en masse_ , cried out for. They waved the red flag of revenge, they called for Trump's head. They are not crying against tyranny, they are trying to do something about it. This is precisely the lesson Khamenei wanted to impart, and he did. Thus he seems to comment on his own death from the past, saying, > Now I want you to imagine that each of these teachers, after spending a year teaching this class of students, are killed by some of their own students! Each teacher comes and delivers his lesson and dies—but has he failed? Think about this carefully. Has that teacher failed? What was that teacher's goal? Didn't he want to raise his students up to the heights of learning and enlightenment? If this is the case, then the teacher did not die in failure. True, he may not see the fruits of his labours. But did he fail in his mission? Certainly not. As a teacher, his goal was to ensure that his students graduated to the next year of their studies and, with struggle and perseverange, they did. Khamenei was killed, not by his students, but directly by the tyrant and he lives, he lives, most importantly in the impetus he has given to _millions_ of lives, which was the point all along. As he said about the prophetic path he followed, > Why did the Prophet come? 'I was sent to complete the best of morals'—the Prophet came to make human beings; he came to nurture something called humanity in people. Through what means or by what way did the Prophet set about making human beings? How did the Prophet promote humanity? Did he establish a philosophical school of thought? Did he build a temple or place of worship? No! In order to produce human beings, he made a human-making factory! The Prophet was willing to wait ten or twenty years to succeed, but he did not want to produce just one or two, or even twenty human beings, he wanted to create a fully automated factory that would continously produce perfect human beings... > > What exactly is a human-making factory? It is an Islamic society and system of government... Islamic society is a society which is ruled by God, and whose laws are the laws of God. God sits at the top of the pyramid, and beneath God is all of humanity and the humans. You can talk (and I do talk) about Iran's _superiority_ in military production, in scientific production, in intellectual production but these are all a _side-effects_ of its spiritual production. Indeed, talking about the corruption of the caliphates that mirrors the defilement of Islamic holy sites by Whites today, Khamenei said (I will reproduce this at length because it's fascinating), > When we study the time of the Umayyads and the Abbasids, we see that the Islamic world was full of energy, we see the amount of knowledge and learning that was taking place in Islamic society; what great physicians there were, what great translators! ... If we want to be honest, did all of that activity ultimately end up benefitting humanity and Islamic society? What does Islamic society have of this heritage ten centuries later? And what has it lost? Is it for any other reason than the fact that all of these efforts, even if they were valuable for the benefit of all humanity, ultimately took place under the auspices of taghut [Satan]. > > As the poet Hafiz says: "I shall never grasp the jewel of Solomon, Lest one day it falls into the hands of Ahriman. > > Even from the perspective of learning, literature, and the issues in which the world takes pride today, even if this had delayed work by a hundred years, it would have been of more benefit to the human race. This is because humanity would have grown, Islam would have flourished, and human energy and potential would be channelled into the correct path. On the other hand, under the Abbasids, even through great strides were being made in science, what about individual morals and societal ethics? Is it ok to leave this so weak so that class divisions remain an entrenched component of society? > > It is exactly like the disgraceful and corrupt civilizations of the world today. The world powers boast of their scientific discoveries, they boast of their wonderous inventions, they boast about every medicine, every formula, every undertaking. This is from the perspective of science. However, from the perspective of humanity and ethics, nothing has changed from a thousand years ago. Today we see fabulous wealth side by side with terribly hunger and poverty... Great scientific advancements are taking place, but there is no concern for the values of humanity or virtue; huge class differences remain, and at the same time as one part of the world is starving, the other part eats itself to death. Capitalism and the White Empire has this fetishization of progress, this idea that all the colonialism and destruction that happened was worth it because cell-phones and medicine and so on, and Khamenei stands athwart this history saying _stop_. You may be going fast, but _you're going in the wrong direction_. He said it doesn't matter how nice the vehicle is, or how nice and polite the people inside it are, if it's going the wrong direction, it's going wrong. As he said, _"If the car is taking you in the opposite direction to Nishapur, even if all the passengers in this car are polite, considerate, and respectful, it is still not going to get you to Nishapur—it's going to take you to Quchan! Therefore, when there is a society organised under the wilayah of taghut, human beings will not reach their destination. They cannot be Muslims."_ This is important and not coincidental. You cannot separate Islam and the Islamic Revolution any more than you can separate spokes from the center of a wheel. Khamenei spoke about turning personal faith into action, turning that into collective action and then governance, following the guidance of God and his prophets under a rightly guided Imam and God was at the center of it all. And who was the Imam? _It was him,_ after all. That's the spoiler alert at the end of this book, which the people listening to it under the tyranny of the Shah couldn't quite know, that it was the preacher Sayyed Ali Khamenei who was the 'hidden' Imam (not that one) that would take this all forward. And what did he want? What did Khamenei really want? Not a personal awakening, not to be right, not even to finish the task, but to awaken _many_ people, to guide _many_ to the right path, and to entrust them with the task after he was gone. And he did it, by God, he did it. In this way, Imam Khamenei changed the world, and forever changed the way it turns. * * * I invite you to read more, the book is Islamic Beliefs: Reclaiming The Narrative_._ I cannot do justice to what he said. This text is not available as eBook, so I've typed out the following highlights for my reference, which you're welcome to: "The human being has two powerful wings to carry them through life: One is steadfastness (sabr) and the other is relying on God (tawakkul). Any nation which has these two wings will fly beyond the reach of their enemies." "A faith that remains only in the heart will wither and die... Faith alone, faith without duty, faith without any sense of responsibility, is of no use in this world and of no use in the Hereafter." "As the Arabic proverb read: 'A lion amongst friends and an ostrich amongst enemies' So, on little issues, you are a lion but when it comes to serious ones, you are an ostrich. All your courage is gone! Thi proverb means that when it comes to your own, you are a lion, but when you are facing enemies with swords, you become an ostrich. How does an ostrich fight? Does it have claws and teeth?" "When we speak of justice, of observing fairness in society, of protecting the oppressed and disposessed, of treating both friends and strangers equally—these are all religious teachings, these are all teachings of Islam—of raising the level of people's thinking, which was the goal of divine prophethood, when religion meant observing these things." "Whatever opposes the human intellect, religion opposes it. Whatever stands against people's vision, thinking and comprehension, religion stands against it. Anything which, in any way, shape or form, impairs the human ability to comprehend, to see, to thing... religion will not leave it standing. This is the true religion. The religion which they call 'the opiate of the masses' is something else entirely. We find no trace of that religion in the Qur'an. We find no trace of that religion in the practice of our Prophet or of our Imams. Islam fights against ignorance. Islam fights against that kind of religion." "This is how many Muslims see the world today: They think having faith means to take a beating! To be a Muslim, to be a believer, to be striving in the way of God, means suffering, means persecution, means oppression. The Qur'an wants to say the opposite is true—that from the moment religion came into being it was always moving forwards, it was always advancing, it was never going backwards." "Faith must come from understanding, not blind imitation. Faith must be combined with a sense of moral duty and the performance of right actions." "As Attar said, 'Set out on the journey and do not ask, The journey will tell you how to go!'" "Being tranquil does not mean ignoring what the enemy is doing. It means not being anxious, not being confused, knowing that the future is clear and that your side will triump and, for this reason, not being afraid." "Beyond this realm of appearance that you and I see, beyond whatever the most acute vision can perceive, and beyond whatever the most precise empirical science can apprehend—beyond all the phenomena that we can sense and touch—lies a reality that is higher than any other, more sublime than any other, and nobler and mightier than any other, and through whose power all the phenomena of the world came to be. To this higher being, we give a name. We call it 'God'. We call it 'Allah', Therefore, the world is a reality which, at the very core of its own being, does not exist independently or in of its own self. It did not bring itself into being. It did not come into existence spontaneously. On the contrary, this panoply of phenomena, about which we learn more and more with each passing day as they disclose more and more about themselves to us, was created by this Higher Power. It is this power that created the tumult at the heart of the atom and has created many millions of galaxies, or which we have only discovered a few." "A person who sees his own desires as the most important thingin his life is said to have taken them as a god. Someone who allows the affairs of his life to be directed by a vain and tyrannical person is said to have taken Satan as his god." "No one has the right to place his head beneath the foot of another, nor does anyone have the right to place his foot on the neck of another." "If you ask them: 'What is religion?' They will name some practices and say: 'This is religion.' They will say: Religion is a drug. Religion is a tool of the oppressor. Religion cannot help the downtrodden. So leave it! Of course, when a person is confronted by this logic, the correct response is to say: 'You're right! If you find a religion that helps the oppressor, that supports the tyrant, that never gives aid to the oppressed, that never helps the downtrodden, that whether now or in the future does not alleviate an ounce of human suffering—then, on our behalf, if you find such a religion, no matter where it is, reject it. Do not accept such a religion for even a moment!" "So, O materialist! O you who say that religion cannot possibly govern human societies! I ask you: Which religion? The religion of Islam? The true Islam? The revelation of Muhammad? The way of Ali? You believe that these are incapable of the governance of human affairs? OK, then prove it. Where is the evidence for this? When Islam came and erased division, when Islam rejected class divisions, when Islam established an equitable division of wealth amongst the people, when it improved people's standard of living and provided them with opportunities for growth, when it took the reins of power out of the hands of tyrants and handed them to the just divine law, when it raised up the oppressed, the downtrodden, the slaves, when it took people who were willing to commit the worst outrages for vanity or wealth... when Islam took this abased human and ennobled him, dignified him, and bestowed upon him the best human and moral virtues—all of this, under the auspices of a single wise and just order. So where is your proof?" "The prophet did not just educate individuals. He did not take people one by one and sit them down and utter slogans to them until they became good, until they became human—this is not how he did it. He was not a preacher—he did not just sit and preach to people. This wouldn't have had any effect. On the contrary, he created a social order." "If a thinker grew up in an outwardly Christian environment and knew nothing of the religon except corrupt practices like the selling of indulgences or the false forgiveness of sins, perhaps he had the right to form this opinion of religion. But you, who live a hundred, or eighty, or fifty years after him, at a time when Islam is more or less showing its true self, and producing the most wonderful and dignified manifestations of humanity the world has seen, you do not have the right to say the same thing about Islam as he does about Christianity. If this is what you mean to do, then this is being intellectually dishonest." "Pseudo-religions become a tool, a stick, and a weapon in the hands of the oppressor." "The kind of belief in God that has no effect on the global economic and social order belongs to the same category of belief as believing that a certain plot of land is barren or fertile—it has no use for us. It has no impact on the world. If a country's political leader believes in God but belief in God, for him, means nothing more than answering an abstract theoretical question, then what use is this?" "A tradition says: 'All wealth belongs to God. He has entrusted it to people.' This is the logical corollary of tawhid. If this is the kind of divine unity [tawhid] you believe in, then all sorts of class difference and divisions in society would be utterly meaningless to you. A society with upper and lower classes, with haves and have-nots is not a truly monotheistic society. Divine unity tells us: 'All of you are from Adam and Adam is from dust.'" "When you covertly play with people's thoughts and emotions—when you manipulate their free will and decisions, you have enslaved them without them even knowing that they are slaves." "In an Islamic society, people serve God rather than the powerful." "In a society where people live without a correct worldview, no matter which way they look, they see only this world and its trinkets. No matter which way they look, they see only enjoyments and opportunities for selfish pursuits." "The wrongdoer who serves the tyrants—who is himself a tyrant by extension—also imagines that he has power, because he is connected to someone with even more power. He is like the fox that has tied its tail to that of a camel." "Does divine unity place responsibilities not only on the individual believer but on the society of believers as a whole—responsibilities which address the most important, universal and fundamental issues of any society? Like what? Like government. Like economics. Like international relations. Like relations between members of the society—the fundamental principles that govern the life of any human society! We believe that the responsibilities created by tawhid and placed upon the shoulders of the believer are of this kind—that these responsibilities extend to every aspect of society and deal with its most fundamental issues." "'Satan' denotes any baleful power that exist outside of the human being. An evil power, but only one that is outside of a person's own existence... Satan refers to anything that is outside of your own being that tries to lead you away from perfection, to prompty you to commit evil, to kindle wrongdoing." "[As Imam al-Baqir said, in a hadith where God is meant to be the speaker] I will surely punish every flock in Islam who believed in the authority of any tyrannical leader who was not appointed by God, even if this flock were righteous and pious in their personal conduct." "Refusing to worship false gods, whether they dress themselves in the cloak of faith—like the rabbis and priests—or in the robes of worldly power—like the tyrants and princes— this is the meaning of tawhid." "The result of a caste-based society and a capitalist society is virtually the same: A small ground enjoys limitless resources, while the majority has virtually nothing." "When the Jews and Christians claim that God has chosen them to the exclusion of all other, Islam responds by saying that they are mistaken." "What is ten, twenty, fifty or even a hundred years compared to all human history? It is but a minute, a fleeting moment, and nothing more." "I must remind myself that it is this fear what causes people to lose this world and the next. It is fear of poverty that causes people not to spend for God, it is fear of persecution or harm that causes people to stay quiet when all matter of crimes, injustices and humiliations are being heaped upon them. The fear that they might not be able to live another day or two in this world! And what kind of life is this, to be lived in fear? Fear of losing this lowly life for which there is no guarantee that it will last more than another day or two!" "Religion has no conflict with human reason or learning and never will. What religion says is understood by a sound intellect." "Why did God send religion? To guide the intellect, to take it by the hand. The intellect is there, but when the intellect is best by desire, it cannot judge impartially. The intellect is there, but when ambition is by its side, it cannot see clearly. When some personal goal is next to it, it cannot understand properly. Religion was sent to defend the intellect from desires, ambitions, and fears." "Whatever is in agreement with the innate nature of the cosmos, whatever is conducive to the natural order of the universe, this is what we call 'truth'." "If he had not changed, he could not change the world. This is an important lesson for those who would follow the Prophet: As long as they have not changed, they cannot change the world around themselves." "True tawhid means the power and governance of God. True tawhid means that everything—whether the law, traditions, treaties, manners, culture—must be inspired by God." "This is what the doctrine fo holy struggle (jihad) was promulgated: Because the ruling class, the ones against whom the revolution is directed and those who stand to lose the most in the even of its success, are not ready to let it happen." "It is the human being that discovers uranium and, instead of using it to treat a thousand illnesses, turns it into a bomb with the capacity to kill millions. Uranium does not make itself into a bomb; it merely follows its natural course. It is not LSD that, instead of being a medicine to cure sickness, is instead made into a drug to intoxicate youngsters. It is not the fault of LSD how it is used. It is not the fault of the matter. Rather, it is the fault of the human beings that choose to use it in this way." "God always desires to show favour to those who are based, to the underclass, to the downtrodden and oppressed." "This is the Prophet's greatest miracle. To make a man who puts aside all ego and selfishness—which is the axis around which most men's lives turn—and is willing to sacrifice everything for the cause of truth." "Materialist philosophies say that we should develop the world, eliminate poverty, uproot ignorance and build a better society—a human society, a society in which there are no class divisions, in which there is no division or exploitation. Great! But once we have it, what are human beings supposed to do in it? Materialist philosophies do not have an answer to this." "Let's go to that monastery and live as monks. We will spend all our time purifying ourselves and becoming better people, and we will save ourselves. Then, if someone comes to us and is receptive, we can teach him how to do the same, and we'll make him a better person too! This attitude is often used as an excuse for being lazy, quiescent, saving one's own skin and choosing the path of least resistance." "The prophets had two major goals. Their fundamental goal was to make people into human beings, to save people from their vices and to adorn them with virtues. In short, to make human beings humane. That was their highest goal. However, there was another goal which was a preliminary to achieving this one, namely, to create a tawhid-oriented society that is government by a godly system of government and ruled by God's laws." "God also sent 'the Balance' (al-mizān)—what is the Balance? ... The Balance is the Imam because the Imam is the one who separates truth from falsehood in society." "Do you think the devils, wolves and thieves will leave this just society standing? That is why God sent iron—so that people could defend their most dearly held values." "The religion of Islam believes that faith must be based on reason and understanding and does not accept unthinking followers." "If there were not this institution of scholarship and learning in Shia Islam, we would be in an even more dire situation than we find ourselves now." "No nation is sanctified unless the weak can claim their rights without stuttering." "The Commander of the Faithful (a) was expressing this viewpoint when he said: 'I have never seen copious wealth without there being unpaid dues beside it.' If wealth was divided equally amongst people, there would be no one as wealthy as Rockefeller!" "When you have a usurious system like this in society, it means that everyone in society is paying interest, and a small group are amassing wealth. In other words, all the business people—in fact, the whole economy—is structured for the benefit of usurious institutions and the people who own them. Now, if you come to a society where being wealthy is revered above all other things, where usury is considered noble, and where someone is making money without needing to produce anything, and a prophet or reformer comes and says that usury is forbidden, it is clear that someone who benefits from usury and charging interewst is going to oppose that prophet!" "We realise that the Imam [Zayn al-Abidin] was explaining something that we have only just been able to understand today with the gift of hindsight. He says: 'Know that the least thing you hid and the lightest burden you carry is that you knew the terror of the oppressor but smooted for him the way of deviation through your proximity to him when you approaced and your responsiveness to him when you were summoned!" "When we look into the Qur'an, we are told that in every nation that a Prophet is sent to, it is the well-off who are the first to oppose the Prophet." "They said, "Kill the sons of the faitful who are with him." They decided to kill the sons of anyone who believed in the new ideas propounded by Moses. They killed these sons so that they would not grow up to threaten their position in the future. Kill their sons to break their spirit and deprive them of hope. 'And spare their women.' Why do they say to spare their women? There is a reason for this. This is so they will have to intermarry with other peoples and their descendants will no longer be fully Israelite, to promote indecency and to use them to satisfy their own desires, to humiliate them. There are many reasons why Pharoah and his supporters did this." Harari "Now I want you to imagine that each of these teachers, after spending a year teaching this class of students, are killed by some of their own students! Each teacher comes and delivers his lesson and dies—but has he failed? Think about this carefully. Has that teacher failed? What was that teacher's goal? Didn't he want to raise his students up to the heights of learning and enlightenment? If this is the case, then the teacher did not die in failure. True, he may not see the fruits of his labours. But did he fail in his mission? Certainly not. As a teacher, his goal was to ensure that his students graduated to the next year of their studies and, with struggle and perseverange, they did. "This is a fundamental doctrine of Islam and an integral part of the Islamic worldview, namely that a happy future lies in store for the human race." "Now, some will say that, looking at history, wherever the truth is proclaimed, wherever its notes reach people's ears, it is ultimately fruitless and without result. The truth is suppressed... This is a logic that bullies want people to beliee in and to make part of their creed. They want people to believe that there is no possibility for change, that none of their actions ultimately matter, and that nothing they do will produce any positive or lasting results. This is precisely what the tyrants want." "The pages of the world's newspapers are filled with the bluffs of our national leaders for this very reason. Someone who has only a few hours, or at most days, left before his government is removed from power and he is reduced (if he is lucky) to the status of an ordinary citizen, will bluff to the very end." "al-Mansur spread the rumour that he had an enchanted mirror that showed him all of Abd Alla and Ibrahim's movements, and whose houses they were sheltering in and who was joining them. Funnily enough, this story of an enchanted mirror is virtually the same as the one told be kings like Jamshid almost two thousand years before in order to frighten their enemies into believing that they couldn't possibly do anything without these kings knowing it." "Without any supernatural acts, there are two practical conditions that must be met in order for Islam, the Qur'an, religion, and Qur'anic ideals to be realised. What are these two conditions? One of these conditions is faith (iman), namely belief on the basis of understanding, accompanied by a sense of moral duty and practical action. This is the first condition. The second condition is perseverance (sabr). It means to resist, not to withdraw, to be able to take action at the critical juncture." "The general rule is that wherever the prophets found followers of sufficient faith and perseverance, they were successful, but wherever they did not find followers with these qualities, they were not." "God beings by saying 'He sends down water from the sky whereat the valleys are flooded to [the extent of] their capacity', whether they are big or small, 'and the flood carries along a swelling scum'. The floodwaters in the valleys carry a froth on their surface. When you stand next to a flooded river, what you see first is not the water, but the scum and the froth that floats on top of it. The water is underneath... So God says: 'As for the scum, it leaves as dross, and that which profits the people remains in the earth.'.. 'That is how God draws comparisons' for you: He wants to show you how truth endures. The mission of the prophets is truth. The uprising of the prophets are truth. The falsehoods that stand against the prophets vanish. They fade away. They collapse. They are the scum. The dross. The foam on the water. When you examine them, you see that they are really nothing." "We looked at the succession of prophets as a whole from the first to the last, and we saw that these teachers of humanity were indeed successful in their overall mission.. Their teacher in the first year only took them a little of the way and he did not see them reach their goal, as he died before this came to pass. However, do we judge whether or not he succeeded as a teacher? Just because he did not stay with the children to the end of their studies, does this mean that he failed them? Of course not! He did his task. He discharged his duty. Then he handed them over to the next teacher to perform his share of the responsibilities." "It seems as though the general experience of history is this: All movements under the banner of truth and justice inevitably fall prey to falsehood and tyrannt. Yes, some people who dont comprehend the logic of the Qur'an imagine this to be the case. This notion is a pleasant balm for the tyrants and oppressors of history. They want people to believe this and it is clear that they play a role in promoting this idea. However, it is completely false. If Zayd ibn Ali was martyred and his movement broken, it does not mean that truth is destined to be brought down by falsehood. On the contrary, it shows that even though the truth is the truth, upholding it requires struggle and effort." "They had become men who sought ease, who sought comfort, who preferred survival to struggle. They had strated far from the divine teachings." "An unjust society, an unjust government, an unjust civilization is one in which structures of oppression are employed, where class differences are created, where exploitation takes place, where one person uses another. This is the 'wrongdoing village' of which the Qur'an speaks. This wrongdoing vilage refers to an unjust social order, which is used by tyrants for their own ends. God exclaims: How many of these We have smashed! 'How many a town We have smashed that had been wrongdoing, and We brought forth another people after it.' Then God brought another people, another group, another class to rule." "'So when they sighted Our punishment', the misery of the wrongdoers when they saw God's wrath, 'behold, they ran away from it.' When they sensed God's wrath and anger, they fled. God's punishment either meant when they saw a miraculous punishment descending from the heavens, or when they saw the prophets and the faithful with them gain authority over them and raise the sword of God's justice above their heads, 'behold, they ran away from it.' No sooner had a just society and civilization been established than they fled elsewhere. Go back to your palaces in which you live in luxury, go back to your societies and your cities in which you lorded your status over others—where will you go? "Why must the oppressors fall and the oppressed rise? Why must the prophetic call always triumph over its opponents? The reason is as follows: 'We did not create the sky and the earth and whatever is between them for play." "The responsibility or duty that a believer in prophethood undertakes refers to his or her following the path of the Prophet and accepting the responsibility to convey the Prophet's message. It is very easy to say these words—it is much less easy to live up to them." "Yes, it is necessary to believe in the Prophet, but believing in the Prophet also leads to the existence of certain moral duties. If these duties are fulfilled, then a person's belief is correct to the extent that he fulfils these duties." "When I look at our own time today, I ask whether this goal that the prophet wanted to reach—has it been fully achieved? That edifice that the Prophet wanted to build, has it been fully constructed? If I see that the answer to my question is 'no', meaning that the Prophet's burden has been left by the wayside, his mission has not been fulfilled, and that edifice has not been completed, then I should do my utmost to continue his work and achieve his goals. I should try to lift up this burden. And if my limbs are too weak, if I lack the strength, then I should do as much as I can and find ten other people to help me carry this load. I should find more people still to help me erect this edifice. And if I cannot finish this edifice in my lifetime, can I not at least add another row of bricks? Can I not ready its foundations? Can I not make preparations for other to do the work? If someone says that they cannot do anything at all, this is a lie." "The mission of prophethood is to reshape the world according to the teachings of Islam—this is what the prophets came to do." "The prophets are agents of division! In the sense that the prophets split society into two camps. Pay careful attention to this if you want to repeat it to someone... [An] example: A caravan is heading towards an ambush by bandits, or it is heading towards a crumbling precipice. A prophet comes and warns the caravan to turn back; some of the caravan ignore him and press on to their doom, while others listen to him, turn back, and are saved. In this way, two groups are created—division!" "Now, between these two sides, there is a person. He listens to the Prophet and sees that what he is saying is right. As much as he listens, he sees that what the Prophet says is good. On the other hand, he sees that if he joins the side of the Prophet, then he has no choice but to oppose the other side. He does not want to join the other side, because he sees they are heading towards Hell, but neither does he want to join the side of the Prophet because he can see following the Prophet is hard work! What does he do? He goes between the two sides and finds a safe quiet spot in which to pitch his tent. What sort of person is this? You tell me! This person is not with the Prophet. Anyone who is not with the Prophet is against the Prophet. Anyone who is not with Ali is against Ali. Anyone who is not with the truth is against the truth. This is what the Qur'an tells us. However, Imam Ali makes this very clear for us when he says: 'The one who stays silent is the brother of the one who approves.'" "If you are not helping the truth, even if you are not fighting against it, your inaction still places you on the side of falsehood... As a poet [Nayyer-i Tabrizi] once said: 'Said he: 'O people whoever does not follow our path, Should get up and leave our Karbala!'" "Are you ready to turn your back on the side that offers you wealth, rank, prestige, comfort, influence, and power in exchange for your loyalty? If you are ready, then consider yourself fortunate: Had you been alive at the time of Ali, you would have been one of his supporters." "As a tradition says: 'It is when a man is tested that he is ennobled or abased' and another reads: 'It is in the vicissitudes of life that a man's substance is known.'" "'As for the faithless, they are allies of one another.' Even if they are in two different camps, they are united in their hostility towards you. 'Unless you do the same, there will be strife in the land and great corruption.' Perhaps what this verse means is that if you are not united, if you do not stand together, if you do not present a united front to the enemies of God, and if you do not realise that whoever is standing between the two sides might as well be on the side of the enemy, then there will be great tribulation and corruption in the land." "Why did the Prophet come? 'I was sent to complete the best of morals'—the Prophet came to make human beings; he came to nurture something called humanity in people. Through what means or by what way did the Prophet set about making human beings? How did the Prophet promote humanity? Did he establish a philosophical school of thought? Did he build a temple or place of worship? No! In order to produce human beings, he made a human-making factory! The Prophet was willing to wait ten or twenty years to succeed, but he did not want to produce just one or two, or even twenty human beings, he wanted to create a fully automated factory that would continously produce perfect human beings." "What exactly is a human-making factory? It is an Islamic society and system of government... Islamic society is a society which is ruled by God, and whose laws are the laws of God. God sits at the top of the pyramid, and beneath God is all of humanity and the humans." "In non-Islamic and non-religious societies, even the people who want to be good cannot be good." "Prophets come in order to make something. When they have made it, it is like a human factory; it does not make Muslims by ones, by tens, or even by hundreds, it makes them in generations." "This verse gives a clear response: 'Don't make a mistake! Their hearts will not be softened towards you! Those who believe the opposite to you, those for whom your beliefs and your faith are detrimental to their interests, those who want to destroy your religion and your faith, they will never be your friend!' O Hatib, you fool! Do not imagine that just because you help them now, tomorrow they will help you—no, by God! The more you help them, the more power they gain over you. The more you help them, the better they can oppress you and do you wrong." "The Islamic world must try to organise its relations with the non-Islamic world and the world that is not part of this Ummah so that it does not even fractionally fall under the latter's control, or even fractionally fall under the influence of its ideas." "This story dates to the time of Imam al-Baqir or Imam as-Sadiq, when the Muslim world typically used Roman coinage. The Romans threatened to cut-off this supply of coins, and the Muslims were left helpless. The Imam advised the Caliph to strike his own coins." "The Islamic society and the Muslim Ummah do not have the right to form relations with the non-Islamic world except from a position of strength and superiority. In other words, the connection between the Muslim Ummah and a non-Muslim nation should never be based on exploitation." "There must be a point in the fabric of that society in which those powers are concentrated, a point to which all of these powers are connected, from which all of these powers take inspiration and direction." "For example, look at carpet weavers. If there wasn't someone supervising and planning how they should weave, how will this carpet turn out? One side with be Turkoman and the other will be Kurdish!" "[As Ali said] No one sits down with this Qur'an save that he rises with an increase or a decrease; an increase in guidance or a decrease in blindness." "Do not look at how their blocs are opposed to one another, because insofar as they are against you, they are the same." "'Yet you see those in whose hearts is a sickness rushing to them'. They rush to join the side of the enemies of the faith; they don't just go over to the other side, they rush over to them; they are not content being beside them, they want to be amongst them! And if you ask them: "Why are you working so closely with the enemies of the religion? Those who you know are the enemies of your faith? Never mind not opposing them, why are you they friend?" If you ask them this question, they respond, 'saying "We fear lest a turn of fortune should visit us'". They say, if we do not become their friends, we are worried that some harm will come to us... (see how familiar these words are even today?)." "What is God's response to these people? 'Maybe God will bring about a victory' for the faitful 'or a command from Him'—or something will happen by His will that is to their benefit—'and then they will be regretful for what they kept secret in their hearts'. Then they will say: 'What a terrible mistake we made! If we had known that the faithful would triumph and become strong like this, we would never have cooperated with the enemies of faith and humiliated ourselves like this!'" "'Are these really the same people who made these promises?' 'Are these the same people who said they were with you?' God says: 'Their works have failed, and they have become losers.'" "The issue is one of dependency—Muslims should not be dependent upon or follow non-Muslim powers. They must stand on their own two feet." "When you sit in the majilis of Imam Husayn and shed tears, you are doing something good—it is good and proper to cry for him! However, you are doing something bad indeed if you believe that shedding these tears is enough to qualify for wilayah." "The Penitents (Tawwabin) gathered at the grave of Husayn ibn Ali and spent one, two, or three days weeping for him. But what was the outcome of their weeping? The outcome was they made a pact of blood and self-sacrifice. They said: We are going to the battlefield and we are never going to turn back. We pledge not to return alive! This is crying for Husayn—and no one opposes this!" "Find the wali, recognise God's wali, that person who is the rightful wali of the Islamic society, and identify him. Once you have identified him, then your thought, your practice, and your spirituality must be guided by him; connect yourself to him, follow him. If his struggle is your struggle, if his fight is your fight, if his friend is your friend, if his enemy is your enemy, if his side is your side, then you have wilayah. Do you see?" "So, when a society has wilayah, what happens then? To put it in a single sentence: This society becomes like a dead person who has been brought back to life." "A society without wilayah has potential, but it is unrealised, wasted, fading away, or—worse still—being used to suppress human flourishing: It has a brain, and the brain is thinking, but its thoughts are of corruption, of murder, of destruction, of misery, of exploitation and tyranny." "A society which prays—meaning a society in which all of its elements are mindful of God and remembers God—creates a wave." "While the caliph was quite literally giving away land grants and living a life of opulence and excess, a descendant of Imam Hasan by the name of Yahya ibn Abd Allah Alawi was fighting against tyranny and oppression in the mountains of Tabaristan, and he and his family had only a single cloak between them." "Islam does not predict a day in the future when there will be no need for a state or government in society—this is unlike some other schools of thought which foretell the advent of an ideal society, one of whose features will be the absence of any form of government or state apparatus. Islam does not accept such a view." "Here is a fundamental difference between Shia and Sunni thought. We say that 'those vested with authority' are those who meet the God-given criteria for leadership. On the other hand, they do not consider this a necessary condition. I cannot say I have thoroughly researched the contents of their works of jurisprudence. However, what they frequently say in their public statements is that anyone who occupies a position of power and authority should be respected and recognised as legitimate." "The word taghut does not refer to any one thing... Yes, it is the name of an idol, but not any specific idol. Sometimes that idol is your own self. Sometimes, that idol is your wealth. Sometimes, that idol is seeking an ordinary and comfortable life. Sometimes, that idol is your ambition. Sometimes, that idol is the person who takes you by the hand, closes your eyes, and takes you wherever he pleases. Sometimes, this idol is gold and silver, unliving metal. Sometimes, this idol is a human being, your nearest and dearest. Somtimes, it is the social order. Sometimes, it is the law... What is the relationship between taghut and Satan? Is there any relation between the two? Yes! Satan is the taghut, and the taghut is Satan." "This Satan, whose story we know and who we curse almost every day of our lives—poor guy!—is just the first of the devils. He is not the only devil. In fact, he may not have even been the first, and he certainly was not the last!" "If you submit to the wilayah of Satan, this means that Satan gains control over all the useful, creative and fruitful energies that are contained within your existence... Everything that is in your existence, all of your energy, your creativity, your agency, your brilliance, will fall into their grasp. And when all of your existence is in their grasp, it is easy for them to drive you down the same path that they chose, and take you to the same destination as they reached." "If they have to sacrifice you for their own ends, they will sacrifice you without hesitation." "The Umayyads always made sure to appoint the vilest, cruellest, and most obedient of their servants to govern the city in order to deal with these elements, [whether] by outright persecuting them, by spreading negative propaganda, or by presiding over the pauperisation of the city's people, in order to corrupt them and lead them astray. Why did they do these things? Because that resistance group were only found in this city [Kufah] and not in others. Because they wanted to smash the basis of this resistance and make use of this city for their own ends. Because they could not bend these people to their will, they destroyed the land which made them instead." "You must always try to draw a lesson from history! Do not content yourself with stories and tales from the past. See instead what message history has for us today." "Satan only has power over those who accept his wilayah, just like the authority of Hajjaj was only over those who sat and listened to his harsh speech." "Satan makes promises to them about their future, but it is all lies; he inflicts far-fetched hopes upon them and, in the end, all he offers them is deceit and delusion." "Can we not both be Muslims and under the wilayah of taghut? Can we not imagine a Muslim living under Satan's authority, while still serving the All-Merciful? ... There are many people there, so even if you want to turn back, you are carried along by the crowd. You want to be good, you want to live a good life, you want to live like a human being, you want to remain a Muslim and die a Muslim, but you cannot. In other words, the currents of society have caught you and are taking you with them—there is nothing you can do to resist... Not only can you not resist, worse still is the fact that sometimes you don't even realise what is happening." "When we study the time of the Umayyads and the Abbasids, we see that the Islamic world was full of energy, we see the amount of knowledge and learning that was taking place in Islamic society; what great physicians there were, what great translators! ... If we want to be honest, did all of that activity ultimately end up benefitting humanity and Islamic society? What does Islamic society have of this heritage ten centuries later? And what has it lost? Is it for any other reason than the fact that all of these efforts, even if they were valuable for the benefit of all humanity, ultimately took place under the auspices of taghut. As the poet Hafiz says: "I shall never grasp the jewel of Solomon, Lest one day it falls into the hands of Ahriman." "Even from the perspective of learning, literature, and the issues in which the world takes pride today, even if this had delayed work by a hundred years, it would have been of more benefit to the human race. This is because humanity would have grown, Islam would have flourished, and human energy and potential would be channelled into the correct path. On the other hand, under the Abbasids, even through great strides were being made in science, what about individual morals and societal ethics? Is it ok to leave this so weak so that class divisions remain an entrenched component of society?" "It is exactly like the disgraceful and corrupt civilizations of the world today. The world powers boast of their scientific discoveries, they boast of their wonderous inventions, they boast about every medicine, every formula, every undertaking. This is from the perspective of science. However, from the perspective of humanity and ethics, nothing has changed from a thousand years ago. Today we see fabulous wealth side by side with terribly hunger and poverty... Great scientific advancements are taking place, but there is no concern for the values of humanity or virtue; huge class differences remain, and at the same time as one part of the world is starving, the other part eats itself to death." "You can see how when the wilayah of taghut or Satan governs a society, rules over its people, and holds the reins of power, it makes use of the energies of its people, and of their potential, but how?" "If the car is taking you in the opposite direction to Nishapur, even if all the passengers in this car are polite, considerate, and respectful, it is still not going to get you to Nishapur—it's going to take you to Quchan! Therefore, when there is a society organised under the wilayah of taghut, human beings will not reach their destination. They cannot be Muslims."

