How about writing a rw novel about the right WINNING? The silent ascent of a talented young man endowed with courage, ingenuity and resilience, bound by friendship with a few men of similar temper, they set themselves to take hold of a State and totally destroy their enemies
One thesis I am certain about is that there is no path back to the status quo ante in the gulf now.
The entire idea that Iran will be put in a box by the Western powers like Saddam was after Kuwait is wholly misguided. There is no possibility of that.
Revolutionary Iran will either defeat the United States and survive as an independent power with a de facto veto over gulf energy, or it will cease to exist. In either case, there is no way back.
If Paul W. Schroeder were alive today, he would ask us to pay attention to the inability or unwillingness of the international system to accommodate and socialize revolutionary Iran.
What went wrong? Why has it proven so utterly impossible for the international system to deal with revolutionary vanguard regimes? even after they lose their revolutionary elan? and despite their willingness to appease?
Schroeder would ask us to think about the functional specialization of the states in the international system.
The US position in the gulf region is a real, load-bearing feature of the world. What happens to the functional specialization of the states when this specific aspect of the international system breaks down?
The oil monarchies of the gulf are the paradigmatic, motivating case of functional specialization in the international system. Their entire political economies and indeed their biological populations are a function of their deal with the devil. This was “working,” at least from the pov of the imperial managers, until the Israeli resort to unrestrained mass violence.
Today, Sunni Muslim citizens of the monarchies are cheering on Shia Iran against the protector of their monarchs.
Will these monarchs survive? Will these state formations? What is the UAE except the shadow of American power in the Middle East?
I feel like we’re in the early days of large-scale transformations of the kind only produced by hegemonic wars. https://t.co/xoemHpZ0hJ
If he wanted to do what’s good for India he should encourage (white) Americans to take over or start jobs and companies in India, but he knows they won’t do that because 1) India isn’t appealing enough (and he won’t fix that) and 2) Indians wouldn’t allow it (cries of “colonialism” abound), and reciprocity be damned.
This does not mean you “built half of America” - these companies were not founded by Indians, nor established as major players in their industry by them.
There is a reason why Indians can wheedle their way to the top of the executive food chain right around the time an American company plateaus. I will not get into that here.
Suffice it to say that the US won World War II and the Cold War, reached the pinnacle of world achievement before any serious encroachment of Indians on US lands.
There is also the real test of whether Indians have added anything to the US: have they managed to imbue the US with a capability it would otherwise have lacked, perhaps one that belonged to their homeland which the US coveted? No, because there is nothing that India can do which America could not do already in a superior way.
This is unlike eg operation paperclip when German scientists immigrating to the US actually bestowed a competitive edge, namely rocket science and the space program had a massive boost. So you can argue this was a worthwhile import of talent.
Now let’s get into what Indians in the US actually did: they came in and took on work that any other American would have been able to accomplish, they came in at a time of anti-White discrimination to climb the ranks that would have otherwise have belonged to heritage Americans at a time of momentary weakness. Then you brought over a lot of unwanted cultural baggage along with you: nepotism of the worst kind, ethnonarcissim, scamming, bad hygiene. None of you have assimilated to America, but you sought to copy the American way of life and way of doing well in it, a poor copy I might add.
@realKalos Junger is more aristocratic but
This guy from the BAP edit is more heroic
The French Marlboro Man is more Nationalismoic
Food blogger is a pervert
🚨 BREAKING:
Republic of Sharjah
Quiet movements inside the Emirati ruling circles suggest a potential historic shift, whispers of Sharjah preparing to break away from Abu Dhabi and emerge as its own entity.
If true, this could reshape the entire UAE power structure.
The Arab Word is Watching a Different War:
Three reasons why it has been difficult to understand the Arab position:
The first is the Arab relationship with Iran. From the vantage point of Brussels or London, Iran presents itself as a resistance movement with a grievance against American hegemony and Israeli occupation, and this presentation maps comfortably onto familiar Western anticolonial frameworks.
What it does not map onto is the lived experience of Arab populations in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and across the Gulf. In those countries, Iran's presence meant Hezbollah holding the Lebanese state hostage to Tehran's decisions, thirty-five armed factions in Iraq drawing salaries from Iranian funds channeled through the Iraqi national treasury, and Houthi commanders answering to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps while firing on Arab civilians from Yemeni soil. Freedom is not the word any serious Arab observer would use for what Iran brought.
Indeed, the Arab world's quarrel with Iran runs far deeper than American bases or Israeli airstrikes. What drives it is the systematic subversion of Arab sovereignty by a foreign power that uses the language of Islamic solidarity as cover for an imperial project conducted through proxies.
The second dimension is the proxy question itself, where Western analysis fails most comprehensively. Iran goes far beyond supporting armed groups. Parallel state structures get built inside Arab countries, financial systems get captured, and political figures get installed who owe their existence and survival entirely to Tehran.
The Iranians who have administered this project understand it as the export of a revolution, but what Arab populations have experienced is closer to a colonial occupation conducted through intermediaries, and as of now, they’re not mourning the Islamic Republic.
When Westerners treat these proxy networks as instruments of legitimate resistance rather than as mechanisms of subjugation, they endorse an imperial project while believing themselves to be opposing one, and as a matter of fact, make themselves the legitimizing force behind Iran’s war against the Arab world.
The third dimension is the most counterintuitive for a Western audience, and it is the one most consequential for how the current war is understood and misunderstood. For Arab nationalists, including secular nationalists and even those with deep reservations about Israeli policy, Iran represents a greater and more immediate threat than Israel does.
This is a position that Western media are structurally ill-equipped to render intelligible, because Western discourse on the Middle East has been organized for decades around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the primary axis of regional injustice.
The result is that when Western governments and Western publics take strong positions against Israel’s actions against Iran’s operations, they believe themselves to be standing with the Arab world. In reality, they are advancing a position that the Arab world does not share and has not asked for, while ignoring the threat that Arab governments and Arab populations actually live with.
The rhetorical use of Israel as a perpetual alibi for Iranian aggression has been one of the Islamic Republic’s most durable tools, and Western opinion has served as the unwitting amplifier of that tool across the entire duration of the Islamic Republic’s existence.
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@woznivk@kunley_drukpa Many of the books are in Arabic.
But this looks to be a good read https://t.co/4W3vVX1iRs
Also might consider this
https://t.co/ysJZBgfI99
Will I in the hypothetical recognize a fantasy of yours that will never happen and which serves as your coping mechanism for something real that did happen?
@neothulist@DropSiteNews Will you recognise that same right of conquest when the Artesh and IRGC occupy Bahrain and butcher your royal family (if they don't go hide in Las Angeles or Miami or Tel Aviv instead)