Israel attacked Iran – and quite successfully, killing most of their top leadership and nuclear scientists, sabotaging air defence, infiltrating who knows what; essentially, it’s a typical first-strike done American way, which is to say in a sneaky, treacherous, cloak and dagger way. The Russians and Chinese should take notice, because they are next. Basically, Iran’s mistake was wishing to have the “moral high ground”, the way Putin does, and their enemies don’t care about that; they merely own the media and lie, and sheeple believe them.

Iran eventually got their shit together, which is to say they got their air defences working again, and they retaliated somewhat, but they are still running around like headless chicken, because Israel pulled off a successful first strike, and the side that does that has a huge advantage in a modern war.

Now Israel has the balls to publicly cry and pretend to be some kind of a victim of the whole thing. No you’re not a victim. You started a war, the enemy fought back, now you are hurt and understand why war is a bad thing and reasonable people avoid it.

I wonder whether Iran was smart enough to buy plutonium for the first dozen or so nuclear warheads from North Korea, in case of such contingency, where Israel attacks them and damages their nuclear programme, they decide that their refusal to build nuclear weapons was a mistake, start a nuclear programme in earnest, and in the meanwhile, which is to say 6 months, they have several weapons as deterrence, because let’s be clear, it’s obvious that Israel is going to nuke them next if they think they are going to get away with it, which translates to “if Iran doesn’t have nukes of their own with which they can retaliate in kind”.

In the meanwhile, since there’s nothing I can do about it, I’m finding inconsequential things to do. Clearing fallen trees with a chainsaw, backing up computers, getting a Skylake mini pc that won’t run win11 for almost free on ebay, and I don’t care because I’m putting Debian 12 on it anyway. Things like that. Listening to ’80s music in the background. Waiting for the time to pass, because my work here is done.