What do the Ukraine, 'Israel', South Korea, and Taiwan have in common? They are all governed by the same devilish equation. Divide and conquer. As Vladimir Putin said, _"The formula they apply has been known from time immemorial – divide and rule. There is nothing new here."_ Or as Nasrallah said, _"it ['Israel'] was established for the express purpose of dividing and partitioning the Muslim world."_ Or as Kim Il-Sung said, _"U.S. imperialism’s basic strategy for world aggression at the present stage is to destroy the small and divided revolutionary socialist countries."_ Or as Mao said to the Palestinians, putting it all together, _"You are the front gate, and we are the rear. They created Israel for you and Formosa [Taiwan] for us."_ This tactic has been known since time immemorial, as Putin said, but damned if it don't still work a devil's charm. If you sow division _inside_ a city (or a world), then they'll open the gates for you, sometimes without firing a shot. It doesn't even take much of the population, just a few dumb, devious, or naive enough. The Trojan Horse metaphor is apt because this is indeed how 'Greek' democracy works under the White Empire. Democracy™ is a system they know how precisely to corrupt (they themselves have legalized corruption) and if you bring it inside your nation, bankers and CIA agents and soldiers pile out. You're in debt and occupied before you know it and if you dare elect someone they don't like, they'll rig the election, wreck your economy, and lawfare or warfare them out. It really is a foolproof system. It's fooled people over and over and the proof is in the pudding. Almost the whole world got cooked, except for the people they're attacking now. Those they call 'authoritarians', meaning just that they claim sovereignity outside the Empire. That's what the widely propagandized drama of 'democracies vs. authoritarians' means in the real world. It's anyone claiming their own authority vs. a demos driven crazy from without. And if you're wondering where you are, if you're not actively fighting the White Empire, you're in it. Good luck. They reap what they sow, and the White Empire cultivates dissidents and activists and religious fundamentalists and entire breakaway provinces or states if it can get them. Hence in Ukraine they USAID Sorosified liberals, doing it for the 'democracy', and CIA neo-Nazis, doing it for the White Fuhrer (an actual person). In Palestine, they used Zionists—once a fringe within the Jewish population—to corrupt the Jews in general and frack an entire region. They'll use corrupted _takfiri_ groups like ISIS or the Wahabbis in Saudi Arabia too. They're largely agnostic, any traitor will do. In South Korea they used oligarchs and a military dictatorship and in Taiwan they use the breakaway losers of a civil war. It's the same formula. Add shit, and stir. It's important to understand all of these 'conflicts' as civil wars fomented from without. Ukrainians—including Zelensky—speak or understand Russian and were one people with Russians. They're naturally connected to Russia, as is Europe, but this 'America' (10,000 km away) does not want, so here we are. 'American' foreign policy has been on autocratic autopilot since the 1980s and it's unclear if they know the USSR has fallen. They're still trying to foment civil war within the USSR and now they've got what they wished for. They'll happy to fight to the last Ukrainian. Who cares about a little Slavic civil war? Certainly not the Nazis that won. Take Palestine, also, as the White Empire did. Jews lived peacefully in the Muslim World (unlike in Europe) until Palestine was turned into a Jewish ghetto to dump European Jewry. It's well established that Europe didn't want to give them their homes back and 'America' didn't want them either, so they used their own mythology to get the Jews to deport themselves, and volunteer their grandchildren as conscripts in the imperial army. This is not to absolve the Jews, but to condemn the White Empire entire. Some Jews were native to the region, but from that foothold they were used to divide (multiply) and conquer an entire region. Then take South Korea, as the Empire did, or Afghanistan or Vietnam where they tried. They setup puppet governments in all these places, which didn't even have to be 'democracies'. South Korea was a brutal military dictatorship for many years, until people protesting (and dying) got them this current fig-leaf democracy, where almost every President ends up in jail because the society is so corrupt and their military is under the command of foreigners. Korea is the most obviously divided and conquered. It's cut in half and the 'American' imperialists use the southern part as a conscript colony. Finally, take Taiwan, as the KMT did after a Chinese civil war, which is still going on until the whole is reunited. Both China and Taiwan claim to _be_ China and both are populated by people that consider themselves Chinese. Reunification would be much easier if 'America' wasn't trying to keep them divided. All these divisions are not coincidences. They are not unrelated local problems, they are an intentional, international strategy. This is the White Empire in action, or more specifically, inaction. 'America' is the most indirect incarnation of the beast, but even the British and Dutch used local squabbles to cobble an international empire together. As Shakespeare said, _"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."_ If people are fighting amongst themselves, they're not fighting _them_. If you feed different factions with petty privileges (Nobel prizes, titles, book contracts, celebrity) and other factions with raw weapons, you can get entire populations to throw themselves at their neighbors, or even their family. It's important to understand that none of these 'conflicts' would be happening without imperial meddling. We live under one White Empire and World War II never ended for most of us, what they call the Cold War was, for us, just World War Too, and what they call the War On Terror was World War III and is still going hot and heavy. None of the people I listed would be fighting each other naturally, without someone thousands of kilometers away pitting brother against brother for their own benefit. It is simply common sense to not fight with a larger neighbor, unless you think you have someone even larger behind you. And you don't even need a majority of the population to think this way, just a fraction willing to betray the other for petty privilege, or just to get one over on their local enemy. You can see this in Ukraine, which should have and did have decent relations with its giant neighbor until distant 'America' intervened. Ukraine had a Russia-friendly government and even Zelensky said, in 2014, that _"Russia and Ukraine really are brotherly nations."_ He was Russian speaking. But that Ukrainian government was couped and the corrupt comedian began persecuting Russian speakers and banning political parties and religions and so on, before throwing the entire male population into a meat-grinder and cancelling elections in a bloodbath of corruption. It makes no sense for Ukraine to be fighting Russia, and it made sense for them to take a deal in 2022 when it was offered, but because the country has been lobotomized by foreign interests, it keeps lumbering forward. They have been divided from their natural instinct for self-preservation and conquered, not by Russia, but by the White Empire. You can see it in Palestine, also, where Jews were given refuge by Muslims from European predation, but their desire to _be_ Europeans made them worse than Nazis in the end. It makes no sense for such a minority population to anger everyone in the neighborhood, but with White Empire behind them, that's how they're behaving. It's the same for South Korea, which is literally split along family lines and which really does not want to be divided in half, or for Taiwan, which is deeply integrated with the mainland. None of these conflicts would be happening without the White Empire fomenting them, while pretending it's 'just helping'. Helping themselves, more like it. The benefit of divide and conquer is that you don't actually have to conquer much. You get _other_ conquered people to do the fighting for you. You get them to fight each other, and they're not fighting you. All you have to do is give a narrow class of hyenas some scraps and you can take the lion's mass. And if you let a certain class use your weapons against their enemies (usually the masses), they'll line up to betray each other, for petty advantage. This worked since time immemorial, as Putin said, but now it isn't working because of people like him, like Nasrallah, like the Kims, or like the CPC. Who are refusing division and conquering the White Empire instead. All White Wars have division and conquest in common. But there is increasingly common cause in uniting and defeating them.

