Silly anti-civilizational propaganda siding with Putin and theocrats, claims that tariffs and blockade could persuade a death cult like the Shia to suddenly turn reasonable and friendly to democracy. Seducing the Shia was tried for 47 years, and by the best and brightest, and it did not work: there were bombs in Paris (the French president then prevented the media from saying the bombing plots originated in Iran), hundreds of French and US troops were killed in mass bombings (1983), etc. Iran financed massively terrorist groups in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, etc. And harbors Al Qaeda… For years, Iranian proxies have required huge and costly force deployment to keep the Red Sea (hence the Suez Canal in Egypt) somewhat open.
The Shia’s obsession is to surprise the West with nuclear 9/11s, and, after nuclear bombings some cities in the West, they would be elated to die as martyrs: the religion the Shia believe in, a hard core variant of Islam, tells them that killing all the Jews and dying as martyrs fighting for their God are the highest callings.
Bombing the Shia into the Stone Age is entirely feasible, safe and effective to prevent them from committing, or threatening to commit, mass murder with nuclear weapons.
Contrarily to what some sensationalists have pretended, aerial bombing works. It was even done to Nazi Germany, and destroyed it as a functioning country… Although at the time, bombs were extremely inaccurate. Present day accuracy has enabled air power to enforce battlefield interdiction: approaching within a few times tube range (guns) of the frontline becomes a highly dangerous military activity.
With the Shia, there is no alternative. The aim is not necessarily to destroy their missiles outright because they are the pretext for extending the bombing campaign until the true objectives are achieved.
The real aim of the bombing campaign is to destroy the Shia Defense Industrial Base. And if that is not enough to persuade them, then the DIB, Dual Industrial Base (not just the defense factories and steel mills, but also the power infrastructure).
This aerial submission of Iran to anti-nuclear rationality is also a warning for the Chinese dictator Xi to stop his aggression in the South China Sea and threats against Taiwan.
The sweet and soft method was tried by Obama with the Shia. Obama even gave them 50 billion dollars. It did not work. The Shia went on with a massive, state of the art, nuclear war preparation program. Differently from any power on Earth, while pursuing nuclear war preparations, Shia Iran was loud and clear that at least country had to be annihilated. No other country in the world has a loud and clear agenda of annihilation for another country.
In a testimony to Persia’s ancient technological prowess, the Shia even developed some weapons that no other power has. And those weapons work: consider the destruction of that US AWACS E3 plane on a distant taxiway (probably localized by Putin’s space force), or the double tap (second projectile in the hole made by the first) at the US embassy in Riyadh which ravaged with a fire that lasted hours, the CIA headquarters there.
As with Shia ally Putin, only ultimate strength works.. This is more of a world war than anything else.
European leadership, which was pro-Putin for 23 years, is now showing its true color: betraying the European civilizational heritage so that the greedsters presently in power can stay so indefinitely.
So far, in the last three decades, European leadership has betrayed Europe. Now European leadership insists on betraying the USA. It will not have any luck, because that would require too much of an assault against rationality. But the plutocratic propagandists are trying, and rationality, and now even science, are under assault.
Free speech too is cancelled: evoking an interpretation of an obscure law from 1881 CE (!), the head of the CGT, long the mightiest union in France, and close to the French Communist Party, Sophie Binet, was indicted by the French Judicial system on December 2, 2025, for saying that French bosses (business owners) are « rats qui quittent le navire… le seul objectif est l’appât du gain » (French bosses are rats leaving the ship, their only motivation is greed). The International Confederation of Trade Unions saw this unprecedented assault against Free Speech an attack against democracy in France. (Even during the terrible Franco-Algerian civil war, in the 1950s and 1960s, I do not remember a major union boss being indicted, especially for speaking; OK, they were males and Sophie is a female…)
And don’t hint that the French first lady has been a pedophile (she ensnared the president when he was 15 or so, and she was his teacher), or that she may be a man: French people have gone to prison for that. Present French leaders (and that notion of leadership includes the independent judges) have gone to extremes of ridicule not even seen under Louis XVI (the virulent caricatures of his wife and queen then were often not punished).
In the latest news from France the anti-civilizational government is putting professional anthropologists, philosophers (Michel Onfray), C News (French most watched media), and Charles Darwin on trial of sorts, and certainly to the reprobation of the nation… For saying man was a great ape… which hurts the French government, presumably made of little apes, while loudly propagandizing for… Islam (this is a reference to French “interior minister” Nunez’s declarations in April 2026 which were as explicit as possible; he then excused himself! Instead of resigning!). What the present French government in 2026 did was name a “commission of experts” to apparently see what could be done against Charles Darwin’s public insults of 1871…. In a book readily available, called the “Descent of Man“. Indeed, that is an implicit insult against the Qur’an (which tells us that monkeys are actually Jews punished by Allah).
