No Easy Exit

I have lost count of the number
of world leaders who have dominated
the media that I have found acceptable
to me, that edits the news well.

As soon as these leaders have started wars
they have found they could only end them
through being far more brutal than they suggested
they would be, which is when they put the 'bullet'
into 'bulletin' with the aggression with which
they speak to a media they have made pliant
to their message, their personal echo chamber
which I only recieve selectively, second hand.

The wars continue without any prospect
of a clean, or even acceptably dirty, exit. 

I know what comes next.

Economic displacement in countries at peace,
at home at least. They won't want the refugees
who are fleeing the wars that they have started,
with allies they have backed who consider it
to be beneath them to sort out the mess,
and consequences of what they started..... 

The Sky Is The Limit

for World War III - the sky
is where the war will start from
and as the weather rains bombs
onto every inhabitant of distant lands
we will soon understand how man-made
global warming was always going to be
and how lethal man-made heat will remain,
long after there is no-one left to witness it.

So much time will have to pass for the humans,
along with so many fewer species that are left,
to survey the damage and so how to be at home with it.

Full Moon

A worm moon* in the water,
but how to pluck it out.... 


*The named given to a March moon by native Americans. 

 

The Ontological* Approach To War

As World War III, the new war from the air,
lands on the ground below in many countries,
using AI supported drones where no human
that we know of is in control of where they land,
and where there was no declaration of intent,
because such clarity might limit AI's ambitions,
the world is facing hitherto unknown unknowns
on scales where we don't know how to calculate.
What is real that the common citizen cannot be told:
The point of the war, if it has any point at all,
is that it is an exercise with advanced new weaponry
that exceeds all previous limits on warfare
more than all previous total wars combined,
more totally than the starters of the war understand.

*Ontological meaning taking an argument
further than it has gone before, as far as it
will go, to see how far it can be made to go.  

Picture Set Of The Month - March - Iranian Rugs

Baluchi rug - Baluchistan is a region of Iran, a country
far more known across the world for its rugs
and traditional arts like music, than for it's
reputation and arguments over oil since the 1920's.  

BP, British Petroleum had a controlling stake
in Iranian oil fields from the 1920s onward,
meanwhile most Iranians remained poor.   

 

But with Iran's contribution to world culture being 
 like this Kashkuli Gabbeh Hand-knotted Wool Rug,
so slow, with so much attention put into making it,
compared with American inattention forming media
of today I know who I would look at most the long run,

The Old Familiar Script

For a government, an empire, to have the power
to destroy another (smaller) government,
but have no interest in what replaces
what they destroy, beyond wanting it
to be a weaker, vainer, version
of the destroying government is a familiar script.

from the Boer War of 1900, when the British
opened the first concentration camp, which indirectly
led to state sponsored apartheid (1948 - 1994)
through to the USA in its Anti-Communist zeal
knowing more what it did not want from, Iran,
from the 1951 onward, when elected Prime Minister
of Mohamed Mossadegh ousted British Petroleum 
by fiat, the British cried 'foul' and blocked Iranian oil.

MI6 and the CIA did not want Iranian autonomy,
and overthrew his government, which was caught
between different cold war and anti-cold war influences.
The Americans backed a weaker Shah, and a form of rule
they surely knew could not last, and instructed him badly
on how to make his regime more sustainable with the people.

Will the next leaders of Iran be a tougher bunch of thugs
than the last lot? And the lot before them? 
Tougher than the present day lethal Israeli and American weaponry
presently razing Iran's ability to form a government to the ground?

The new Iranian government will have to be tough to withstand all that.

And Iran's necessary toughness will be a problem
for all future anti-communist tough guys,
who with their short term memory media,
have no sense of history, or of how
long term government takes to be rebuilt
with the co-operation of the citizen.

Photograph Of The Day

Amy Kierstead, The Eye of the Forest, a photograph possibly taken in 2023.