Donald Trump seen through the fence of the arena at the UFC Freedom 250 event.__Robert LeBlanc for__ TIME In Ze 'Americans' words, the ceasefire has temporarily ceased, whatever that means, from people that lie easier than they sleep. 'America' was violating from day one, 'America' is a treaty violation, the false come true. If those 40 Days were Iran War I, these daze it's Iran War II. History seems to be repeating in tighter and tighter loops as the White Empire (entire) goes down the tubes. Whereas George Bush had to respawn to attack Iraq again, Trump does not require Trump Jr to attack Iran again, he's just doing it. But the historical conditions couldn't be more different. Between Iraq I and II, Iraq was made weaker and 'America' was made stronger. But precisely the opposite has happened in the brief MOUment between attacks on Iran. Now it's 'America's' economy that's running on fumes and fraud while Iran's is running on _improved_ oil exports and _mashallah_. As Trump said, _"we run out of reserves in about four weeks, there would be a time when you wouldn't be able to get it, and you wanna see bedlam."_ Yes I do, actually, I wanna put this Empire to bed now. This is not to say Iran's economy is good, it's not, but Iranians are used to bad, while 'Americans' are not. 'America' is a nation of treatlerites unused to sacrifice while Iranians mourn Ibn Hussein like he just died, not to mention Khamenei, who did just die. There are millions of Iranians _and_ Iraqis in the streets now, ready to ride. However, on the other side, if gas prices go too high, 'Americans' (as much as these least revolutionary people are capable) will riot. The 'American' administration knows this, but they haven't had an original thought in decades, they're effectively on autopilot. Any incoming President can choose where the bombs will go, but the bombs must fly. What's an Empire if it's not imperializing? Like a great white shark, the degenerate White Empire has to move forward or die. Ha ha, that all rhymed. But this is not the past, when 'America' could fight its own wars, and when its military technology was the horror of the world. Iran is not Iraq and 2026 is not 2003. Now it's 'America's' military that's depleted and has no place to hide. Their best radars have been blown into the ground, their best planes have been blown out of the sky, they've been periodically pulling soldiers out of the freezer and lying about how and when they died. Unlike Iraq, where 'America' could mass men and matériel in the open, now all their base belong to us. Iran has more men, better technology, air superiority, and global support. Meanwhile 'America's' overweight men and overwrought matériel are out of place and out of date. **We're in** the age of underground cities and unmanned missiles**and 'America' is trying to park manned aircraft in the open, use them as floating artillery pieces, and wondering why everything is broken. OK Boomer. Explosions.** As the rules of RISK go, tie goes to a defender, and Iran has tied a Gordian Knot around the Strait of Hormuz. It's not just fire/speedboat control over the Strait, as Esfandyar Batmanghelidj says, _"the issue at hand isn't really Iran's ability to dominate a small stretch of water, but rather**Iran's ability to disrupt or damage any systemically important structure, facility, or complex in the region** with weapons systems that cannot be degraded through anything less than a full-blown invasion. Simply as a function of military capabilities and the target landscape, there are tens, if not hundreds, of chokepoints in the Gulf that Iran can hit." _Of course, **Alexander _did_ cut the Gordian Knot with brute force to rule Asia and whatnot, but Trump is no Alexander leading from the front, he's just a bigot with a butter knife taking potshots from afar. Alexander effectively became Persian in the end (to the chagrin of his men) and that's all that's going to happen to the Persian Gulf. Tie goes to the knot.** This is not the Iraq War II, where Iraq was isolated and could easily be subdued. Now '_America_ ' is isolated and subject to economic pressure and death from above. Their stolen land was only spare economic consequences _already_ by China reducing their usage. But now the Chinese teapots are back on and the body-check from physical reality is in the mail. 'America' blew its strategic reserves manipulating the market and their Cushing Reserve is drawing sludge and old boots. They're calling gluttony a glut and not preparing for what's coming. The very real physical shortages cannot be reduced by pricing alone anymore, actual shortages will ensue, something 'Americans' are simple not used to. Bombing Iran doesn't relieve this pressure. It only increases it because 'America' cannot retake its bases let alone occupy Iran. They're like Xerxes, unable to cross the Hellespont, and whipping the ocean. Again and again, this isn't Iraq, where they could just park in Saudi and Kuwait and drive across. Iran is behind both a moat and a mountain and has air superiority. There's not much 'America'—10,000 kilometers away, mind you—can do about it. This is what former CENTCOM Commander Spuds McKenzie called 'the tyranny of geography' and what the rest of the map calls freedom. As I said, the first Battle of Hormuz ended and Iran won, if 'America' wants to take it back, they have to fight another one. And here we are, without the martyred even in the ground and the White Empire still wanna be starting something. It seems crazy but the alternative is ending as an Empire. The Great White Empire has to move blood and oil across its gills constantly or sink in the muck. So it's understandable why they're fighting, even if their victory conditions are impossible. If they keep exchanging fire across the Gulf they collapse their own economy, even if Iran doesn't decisively defeat them. But what else are they going to do? Empires stay imperializing until they're done. Historically speaking, however, this war is a foregone conclusion. 'America' cannot overthrow Iran, you cannot decapitate a body politic that marches, now, on its own. As Bikrum Gill said, Iran has already won the first anti-_imperial_ war, after Vietnam _et al_ won many anti-colonial ones, and the Empire is trying to strike back but literally _does not have the energy for it_. The more they struggle, the more they choke. The die was really cast decades if not centuries ago. The White Empire cannot stand for anyone to be independent and Iran will not kneel to anyone so here we are. They are caught between Iraq and a hard place. To control the seas, Iran just has to stand their ground, but to retake control, the Empire has to literally move mountains. Godspeed to the Iranians. Death to 'America'. _Pictures of the moon and Baby Cat for paying subs. You mostly don't need to pay, but if makes a difference if you does._ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

Khamenei's funeral is attended by millions while 'America's' 250th is barely remembered. The 'Americans' had a cage fight on the lawn followed by an empty state fair. Meanwhile seemingly everyone in Iran has turned out in procession and prayer. These things are not the same and the world is not the same. The old world is dying and the new world is not struggling to be born. It's already here. Iran's funeral feels like a rebirth and 'America's' birthday felt like a funeral. This is a tale of two funerals, which I will tell with photographs, to spare me thousands of words. JK, there's thousands of words including prescient ones from Khamenei at the end. Iran's funeral for Khamenei will probably be the largest in history, larger than his predecessor Khomenei's or the great General Soleimani's, which were both up there. Iranians are funerary luminaries. You can tell a lot by how people bury their dead—indeed this is how we begin to mark civilization—and Iranians _really_ bury their dead. They're _still_ burying Husayn ibn Ali, centuries hence. Remembering is rebirth in this way. It keeps the dead living, it keeps the expiring inspiring. Like General Qassem Soleimani's funeral (who Trump also martyred), Ayatollah Khamanei's funeral is taking place across multiple sites, Tehran, nearby Qom, and cities in Iraq. In Tehran his funeral truck—carrying his body, his grandchild, his daughter, daughter-in-law, and son-in-law—couldn't even make it through the initial route, which was so thronged with mourners. The people are waving the red flag of revenge, which says "_Ya Litharat al Hussein_ " ("O avengers of Hussein"). This refers to Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who was martyred along with his family rather than submit to a tyrant. In contrast, you can see the tyrant Trump standing in a train going nowhere in stolen North Dakota, with a bussed in crowd for his busted approval rating. The streets of Tehran have, in fact, been full of people since Khamenei died. People have been protesting _for_ 'the regime' continously since his assassination. For his funeral, the streets were absolutely packed. Via Meanwhile, 'Americans' seem to have given up on protesting their forever wars, which is actually a bad sign for them. It means 'Americans' have given up on 'America'. Their choices are just genocide or diet-genocide, pro-war war criminals or anti-war war criminals, people in the Epstein files or other people in the Epstein files, rainbow corruption or White corruption. 'America's' ruling oligarchs have given up on even lying convincingly to their people and their people can't be convinced to show up, either in protest or support. They've just given up. It's all circuses and no bread, and the government can't even pay for the circuses, they're all corporate sponsored. When Trump organized a 'Great American State Fair' to celebrate 250 years of 'America' people just didn't turn up. I've been to state fairs and they're packed, this 'national' state fair was a ghosttown for a dead nation. It was literally a lot of empty chairs representing the states that will soon, _inshallah_ , splinter off. The 'American' government obviously doesn't care about its people and its people obviously don't care about it. Trump has the lowest approval rating in history and his Iran war started with the lowest approval rating in history and the US Congress is slightly above testicular cancer but the American regime has decided it just doesn't care. You're getting neoliberalism or neo-Nazism and if you don't like it you can go elsewhere. This is a superpower in itself, this shamelessness, but it's a one-time use thing. If you give up on the consent of the governed you don't get it and then what are you? A brittle regime like you call everybody else. **'Americans' have always been a selfish people but there was a sort of _shared_ selfishness, personified by the 4th of July.** As a young man growing up in 'America', I spent one fourth of July when I must have been about 14 drinking many shots of Absolut Vodka (really my first time drinking), getting violently ill, and my 'friends' leaving me in the garage to go watch the fireworks. That's 'America' for you. 'America' is just a bunch of atomized people run out of fuel, slowly melting down into radioactive waste. Still capable of killing, but no real energy left. Contrast this to the Iranian people, who are bereft but have not left their streets for an instant. This funeral is the culmination of _months_ of people being out in the streets for Khamenei. It's only now that Khamenei has joined them. Rather than disappating their energy, these acts of collecting mourning renew them. It is renewable energy. I realize, as I get older, that funerals are not for the dead, they're for the living, they stitch people together around a wound rather than leaving a wound festering. And this funeral comes after Muharram, the commemoration of the martydom of Husayan ibn Ali. Iranians must be positively _vibrating_ with spiritual energy. From the funeral in Qom Constrast this with 'Americans', who are just loitering around, waiting to leave. Trump is putting up a bunch of temporary styrofoam architecture, organizing (really robbing) a bunch of poorly planned, tacky events, and the only real spirit left is mean-spiritedness and grift. 'Americans' were always colonizing, genociding, bastards, but they were good at it, and good at selling it. But this really feels like a going out of business sale. What is even left of these people? They're pathetic. For a contrast, here is IRGC Commander Hassan Hassanzadeh (he's basically Hussein twice) picking up garbage himself and Jewish gambling heiress and mega-corrupter Miriam Adelson being taken out of an evacuated event before everybody else. One people take out the trash and another are trash people. This attitude isn't new. Look at Mount Rushmore, the Six Grandfathers mountain the invasive Americans defaced and where they _still_ haven't cleared up their waste. They just left their mess there to this day. That's rubble underneath. Returning to the present day, both events had to deal with high heat, but they dealt with them differently. Iran dealt by planning and collectively caring for each other, and 'America' dealt by not planning, using the military and police to evacuate, and then the people not listening because they don't trust anybody. Telling, isn't it? 0:00 /0:29 1× These people, these places are not the same. You can see it in these two events plain. 'America's' birthday is like a barely attended funeral, while Iran's funeral is hugely attended revival of faith. 'America's' regime visibly doesn't care about its people, and its people visibly don't care about it. Meanwhile Iran's revolutionary government is, if anything, _behind_ its people in their desire for vengeance as the Islamic Revolution is reborn in the streets. This is a tale of two funerals, and—as sad as I feel seeing, especially, the little coffin—don't mourn for Khamenei and his family. Or—since this is honestly impossible for me, what am I saying—mourn for them like Hussein and his family, who are still living and still inspiring resistance against tyranny. As the Quran says, _"Do not think of those who have been killed in God's cause as dead. They are alive, and well provided for by their Lord."_ And rejoice for 'Death to America' which, I think, has already happened, the signal has just not reached their meagre and distant brains. I will leave you with some words, at length, from Khamenei, because he was (until they killed him) my favorite living philosopher. In his collected sermons from 1974, called _Islamic Beliefs: Reclaiming The Narrative_ , he said, > **This is a fundamental doctrine of Islam and an integral part of the Islamic worldview, namely that a happy future lies store for the human race.** Why? Because God created the Heavens and the Earth in accordance with truth, and the human being's very nature (_fitrah_) is to pursue the truth... > > Now, some will say that, looking at history, wherever the truth is proclaimed, wherever its notes reach people's ears, it is ultimately fruitless and without result. The truth is suppressed... After all, even in their own times, the prophets were not able to achieve anything and, ultimately, it seems that falsehood always prevails over truth... Therefore, the truth-seekers and truth-proclaimers of this world should keep their swords sheathed, sit down, and do nothing, because taking action is pointless... This is the logic that many people follow. And it is a logic that is pleasing to the world's tyrants. Then, speaking from the 1970s as if he was reading the headlines today, Khamenei said, > The pages of the world's newspapers are filled with the bluffs of our national leaders for this very reason. **Someone who only has a few hours, or at most days, left before his government is removed from power will bluff to the very end.** He will say that he is defeating his enemies, overcoming his opponents, that everything is under control and that his government will continue to rule regardless. He was saying this about the dictator of Iran, who he defeated in life, but it applies to the Great Satan, 'America', who he defeats in death. What are the conditions for success in this life, for the defeat of tyrants? Khamenei said, > **This general rule is that wherever the prophets found followers of sufficient faith and perseverance, they were successful.** Mourners hold portraits of Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei while gathered in Islamic Revolution Square for the funeral procession of the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Monday, July 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) People might say, speaking now about the great battle still raging, that the Al Aqsa Flood was a waste, that it wiped men of the caliber of Khamenei, Nasrallah, and Sinwar away, along with a river of innocent blood like his granddaughter Zahra, Hind Rajab, the innocent children of Minab and so many more, and what for? 'Israel' still stands, 'America' is still grandstanding, still celebrating while millions mourn. But this is the vital lesson that Khamenei was trying to teach, this is the point he was trying to preach, to build a community of faith and perserverance and now all can see it, in the streets, while the evil Empire we can also see, in ignomious retreat. **On October 7th, 1974 Khamenei 'predicted' the Al Aqsa Flood of October 7th, 2023 not because he was a prophet but because he followed the prophet and the prophet followed God who _'understands the principles on which the world and human history operate better than we do.'_ **Speaking to mortals through parables, > God begins by saying 'He sends down water from the sky whereat the valleys are flooded to their capacity,' whether they are big or small, 'and the flood carries along a swelling scum'. The floodwaters in the valleys carry a froth on their surface. When you stand next to a flooded river, what you see first is not the water, but the scum and the froth that floats on top of it. The water is underneath. It is the froth that is visible first and foremost. The water is hidden. Does this not describe the Al Aqsa Flood, and the media and mental tumult of watching it unfold, especially through media and 'international' institutions reveled to be such scum? It certainly seems like the scum of the Earth are the most visible, but waters run deep. Khamenei answers our questions about today from far away, saying, > So God says: 'As for the scum, it leaves as dross, and that which profits the people remains in the earth. That is how God draws comparisons.' The scum disappears and becomes nothing. There is no always froth on rivers. It is there for a moment, then gone... 'That is how God draws comparisons' for you: He wants to show you how truth endures. The mission of the prophets is truth. The uprisings of the prophets are truth. The falsehoods that stand against the prophets vanish. They fade away. They collapse. They are the scum. The dross. The foam on the water. When you examine them, you see that they are really nothing. Then as he concluded, addressing our ongoing October 7th as much as the one he was speaking from, > Today's lecture is at an end. I implore you to pay attention in these coming days, as we are now entering the main and most important topic of the series.

This is my old friend the painted stork and a juvenile kabaragoya hanging out in the storm drains of Colombo. Here you can see the mix of verdant nature and vile artificial that characterizes the place. I say old friend, but that's not true. The storks actually hate me because I stop to photograph them and they feel the need to move, even though I'm at 10x zoom. The kabaragoyas (water monitors) are more ambivalent to my presence. A big kabaragoya is like a small crocodile and their bite (and reportedly whip) is septic. I move away from them. There used to be a _giant_ , obviously pregnant momma that would cross my path but I think she's popped. I haven't seen her in a while and there's suddenly a lot of little kabaragoyas. I sometimes wonder what these guys eat, but since the rains (and since I brought my son walking, who pays more attention) I can see. The drains are _teeming_ with fish these days, and also a few water snakes. I also wonder who eats them, and we could see (I think) a Brahimini Kite (what my kids call an Ea-Gull). These raptors certainly have the 100x zoom and talons to capture any of these things, though I have yet to see them swoop into the drains. We also saw a painted stork circling, and a helicopter, which are more mundane. Lately the lotuses have been blooming from the muck, which is a metaphor of sorts. It's something beautiful that emerges from something yuck, which is kinda how life springs eternal from the storm drains of Colombo. ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