One may wonder how come the European leadership became so keen on devolution? The answer is simple: Europe was defeated in the Second World War, by the USA and its proxy, the USSR (to whom half of Europe was given at Yalta before going to make a deal with the Saudis at the Great Bitter Lake in Egypt). Superficially, France and Britain won WW2, but they were devastated economically and financially and indebted more than ever to the true victor, the US Deep Plutocratic State which was going around the world as if it owned it, because it did, and whose brand new CIA was deciding whom, among millions of captured Nazis, could be put to good usage.
The general idea was to install in Europe the same old plutocracy as before, but now as an explicit vassal of the USA. In exchange, NATO, financed 70% by the USA would ensure the “protection” of Western Europe, just as the Kremlin ensured the “protection” of Eastern Europe.
France rebelled, and developed her own fully independent nuclear forces and Defense Industrial Base, but that was OK: France originated much of Western civilization, including England and the USA and launched the nuclear bomb program, plus assaulted the Nazis first, and all alone for years, so the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations knew better than argue with the French: that could actually, at the time, lead to a scandal and thus detection and rejection of the entire US Plutocratic Deep State vassalization of Europe (say by having the Germans and the Brits realizing that they were had in a vast US plot… Just as they are finally doing in 2026, in much less outrageous circumstances… Thanks to Trump, European leaders have to admoit they are pawns of the US DPS… A striking irony…).
A defeatist mentality was installed in Europe to make this mental, financial, economic, industrial and scientific submission easier and more permanent (That was done by propagandizing various impotent philosophies, such as the Absurd, so-called “Existentialism”, so-called French Theory, and even Pedocriminality, which was presented as a “liberation ideology”, the opposite of what it was, a grotesque and criminal notion fostered to precisely attack the rational centers of unsuspecting neurologies). That installation consisted in part of putting intellectuals and journalists on CIA payroll (50 most prominent journalists in France alone were put on CIA payroll in the 1950s). European plutocracy thrived under the close watch of the US Plutocratic Deep State.
Then came Putin, who extracted wealth from Russia through his patented oligarchs, sending that stolen wealth to European plutocratic oligarchic colleagues, while providing Europe with energy to create a co-dependency: this way We The People of Europe got tied in much more to the world’s plutocratic order: to have energy in Europe, one had to please the Kremlin’s tyrant and his attached oligarchs making their Western colleagues wealthier and more potent, especially as they had bought all the media, to tell We The People was was true and obvious… Energy procurement was outlawed or discouraged in Europe, to accelerate deindustrialization; for example a secret pact was made in 1999 to sabotage the French nuclear energy in all ways, between the French “Greens” (who are anything but “Green”) and the Socialist PM Jospin: that profited Putin, and the plutocratic system attached to him, as intended…
An anecdotal demonstration of this: even after Putin started to invade Ukraine in 2014, France sent crucial military equipment, for example “optronics”, infrared detection electronics, for the Russian air, missile and tank forces (while Trump was sending Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine…)
The European elite has been used to living with Putin, welcoming his money, oil and gas, and hiding it in plain sight. Now they have a problem, because Ukraine, flush initially with US weapons (initially sent by Trump I, before a delayed flood from Biden…), resisted Putin. The treacherous European leadership then had to do as if they resisted Putin (while not resisting him much): appearances are everything.
Meanwhile the European left realized that more and more of the electorate had enough with their masquerade (superficial socialism over-taxing the middle class while profiting the hyper wealthy). So the self-declared “Left” made an alliance with (pseudo-) Greens and Islamists. And here we are.
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Deindustrialization is nothing new: the Roman Republic died that way. Right, under Rome, industry was mostly agriculture, but there was great replacement of Roman independent little farmers, the backbone of Rome, by giant agribusinesses manned by armies of slaves (one latifundia could have ten thousand slaves). That broke the back of the Roman middle class, which was the spine of the Republic. It was also a conspiracy and a plot, because, starting with Tiberius Gracchus, the full theory of what was going on was exposed. And there was deliberate will, on the part of the self-described “Optimates” (they were “optimal”) to destroy the middle class and the Centuriate Assembly (Rome’s direct democracy voting assembly). Actually the rage of the Senate against Caesar was caused by him overriding the Senate (where the Optimates ruled) to go directly to the Assembly when he was Consul in 59 BCE, and do what the Gracchi and their thousands of followers, over generations, could not do: redistribution of land.
Rome died of its deindustrialization. First the army got professional, following its generals to get more money, then took power after horrendous civil wars. Then the decimated population got replaced by more placid middle easterners. In the end much of everything Roman collapsed and the Barbarians took over (fortunately the Franks had been prepared as a second foundation of Rome; yes they were armed farmers, like the original Rome, and they had learned to speak Latin).
The plutocrats though were happy: many of them stayed in power for centuries, even millennia. In the present Europe, many families in power have been that way for centuries. Paradoxically that system installed in its latest version by the USA after 1945, has now turned against the US, which needs an ally and discovers that Europe has LOST AGENCY.
Stay tuned, this is only the beginning…
Patrice Ayme
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