India fights with no one. To the best of its ability, it helps everyone in times of need. For America, someone’s misery is an opportunity to profit. It helps no one.
And that is why the universe teaches them a lesson. Failing economy. Miserable population. Highest rate of cancer. Severe mental health issues. Highest divorce rate. Drug addiction challenges. Frequent public shootings.
And it is rust that destroys the iron from within like no external threat can. Trump. 9/11. There will be more. It is the law of karma. More deaths per population than any country. And a virus which they themselves had created in Wuhan. And a vaccine which will ruin the healthspan of millions.
And now the Iran attack
Iraq. Venezuela. Vietnam. Afghanistan.
In the month of the Lent – it is time to seek forgiveness. Not give 48 hour deadlines.
And now for the comedy in the tragedy.
Twenty-three nations just signed a joint statement condemning Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and pledging readiness to ensure safe passage. The United States is not one of them. China is not one of them. The country fighting the war and the country most dependent on the strait are both absent from a document that exists because of one and was written for the other.
Iran is left with nothing to lose.
And has everything to gain from economic warfare which costs little.
The statement was issued through the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and co-signed by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Australia, South Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czechia, Romania, Bahrain, and Lithuania.
No such statement was issued on the American attack on Iran.
It demands Iran cease immediately and comply with UN Security Council Resolution 2817, adopted March 11 with 13 votes in favour and China and Russia abstaining. What on earth was the impotent United Nations doing to Russia or to USA when they attacked other countries.
The timing is not coincidental. The 23rd country Trump named in his address, the one that imports more than 70 percent of its crude through that strait, did not sign. China’s absence from the statement is louder than every signature on it.
Read what the 23 nations actually pledged. What they did not pledge is a single warship, a single escort vessel, a single mine countermeasure deployment, or a single sailor. The word readiness appears where the word deployment does not.
This is the diplomatic architecture of burden-sharing without burden-bearing. Japan’s constitutional constraints prevent collective military action in the Gulf. South Korea’s domestic politics make naval deployments toxic. Europe’s navies are configured for the Baltic and the Mediterranean. The nations that signed this statement expressed readiness to help reopen it. They did not say how.
And I am trying to save the world by using an electric taxi. And to solve rare diseases which kill a few.