The White Empire (America, Israel, whatever) is doing the old treaty with White people shit, which is using them to violate. The entire history of 'America' is treaty violations like this, that is how 'America' was created. So it was with the Oslo Accords, trying to create an ersatz 'Israel' out of Palestine. If you're signing a treaty with White Empire, ignore the ink and look at the page. The ink fades and the White Empire surrounds you, like the white of a page. Iran, however, is not in the same straits. They surround the Strait of Hormuz, whatever any piece of paper says, and they still fire at any ship that strays. The whole imperial trick is controlling facts on the ground while pretending like control is on a page, but now the script has been flipped on them. While White markets trade based on a paper MOU, Iran has physical control of the Strait of Hormuz. 'America' is moving imaginary markets in Iran is moving real crude. So forget the black ink and even the white page. What's moving on blue? ## White Position On June 30th, the NYTimes (citing Kpler) said _"Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz bounced back on Monday after a weekend slowdown prompted by a flare-up in strikes between Iran and United States. According to data from Kpler, a maritime tracking firm, 40 ships transited the waterway, up from 24 the previous day and 39 on Saturday."_ I believe this is what's called a 'dead cat bounce' or a 'sucker rally'. As Raymond F. DeVoe Jr said in 1986, _"If you threw a dead cat off a 50-story building, it might bounce when it hit the sidewalk. But don't confuse that bounce with renewed life. It is still a dead cat."_ If you zoom out to a similar but not same metric (via Michael McDonough's Bloomberg) you can see the dead cat bounce that is the MOU. If you take the MOU literally, that was Empire hitting the ground that Iran now controlled. The White markets confused this with 'renewed life', immediately lowering prices, but there was only a brief dead cat bounce in supply. America has since clowned around again and the cat is heading to ground again. It may bounce a few times here and there, but the trajectory is clear. Here's the same graph a few days later, so you can see that things haven't improved. As Monty Python said about the dead parrot that is White control of the Persian Gulf, > 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!! 'America' is trying to nail the ex-parrot that is expatriate control of the Middle East to its blown up perch and it doesn't work. They can move markets, sure, but they can't move crude. They can manipulate media, sure, but physical reality has the last word. The pantomime that is Trump saying some dumb shit, the media smartening it up, and the markets reacting like something actually happened is looking increasingly pantsless now. The Empire has no clothes, the parrot is dead, the dead cat is nearing its last bounce. What makes things worse is that _they're making things worse_. By using morons, media, and markets to manipulate prices down they are _increasing_ demand while supply is still down, and still has a four-month hole to plug, and many years of reconstruction to be done. I only did Economics 101 and I honestly should not have paid attention. All the money seems to be in ignoring the basics, like low supply + high demand = higher prices. **White economists are just fawning courtiers, all their analysts and traders are just entrail pickers, and if the mad king says 'jump' they just say 'how high'. The White Empire is really trying to rule by fiat over a finite commodity. Let's see how that goes.** To cover up the Empire's lack of clothes, 'America' is pumping sludge and old boots out of their Cushing storage and their Strategic Petroleum Reserves are stressing the salt mines below. They are at or near the operational minimums for many pumping and transport facilities and, instead of rationing or behaving rationally, they are _increasing_ demand to score points politically. _The strait is open! We're winning! Everything is fine!_ This works suprisingly well until it unsurprisingly doesn't. You can bullshit for a while, but every bull has horns. I've only done personal shipping, but even I understand that delivery takes months. So even if the Strait was fully open (it's not), it would take _months_ for the supply crunch to uncrunch. Today's prices are not reflecting anything but Trump's Narcissism. The only thing that prevented imperial (and unfortunately, thus, global) economic collapse _already_ was China stabilizing the world economy. People used to say that capitalism was superior because markets were good at processing information, but I have yet to see it. The capitalist 'markets' are not pricing this in and are instead depending on invisible communism. The White markets are acting like the problem is solved (it's not) and that it's solved right now (certainly not). They're smoking the joint before they rolled it because they're high on their own demand. Trump's saying "I'm king of the world!" and holding the White markets over the bow of the Titanic, with the iceberg already in the rear view. How many mixed metaphors is that, three? I'll stop now. ## Iran's Position Iran is in a very different position. Possession is nine-tenths of the law, and they possess Hormuz by Iranternational Law. The Islamic Republic just has to stay in Iran whereas 'America' has nowhere to stay since its Persian Gulf bases have been obliterated. 'America' can skulk around the Indian Ocean and at its vassal's houses, but for how long, and at what cost? As I've said before, the battle for Hormuz has already been won by Iran. If you're not happy with the war you ordered, you have to order another. What we have happening today is a tug-of-war to determine politically what has been established militarily. The MOU understood this, but 'America' just doesn't get it, so the tug of war goes on. 'America' tries pulling ships through some 'Omani' route (a White route in a turban) and Iran keeps pushing them back to the Iranian one, as agreed upon. These guys cite themselves as a source, but it's more up to date than the reliable PortWatch As you can see in this graph from Commodity Context, firstly there's the green route of the International Maritime Organization, just to get the seafarers out, we can ignore that for our purposes. The tug of war is between the Iranian corridor (dark blue) and 'Omani' route (yellow). You can see that 'America' started blocking Iranian transit when it blockaded the blockade, and then started trying to immediately violate the MOU by plying its own trade. Yellow, yellow, dirty fellow. Now Iran has fired on the 'Omani' route, 'America' has fired back, Iran has fired at vestigial bases, you must know the routine by now. The result is ultimately the same, unless 'America' wants to crack open a whole new war. They can escort a few ships through at great cost, they can harry the Iran with some stand-off weapons, but none of this is restabilishes control of Hormuz. They can still control the news, but not geography. Iran is in Iran and 'America' is 10,000 kilometers away and literally has to move mountains to dislodge them. And with what place to put their lever? All their bases are blown. The Empire has to somehow retake control of Hormuz with no bases, no basis, and a population that hates this, while the Islamic Republic just has to stay in Iran with underground bases, a deep moral basis, and a population that's highly motivated. The Iranian population has been out in the streets protesting _for_ their government since day one and, if anything, they want more fire and less cease. I won't spend that much time on Iran because what does Iran really have to do here? Iran can just be Iran, let the Persian Gulf be the Persian Gulf, and wait for the carbon crusaders to skulk off. ## Tale Of Two Transits This is a tale of two transits. Iran is moving _more_ oil out of Hormuz while the Empire is moving less oil than before. The Empire is moving markets while Iran moves missiles. Iran is controlling shipping while the Empire is bullshitting. The Empire is killing civilians in Lebanon and Palestine while Iran is killing time. These situations are not the same. Iran was more sanctioned _before_ the war, whereas now the White Empire is feeling the pain. Iran has gas and fertilizer while 'America' is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel. And 'America' is evil and Iran is good and everybody in the world knows it. Then there's the simple matter of geography, meaning _what is America doing in the Persian Gulf anyways?_ Just looking at a map, they should leave. The 'Americans' themselves call this the 'tyranny of geography', which to everyone else is just nature healing. The Empire's violation of treaties worked for centuries before because they held the land. But they do not hold Hormuz, and they couldn't even set foot in Iran, so this 'treaty' is different. Yes they violate, but it's too little, too late. Yes they have continued genociding civilians in Palestine and Lebanon, but what is this but a rear guard action after losing the main shipping lane? This slaughter only hardens the will of the Iranian people, creates resistance like Hezbollah, and triggers heroes like Yemen. There is no international law, but there is Iranternational Law, and possession is nine-tenths of it. The entire ceasefire period has seen Iran cranking out crude (by some accounts double their pre-war usual), stacking more and more loot, and digging in even more. On the other hand, the dumbasses in Whiteystan have _consumed_ more by manipulating prices down and are digging their own grave with both hands. The White Empire is loudly puffing out its chest while Iran quietly stacks its war chest, which path do you think is best? This is what you need to understand about the MOU. Not what's written on paper, but what moves through Hormuz.

_Nothing happened_ after the Epstein scandal, they just normalized raping children. White elites raped, murdered, and did it all in public. They weren't confessing, they were bragging. If you make all this noise and nothing changes, you're not averting a behavior. You're _advertising_ it. The elites of the White Empire want you to know. They can kill and rape children, they can violate the most basic norms of human behavior, and what are you going to do about it? Nothing. In fact, they have made the 'American' people accessories after the fact. When their elites raped people and their dumb masses gossiped about it, it became entertainment for all of them. The pointless gossiping about the victims without doing anything just victimizes them again. Private abuse became public spectacle. Forget justice, the Justice Department released these files like a perverted PR department. Note that no one was charged from the Epstein Files. There was nothing legal happening here. They were really just _normalizing_ the behavior and have been remarkably successful. The pimp and many of the victims are dead, but what of the perps? They've only gotten ahead. I just saw Bill Gates at the World Cup, Donald Trump is President, and Elon Musk became the richest man in the world. These people are not embarrassed by their appearances in the Epstein Files, if anything they're _empowered_. They raped the girls, manipulated evidence, killed witnesses, and did it all in public. That's really power, especially in the capitalist sense, which is getting one over on somebody else. They displayed power over humanity in general. **Can you even call this a scandal anymore? Is it a scandal if it becomes _boring_? Raping kids is just the new normal. ** Everyone on the stock market who floated a obvious fraud like Musk, everyone in Congress who hasn't impeached (at least) Trump, and everyone at the World Cup who didn't stone Gates and the Epstein Class in the luxury boxes; they're all in on it. They know and they did nothing. They are accomplices. As Dan Hodges said after a slaughter of little kids in school, _“in retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”_ Kids get slaughtered all the time now, this is normal in 'America' (and nowhere else). In antrospect, Jeffrey Epstein marked the end of the US child-rape debate (what marvelous debates White people have). Once 'America' decided raping children was bearable, it was over. They must be raping kids even more now. Why wouldn't they? Nothing happened. What better way to display power over one innocent soul, and the concept of innocence in general? Like so much 'news' for White people, this is, of course, old news to most of the world. Turtle Island has been Epstein Island since Christopher Columbus landed. Columbus _immediately_ began sex trafficking native children among his men. Those dear souls _still_ don't count because the Empire is _still_ historically abusing them by whiting them out. 'America' has been rape continent since White people were invented, they immediately began raping Black women and _enslaving their own children_. Again, these rapes historically don't count, White people don't even have three-fifths of a conscience. There is no redeeming this White identity, nor 'Americans' in general. Rape and murder is what 'America' is and Epstein Island is wherever White people be. This is Whiteness, and now it's come for White children, and even then they're not bothered. There is no redeeming this identity. **The problem isn't Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was just a Jew pimp, meanwhile look at all the gentiles Johns who got off without a hitch.** The problem is the people that 'suicided' Epstein and erased the tape, a media that only sensationalizes rape, and a justice system that looks the other way. The problem is the people that did the raping and still rape and are still at the top of every White state. The problem is the entire class that killed the pimp, killed the girls, kill children in their day jobs, and are still at this every day. To distract from raping children in the Epstein Files they killed school-children in Iran. They doubled down on deranged. The White Empire has a lot of fake two-party system when it's really one sex party. These people will share STDs before they ever share the money, and do you think they've stopped raping for an instant? Again, why would they? They got away with it. The whole thing is a power trip and getting away with it is part of the thrill. They get to show those little girls they don't matter in private and then show them they really don't matter in public, suiciding them if they talk. These killers and rapists and (not to mention) war criminals and thieves are just out here in public like nothing happened because _nothing happened._ The public are their accomplices by just gossiping instead of guillotining. The Epstein Files was not them getting caught. It was them getting off. **You can't just blame the Jews (though they're certainly not blameless) and you can't even blame the elites (though they are certainly shameless). This is 'America', this is Whiteness, and if you claim any of those cursed identities, this is on you too.** Jewish identity, 'American' identity, White identity, these identities are all cooked. This is only debateable because they also cooked the history books. Western philosophy is not coincidentally founded by pedophiles, that really is the foundation of Western Civilization. A bunch of high-fallutin debates while raping children. Whites, ever since Whitness was invented, were always raping and pillaging. As Columbus said while he was ruling the colonies, _“There are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand, and for all ages a good price must be paid.”_ And they don't just rape us, they rape each other. As Cesaire said, no one colonizes innocently, and a culture which does this is already diseased. The only comfort is that the sex offender map of 'Israel' looks the increasingly like their missile alert map, lit up all over. But this reckoning has yet to come to 'America', which honestly deserves it more. They've certainly been at it longer. So forget Epstein, look at the Epstein Class, which has graduated with all pomp and ceremony. And hell, forget the class and look at the dumb masses, who are worse than complicit, they are entertained by this. Not only do the vaunted 'democracies' of White Empire do nothing when children are raped, they do nothing when children were killed, and still happily ruled by pedophile serial killers. And still merrily sharing their opinions on how Iran or China should govern themselves. These are useless people. You simply cannot be a good 'American' or a White person anymore. This evil _is_ America, this horror is Whiteness. It's not just Epstein, it's Columbus, and it's not just Jews, it's the whole White crew. White culture keeps normalizing new atrocities as they become more and more depraved and decadent. Bombing hospitals, double-tapping ambulances, raping men to death, raping men, women, and children, this is all normal now. I can't imagine anything worse than what I've seen, but I'm sure they'll think of something. And it's not just the elites doing this, it's the people that normalize it, that just go on with their lives like they're the good Nazis _._ But there are no good Nazis and there are no good 'Americans,' and there were never any good 'Europeans'. These are all cursed identities and I'm putting them in the historical dustbin. Who am I? I'm angry. Look at what these rapists can do and still get away with it! They can be the richest man in the world, they can be President, they can go to the games with the masses. If anything their fortunes have improved by making their perversions public, they've hazed everyone into it. At this point, if you're a rich guy inside the White Empire and you're _not_ raping children you must be limiting your career prospects. _Honey, I really don't like it, but you want the second yacht, don't you?_ What ghouls. We should have Captain Cook'd White people the minute they got off the boats, and it's not too late I tell you. It's Epstein Island wherever they go.

The superpower of White Empire is _invisibility_ and Jews are pretty damned visible right now. Jews have power, but not superpower. The final White privilege is committing genocide and _getting away with it_ , and they're not getting away with it. In fact, Americans, Canadians, Australians, and Europeans are getting away _from_ the Jewish state, acting like their own settler-colonial shit don't stink. They'll openly point out 'Israel's' errors, but won't look in a mirror, where they'd see the same damn thing. This is how you know that Jews are not as powerful as they seem. Because they are seen. Remember (I just said it) that invisibility is the real superpower behind White Empire. It's seamless how they stitch that empire together, so invisible that we don't have a name for the thing. **That's how it gets away with it,_it isn't there in the first place_. It's an empire with no name, or an empire with so many names that you can't find one to blame.** In this way, 'Israel' is not some isolated evil,_it's all the same thing_. It's Britain doing the overflight, it's Germany supplying weapons, and America's been genociding the region for decades. It's one White Empire and always has been. As Keyser Söze said, _the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist... and then like that, poof! He was gone._ I say this not to absolve the Jews. A curse upon the Jews, as Ansarallah says in their motto, it's true. I say 'Jews' the same way as I say 'Americans', it's a category and I'll use it. 'Antisemitism' is some inter-White squabble, it's got nothing to do with me. What I can say, as someone colonized by Portuguese and Dutch and British and then inchoate 'Americans' behind IMF suits, I say, _a curse upon them too_. I say this to curse the White Empire as a whole, including its diet imperialists, the liberals. Those people sitting around sanctimoniously condemning 'Israel' _and_ the Resistance; those being neutral on the side of oppression. They can get it too. Because you can see what's happening, and see them trying to wiggle away. It's one of the oldest tricks in the European book. Get up to all sorts of dirty deeds _with_ Jews, then leave them on the hook. Witness Jud Suss strung up in Stuttgart and Jeffrey Epstein garrotted in New York while the princes they served walked. Nay, a plague on _both_ your houses, as Mercutio said. You have made worm's meat of me! ## The Illusion Of Power Today it seems like Jews have great power, that they control things, but to be seen controlling things is to lost control. Much better to be behind the scenes, using subtle propaganda like _Schindler's List_ (the redemption of a Nazi that ends up in 'Israel') and using the blood money to fund further colonialism, like Steven Spielberg. Now the drama is directed by Itamar Ben-Gvir, torturing people on television, and the 'Israeli' state live-streaming genocide 24/7. Now Judaism is branded as this forevermore. Future atrocities won't be compared to Nazis, they'll be compared to Zionism. This is a bad scene. And what kind of power is this, really? Killing, torturing, and raping civilians and running from men in the field, then running under Empire's skirt when shit gets real. Jews are constantly whinging for more weapons, whining that they've being discriminated against, complaining that people are complaining, trying to kill every living being in the neighborhood, and silence every thinking person on the Internet. This is less a display of power than petulance. **The only real power Jews seem to exercise is against children and civilians; everything else is an appeal to the powers that actually be. Kill Khamenei for me! Jail your citizens! Censor their news feed! Jewish supremacy today is a unique combination of evil and annoying.** And, in the host populations they still require, this feels increasingly foreign. 0:00 /0:35 1× It's like that scene in _Inception_ where they're lucid dreaming, and the novice gets too brazen in her world building. She asks, _"Why are they all looking at me?"_ and the White man answers, _"Because my subconscious mind feels that someone else is creating this world... they sense the foreign nature of the dreamer. They attack like white blood cells fighting an infection."_ The novice, a stand in for the Jews in our case, says, _"They're going to attack us?"_ He smiles. _"No. Just you."_ This is what's happening to the Jews, and it's not even new. People in the imperial core can sense the foreign nature of the Jews in their midst because they're literally talking about a 'foreign' country all the time. It is, of course, all one White Empire, but this constant defense of 'Israel', especially among America Firsters, breaks the illusion that 'America' was a real place that actually cared about 'Americans'. It suddenly seems like someone else is creating this world, and they sense the foreign nature of the schemer. Now you can see the right-wing of America (it's all right-wing) walking through that train-sized gap in public politics, to ask, _why are we doing this for 'Israel'?_ All 'America' is doing, of course, is the colonialism they were always doing, but since their genocide is settled they can turn up their noses at this one. They can have their blood money and make the Jews eat crow. It's a recipe for white devil's food cake, just add mythology, movies, and morons. You can say 'Israel', or Zionists, but people know. We use categories like Sinhalese or 'Americans' or Iranians for other people, and the fact that we shouldn't say 'Jews' is oppressive in and of itself. People can see this as much as pundits still dance around it, and people are getting increasingly pissed. Jews are now completely dependent on a narrow political class for their protection, and like their dependence on fickle princes before, this doesn't end well, especially when the dream sprites start walking up, and realizing that someone is messing with their reality. This isn't the first time this sorry story do tell. Jews have risen to great power before, and fell. Men like Jud Suss Oppenheimer were basically Jeffrey Epstein as Prime Minister, at least by lecherous reputation. But Suss was hung in Stuttgart just as Epstein was eliminated in New York, while their clients got off. You see how this goes? **Jews are basically what the eunuch class was to China (see the Eastern Depot, or Liu Chin), quite oppressive when in power, but _completely_ dependent on their patrons for protection. ** Such classes are in a tenuous position _by design_ , that's precisely what makes them useful. Their complete dependence on a patron, and their willingness to do piss people off. At some point you could say they corrupt the patron, but this is a matter of perception, and this benefits the patron also. The patron usually likes the corruption, and then they can say _it wasn't my fault_. The rulers take some damage in the process, but usually keep their rule. In this way, Jews or eunuchs may be in power, but they don't _have_ power, as history regularly teaches. ## The Jewish Ghetto, 'Israel' **Jews really think 'Israel' is a prize and not a ghetto, but just look at it objectively. Heaven is supposed to be delivered by the Messiah, and this is much closer to hell delivered by white devilry. 'Israel' is as far from Europe as the Jews could be got, using the Holocaust as stick and their own mythology as carrot.** Jews never got their property back in Europe, did they? And they have to fight for their place in Eurovision, which the Euros don't actually want to share with them at all. They have to fight to get away with the same genocides that other colonial wealth is founded on. 'Israel' is a ghetto that the Jews self-deported themselves to, and there they are increasingly scorned by the White Empire they want to be included in. But what about all the rich and powerful Jews in the imperial core? What of them? Court Jews are an old phenomenon. Powerful Jews in media and politics are no different from powerful Jews in medieval courts. Since the Rothschilds moved out of the ghetto, they think they're ghetto fabulous, and since also the Rothschilds got the deed to 'Israel' they think they've escaped, but they have not. They have just been moved to a bigger ghetto across a bigger moat, from the edge of Frankfurt to the edge of Mediterranean. 'Israel' is a Jewish ghetto and we flatter them to act like it's a great prize. As Palestine it's priceless, but for Jews that want to be White people, it's useless. The place gives them skin cancer and the Rothschilds (except maybe one) never even moved there. This is not 'antisemitism', again I'm really not that interested in inter-White definitions, or their racist categories of racism. What I'm talking about is anti-Satanism, because that's what we're really dealing with here. **In their deal with the white devils, Jews fulfilled every 'antisemitic' expectation of them (killing children, corrupting societies) as the price of being White enough (White people do all of the above) but it's still not enough. It will never be enough, as history could have told them.** Jews have held high positions in governments since, well, Moses, but always get kicked out (or exodize) because their fundamental position is outsider. An outsider can be inside for a while, but outside is what they are. Many groups resolve this contradiction by blending in, like Mongols becoming Chinese, Alexander becoming Persian, or all the violent tribes that became White. But Jews don't, so I guess this keeps happening. They want to be White without becoming White, and the destruction of previous identity that entails. So they flail. There have been many software updates to their religion but they don't take them, and now they're effectively a death cult, corrupted by Zionism, irreperably in my opinion. Jews don't help their case by _being_ a violent tribe, still talking about Amalek'ing men, women, and children, long after saying such things became impolite. ## The Invisibility Of Superpower The point is not what Jews are doing. White people are doing the same things _with_ them right now! The point is that Jews are _seen_ to be doing them, and Jews as Jews can be isolated and blamed for it. Meanwhile, White people can either claim ignorance or that they were corrupted. Jews are in a position where American, Australians, Canadians, Germans and other even more cursed identities are looking down on them which is, historically, a bad place to be. **All of these displays of power—the murders, the rapes, the torture, the censorship, the firings—these really the violent _dissipation_ of power. If everyone is scared of the Jews great, but if people aren't scared of you and you have to keep terrorizing them, your power is on the wane. **And 'Israel', as the Jewish state, cannot do this terrorizing without _constant_ White support and protection and Jews abroad cannot marshal that support without increasingly obvious bribery and repression. This all works until it doesn't. This is not a stable position. The best power is invisible, allowing you to enjoy it while your minions take the heat, and the Jews today are in the position of minions with the entire global population turning on them. Yes, they are doing stuff, but real power is _not_ doing stuff. Yes they are seen controlling things, but real power is in _not_ being seen. Instead, Jews are roasting in tanks, Jews are getting roasted on the Internet, and not just Zionism but the Jewish identity is cooked globally. Jews are both on the front-lines and in front of this whole genocide, which is a bad place to be, especially as it's all collapsing. And the rest of the White Empire is _happily_ pushing them forward because then they can say, as plausibly as Shaggy, _it wasn't me._ This is the real superpower of White Empire compared to the petty power of Jews. It's invisibility.

