I must apologise. In my last post, I wrote that we are “live witnesses to the West’s descent into barbarism!”
This was inaccurate. What we are seeing is not gradual descent down a slope: We are seeing the frantic flailing of a two-headed monster, surrounded by its wailing monster babies. In short we are already there: The West has reached the bottom of the slope. Things can get very much worse, for sure, for all of us, but already the US and its vassals are a pitifully primitive gaggle.
They have broken almost every rule in the book. They are now effectively (some more, some less) barbarian states.
Episode: On March 4, the Sri Lankan navy responded to a distress call from the Iranian warship IRIS Dena after it was sunk by a U.S. submarine. The Sri Lankans managed to recover, out of a crew of 130, 87 bodies, and 32 survivors.
Here is what Perplexity tells me:
IRIS Dena, a Moudge‑class Iranian frigate, was torpedoed on 4 March 2026 in international waters south of Sri Lanka, while returning to Iran after participating in the Indian Navy’s Milan 2026 exercise.
The U.S. government has confirmed that the Los Angeles‑class attack submarine USS Charlotte fired a Mark 48 heavyweight torpedo that struck Dena under the stern, breaking her keel and causing her to sink rapidly.
Sri Lankan authorities reported that the ship sent a distress call around 05:08 local time and that their navy and air force mounted a search‑and‑rescue operation.
Note that the USA sunk the ship at about 05:08, a time when most of the crew would have been in their bunks. This is the work of barbarians.
Note, also, that the USA just left them there in the water. Even the Nazis, I am told, used to pick up survivors of ships they had sunk. I wonder: did the USA also shoot people in the water, as they did in the Caribbean?
Note, finally, that the ship was in international waters far from Iran, returning from a friendly mission in India.
Perplexity again:
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly framed the attack as a deliberate demonstration that Iranian warships were not safe even in distant international waters, calling it proof of U.S. global reach and….
Global reach! President Flintstone’s “global reach” (and that of his predecessors), is effectively the no. 1 obstacle to global peace and prosperity.
We are of course used to Israel’s routine indiscriminate killing of civilians that do not satisfy its “racial” requirements. And the US has managed to impose global impunity for all Israeli crimes against humanity. (The Nazis, as we know, were no better than Israel, but at least some of them were prosecuted.)
Indiscriminate killing of civilians is barbarism! Having unilaterally cancelled “International Law”, the US now feels joyfully free to engage in indiscriminate killing of civilians without so much as an apology. President Flintstone and his hoodlums will go down in history – no doubt about that – but perhaps not the way he wished.
We are told that the global economy is being hit. Indeed, most countries will be badly hit. A Chinese government spokesperson is imploring the warring parties to cease hostilities and resume negotiations. Now China is a supremely civilised country. I fear it is so civilised that its spokespersons are unable to fathom that one side of this war routinely engages in high-profile assassinations during – yes, just so – negotiations! Indeed, it is very difficult to get one’s head around such barbarism.
Negotiations have systematically been used by president Flintstone and his Israeli handler as a smoke screen.
Stop accusing Iran. Iran did not start this or any other war! The US has been attacking the Iranian people with sanctions for decades. The US has in fact been attacking all over the place, militarily and/or with sanctions and/or though covert r operations for as long as I have lived. And the rest of us (in the West) have not said a peep. Not one peep. We have been perfectly aware of the injustice, but we have been silent.
By “we” I do not mean the voters, the you-s and I-s. In that sense of the word, “we” are innocent. I mean those who represent us: The warmongering US-EU 1 %, (or “Epstein class”). And don’t tell me that you and I voted for the wrong man or woman, because we – you and I – are merely hostages of the press/media owned by the above-mentioned you-know-who-class.
Yes, Iran is hitting its two persecutors where it hurts, in the groin: the economy. All of us, and mostly Iran, will suffer as a result.
But don’t, I repeat, blame the Iranians!