Declan Hayes
The Iranians and the Russians must, like America's Lakota Indians before Wounded Knee, make a choice, Declan Hayes writes.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ Anna Karenina
Yes, Russia may be winning in Ukraine and Iran may have recently given Israel a bloody nose, but Israel not only has Hezbollah surrounded but is now also at the border of Iran, and Russia faces an array of NATO proxy forces along its entire Western and Southern fronts, as well as God knows how many deranged Pussy Riot type traitors within. Even if the Zelensky dictatorship is overthrown, Russia's armed forces and internal security services will remain bogged down not only in their western and southern oblasts but also in central Asia, if NATO becomes more firmly entrenched in Azerbaijan which is the perfect bridgehead to further attack both Russia and Iran. Long story short, if NATO consolidates and expands its Azeri base, Russia and Iran will both find themselves facing multi-pronged attacks that could undo the two of them.
NATO has advanced from West Germany to the Russian border and, should she manage to cross the moat of the Caspian Sea from Azerbaijan into central Asia, Israel will have the flanks and the shanks of Iran of Russia thoroughly exposed as well.
Although Russia, Armenia and Iran can all plead their cases on the international stage, that is wasted energy. Their NATO enemies still decree that Russia's crimes, if such they are, are infinitely worse than those of Israel, whose unspeakable barbarities serve NATO's bigger purpose of global conquest and so are inconsequential to the bigger game. And, as for the Armenians, sure hasn't NATO member Turkey been slaughtering them for well over a century, and all without blowback?
Although the Bonnie and Clyde marriage of NATO and Israel was enshrined by God in some Bronze age book or other, NATO's Israeli bridgehead, first posited by Irish mercenary revolutionaries to Napoleon, is a NATO dagger searing through the Arab world. Egypt and Jordan have long ago been brought to heel, Cyprus is being colonised, Hezbollah has to watch its northern back, Syria is now ruled by NATO endorsed cut throats, Iraq is a patch quilt and NATO's cash and oil rich Gulf dictatorships know the fate that awaits them if democracy ever takes root anywhere within that general region. As regards the double headed snake of NATO member Turkey and Erdogan's dream of restoring the Ottoman Caliphate from the Balkans all the way to central China, Israel, Turkey and their Azeri buddies need to first topple Tehran to move that project up a notch.
Not only do countries like Syria and Libya prove that NATO will gladly deliver any and all Amaleks into the abattoir but the ass wipe of Rwanda, which is currently devouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country over 100 times its size, is a real time. example of NATO's voracious piranhas gobbling up countries far bigger than themselves. Anybody who believes that NATO and Israel cannot dismember and slice and dice both Iran and Russia has never read a history book, no doubt partly because they have their sycophantic heads too far up the backsides of whoever is paying them to be deaf, dumb, blind and incorrigibly stupid.
This is not to say that NATO will slice and dice either Iran or Russia but that the possibility, however remote it might now seem to be, is there. And the military, cultural and diplomatic hot shots of both Iran and Russia are duty bound to make the appropriate contingencies to make the probability of their respective countries being turned over all but impossible.
Let's hopscotch over Iran, to Afghanistan and then to New York where the Quisling governments of Germany, Ireland and Sweden recently presented a 67-point document to the UN General Assembly condemning the Afghan government's treatment of women which, to be fair, seems to be quite appalling but which must be seen in the context of NATO's recently suspended extermination campaign there, after which the British and Americans suddenly became interested in women's rights in Afghanistan and, for good measure, in Iran and Sapphic China as well.
The Afghan front, like those of Iran and China, as well as the Pussy Riot and Femen slappers of Ukraine and Russia, indicates that NATO only champions such causes when they further its cause and not only do the current Syrian pogroms and NATO arming and diplomatically supporting the Khmer Rouge to fight the Vietnamese Army validate that contention but so do other battlefields as diverse as Ukraine, Libya and central America.
Did I forget to mention the Palestinians? Never mind, as they do not matter and anyone, such as Blighty's Palestine Action thinking of speaking up for them, can expect up to 15 years in prison. Sally Hayden, who came to Syria with me to undermine secular Syria, is currently writing sob sob stories about the Palestinians of the West Bank. Bully for that hypocrite and her paper's pompous readers but nothing will come of any of that or the Irish Times would not publish her gruel. Sure, the usual Zionists will play ping pong in the paper's letters page and maybe Sally will get another meaningless award for her sham bravery. But the killing will go on, and the Israelis will continue to rob the land and even the rain water from the locals and nothing of any effect will be done to redress Zionism's onward march.