Bit of a flex, but I hate the beach, Sand gets underfoot and underneath, It steals shoes, children, land itself. I prefer the continent to the shelf. It’s a bitter death, but I like the ocean, The waves, the chaos, the commotion, It all averages out to something calm, Dancing between the fingers of a giant palm. I used to play between the waves as a kid, Now I’m too self-conscious for that, I stay hid, But I still feel and fear, just as I did. That feeling of being alive, So close to dying. The ocean makes the sand, As God mocks every plan. Just as life makes death, The order is really irrelevant. It’s like the thief told to repeat _Mara_(death), Until it turned into _Rama_ and liberated him, Things are constantly flowing in and out of each, Like waves unto the beach. Fire from the sinful BBQ, similar element, which I thought looked like a dude meditating * * * _Further reading on the Mara/Rama story. See the Valmiki chapter, the thief became the sage who wrote the Ramayana._ Gods Demons and Others by RK NarayanSee the Valmiki chapterGods Demons and Other by RK Narayan.pdf13 MBdownload-circle _Bonus pictures of the cat right before she bites me for paying subscribers…_ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

MenschOSINT has done yeoman work to geolocate what Iran has dislocated. This is a map of just _some_ of Iran’s greatest hits, with satellite images. There are seven more maps below, but even that’s not detailed enough. The White Empire has taken some serious blows and will _never_ return to the region in force. It’s not just what Iran hit, it’s _how_ they hit. As some spook said, _“The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses.”_ Whatever wasn’t destroyed can be destroyed, and the Empire knows it. That’s why they’re leaving. ## Historical Digression The first important point is to flip the map sideways and look at elevation. Iran, by virtue of being Iran, has the high ground, both morally and militarily. The high ground has been a military advantage since time immemorial, ask any child who’s played king of the hill, if they’re still allowed. Iran can effectively shoot _down_ , with most of America’s bases spread out on an open plain before them. Besides its natural advantages, Iran has built missile cities _under_ the mountains. Before the Empire even gets to the concrete, they have to get through the mountain. The Great Satan cannot even nuke their way into these missile cities. The best they can do is dust-up the exits, which Iran can sweep clean. Here are some illustrations of the tunnel cities which are all made up. This might as well be a map of the mountain from _The Hobbit_. All we know for sure is _here be dragons_. A guess from Orion__int 0:00 /0:17 1× A video guess from Orion__int and TheIntelLab These missile cities make Iran a _fortified_ city on a hill, which is doubly difficult to take. Ask the Greeks, who couldn’t take Troy until they smuggled a Trojan Horse in (a metaphor for liberal democracy). Beware Greeks bearing gifts, and geeks bearing gifts (like American Internet). And if you’re wondering why all my examples (_The Iliad_ and _The Hobbit_) involve losers, consider the source. History is being rewritten as we speak, and a different culture is speaking. To go back to the mythical Trojan War, you can see that the lay of the land is rather similar. Troy had the high ground, behind water and the Greeks had to have their main camp far away. Most fighting took place on the plains, the Bridges of War as they say. In the same way (I’ll repeat the image from above), you can see that Iran is encamped on a ‘hill’ and the White Empire’s main base, ‘Israel’, is a shitty on a lesser hill far away. Most of the fighting took place over the water, on the Arabian Plain, just as in the Trojan War. The Trojan War was ‘won’ with a little _deux ex machina_ , a hollow horse snuck inside the city walls. But the Empire tried that with their riots in January and it didn’t work. So then they fell prey to the actual lesson of the _Iliad_. Attacking fortified cities is hard. From the cursed FT ## Historical Progression For a brief moment in crime, however, _none of this mattered_. White air supremacy meant that mountains could be leaped. White naval supremacy meant that _oceans_ could be forded. They had the cheat code on military history and they cheated to win, or to at least wrack and ruin within. But this is a new historical period we’re in, marked by the defeat of the US Navy by Yemen and the US Air Force by Iran. Their aircraft carriers got diarrhea and their aircraft look like antiquated cavalry. It’s a brave new world, and these cowards can only kill children to try and keep the future from coming. Missile and drone technology have advanced so much that the giant Arabian peninsula is compressed into, effectively, a small ancient battlefield where old rules matter again. High ground and fortifications win. In the constant battle between sword and shield, one will temporarily outstrip the other, but this goes back and forth. After _hundreds_ of years of White swords being a superpower, that age is over. This is the dawn of the missile and drone age, the tunnel and truck age, and Iran is the risen shield of Islam. As the Quran says, _“God has granted you shade out of what He has created, places of shelter in the mountains, garments with which to protect yourselves from the heat and coats of mail to shield you in battle. Thus He completes His favour to you, so that you may submit wholly to Him.”_ ## Present Day Maps Now, to finally get to the maps. Let’s zoom in on the modern Bridges of War. ### Kuwait Kuwait was how they attacked Iraq, but this wasn’t Iraq. If you look at the topographical map above, Iraq is on a plain and Iran is not. And Iraq just had wobbly Scuds, while Iran has pinpoint missiles. As some Washington ass told the Washington Wipe, _“The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses.”_ This technological leapfrog by Iran (over airplanes into the missile/drone age) has made all US bases sitting ducks. And sure enough, they were plucked. Ali Al Salem Base was used by Kuwaiti, Italian, and American forces (it’s all one White Empire) but it’s pretty useless now. The Kuwaiti planes defending it joined the Resistance (friendly fire, allegedly), the ‘Americans’ took casualties (just a flesh wound, allegedly), and the Italians fled almost entirely. As the Italians reported, > The remains of the Predator drone are on the ground. It had cost more than $30 million and now our armed forces have only five examples left. Two Eurofighters cannot take off because they are damaged by shrapnel. These are the effects of the latest Iranian attack. The last airmen present, meanwhile, spend most of the time locked in bunkers to avoid worse damage. They no longer even have a mission to perform. And yet from there it is impossible to go away. It became their Fortress Bastiani. The novel (The Tartar Steppe) they’re referring to said, > Now it was he, Drago, the old captain who rode up to Fort Bastiani for the hundredth time while the new lieutenant was a certain Mora, someone he did not know. Then Drago realised that in the meantime an entire generation had been used up, that he had now passed the peak of life, belonged with the old men, where it had seemed to him Ortiz belonged on that distant day. And Giovanni past forty, having done nothing remarkable, with no children, really alone in the world-Giovanni looked around in dismay and felt that his destiny was running out. Destiny has run out for the White Empire. You simply cannot mass this density of matériel in the open anymore. You will get shut down. Camp Buehring—named after some war criminal from the Iraq War—was blown up like its namesake. As you can see, Iran can also see, and they know exactly what bunkers they are hitting and what is contained therein. There is no strategic depth here. Buehring was so exposed that Iran hit them with _manned_ aircraft, F-5s and F-4s, if you remember those (I don’t). This is like someone doing donuts on your lawn in a 1950s Mustang. Iran really rubbed their nose in it. 0:00 /0:35 1× ## UAE Ah, the United Arab Emirates, the biggest cucks in history. They got hit the most and will be stuck with the reparations bill because that’s how little White Empire thinks of them. They’re lucky they still exist at all. The UAE pretends like it’s a real country and not just a stopover for the US military like Las Vegas, which is exactly what it is, just look. Via DVIDS Hub And ‘America’ pretends it isn’t based there, while releasing photos like this from an ‘undisclosed location’. Al Dhafra Air Base is the home of the US Air Force 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, which is really the eyes and ears of the thing. And they were effectively blinded. In the second attack from the top-left (above), a Saab GlobalEye airborne early warning and control aircraft was destroyed, according to multiple sources. The GlobalEye looks like a private jet carrying a coffin and does what it says on the tin. It’s a nearly half-billion dollar plane but now it’s dust in the wind. Iran knew what this was, where this was, and they hit it. A different view ## Bahrain Bahrain was the home to the US Fifth Fleet, which has largely been evacuated. The Fifth Fleet has now permanently retreated back to Tampa, Florida. ‘America’ took casualties here. As the Iranian Armed Forces Spokesman said, _“The Americans are censoring their casualties and wounded. ‌Ambulances are constantly transporting bodies and wounded from the sites hit by Iranian missiles and drones, especially in Bahrain._ ” After its defeat in the Red Sea, this was a chaotic retreat from the Persian Gulf and really the region entirely. As the text alerts to the thousands of occupiers read, _“THIS IS NOT A DRILL,”_ and _“Effective immediately all Department of Defense (DOD) sponsored dependents in Bahrain are authorized to depart.”_ Then, _“MISSILE THREAT WARNING. Seek hardened shelter immediately. Real World.”_ Real world indeed, where ‘America’ is nowhere near Iran, and has no business there. At Sheikh Isa Air Base, the IRGC _“_ claimed_it destroyed the command building and headquarters of the US air base in Bahrain.”_ What anyone can see is that Iran repeatedly targeted fuel supply depots (top right), ammunition/equipment depots, US P-8 spy plane hangars, and possibly some P-8 aircraft. Also radar repair and maintenance hangars and drone hangars. This is all in addition to the radar themselves, which are covered in the last section. ## Commentary Iran obviously had good intelligence, and you don’t even have to be that intelligent. All of this stuff is parked out in the open. You can see men and matériel coming and going with either satellites or drones. These bases are built for wars against unarmed weddings it’s their funeral now. These bases are simply not defensible, as the US military establishment knew. Their entire existence as a bulwark against Iran was based on _not using them against Iran_ , it was a Catch-22. **I want to repeat the overarching lesson of this defeat. It took 25 years, but we’re in a new century of warfare now. Manned aircraft are looking like horsed cavalry and above-ground bases look like pure dumbassery.** The idea that you would have a $400 million dollar plane A) at all and B) park it out in the open is completely anachronistic. Out of time, in more ways than one. That day is done. Talking about 5th or 6th generation fighter aircraft today is like talking about a 5th generation T-Rex after the asteroid hit. Cool, but the read the room. When that asteroid hit, the only life that survived was able to scurry underground, and it was much smaller and hardier than the dinosaurs. We are at a similar stage in the evolution of warfare (artificial life) now. As Charles Darwin didn’t say, “ _It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”_ However, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Warfare is also _reverting_ to the model of centuries, where attacking fortified high ground is hard, and besieging a people on the other side of the world is well-nigh impossible. That day is not quite nigh and, indeed, many more people will sadly, probably die, but this is the high water mark of blood, _inshallah_ , after the flood. The White Empire has been pushed out of its bases in Persian Gulf and, as much as it debases itself, it is on its way out of the history books. This is not written yet (except here), but look at a map. They’re cooked. What Iran hit is important, but _that_ Iran hit is more important. These troops will never come back and this equipment will never be replaced because it will just get blown up again, that much is obvious. In his JINSA report McKenzie advised pulling back to ‘Israeli’/Jordan/Saudi which is just what ‘America’ did, chaotically, but that’s still in range. It may take them a few more rounds of warfare, but ‘America’ has to leave the region entirely. Iran has enough great hits to take them on a reunion tour, again and again. ## Radars If you want to see some blown up radars you can click through to MenschOSINT. The images are free, but the analysis (below) is paid. ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

‘America’ is a walking treaty violation. ‘America’ violated every treaty it made with the Native Americans to become ‘America’ in the first place. **‘America’ cannot be trusted to keep any promise, but if you can cut the Empire’s legs off—as Iran has done with True Promise, clearing US bases and giving its carriers diarrhea—‘Israel’, at least, is a dead man walking.** That is the real memo you need to be understanding. As Sun Tzu said, > Do not stop an army on its way home. > When surrounding the enemy, leave him a way out. > Do not press an enemy who feels cornered. This, I think, is an example of that. Iran has systematically been trying to get the US _out_ of the Middle East, not to engage them further, and this meaningless paper gives them cover to show their back. With ‘America’ disengaged militarily, the economic fallout will hit home in the next few months, making it much harder for them to ever come back. And then where is ‘Israel’? Exposed and alone, like a spider’s web fluttering in the wind. Is any MOU with ‘America’ worth the paper it’s printed on? No, the ‘Americans’ are negotiation incapable. Even if they were not evil, they are stupid. But **you don’t need an MOU when you have the map. The point is not what ‘America’ says but _where ‘America’ is at_.** And when ‘America’ retreats from the region what happens to ‘Israel’ when they inevitably violate? _Inshallah,_ _they get a slap._ ## Context This is different from prior treaties because White Empire is contracting, not expanding. Time used to be on their side, but now it’s with the Resistance. While ‘America’ kept expanding during every treaty with the Native Americans, this is _not_ the case in Asia where ‘America’ increasingly _isn’t_. This is not their age of rising technical superiority, the Whites can no longer rebuild a bridge in Baltimore, let alone a base in Bahrain. This is the visible demise of White technology—air cavalry charges in a drone age. White power is waning, and they are leaving Asia in shame. The White Empire is now _contracting_ , and this contract with Iran confirms the same. ‘After’ World War II (the Cold War was, for most of the world, World War Too), and _avant_ le deluge, ‘America’ needed to take Asia, it was the last place left on the geopolitical RISK board. Why did they need to take over the world? Because ‘America’ had become the head of White Empire _and that’s what White Empire does_. Why did England expand, and the Netherlands before it? They constantly had to find continents to feed to their stock market until they threw up from the sheer sickness of it. Ever since White people incorporated their greed as corporations, this artificial ecosystem (stock market) _has_ to double each generation or it eats even more babies than usual (it crashes). Doubling in 25 years is just 3% yearly growth under what really rules this Empire. The Rule of 70 (70/3 **≈** 25). As Wu-Tang told me, _“Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M., get the money, Dollar, dollar bill, y’all.”_ Wu Tang Clan (1993): CREAM Cash Rules Everything Around Me 0:00 /252.039546 1× **The stock market is the beating pulse of the capitalist metabolism, measuring cancer and calling it growth. What do you think infinite growth on a finite planet means, and have you not noticed our cousins going up in smoke?** We are now reaching the climatic climax of this bad idea taken to its illogical conclusion. The politics in the Middle East merely reflects the planetary perturbations all around (dialectical materialism, y’all). As Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in 1992, _“America will remain the nation’s chief enemy and the greatest Satan of all. Israel will always be for us a cancerous growth that needs to be eradicated, and an artificial entity that should be removed, even if all the rulers [of the world] recognize it.”_ That is to say, if you want to remove a cancer, first you have to stop smoking. That is why the Resistance is trying to separate ‘Israel’ from America, to divide and conquer _them_. ## Islamic Context To put it in the context of the Islamic Resistance _doing_ the revolution, it is still as Allah said, _“They are planning a scheme, and so am I: so bear with those who deny the truth, and let them be for a little while.”_ Please understand peace and rumors of peace in this context. Allah also said, and this is the important point, _“Do they not see how We come to [their] land and shrink its borders? God decides—no one can reverse His decision—and He is swift in reckoning. Those before them did also devise plots; but in all things the master planning is God’s.”_ Now look around the Empire’s devastated bases in the Persian Gulf and ask, are they coming or going? Whose master plan is showing? The White Empire was unable to even set foot in Iran and blew its own foothold off by even starting something. Do you not see how men of God have shrunk the Great Satan’s borders, and forced it to withdraw its forces? The Whites scheme and plot, as ever, but can’t you see greater plans afoot? You don’t need to be a believer to believe. Just look. Partial map via MenschOSINT ## Text What the men of God said, and ultimately bled for, is what should be read instead. Not the words of this MOU, being violated while the ink is wet. In October 2024, the martyr Ali Khamenei said, _“This malicious regime is rootless, fallacious, and unstable, and it has only managed to stand on its feet with difficulty with US support.”_ In November 2023, the martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, _“The swift response by the United States to support and back Israel has proven how Israel is failing.”_ Are they wrong because they are dead? No, this only writes the history more emphatically, in red. The point the martyr commanders are making is that ‘Israel’ fell _immediately_ after October 7th and has been on White death support ever since. Now—nearly three years later—the White Empire is withdrawing this support and leaving them alone. The fact that ‘America’ is making an agreement with Iran _at all_ acknowledges Iran’s existence, which makes ‘Israel’ gnash its teeth and rend its garments. All the Empire’s horsepower and all the Empire’s men can’t put the ‘Israeli’ dumpster fire together again. As Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in 2023, _“To you, I openly and candidly say that your fleets which you are using as a threat, we have already prepared what is necessary for them. You, the Americans, remember your defeats in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and your humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan. Those who defeated you in Lebanon in the early '80s are still alive, backed and supported by their children and grandchildren.”_ He died for this defiance but what did this mean? As he said in 1992, over the body of his predecessor, “ _The path pursued by the martyred Sayyed was not his own personal policy, but that of Hezbollah’s leadership. This path does not shift or change, neither before nor after one secretary-general goes and the new one comes.”_ And so the path continues, until Al-Quds, with such negotiations as interludes. **The most vital step to Al-Quds, which the Resistance has been pursuing for decades, is dividing the conquerors.** **Getting the Carbon Crusaders to go home, leaving their cancerous colony alone**. As Nasrallah said in 2020, after the assassination of the great unifying General Qassem Soleimani of Iran, > **When the coffins of American soldiers and officers begin to be transported. When they came in vertically and return horizontally, it’s then that the Trump administration will realize that they have lost the region.** And will lose the elections. If we achieve this goal, and it will be achieved inshallah, the liberation of Al-Quds will be a stone’s throw away. **When the US leaves our region, these Zionists will pack up and leave. We might not even have to fight a battle against “Israel.”** Do you see the strategy here, what has been the strategy of the Resistance since the beginning? As Khamenei said in 2024, _“The primary cause of war, insecurity, and backwardness in this region is the existence of the Zionist regime and the presence of governments that claim to seek peace and calm in the region.**The main problem facing the region is foreign interference.** ”_ And can you not see what he did about it, by his sacrifice as much as anything? They are pushing foreign interference out, leaving the foreign entity to be naturally rejected. These men are dead, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still command from the ranks above. It’s important to view things in this context, and not in the spin of the news cycle. As Allah Themself promised long ago, _“Do not think of those who have been killed in God’s cause as dead. They are alive, and well provided for by their Lord.”_ Have you not seen their True Promise in the skies above? ## The MOU I write this as an MOU is reportedly being signed between the Great Satan and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Perhaps the 40th time is a charm. I consider the terms broadly irrelevant and won’t discuss them here. The point is that ‘America’ is forced to sign anything with Iran at all, and the turning this marks away from foreign influence in the region. **By declaring peace, in whatever form,_the ‘Americans’ are leaving_ and they will never assemble such a fleet again, nor reassemble its bases from the rare earths to which they have been returned. From the rising of the flood, this is the point at which the tide turns, and any words on paper are just like waves on the ocean. Fleeting, when what endureth is under.** The point is not this or that point, which ‘America’ will certainly violate, they are agreement incapable. The point is that that this begins a drawdown of ‘American’ troops and sloops from the region, a retreat which is irreversible once begun. The point is that this marks an ‘American’ _political_ retreat from the region, which is even more irreversible. Stephen Semmler This Iran War was the first to _begin_ as unpopular and it hasn’t gotten more popular since. And the oil shock Iran has unleashed _still_ has to hit middle ‘America’, and their corrupt government has merely delayed it with market manipulation. ‘America’ will be in a worse political position 30 or 60 days hence to restart any war, even if its troops were in position. The point here, whatever the points there, is that _America is disengaging from ‘Israel’_ , which has been the Resistance’s goal for generations. As Nasrallah said in 1992, after his predecessor was assassinated, > The long-term strategy of the Islamic Resistance is clear and does not require additional explanation. It involves fighting against Israel and liberating Jerusalem, as well as Imam Khomeini’s proposal—namely, ending Israel as a state. Note that he’s talking about Khomeini, not Khamenei, that’s how long this strategy has been in place. As the Quran says, _“Among the believers there are men who have been true to the pledge they made with God. Among them are such as have fulfilled their vow, and some who [still] wait, without having changed [their resolve] in the least.”_ What Nasrallah said about the Resistance in Lebanon did, indeed, come to be. They forced ‘Israel’ to withdraw, decades later. Before that seemed even possible Nasrallah said, > We are not unrealistic. We do not pretend that our military capabilities and the numbers of our mujahidin would be enough to regain Jerusalem; none of us have ever made that claim. **We do, however, believe that the resistance has to finish the job it started. It is impossible for us to fight the Israeli enemy through traditional and classical methods, but rather [we must fight] through a war of attrition** , whereby we drain its energy, weaken it, then one day force it to withdraw. This is the same strategy, writ large, against the final boss of colonialism, ‘America’ itself. The broader Axis of Resistance cannot fight the full force of the White Empire through traditional means, if they accelerate too hard Tehran will get nuked and the Empire will not think twice about it, having done this to civilians twice already. Or they’ll get the equivalent of nuked, as has happened to Gaza many times over. Thus they have to be cautious, and try to get the Empire to withdraw without scorching the Earth as they’re wont to do. I want to repeat the logic that the martyr Khamenei repeated in 2024 because it still holds true. He said, > The Islamic rulings on defense have made our duty clear. Both Islam’s laws on defense, our own constitution, and international laws – laws that we didn’t help to draft. But even those laws affirm this undeniable fact that every nation has the right to defend its land, home, country, and interests against aggressors. > > **In fulfilling this duty, we will neither hesitate nor act hastily. We won’t hesitate, neglect our duty, or act hastily. What is logical, reasonable, and correct according to military and political decision-makers will be carried out at the appropriate time, just as this has been done in the past. And if necessary, this will be done again in the future.** This is the important point. As Nasrallah said, _“We haven't reached a knock-out victory. We still need time to be more realistic.**We are winning victory by points, not a knock-out victory.** This is what happened in 2002 and 2006 in Lebanon, and this is what happened with the Gazans, and similarly resistance fighters in the West Bank, Iraq and Afghanistan. Fortitude; patience; bravery; this is what we have and this is our strength. This is what the enemy lacks. This is what the enemy wants.”_ ## The Fate of ‘Israel’ These are the relevant points. Not whatever’s on a worthless piece of paper signed by worthless people, known for violating every covenant with God and man alike. But what men of God have been saying for generations, following the plan of God who is, indeed, the best of planners. It’s important to remember the White Empire is very young and that the idea of people from New York controlling the Strait of Hormuz 10,000 kilometers away is a historical anomaly. It has taken massive striving among the natives to right this desecration but make no mistake, nature is healing. **The most proximate point is cutting the umbilical cord of that rough beast which slouched toward Bethlehem to be born, the Jewish ghetto ‘Israel’, set up to divide-and-conquer actual Semites. And that is happening. That is happening now.** ‘America’ has already withdrawn, it has already failed to set foot in Iran, any document just formalizes these facts on the ground. And the fact, now, is that ‘Israel’ is abandoned physically and, increasingly, politically. ‘Israel’ will certainly violate the ceasefire which covers Lebanon just as they violate the ceasefire which covers Palestine but the real question is _who covers them?_ Not today, be patient, but tomorrow, when the US forces have withdrawn and the US economy has blown up. Then what? To understand this deeper history, read deeper. I swear the Quran called it, or at least calls out to me in my ignorance. Long ago Allah said, > Have you not seen those who act hypocritically? They say to their disbelieving companions from among the People of the Book, ‘If you are driven out we shall surely go out with you, and we shall never listen to anyone against you, and if war is waged against you, we shall help you.’ God bears witness that they are indeed liars. This, to me, is the ‘Americans’ calling out to the disbelieving ‘Israelis’ (I don’t know if these Jews believe in God, but they certainly don’t fear them). This is one liar calling out to another, _“don’t worry bro, I got you.”_ But got what, exactly? ‘America’ has abandoned every ally before. As Kissinger said, it what has become a tautology, _it’s dangerous to be America’s enemy, but fatal to be ‘America’s’ friend_. ‘Israel’ is different but ultimately no different. As the Quran continues, about what will happen to the last Jewish ghetto, > If they are driven out, they will not go with them, nor, if they are attacked, will they help them. Indeed, if they go to their help, they will turn their backs in flight, and then they will not be helped. > > They are more in dread of you than of God, because they are people devoid of understanding. > > They will never fight against you in a body except from within fortified strongholds or from behind walls. There is much hostility between them. You think they are united, but their hearts are divided, because they are a people devoid of reason. Thus it is with the ‘United’ States which is deeply disunited about this issue, and where ‘Israel’ is widely hated by the population. A sentiment that will only aggravate as its economy collapses around them, which it will. **The cowardly US military will only fight from fortified strongholds, which Iran has blown to kingdom come. And their people will only tolerate these fights as long as the treats keep coming, and the treats are running out. Those who divided and conquered ended up divided and conquered.** This is the meaning of Memorandums of Understanding with people that remember nothing and are devoid of understanding. They may scheme, but God is the best of planners, and what decent people can hope for from God, these wicked people cannot. ## The Bullet Point _I feel like this already concludes, but if you want another conclusion, here is where my Internet beggar’s hat intrudes._ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

