John Fitzpatrick. About New China, the Koreas, Myanmar, Thailand, and also about Japanese and Chinese writers and poets. The main emphasis is on North Asia and the political tectonics of this very important, powerful, and many-peopled area.
Thursday, 9 April 2026
When you look at it unemotionally, there is no way that a country of 92 million souls, like Iran, could possibly stop the USA's well-beyond-massive war machine from totally destroying it. Ending it totally. No way. No way in heaven nor on earth. There is no way that Iran could win in that kind of multi-million body human horror bloodbath. But then, ahem, then, the President of the USA is really Mr Donald Trump and his Secretary of War is Mr Pete Hegseth, and their best friend is Mr Bibi Netanyahu...and so you have to look at it a bit more carefully, especially as the USA's President is without a strategy and 'working by his gut'. No doubt, yes, he has a big gut, but...so do I, and I wouldn't ever do what he has done by that same measure of turbulent fat.
When you look at it unemotionally, there is no way that a country of 92 million souls, like Iran, could possibly stop the USA's well-beyond-massive war machine from totally destroying it. Ending it totally. No way. No way in heaven nor on earth. There is no way that Iran could win in that kind of multi-million body human horror bloodbath.
When you look at it unemotionally, there is no way that a country of 92 million souls, like Iran, could possibly stop the USA's well-beyond-massive war machine from totally destroying it. Ending it totally. No way. No way in heaven nor on earth. There is no way that Iran could win in that kind of multi-million body human horror bloodbath. But then, ahem, then, the President of the USA is really Mr Donald Trump and his Secretary of War is Mr Pete Hegseth, and their best friend is Mr Bibi Netanyahu...and so you have to look at it a bit more carefully, especially as the USA's President is without a strategy and 'working by his gut'. No doubt, yes, he has a big gut, but...so do I, and I wouldn't ever do what he has done by that same measure of turbulent fat.
When you look at it unemotionally, there is no way that a country of 92 million souls, like Iran, could possibly stop the USA's well-beyond-massive war machine from totally destroying it. Ending it totally. No way. No way in heaven nor on earth. There is no way that Iran could win in that kind of multi-million body human horror bloodbath.
Monday, 6 April 2026
I grew up in an era in Australia when everything Arabs did was evil, and everything that Israel did was great. I read all those Leon Uris books about righteousness and kibbutzes etc. That time ended, naturally, decades ago. That notion couldn't survive reality, though Israel did try, and still does try, to push themselves to being the only ones who matter time and time again. But that is absurd. Israel, as the Sole Violent and Selfish Predator in the Middle East, well, its well past time that the old fantasy ended. It is a small nation, or dot, that isn't productive without massive annual US funding, whether at peace or in battle. It can't compete with any neighbour. Its warlike philosophy and bizarre religion is as baseless as all others, and more so, and it does not matter at all. We all grew up whilst Israel was leisurely playing by the pool and blackmailing everyone, and cheating everyone, on earth every day. Let it be the tiny vicious paranoid enclave it is. A dot. No one wants it to be something else. No one wants it to grow. No one who matters. It is a cancer on us all.
that's right.