The Irish Times and similar NATO outlets will cry crocodile tears for the Palestinians and the lesbians and Uyghur head choppers of China, but then balance that out by showing how the CIA run the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, how Hamas, and not the proven rapists of the IDF, are serial rapists ( thanks BBC, jolly good show) and what an utter bastard Putin, the world's most evil man, is. I mention Putin as I was told all about him by some Irish octogenarians way back in 2013, which left me scratching my head wondering why he was on all their radars for being the current re-incarnation of the club footed anti-Christ. The answer to that can be found in all the NATO radio and afternoon TV shows that chirrup away on such topics and which convince those who must be convinced that Putin is bad, that war criminals like Blair, Bush, Obama, Biden, Trump and Starmer are living angels, whose lives are devoted to making the world a better place, especially for them and their Ukrainian rent boys and that Jeffrey Epstein, Mossad's own equivalent of a saint, never had any client list of VIPs who systematically gang raped toddlers.
If you are wondering how all of this directly pertains to Iran and Russia, consider the proposed Zangezur corridor which, as this checkerboard map suggests, will hasten the transformation of Armenia into a NATO vassal state and bequeath NATO a further launching pad to undermine both Iran and Russia not only from Armenia but via the Caspian Sea, from Central Asia as well. No doubt, all the new head chopping units Turkey is currently recruiting in Syria will get gainful employment there in this great plan to decouple and dismember both Iran and Russia and have all of us fully complicit in these conquests.
The good news is that the Vatican and other players are convening powwows about all this both in the Vatican itself and in Tokyo but the bad news is all of that is hot air of no practical consequence, as Azerbaijan is trying to rival Ukraine, Lithuania and Estonia by being the world's most Russophobic country and Turkey is there to nudge it along.
Double faced Turkey is where Voltaire's Candide ends, with some old geezer sitting Buddha-like under a cherry blossom tree famously telling the book's characters to forget the wider world's valley of tears and to instead concentrate on cultivating their own gardens. But that is precisely what the Armenians of Kessab and of Nagorno-Karabakh did before the Turks slaughtered them. And it is what the Christians of Taybeh on the Palestinian West Bank were doing until Netanyahu's storm troopers recently attacked them. And it is what young Iranian poet Pamia Abbasi was doing until the Israelis incinerated her, just like they have incinerated countless other poets, gardeners, hip hop dancers and sundry whatnots over the last many years. And, as regards the ongoing slaughter of the Druze of southern Syria, it is the same story, albeit with a further Machiavellian Zionist twist to it.
This panoramic article began with a quote from Tolstoy and a title that is an amalgamation of two of Tolstoy's shorter works. Tolstoy, who has much to teach the civilised world, considered God sees the truth, but waits, alongside The Prisoner of the Caucasus, its companion novella, his finest works and the Tehrani reading club I proposed could do worse than put them, and the tales of Dostoyevsky, Hugo and even Steinbeck's East of Eden, which cover broadly similar terrain, on their reading lists. And, though Anna Karenina, with its famous, familial principle, should also be on the curriculum, so too should more practical subjects, which can allow its Russian, Armenian and Iranian members to turn back NATO's crimson tide which, since the end of the Cold War, has inched inexorably ever closer to them and theirs.
The Iranians and the Russians must, like America's Lakota Indians before Wounded Knee, make a choice. They can do their own equivalent of the Ghost Dance, stick their heads in their books, in the sand or even up their own arses as they swallow the lies forever oozing from NATO's Ambassadors, or they can sharpen their spears, unsheath their tomahawks and resolve to do some serious scalping. Decision time is at hand and the time for Hamlet's endless prevarications and philosophical musings has passed.
Though Tolstoy, along with Dostoyevsky, was arguably the greatest novelist ever, Tolstoy considered himself not a novelist but a philosopher, the Socrates of his age, if you will. And, though Tolstoy, like Socrates before him, might have been a great fellow to have a yarn about nothing with, both men saw action, Socrates in the Second Peloponnesian War, and Tolstoy, whose father had seen action in 1812, fought in the Caucasus (the inspiration for his Hadji Murat novella) and in Crimea, where he distinguished himself during the 1854/5 siege of Sevastopol, where Russia and the Greek Volunteer Legion squared up to the usual NATO suspects.
Those usual suspects have not gone away and nor have they reformed themselves or fundamentally changed their plans of conquest. Because they will not stop by their own accord or by appealing to their non-existent better senses, the works of Tolstoy, Hugo, Voltaire and Abbasi can linger a while longer on the book shelves and the idle chitter chatter of Socrates and his sort can be consigned to the coffee shops, student dorms and other backwaters having no immediate military significance to Iran and Russia, whose militaries best immediately don their thinking caps to avert the calamity NATO is hell bent on visiting not only upon them but on the hard pressed lesbians of Armenia, Afghanistan and China as well.