The Senegal Team getting searched _Join me for a live discussion on_ World Cup 2026: Geopolitics and the Beautiful Game_, with Gazan journalist Abubaker Abed, Latin American historian Alex Aviña, and host Adnan Husain today._ _(June 9th) at 14:00 EST, 21:30 IST. Or whenever, the link will still work. _ * * * The United States (along with Canada and Mexico) was chosen to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018, at which point it was already an obviously bad idea. By 2018, Donald Trump A) existed and B) had already signed a ‘Muslim Ban’, approved by the US Supreme Court about the same time as the World Cup bid. The signs were already there that this was a bad idea, but FIFA went ahead anyways and here we are. The 2026 World Cup is an offensive debacle before it’s even started. In the lead-up, the United States has bombed Iran’s Azadi Stadium, where the national team trained. They have banned the Iranian team from staying overnight in ‘America’, and banned many Iranian staff members and journalists entirely. The animus doesn’t apply just to Iran, many fans from qualifying countries are banned from the relevant visas entirely, and many from all over are getting rejected. Not only fans but also team members, staff, and referees. This is not a World Cup, nor even really a North American Cup, it is an ‘American’ Cup, meaning draconian, hostile, and extortionate. I must add that on top of this, _America is conducting a genocide in Palestine_ , imposing starvation sieges on Cuba, has murdered schoolchildren in Iran, kidnapped the President of Venezuela, installed an Al-Qaeda regime in Syria, and any countless other outrages. At stolen home, the ‘Americans’ are rounding up North American natives (called illegal immigrants now) and placing them in concentration camps. They have the largest prison population on a good day and Kansas (City) was building a ‘World Cup Jail’ for some reason. They repress their own people’s speech and impose those restrictions on people visiting. The United States of today has committed and is committing far more violations than the Nazis did when they hosted their 1936 Olympics, but where’s the outrage? Well, here’s the outrage. ### Not a Fan of Fans The World Cup is supposed to be, as it says on the tin, a moment when the world gathers for something besides war. But war is all ‘America’ is doing now, and the World Cup is no exception. Now the World Cup has become a site of ritual humiliation, a dying empire lashing out against a world it can no longer control. None of this is normal. Indeed, it violates norms going back to time immemorial. When Brazil hosted the World Cup in 2014, they passed a 900-page General Law of the World Cup _“covering everything from visa and work permits to social campaigns to criminal provisions.”_ When Russia hosted the 2018 World Cup, their Parliament gave visa-free entry to FAN ID holders _for the rest of the year_. Qatar (2022) is easy enough to access normally, and they offered their Hayya Card to people with match tickets or just proof of accommodation. This included public transportation. Going further back, when the United Kingdom considered refusing visas to the North Korean team in 1966, but an internal memo said _“Apparently FIFA has made it very plain to the FA (Football Association) that if any team [that] has won its way through to the finals is denied visas then the finals will take place elsewhere.”_ More recently, when Indonesia refused to grant the ‘Israeli’ under-17s visas in 2023, FIFA moved the U-20 World Cup entirely, despite the fact that ‘Israel’ had killed members of the Palestinian team and Indonesia was doing the right thing. There was the principle of the thing, but now we discover that the principle is just White Supremacy. ‘America’ never relaxed its draconian visa regulations (on stolen land) and has never stopped its Gestapo roundups of natives. Even the Nazis toned it down during their games but not the Nazis that won, the ‘Americans’. Again, Trump’s ‘America’ was awarded the games _during_ the furor over his Muslim Ban and, predictably, many Moroccans, have had their visas rejected. But it’s not just Muslims. Many British (Scottish) fans have had approval withdrawn as well. Now that ‘America’ requires social media screening before entry, who can tell? Of course, as a matter of course, fans from Haiti, Iran, Senegal, and Ivory Coast are banned from the recommended visitor visas categorically. And until May, fans from Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Tunisia had to pay a $15,000 deposit. Many countries that qualified have a visa rejection rate of over 40% normally. Meanwhile, the 8% ticket allocation due to Iran (under FIFA rules!) has simply been revoked by ‘America’ entirely. When FIFA’s craven (bald) head Gianni Infantino said, in 2017 before awarding the bid, _“Teams who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup. That is obvious,”_ he missed his own point. These are things FIFA should have a problem with, but they are, of course, part of the problem. FIFA, like every other supposedly international institution, has been revealed as just another part of the White Empire. They gave Trump a FIFA Peace Prize _while_ he was conducting a genocide, including the murder of many Palestinian sportspeople and destruction of all facilities in Gaza. Play Nazi games, win Nazi prizes. This is the worst World Cup ever, and should honestly be boycotted in solidarity with all the people kept out. It’s not just fans, ‘America’ is attacking the players, referees, everybody in the world is fair game in this unfair cup. ### Anti-Competitive to Teams, Referees, Everybody It’s not just fans that can’t access the World Cup. It’s _teams_. Switzerland’s star striker Breel Embolo was denied a visa and unable to travel with the team (he is, not coincidentally, colored). His visa was just approved after much uproar, but this has an anti-competitive effect already. The entire South Africa team’s departure was delayed because of ‘visa issues’, which also again disadvantages them from the beginning. The same thing happened to Moroccan player Zakaria El Ouahdi. Iraqi striker Aymen Hussein was detained and questioned for seven hours. These egregious examples have been ‘sorted out’ but they have an anti-competitive effect _already_. As further examples, the Senegal team was singled out for body searches on the tarmac when they arrived. The Uzbekistan team was strictly searched, body by body, when they got off the bus, having already cleared immigration before. There is a clear racist dimension to this intimidation that would make Hitler proud, though even he was too ashamed to do it in 1936. Oh, how the Whitey have fallen. The Iranian team, of course, is the most egregious example. Not only did ‘America’ bomb one of their training facilities, they are also denying them the right to even sleep after their games. As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said, _“The United States doesn’t want the Iranian national team to stay overnight in the United States.”_ FIFA is in on this, even after Trump said he could not guarantee the _“life and safety”_ of Iranian players (seems important!), they still refused their request to move their matches to Mexico. So instead the team must fly in and out of the country entirely before and after games, putting them at a real disadvantage physically. Not to mention in physical danger from their hosts, admittedly. Meanwhile Iranian staff, including coaches, have been denied visas, as have journalists. And the outrages don’t stop there. ‘America’ has even rejected FIFA referees! Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was denied entry at the Miami airport. FIFA issued a craven statement saying _“FIFA is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications,”_ which is a lie, they often get legislation changed beforehand, but not for ‘America’. There is also no report of them simply moving this ref to games in Mexico or Canada. FIFA doesn’t even take care of their own people. ### The State of the Games This Cup is already a shambles before the first ball has been kicked. There has been a school shooting near the England camp, because of course, ‘America’ has a shooting almost every day, it would be an anomaly if they _didn’t_. The Swiss camp was beset by snakes, the Senegalese training pitch didn’t bounce, Japan had to change venues due to terrible facilities. ‘America’ is not a safe or decent place to travel to and the world knows it. As the Wall Street Journal reports, _“The World Cup starts later this week. U.S. hotels are already in last place. Hotel bookings in Canada and Mexico are outpacing all but one American city [San Francisco].”_ ‘America’ as a colony is just a pyramid scheme nearing its end, the whole thing is a con, including the World Cup. Tickets are selling for more than $20,000 (some upwards of a million), but who wants them? And even if you can buy them, can you attend? As part of the con, FIFA set up its own scalping platform, but that’s not going well. After the 26% ‘resale fee’ the median ticket for the US/Paraguay match (for example) costs $800, and 4,400 are still available because who is buying this? In contrast, tickets for Mexico at home have only 300 tickets available. As the FT reports, _“Fan groups estimate the cost of following a team at this summer’s World Cup will be five times higher than four years ago.”_ For all their greed, this World Cup may see empty seats. Indeed, should. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. This World Cup is already a hotbed of corruption, racism, and greed. Hardly a hot ticket. ### Showcase: Shows Over Sanctimonious nations like Norway (which said they’d skip the Qatar World Cup despite not qualifying) and Germany (which posed hands over mouths and wore rainbow Rolexes) made a huge fuss about Qatar, but they’re saying nothing now. About a Cup where even teams and referees can’t travel freely and everybody gets their social media scanned to see if they’re suitably quiet about the genocide currently going on. And the same journalists and officials who protested about Qatar are quiet because that was, in hindsight, just racism. These fake nations, fake institutions, fake journalists; they’re all part of the White Empire. All a bunch of false flags to match the false internationalism of FIFA. This event, like so many events this century, reveals the White Empire behind the scenes, and it’s obscene. A World Cup is supposed to be showcase for the host nation and the 2026 Cup is. This is an awful World Cup hosted in an evil nation. As Maya Angelou said, _“When someone tells you who and what they are. Believe them the first time.”_ FIFA should have known from the time of the ‘Muslim Ban’ that ‘America’ was a wildly unsuitable candidate to host a World Cup, but they went ahead anyways because the leadership of FIFA is wildly unsuitable themselves. FIFA is obviously craven and corrupt, no countries have the guts to speak up, and White journalists treat these things as an anomaly rather than a host nation worse than the Nazis, historically. ‘America’ is showing the world who they are with the World Cup, which is hostile to the world. And this will have consequences. Like China’s Olympics was a ‘coming out’ party to the world, this is a ‘party’s over’ message from ‘America’. They’re really trying to take their ball and go home. And the funny thing is, ‘Americans’ don’t even like football and it shows.

_I’ll be (Internet connection down south allowing) on a livestream with_ Adnan Husain_, Abubaker Abed (recently out of Gaza), and Alex Avina on the World Cup. Should be available via Adnan’s link or_ @indications_, which should be unbanned by then._ _Tuesday, June 9th at 19:00 Dublin (GMT+1) / 14:00 PM EDT / 11:00 PT / 21:00 PM Kazan / 23:30 PM Sri Lanka._ * * * A screenshot showing ticket prices for the final, going up to $2.3 million (each) This is shaping up to be the worst World Cup in history because the worst people in history are hosting it. Ze ‘Americans’. The entire (re: all) Iranian team has been denied stays in ‘America’ and has to ‘commute’ from Mexico. Their physical safety is _not_ assured. Switzerland striker Breel Embolo has had his visa withdrawn, hours before he was due to travel. South Africa’s entire team had to delay travel until their visa issues were resolved. Moroccan Zakaria El Ouahdi was unable to join the team until his visa was finally approved. None of this is their fault. This is racist ‘American’ policy gone to the races. As Mother Jones reports, _“The Trump administration has a record of denying international athletes visas, including members of an Ethiopian delegation to the World Athletics Cross Country Championships, whose 44-year medal streak was broken by a mass visa denial in January. Multiple Cuban sports delegations have also been_ locked out_of sports competitions since 2025 by the US’ refusal to grant them visas—including Olympic qualification events.”_ This hostile policy extends to fans, with the US (until so recently that it was too late) requiring people from 50 ‘developing’ (re: colonized/colored) countries to post $5,000–15,000 bonds for a visa. The countries include Algeria, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and Tunisia. Haitian and Iranian fans are effectively banned from the competition. Meanwhile everyone else has to submit their social media records to a nation committing genocide, to see if they’re too vocal about it. The absolutely dystopian MetLife Stadium. It is illegal to walk here, and even if you could, it is illegal to have your own water Other World Cups have not been like this. For Russia (2018), your spectator card (obtained via a ticket) was your visa. Qatar had visa-on-arrival for 95 countries, and fans got a Hayya card that gave them free public transportation. In ‘America’ they’re charging $150 to get to the stadium (which you cannot walk to because dangerous) and you’re not even allowed to bring water bottles, you have to pay for that also. That isn’t even getting into accommodation and travel between cities and all the other price gouging. It is wild how vile this World Cup is. This is in many ways _worse_ than the 1936 Nazi Olympics where Blacks and Jews that Hitler obviously hated were able to compete and overt displays of racism were toned down in front of visitors. The Nazis suppressed Jews and Roma within the German team, but did not ban visas for athletes from other countries, like America is doing. Nor were they, at the time, actively invading or besieging other countries. The ‘Americans’ are, of course, worse than the Nazis because the Nazis at least fizzled out after 12 years. ‘America’ has been at this for centuries. The corruption of already corrupt football extends to FIFA. ‘Israel’ has killed over 1,000 Palestinian athletes and staff and murdered dozens of footballers, including Suleiman Obeid (the Palestinian Pele). As I write, ‘Israel’ has just arrested Natalie Abu Dayyeh and Rand Al Halawini of the Palestinian women’s national team. This is obscene, yet ‘Israel’ is still allowed in FIFA competitions. Even after Jews rioted in the streets of the Netherlands, the ‘Israeli’ ghetto (where Europeans deported their Jews to) is still allowed in these competitions. If we’re being honest, all the false flags of the White Empire should be banned, ‘Israel’ is just the most egregious example. Yet that’s not how the bans work because every international organization, including FIFA, is under the Empire’s thumb. Daring to be independent Russia is still banned despite that country fighting ‘American’ proxies in a relatively restrained fashion. Even the Federation of International Football Associations—which ‘Americans’ do not even acknowledge the proper name of, calling it soccer—is an ‘American’ proxy for some reason. The ‘Americans’ have no real interest in the game and are literally just playing spoiler.

The liberal position is to support Muslim corpses but not their rockets. This is not a coherent position, but they’re sticking to their not-guns. But the Empire punishes them anyways. If they’re going to call you a terrorist anyways, might as well support Hamas. Join the club. Francesca Albanese condemns Hamas and Iran—ie the people actually doing something—and for what? She gets personally sanctioned by the White Empire anyways. And Cenk Uygur says _“I’m for a two state solution and I’m against all terrorists groups,”_ accepting both ‘Israel’ and their definition of terrorism, and gets punished for his troubles. He gets banned from the UK anyways (it’s all one White Empire, if you haven’t figured it out). All of their pious platitudes, all of their fundamental loyalty to the Empire, it all comes to naught. These people cancel themselves out in history, and are cancelled in the present also. What’s the point of all this posturing? If you’re getting the punishment, might as well do the thought-crime. As Dostoevsky said, _“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”_ I understand that supporting the Resistance is currently illegal within the Empire. Hamas, Hezbollah, etc are proscribed organizations, so I can understand not supporting them openly. But at the same time, even if you try to dance around a fundamentally incoherent position, you get punished anyways. You get deplatformed, sanctioned, and travel-banned _anyways_. So, at this point, many years into an extermination campaign, why not show some courage? Or just shut up, and show some dignity. I cannot stand these people condemning the Resistance, the only people who have stood up and paid in blood. This diet imperialism is a common position, which I think is repulsive to everyone. Condemning both the empire and the resistance appeals to no one. Such people offend the Jews and the Christian Zionists no matter what, and they offend free- -thinking people who can see what’s what. These people should just keep the Resistance’s name out they mouths, or have some real courage and speak up. Break the seal on what is an unassailable position, which more and more people feel but aren’t saying. That the people blowing up tanks and attacking military bases are the good guys, and the bad guys are the ones blowing up hospitals and schools and censoring you for complaining about it. You might as well support Hamas, because they’re going to punish you anyways. Or just shut up. I live in the most of the world where all these organizations banned _by the people committing the genocide_ are not illegal. This limits my ability to travel, but that says more about those places than me. Looking at it objectively, this is not a remotely complicated situation. You’ve got a bunch of open child killers working for pedophiles in the White Empire, and the Axis of Resistance blowing up tanks and defending their land with very few civilian casualties. Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, and Ansarallah are _unequivocally_ the good guys in the World War III that’s going on (if you include colored people in the world). I mean, we’ve got a genocide, multiple invasions, and every country is affected; what else do you want to call it? And who do you think the good guys are, the people committing genocide and invading people, or the people resisting and defending their homes? This time around, it isn’t even controversial. Past liberation movements _have_ seen excesses: the killing of civilians, rape, torture, the ugly accoutrements of war. But these fighters have much more precise weapons and exceptional ideological discipline through Islam. The Axis of Resistance has used pinpoint missiles on military targets, treated prisoners of war well, and not raped anyone, despite _their pediatricians_ being raped to death themselves. Even the ‘civilian’ casualties of October 7th were mostly due to ‘Israel’ invoking the Hannibal Directive and killing its own people rather than letting Hamas achieve its goal, taking prisoners of war for an exchange with the thousands of Palestinians held in rape and torture prisons. What are we even talking about here, once you get out of the media bubble of people that protest for their right to rape and openly talk killing children? One side is blowing up hospitals and schools, while the other is blowing up tanks with their bare hands. This is not a complicated moral position. That’s why I wholeheartedly support the Resistance against such evil and will never ‘condemn Hamas.’ However, pious liberals _always_ say this, as if to signal that they’re loyal opposition. Western ‘leftists’ (not a thing) quite vocally hem and haw. They’re quite happy talking about the suffering of Palestinians and the cruelty of the Empire, but someone actually doing something about it? That’s too far. It’s like a firefighter’s convention where no one is allowed to talk about water. Again, as the saying goes, _those who support our corpses and not our rockets are hypocrites and not of us_. It is obvious to anyone that’s watched a movie that one should _fight back_ against such great evil, but such great weasels dominate Western discourse that this becomes complexified into nothing. As Shakespeare said, the Western liberal, _“struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”_ Take Nicholas Kristof’s piece, in the New York War Crimes, talking about well-documented rapes by the ‘Israeli’ military, during a time when they also raped people from all nations in the flotilla, just to rub it in. Kristof, however, opens his piece with the lynching lie that Hamas raped people at all. They didn’t! There is no physical evidence of this and no named victims, just like the 40 dead babies, but even people that bemoan ‘Israel’s’ excesses still spread its propaganda! And what does Kristof get for his both-sidesing of rape victims? Jews protest against him anyways, lol. There is no point to any of this. There is no point to any of these people. The Jews that protest to rape in ‘Israel’ are, in fact better, than the dumb goys that protest against it, because at least they’re being honest with themselves. This intellectual dishonesty is endemic among American intellectuals. I tried to watch a debate with John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt vs. war ghouls Victoria Nuland and Mike Pompeo, and there actually is no debate. The war pigs (Nuland and Pomeo) are at least honest with their hate when they said, _‘do you think Iran is a monster?’_ Stephen Walt has been trying to sound all reasonable, but even he has to throw Iran under the bus because they’re _all_ loyal imperialists. Walt says, _‘I’m glad I don’t live there.’_ What does that mean, Stephen? The idea that a White man should want to live in other places is fundamentally colonial. How dare this useless man talk down on the one country in the world doing its duty under the genocide convention. The arrogance of all of these people. Both Imperialism and Diet Imperialism share the same fundamental disrespect towards every place on Earth, which is shared by everyone on that stage, regardless of their meaningless debate about how to do it. These are all useless people. These are all debates _within_ White Empire. And the funny thing is that the people trying to square the circle—to not support Empire, but to condemn its enemies, making themselves harmless—these people get cancelled _anyways_. Mearsheimer is isolated to podcasts and other countries for his trouble trying to save America from the ‘Israel Lobby,’ as if it isn’t one big corruption ouroboros. And I’ve never even heard of Stephen Walt. These men are punished by (relative) obscurity now and will be condemned or just ignored by history entirely. This all reminds me of the story of Sun Wukong trying to jump out of the Buddha’s hand in _Journey to the West_. The dear Monkey King flew 10,000 leagues on a cloud, got out, saw some pillars marking the edge of the universe, and pissed on them to mark his territory. Then he flew back and demanded his boon from the Buddha. The Buddha just smiled and pointed to the piss pooled in his palm. The Monkey King had flailed about to get nowhere at all, and was buried under the five-finger mountain for thousands of years until he learned his lesson. All of these debates _within_ Empire while condemning the actual Resistance are like the arrogance of the Monkey King, without any of his redeeming characteristics. Such debaters searching for the magical center of Nazism will be condemned for their cowardice, or just ignored by history, which they have piously crossed themselves out of. Indeed, they have perfectly triangulated a position to piss everyone off, like classic liberals. They support the _idea_ of resistance while condemning the people dying for it, and support the _idea_ of imperialism, while condemning the people actually killing for it. If you condemn ‘Israel’ and also Hamas, I guess you’re neutral, which means what? You’ve taken the side of the oppressor, you morons. You’re the loyal opposition _within_ a White Empire when, as Noel Ignatiev said, _“treason to Whiteness is loyalty to humanity.”_ Even supposed ‘supporters’ like Francesca Albanese, Cenk Uygur, or Hasan Piker, still operate within imperial structures like the UN or Democratic Party, who are all in on it. At best they’ll say that ‘Israel’ is more evil than the Resistance, but this is nonsense. The Resistance is actually good. These supposed ‘good guys’ are still fundamentally on team evil and are thus frauds. These people still deny selfhood and self-defense to non-White people and assert that liberation must be _given_ by White lawyers and intellectuals, people who cannot even liberate their own minds. And the funny thing is, even after piously trying to signal their loyalty to empire, they get punished anyways. Might as well support Hamas.

Hoarding in Tehran: “The Strait of Hormuz will stay closed — the entire Persian Gulf is our hunting ground.” The Battle of Hormuz is over. Iran has taken the Persian Gulf. If White Empire wants to take it back, they can try. But that’s another war. This one is done. People confuse the current lack of fireworks with a lack of firepower and nothing could be further from the truth. Don’t take Iran’s kindness for weakness. Because Iran focuses on precision strikes, you don’t get much sound and fury, but that all signifies nothing, as the Bard told you. Iran is making history, not news. And the historical fact is that Iran cleared every US base on day one and the Persian Gulf is now theirs to lose. That war is over. The Empire can start another one if they choose. This sort of civilized war is hard to understand for still hypothetical Western Civilization, but it is nonetheless true. War is just killing to White people, but just war is different. The great philosopher king Ali Khamenei exhorted his troops, saying, “ _Go back. Give me more accuracy. What if there is an innocent person that’s going to die?”_ And the Islamic Republic Guards delivered for their martyr commander. Don’t take my word for it; listen to the fleeing White spooks. As some Washington ass told the Washington Wipe, _“The Iranian attacks were precise. There are no random craters indicating misses.”_ These precise craters are now facts on the ground. America’s bases are gone forever, its fleet is scattered, its planes exposed. As Reverso Clausewitz said, politics is war by other means, and Iran has political control of the Gulf. This is precisely the power ‘America’ used to have, but now Iran has UNO reversed them. Trump says he holds all the cards, but he’s got the game all wrong. Again, if the White Empire wants to take back the Persian Gulf, they have to go to war again. What the Ramadan War established, they will have to unestablish. The Empire can blockade the blockade, but they cannot command the Strait. Their great fleet has been reduced to petty piracy, hiding and hijacking ships now and then. The Resistance won the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and the White Empire are just being sore losers, doing donuts in the Indian Ocean. This is lost in the news cycle, but don’t worry, it’ll be written in the history. That’s precisely what I’m doing. **If Iran sunk 100 ships a day that’d be news, but when 100 ships slink away, that’s merely history.** As Master Sun said, _“winning a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the best possible outcome. Best is to subdue the enemy’s troops without ever engaging them on the battlefield.”_ Iran has subdued the sub-dudes while barely engaging them. When ‘America’ tried starting something on May 31st, Iran rapidly re-trained them. An American and British soldier (same thing, White Empire) were killed in ‘training accidents’. The White Empire dishonors its dead like this, but this belies the greater lesson taught by greater powers. In short, the White Empire is doing what White people always do. Lying. These men were war criminals, and they died like criminals. A bunch of child-killers working for pedophiles. Goddamn them for their service I repeat what they try to white out, that Iran has taken the Persian Gulf from the White Empire, a historic _rout_. All their base are belong to us. Bahrain, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, all the apo/states. These bases are all unusable now, even if they’re still using them. The skeleton crews left can get turned to skeletons whenever Iran feels like it. This is strategic defeat, and all the White soldiers can do is take a tactical dump in their pants on the way out. The Ramadan weather forecast in Iran The markets haven’t priced this in only because the markets are completely fraudulent. We’re in South Sea Bubble territory, a bunch of White people pretending to control oceans that don’t belong to them. Asking these markets about the real world is like asking a degenerate gambler the weather. What do they know? They never set foot outside the casino. But reality has the last word, eventually. As Allah Themself said, _“They are planning a scheme, and so am I: so bear with those who deny the truth, and let them be for a little while.”_ It’s taking a while for base reality to sink in, that all the evil bases have been blown to the wind, but the Al-Aqsa Flood is only rising. The White Empire has lost the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. The White Fleet is fleeing, and Donald Trump is merely flinging bath toys around a circling drain. History is written by the victors, and the ‘Americans’ are just sore losers. The Battle of Hormuz is over. Iran won, first round TKO.

The Hezbollah Orchestra, producing the hardest image in the history of orchestras via drone footage (foreshadowing) Hezbollah’s reunion tour of south Lebanon has been delivering hit after hit. Ron Burgundy has compiled about 1.5 months worth of them, albeit sans the usual music. We’ll get to that at the end, when you can meet the Hezbollah orchestral unit. 0:00 /2:39 1× What you can see in this highlight reel is ‘Israel’ reeling. While Lebanon is being savaged civilianly, ‘Israel’ is being dismantled militarily. You can first-person view hits on A) Merkava tanks ($5m), B) Namer troop transports ($5m), C) command-and-control jeeps and hummers ($300k), and D) D9 bulldozers ($3m). You can also see multiple casualties, including the commander of the 401st Brigade (the murderers of Hind Rajab), hit _inside_ a house with his skeleton crew (0:34). You see dudes jumping off tanks, into buildings, or just falling over in confusion. But don’t worry, it’s not gory. You’ll also witness the unfitness of multiple air defense batteries, leaving the Iron Dome lonely. Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada has the best analysis (in English) which I’ve regurgitated before (All Riot On The Northern Front). Please take him as an authority and me as color commentary. Suffice it to say, FPV (first-person view) drones have been a force and _fear_ multiplier for Hezbollah. They amplify Hezbollah’s conventional arms and turn ‘Israelis’ into asses and elbows (what you see when they’re running). 0:00 /0:24 1× An excerpt of a longer video. The sign says, Dedicated to the dear people of Iran for your constant support As you can see in this short clip—the first frame of which shows someone missing fingers from the pager attacks—FPVs are relatively simple to assemble, though the devil is in the details. The carbon fiber frame you’re looking must cost about a lakh on AliExpress, so roughly $300, without batteries. Add batteries, fiber-optic spool, and a $350 munition (RPG-7, say), and you’re looking at maybe $1000. This tool can then blow up multiples of that in men and matériel. They’re spending Ks to burn Ms. Whatever the numerator is, the common denominator is that expensive matériel is getting whacked, and the asthmatic Sardaukar are having panic attacks. I’ve watched Hezbollah flying these drones from the beginning, and they’re not a _wunderwaffen_ ; a lot of skill is needed. At the beginning the pilots were obviously not very good at this, especially compared to those in the Russo-Ukrainian War, but they’ve visibly leveled up now. Hezbollah is also using drones as part of combined warfare, as an Iranian think tank discusses in detail. At the most basic level, there’s a lot of intelligence work involved in selecting targets and coordinating swarms. You can see Hezbollah’s sophistication from the LOW BATTERY alerts on many videos. They’re carrying _just_ enough battery packs for the objective and no more. Tactically, Hezbollah has _immediately_ adapted the lessons of Ukraine, using fiber optics to avoid jamming. They have also innovated by putting relatively giant anti-tank munitions on these things, making them very damaging. Fiber optics give them immediate and fine-grained control, and the giant anti-tank shells can pierce thick armor. These drones fly too slow to trigger air defenses (like the Trophy system) and can target weak points in armor. ‘Israelis’ have resorted to fishing nets like they have in Ukraine, but they don’t have nearly enough, and Hezb just flies under them. 0:00 /1:52 1× The full video from above, where they smoke a Humvee full of invaders As you can see (in the extended version of the video above), these drones are causing _chaos_ in the ranks. Here the drone casually chases down a jeep full of IOF and they—instead of shooting at the drone—just run away from each other, and can’t. ‘Israel’ is only reporting about a dozen casualties over the past few months, but I’ve personally seen multiples of that. And ‘Israelis’ have Telegram, they are not unaware of these facts. **You and I are watching these videos, which means that the ‘Israelis’ are too; they are really the _target_ of this psychological warfare. Now the IOF is crowdfunding fishing nets as protection; they are literally on the ropes.** What they call ‘air hammers’ make the IOF, in their own words, ‘duck and pray.’ FPV drones enable the _third-person view_ of propaganda footage, something that Hezbollah used to require a separate (also exposed!) team to do. I see these videos all the time, and they’re all over the Arab channels, but that’s not the target audience. It’s ‘Israeli’ minds getting blown. A sign Hezbollah made as part of the psych-war Remember that Hezb already had conventional Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) capabilities with Kornet anti-tank missiles and on-the-ground intelligence. I’ve published many videos of that, though often weeks or months after the fact. Now we get close-ups on a daily basis, sometimes with a flyby to confirm damage after. Hezbollah’s conventional arms and footage—already formidable—have been multiplied by FPV drones that perform surveillance, attack, and propaganda purposes in one package. 0:00 /4:23 1× You can see their conventional capabilities here, in the Battle of Haddatha on the 19/20th May. As Jon Elmer reports, you can see _“Fighters with SVDs, PKMs, RPGs + IEDs vs IDF advance on 19/20 May; 1) IDF remotely-operated M113 unloads explosives; 2) IEDs set; 3) PM firefight, IEDs, artillery vs IDF with air support; 4) AM shows burning IDF APC and abandoned D9.”_ What this means is SVDs and PKMs are Soviet rifles and machine guns, respectively; rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs, possibly something like a 93mm Soviet PG-7VL), and improvised-explosive devices (IEDs), which could even be anything. The ‘Israelis’ are fundamentally cowards and try to advance with robots (M113), get blown up with IEDs, end up in a firefight anyways, and run away. Then you see sons of the soil standing with the D9 bulldozers meant to uproot them. Not today colonizer, not today. I include this video because it’s _not_ an FPV attack. Instead you see men in the field, wielding sniper rifles and ultimately clashing steel on steel. Hezbollah has been doing this for decades, and FPVs multiply these capabilities; they don’t reveal them. I say all this to lean away from technological determinism, the idea that drones change everything. I suppose they do change everything, but _everything_ is doing a lot of work here. More than technological determinism, the point is that Hezbollah is jsust _determined._ They’ll liberate their people _by whatever means necessary_ , as Malcolm X said. Or as that counter-revolutionary John Lennon said, _“I’m an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I’ll bring you something out of it.”_ Hezbollah actually has a tuba player, and he too is blasting. Hezbollah actually has a tuba player. Revolution can, in fact, come out of a tuba given the right hands ### Broad Historical Conclusion I have discussed Iran’s Islamic Art of War and the paradigm shift into tunnel/drone warfare that makes riding tanks and aircraft this century look like riding a horse into WWII. But if we zoom out even further, the big point is not technological change but _regression to the mean_. Historically, invading and attacking places was painful and costly, and Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon are re-establishing the natural primacy of defensive weapons. War, historically, is a constant battle between sword and shield, where one momentarily slips ahead. After 500 years of the offensive White Empire invading and crusading wherever it pleased, things are finally regressing to the mean. Where offense becomes a pain in the ass, and defense becomes feasible. To zoom back to World War II, _because that’s still the historical frame we’re in_ , ‘after’ World War II, ‘Israel’ got to use those world war tools on unrelated and unprepared Semitic people. Understand that ‘Israel’ is not a real country; it’s just the last Jewish ghetto, as far from Europe as the Europeans could push them. The Jews were deported from Europe and corrupted with their own mythology (classic British trick) and encouraged to redirect their Holocaust© trauma against actual Semitic peoples. The White Empire killed two birds with one stone, they got Jews to self-deport and serve as stormtroopers near the oil. I say this not to absolve the Jews—they are effectively a death cult now—but to damn the whole crew. It’s all one White Empire and ‘Israel’ cannot survive for a second without White weapons. However, it’s been a minute, and those weapons are _outdated,_ the Jewish victim card is expired,__ and their corruption (corruption goes two ways) is exposed. This is not, historically, a good place for Jews, and the first-person-view shows it in 1080p. ‘Israel’ is fighting the battles of last century, while the Axis of Resistance is battering them presently. The so-called terrorists are precisely targeting military vehicles, and the so-called military can only do luxury terrorism. Like the rising oil prices and the AI bubble and the everything bubble, they can lie a little longer, but they’ve made their bed and eventually will have to lie in it. The White media is obviously still Jewish-controlled, and stovepipes like Axios can still move markets, but this control _doesn’t work so well when it’s obvious_. It’s like that moment in _Inception_ when the dreamers notice that someone is trespassing on their dream and get pissed off. The wolf that cried antisemite is being smited by actual Semites, and nobody feels bad for them now. But this isn’t about the Jews, who in my opinion are being used (not an excuse), nor is it about the White Empire which is used up (also not an excuse). These sorry excuses for humanity are no longer the subjects of history. As they lose the plot, history is being rewritten without them. As the martyr leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said (in 1986!), _“Experience has shown us that red blood is capable of obliterating red lines, and if the nation chooses to follow this path, Israel and America will find that they are incapable of changing anything in the equation.”_ So it goes with $1,000 drones against $1,000,000 weapons systems. Blown away like the spider’s web Nasrallah always said it was. So I leave you not with hope that the Empire is losing, but that the Resistance is winning. And on that note, here’s the Hezbollah band to play us out. Ron Burgundy did great work by editing Hezbollah’s greatest hits together, but changed the usual soundtrack to something classical. But Hezbollah doesn’t lack on that front either. Here they are performing on a mountaintop, along with another montage of oldies but goodies. This video alone is a bonkers feat of organization (how do you get tuba up mountain when they’re trying to kill you?). Hezbollah was never gone, but now they’re back. 0:00 /2:25 1×

A kabaragoya, or land monitor. Basically a mini Komodo dragon. Sometimes not so mini Sri Lanka has less fuel, which makes me realize what a fool I’ve been. I used to drive 5 km in a car to walk 5 km on a treadmill, which, in hindsight, was obscene. Now I just walk to a gym 5,000 steps away, killing two birds with one stone in that now I can also go birding. And lizarding. And also, sadly, garbaging. I walk along the storm drains of Colombo, which are their own ecosystem. Colombo has a network of canals stretching north and south out of Colombo. From what I’ve heard and badly remembered, my grandfather used to load logs with elephants near Kalutara and float them up to, I assume, Moratuwa. I’ve looked on a map, and you can transit Colombo just on the inland waterways, though at some points you’re just going through gutters. This canal network still exists, though it’s only used by lizards for transport. For humans it’s drainage and, sadly, refuse. I have taken pictures, but the water isn’t picturesque. I’m hiding the plastic waste and the stinky sludginess. If you look closely, you can see the problem, though I try not to. I mostly look for animals, of which there are plenty. One of my favorite creatures is the _kabaragoya_ , or water monitor. There are two types of monitor: the land monitor is not dangerous and supposedly edible, while the water monitor is dangerous if you ever mess with them. One got into my house once (long story) and I just left. I just sat on the other side of the road until they wandered out by themselves. These are magnificent creatures but not to be messed with. _Kabaragoyas_ love the gutter and are plentiful in the canal system. The canals are their highway, along with the crocodiles. I usually see one or the other every day, and the _kabaragoyas_ directly cross my path. Colombo is also a paradise for birders and birds, I get the order mixed up in my human supremacism. The city is the most urban part of Sri Lanka but it’s barely urbanized; if you go just off the main road you can be right back in the jungle. The land is fundamentally a wetland, and if we ever try to build too much, the whole place floods to bring the wet back again. Birds thrive in this environment, eating fish and whatever else they’re doing. The painted stork One of my favorite birds is the painted stork, with its beautiful pink paint job. Or the purple coots (swamphens), with their beautiful blue feathers, that seem to flock together. And the magnificent, regal pelican, which likes to perch on top of lampposts, surveying everything. You see them atop the highway, like kings of the road. Colombo is a place where man has given little thought to nature, but where nature also gives little thought to man. No matter how much we urbanize, the jungle keeps jungling. _Bonus picture of a katussa for paying subscribers._ ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

All the places that participated in Eurovision (before Russia got kicked out). You can see the Jewish ghetto on the fringes. What is Australia doing there lol. ‘Israel’ is the last ghetto Europeans deported their Jews too. They got them as far from Europe as they could, and all their ‘support’ for ‘Israel’ doesn’t extend to giving the property back they took. No, ‘after’ World War II, the Whites dusted off the Nazi/Zionist Haavara Plan and—rather than give them their homes back—deported the Jews out of Europe entirely. This is the most ‘antisemitic’ idea imaginable (_go back to where you came from!_) but if you complain you get called ‘antisemitic’ now. While the Jews slaughter actual Semitic peoples in front of you. Like everything else in the White Empire, they massacre language and logic first. But just look at it on a map, if you dare. ‘After’ World War II, were Jews given their land back in Europe? No, they’re not there. Like Frankfurt pushing their Jews across the moat, Europeans pushed their Jews across the Mediterranean by boat. You can see ‘Israel’ at the very edges of the ‘Eurovision’, where Europeans don’t really have to see them (except during that dreadful song competition). Frankfurt Judengasse in 1628, after the city expanded past the moat (moat highlighted). Compare this to a map of Frankfurt in 1458, where you can see the same phenomenon in microcosm. Frederick III pushed the Jews outside the city moat into a narrow _Judengasse_. Within this ghetto, Jews could govern themselves (just as ‘Israelis’ can now), but they still depended on imperial protection (just as ‘Israel’ does). Jews were eventually given permission to build on the other side of the moat, until they were pushed completely out, across the Mediterranean Sea into ‘Israel’. I put it in quotes because this was not the promised land, Eretz Israel, which only the messiah can command. No, this Ersatz Israel was just another ghetto, a poisoned deal with the White Devils, now reaching its 80-year foreclosure. You can bring all the Biblical stuff into it, and the fact that Zionist really believe in this ‘Israel’, but Zionism was a fringe belief at the time. It’s only recently that the death cult has corrupted the entire religion. Some Torah Jews still shout about the fact that Palestine was created not by the messiah but by the British incarnation of White Empire, which is as close to Satan as you get. Britain, much more than functionally illiterate ‘America’, specialized in bamboozling the natives using their own mythology. As the ersatz ‘Israeli’ Yuval Noah Hariri said in his execrable book _Sapiens_ , _“The European conquerors knew their empires very well. Far better, indeed, than any previous conquerors, or even than the native population itself.”_ In his Jewish supremacy, Hariri couldn’t see that ‘Israel’ itself was conquered territory, not by the Jews, but by the Europeans, and used to deport Jews _to_. The Jews actually think they’ve joined the White club now, _but they haven’t_. They’re still in the ghetto, serving as kapos over the real semites, slowly discovering that they lack the final, most vital White privilege, committing a genocide and getting away with it. ‘Israel’ was thus the _post_ war act of pushing European Jews almost completely out of Europe, using the fringe belief of Zionism as a carrot and Hitler as a stick. But Hitler was kindling at this point, Jews could have (and should have) been given their European homes back and reparations, or encouraged to join relatives in ‘America’ at the least. But that didn’t happen. Which tells you what really happened. The Jews were not supported. They were deported instead. ## Ghetto Fabulous This much was obvious to many of the Jewish refugees landing in occupied Palestine. As David Nasby said in _The Last Million,_ “ _For many of the Jewish displaced persons who immigrated to Israel, the exhilaration of leaving Germany and arriving in their new homes was followed rather quickly by disappointment, approaching desperation. They had miraculously survived one war in Europe. They were now entering another war zone.”_ This ghettoization seems less obvious now that ‘Israel’ is relatively rich, but they’re just ghetto fabulous. The constant shooting has _never_ stopped, and Jews are increasingly ostracized from the White spaces they crave inclusion in. In sports, music, and commerce they face increasing boycotts and open derision. Not because of ‘antisemitism’, but because of what they’ve actually done to actual Semites. ‘Israel’ is thus an increasingly distant ghetto to Europe and an absolutely hated (albeit rich) ghetto wedged into West Asia. It also seems less obvious that ‘Israel’ is a ghetto if you see all the rich Jews, but ghettos have rich people too! These are in fact the most conspicious rich people, which can skew your view. The Jewish ghettos in Europe always had rich, ‘court’ Jews, many of whom rose to great power under various White princes. However, the bulk of Jews then, as now, were wedged into ghettos while a few rich Jews gallivanted around, indulging in corruption that eventually brought it all down. History rhyming, can you not hear the sound? Like in other ghettos, many Jews moving, primarily, outside ‘Israel’ have risen to great power, but ask Chinese eunuchs how such proximity to princes goes. You’re still not whole. Again, Jews are testing if they have the ultimate White privilege—committing genocide and getting away with it—and _they don’t_. ‘Israel’ is not a place of their own, it has no power to stand on its own. It’s just another ghetto. I’ll return to history in a way that might be repetitive, but history repeats, deal with it. I repeat the historical fact that European Jews did not get their European homes back after World War II. They were _kicked out_ to clear the way for American/Nazi collaboration _._ As survivor Samuel Gringauz explained in Commentary (1948, via _The Last Million_), _“Germany is to be transformed from a defeated enemy into the guardian of our European front line. The Jewish survivors in the occupied zone of Western Germany are an obstacle to this development.”_ The other historical fact is that World War II was _never_ about the Holocaust (which killed more Slavs and communists, but nevermind that, as the White history does). ‘America’ pushed boats of Jews back into the concentration camps and did not want to take in Jews after the war either. As American Senator James Eastland said (ibid), _“We are getting away from American ideals when we admit to this country from eastern Europe people with an Oriental philosophy, a philosophy not compatible with that of the people of the United States.”_ This is literally the same logic that Hitler had for exterminating the Jews (his main enemy was communism), taken to a _penultimate_ solution that the Nazis were also cool with. Deportation out of Europe. ‘Israel’ is the very racist idea that Jews should ‘go back to where they came from’. This was an idea that then fringe Zionists collaborated with Nazis on, in the Haavara Plan, as mentioned. Zionists were pulled from the fringes in order to singe an entire region and smoke the oil, or at least the spoils, out. And what happened to the Jews, in the main? They were moved from the concentration camp of the Nazis that lost to a conscript colony for the Nazis that won. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, I guess. Zionists collaborated with Whites that _still hated the Jews_ and this wacky, self-reinforcing, self-deporting Jewish extremism has become mainstream now, corrupting the whole crew. Judaism is a rare religion that went from a cult to a religion and back to a cult again. Now _most_ Jews think they’re going to hurry God and bring the end times on, when God will roast the Christians. Meanwhile Christian Zionists think God will roast the Jews instead. It’s a really perverse alliance, where each side actually wants the other dead. That’s the eschatology of the matter, but historically, it’s not that complicated. The Messiah obviously isn’t here yet, and if they were, they’d be horrified at what the Jews are doing _right before_ judgment day, when you should be on your best behavior. If you look at the mess they’ve made, here, it’s clear that ‘Israel’ is just a ghetto to keep Jews away from White people that didn’t like them, and at the throats of Muslims the White Empire likes even less. This obviously wasn’t a deal with the Messiah but the Great Satan. All the Jews have done—and I say Jews because they’re completely corrupted now—is become the worst version of themselves in the European imagination, which is just normal Europeans to everybody under colonization. They thought they’d get acceptance from White people from this, but instead they get only condemnation, for doing the same stuff Australians and Canadians did, just in the wrong century, and without enough time to get away with it. **Thus the Jews find themselves in the same situation as time immemorial, a few of them collaborating with fickle princes and living royal, while the bulk are stuck in a ghetto near the oil. In this way, the Jews are screwed. They might be ghetto fabulous, but they’re still ghetto.** ## Jacob & Esau (Rothschild & Balfour) Another clue as to the ghetto status of ‘Israel’ is in its founding document. I used to wonder about the Balfour Declaration. Why was the creation of ‘Israel’ declared by Britain (which didn’t own Palestine) to Lord Rothschild (who was just a private citizen)? In ghettonomics, however, this makes sense. Rothschild was, in fact, receiving the deed for a new ghetto, evidenced by the fact that he never moved to ‘Israel’ himself. In Europe, court Jews like the Rothschilds mediated (often mendaciously) between the court and the ghetto. The court Jews got some concessions for their people, while their people took the blame for the rich Jews’ evil. The Rothschild’s personal history is instructive here, and we can get it from a book they co-sponsored, _From Court Jews to the Rothschilds_. That book describes 1807, saying, _“Salomon Rothschild came to feel the impact of the provisions of the new Stättigkeit, as the town council forbade him to rent an apartment for himself and his wife outside the ghetto.”_ As you can see, even the Rothschilds were once stuck in the Frankfurt ghetto themselves. But not since. The European Rothschilds had a ‘meteoric rise’ and then, from the outside, never stopped _“using their influence to act as champions for the Emancipation of the Jews in those countries in which they themselves lived.”_ But you can see the problem with Lord (Lionel Walter) Rothschild little deal here, because he himself lived and died in England. So what exactly was he championing in ‘Israel’? It wasn’t a ‘country in which he himself lived.’ The Rothchilds remained, almost to a man (minus Bethsabée de Rothschild) in Europe or America. So what had Lord Rothschild won? Just a further deportation of the Jews, from across the moat of Frankfurt to across the entire Mediterranean. Where he did not follow them. Today the surviving French and British branches of the Rothschilds live, primarily, inside the core White Empire, not the ‘Israeli’ ghetto on its fringes. They are ‘the known benefactors’ of ‘Israel’ but they don’t stay there, because ‘Israel’ is a ghetto and the Rothschilds are rich Jews, _in that order_. What Lord Rothschild, fencing stolen goods, accomplished was not “ _the Emancipation of the Jews in those countries in which they themselves lived,”_ but ghettoization somewhere new, disguised as somewhere old for fundamentalist rubes. **This is an age-old story, elite Jews serving European princes as courtiers (corrupting them quite consensually) while the Jewish masses live in a ghetto themselves (bearing the consequences).** Jewish rabbis likened the relationship (between Jews and Christians) to that between the biblical Jacob & Esau. As the book of the same name by Malachi Haim Hacohen tells the tale, > With the help of his mother, Rebecca, he deceived his father, Isaac, by wearing Esau’s clothes and received the firstborn’s blessing. A furious Esau conspired to kill him, and Jacob escaped abroad, returning, after two decades, wealthy and mature, and with a large family. He feared that Esau would still seek revenge and decimate his family, but when they met, they fell on each other’s shoulders and cried. The Genesis story ends in reconciliation. This story intersects with Christianity in the sayings, _“the elder shall serve the younger” (Genesis 25:23). [And that] “The older people of the Jews,” said Augustine,“was destined to serve the younger people, the Christians,”_ (ibid). The point is that this a tale as old as time, this abusive relationship between Europeans and Jews. And the story doesn’t end in reconcilation like the Biblical version, but repetition. Jews are constantly ‘dressing up’ as White men, getting chased out, taken back because (some of them) are prosperous, and then starting the cycle all over again. This has happened all over the fake continent of Europe and now it happens globally via the fake country of ‘Israel’. The bulk of Jews are isolated in ‘Israel’, in constant danger, while their elites move across the imperial courts, doing well. In this way, some Jews can rise to great power but they do not _have_ power. ‘Israel’ is not their country, won by their own arms and held by their own diplomatic charms (lol). No, ‘Israel’ is ghetto of the White Empire, protected from the furious masses surrounding them by imperial force, only sold to imperial dumbasses through massive propaganda and now censorship, and only held in place by imperial diktat, overriding all ‘international’ institutions. People say Jews run the Empire, and it certainly looks like it, but war is the art of deception, as Master Sun said, and this is an old trick. Again, ask the Chinese Eunuchs or any class placed in front of the emperor to take the heat. The very fact that we _see_ Jews out in front of every evil and horrific imperial decision protects the Whites (just soulless stand-ins for Capital) equally in on it. This is an old European trick, such that when Selma Stern describes it historically (in _The Court Jew_) she’s really describing the current predicament. Stern said, > **The masses knew little about the intrigues, hatreds, setbacks and discouragements to which the war contractor was subjected. They saw only despised Jews, who only a short time before had been expelled from the country, now returning as distinguished gentlemen** , speaking the language of the country, wearing the clothes of the time, dealing with ministers, politicians and generals, living in beautiful homes in which they imagined there must be fabulous treasures. **They themselves were burdened with heavy taxes and duties, their business had declined to the vanishing point, their fields lay waste** , their houses had been destroyed by the weapons of the enemy, their soldiers suffered hunger and cold, went without uniforms and were seldom paid. Can you not see it happening this way? The dumbasses in the imperial core know little about the intrigues involving a disproportionate amount of Jews, but also a bunch of White people as well, as well as ‘colored’ people applying whitening cream. All they see is their costs going up, their businesses shuttering, and the soldiers eating shoe leather, dying for their Jew betters. Meanwhile they see Jews crying wolf on the news about ‘antisemitism’, openly calling for genocide and the right to rape in ‘Israel’, and openly committing every atrocity they were every accused of, like corrupting governments and raping children. It’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s in front of you and proven, is it? Jews are just a part of the problem (the whole White Empire is rotten), but they’re a big part of the problem, and now the most prominent. This is not, historically, a good place for Jews to be, in between corrupt princes and angry masses as the visible face of corruption. But those that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and so here we go again, with the ghetto a flight away from Europe instead of walking distance. ## The Jewish Problems _Do you want to read more? 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The slow-mo guys blowing a watermelon up You can keep putting rubber bands on a watermelon for a long time before it explodes. But then it explodes, this is known. So it is with the imperial economy, now strung taut with Palestine at the center of it, about to blow. The White Empire hasn’t learned anything from all its crashes before, hence the big one, _inshallah_. As John Tuld (not a real person) said, _“1637, [1720], 1797, 1819, ‘37, ‘57,‘84, 1901, ‘07, 1929, ‘37, ‘73, 1987, 92, 97, 2000, and whatever we want to call this [2008]. It’s all just the same thing, over and over. We just can’t help ourselves.”_ Of course, they do help themselves, and the crashes fall on someone else. They’ve gotten away with it so many times before. What’s one more? The first (not the first) rubber band they strapped on the globe was 2008, when the US economy actually crashed, but they bailed out the banks to literally paper things over. This was a band-aid on a bullet wound, but the zombie economy lumbered on, eating brains with Grey Poupon. Then next rubber band was COVID-19, a mass-death, mass-disabling event that’s been memory-holed, but which still kills people and still exerts pressure across households. But let’s ignore that, like Pharoah ignored plagues before. Then they strapped a band across Asia, dividing the racist concept ‘Europe’ from the continent it’s actually on. The Ukraine War literally blew up Germany’s economy and increased energy and fertilizer pressure everywhere, while making bands for the corrupt military-industrial complex. And that’s just there now, a pressure point everyone forgot about because of more piled on top. Then we had the (accelerated) genocide of Gaza leading to the closing of the Red Sea, then the aggression against Iran leading to the closing of the Strait of Hormuz. The former stopped but the latter continues, drawing a band across the Middle East that may just be the one that make the watermelon explode. Look across the globe and it’s covered with rubber bands, each asserting a pressure that only builds up. There’s one band going through Ukraine, one through the Gulf. There’s hundreds of little bands called tariffs, criss-crossing every country on Earth. Trump even tried to go BAND4BAND with China before withdrawing into a stalemate that’s only good in that it could be worse. This is all pressure, and it all adds up. The pressure is building and building and building and markets are not pricing this in, they’re colluding against reality to make a fast buck in the virtual world. Speaking of, the decadent West has tried to cover up the death of its real economy in 2008 with various artificial scams, first crypto, then VR, before AI finally stuck. Now their whole economy depends on a multi-level marketing scheme, NVIDIA selling chips to Microsoft which rents them to OpenAI which sells compute to Microsoft with funding from NVIDIA. Does this make sense? No. But it makes dollars, so the scam goes on. But for how long? What’s at the bottom of this multi-level marketing scheme? _Energy_. All of these data centers delivering nil or negative productivity use hideous amounts of energy, and where does that come from? Oh, Hormuz, which is banned to the Empire now. It doesn’t matter if ‘America’ has its own energy supplies, its oil companies are ‘American’ in name only and will sell to the highest buyer. And when energy prices rise, inflating the energy at the bottom of the AI bubble, what happens to the artificial pyramid they built on top? What happens to all the fake-ass pharoahs, building castles in the cloud? They’ll be entombed with their billions in bunkers while everything around them turns to dust. You can only string so many bands across world trade before world trade blows up. You can only string so many bands across global energy before the real economy seizes up. And you can only inflate an artificial bubble atop all of this before the whole thing acts like watermelon bubble gum and goes pop.

If you analyze ‘America’ politically, you’re making an error, unwittingly. ‘America’ is not a polity, people’s opinions have nothing to do with policy, it’s a business, pathologically. The war business is booming when bombs are flying and the healthcare business is making a killing when people are dying and the media business is talking money when they’re lying. Understanding ‘America’ through its politics is like trying to understand Coca-Cola through its advertising. Coke isn’t trying to make ‘moments’ or ‘memories’ or ‘open happiness’ or anything so humane, they’re a corporation, do I need to explain? In the same way, ‘America’ isn’t trying to deliver ‘human rights’ or ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom’, are you insane? They’re all just lying in order to sell you something. Like Michael Corleone said, it’s not political, it’s strictly business. The class structure of ‘America’ has _always_ been oligarchy, ie rule by the rich, who in Marxian terms are really just placeholders for the artificial species I call Capital. At founding only a fraction of even the White population could vote. They immediately put down a debtors rebellion (Shay’s) of unpaid soldier because hell with them, even being a White man wasn’t enough, you had to be a propertied White man. ‘America’ is designed for rule by _property_ and that has never changed and never will. That’s the whole business model and why mess with a bad thing? Colonialism has always been a business, it’s important to understand this. If you read about England at the height of its colonial power, the people in the imperial core lived like shit, you almost feel bad for them. England made poverty (even more of) a crime to turn Australia into a debtors prison. In Sri Lanka, the crocodile ringed neighborhood the colonizers used was called Slave Island or also Kompanna Veediya (company town). It’s the same thing! Colonialism was always a business and the value accrued to shareholders, not citizens (an antiquated concept). If you understand colonialism as a business you can understand that _it never ended_ , it just rebranded. The banner of White Empire went from Lisbon to Amsterdam to London to Washington, changing marketing terms from monarchy to democracy, but never changing the underlying business model. Why change when you’re making bank? ## The Colonial Business Model If we accept that colonialism is a business and that the business never ended, what is the business model? It’s not terribly complicated. It’s Mafianomics 101. ### A Bust-Out Everything you need to know about what’s happening to (and from) ‘America’ is in this one scene from _Goodfellas_. 0:00 /1:07 1× Or this other scene from _The Sopranos_ , 0:00 /1:33 1× The Mafianomics business model is simple, and what is happening is called a _bust-out_. You take over a business—when the owner gets into your debt or comes to you for protection against someone else—and then start running up bills on the joint’s credit. When the debts overwhelm the actual business you burn it and move onto the next one. You light a match. This is the colonial business model writ small. In the exact same way, the White mafia has ‘busted-out’ entire continents. They corrupt local compradors, debt trap entire nations, strip the resources, and then ‘light a match.’ They have done this to every country on Earth and now there’s nothing left to bust-out, so they’re cannibalizing the imperial periphery (Europe, the UAE) before descending on their own corpse. _This_ is how you understand what’s happening today, with war everywhere, prices rising even in the imperial core, and yet the stock markets going gangbusters. Of course, stock markets are just the place where genteel gangs do their dirt in public. The seeming illogic of modern politics is simply an age-old mafia bust-out. ### A Leveraged Buy-Out In genteel gangland, however, this isn’t called a bust-out. It’s called a leveraged buyout (LBO). It’s the same thing with more lawyers. In an LBO, private equity guys (White word for oligarchs) borrow against a company (which they don’t own yet) to buy the company. If this sounds like a con, it’s because it is, but it’s legal because the bank’s in on it. ‘America’ has legalized corruption. Once the PE gang takes over the company, they run up bills on the joint’s credit, unload assets out the back, fire people, and maybe do a bit of insider trading. Then when the underlying business inevitably fails, they leave it for dead and move onto the next one. It’s carnivorous capitalism. A genteel bust out. When ‘Republicans’ said (in the 1980s) that they wanted to run government like a business, this is the business model. They have been busting out the world and their own country since then, stripping assets, bilking labor, and goosing the stock market to get paid now. Now, especially since Citizens United gave corporations ‘speech’ rights, they have completed a leveraged buyout of the US government, making the two-party system as redundant as Coke and Pepsi. And making analyzing their political positions as relevant as comparing marketing. Now you can buy a Presidency for as little as 2 billion USD and bust out a multi-trillion dollar economy. It’s the biggest leveraged buyout in history, running up the faith and credit of the ‘United States’, looting the US Treasury, and lighting a match to the whole imperial economy. This seems cruel if you take it personally and insane if you take it politically, but remember. It’s nothing personal. It’s strictly business. ## What’s Happening This is the power that explains. We are witnessing a bust-out of the ‘United States,’ an LBO of ‘America,’ and lighting a match to the White Empire of centuries. This is what explains why the stock market goes up while everything else goes down. This is what explains all the wars against ‘America’s’ national interests, because shareholder interest (literally) trumps all. It’s really not that complicated if you stop believing the marketing and follow the money. If you ignore the politics and look at what colonialism always was. A business, built on bones. In this sense, Trump is the perfect bag-man for the end of the ‘American’ experiment, running a country like a business and using liberal philosophy as marketing. Trump had _no_ political experience, his first elected office was President. And he has a lot of experience with bankruptcy and fraud in many ways (from Trump Water to Trump Air to Trump Casinos) that _is_ his business. And of course it’s not just Trump. Obama busted people out of their homes and bailed out banks. He pretended to give them healthcare while actually entrenching the insurance companies. Biden busted-out the entire nation of Ukraine to unload expiring military supplies, and accellerated the genocide of Palestine as a going-out-of-business firepower sale and cut off the brief rise in living standards post-COVID to get back to business. They represent ‘America’ as much as Trump. This is the business of colonialism, and every US President is just a paid spokesman. We are now at the stage in _Goodfellas_ where they light a match to the restaurant and drive away. We are witnessing a last orgy of insider trading and profiting on controlled volatility while the strategic reserve of oil is emptied and even the home economy is hollowed out within. The peripheries of Empire are getting busted-out first but make no mistake, the whole thing is going bust. This is, inshallah, the end of it all. There’s no more out to bust, and no more leverage to be bought. People may be like ‘this is bad for America!’ or ‘this is bad for Americans’ but this misses the point entirely. What do y’all have to do anything? You’re like the customers or workers of a company being bust-out by the Mafia, irrelevant. Colonialism was bad for everybody else in the world and after the colonizers ran through us, the colonial core is getting their just desserts in the end. As Malcolm X said, chickens coming home to roost never made me feel bad, they always made me feel glad. Go cluck yourself, to put it indelicately. ‘America’ started as a scam by oligarchs and ends in a scam run by ‘private equity’. Call it the bust-out of the ‘United States’, the LBO of ‘America’, ‘America’s’ death throes by any other name would still reek.