My assessment of the situation. The media are paying way too much attention to whether the 3 Iranian nuclear facilities targeted by the US strikes were totally destroyed vs much less damage inflicted. As long as the nuclear program lacks the means to convert enriched uranium which is in a gaseous form back to metal form, a process which requires a conversion plant, the program is dead in the waters. All the current evidence is that the conversion plant in Natanz, the only one which was known to be in existence, was destroyed. [EDIT: my bad, in Isfahan. Also, solid form cannot be enriched further, would need to be converted to gas, also requiring a conversion plant] If this is not the case, then the weight of the rest of the evidence would indicate the US/Israel war on the program was and remains a failure.
The ouster of the Assad regime took out a major asset of Iran in the region, exacerbating the drastic downgrading of Hezbollah. In addition, the new Syrian regime lacks the means to enforce any restrictions upon access to its air space. This enabled the Israeli Air Force and later the US Air Force to fly across Syria scot-free and then likewise across Iraq, whose airspace is defended by …. the US. The next country going east is Iran. Thus, the Israeli forces were able to create and maintain total air superiority over Iran, and destroy targets at will, including the Iranian air defense system and missile storage and launch sites. The IDF’s ability to operate on the ground via its clandestine units and special forces greatly increased this dominance. Iranian missile strikes on Israel did cause lots of damage and killed 28 people, but this pales compared to the damage inflicted upon the Iranian state/business entity. Any future near-term resumption of fighting would find the Iranian entity at a vast disadvantage.
And the promoters of the Multipolar World Order, the “alternative” pro-4IR narrative, are using the recent war to push their narrative very hard. They will do so no matter what’s going on. At this point, the Russian and Chinese state/business entities are not on their strong feet in the Southwest Asia theater. The fact that BRICS-Plus lacks even internal unity on this matter (India is quite explicitly supporting Israel, UAE is doing so more subtly, see programs on its media outlet, Al Arabiya) does not help the Russian and Chinese regional interests.
Thank you Eric for adding some levity to this situation. From what I can gather, most people around here don’t care about all of this and they’ve already forgotten how this latest chapter began. This forgetting is intentional and part of the digital fog. Despite it being concerning, I’m trying to stay awake. Lots of love.
And, here’s an example of how the Multipolar World Order (MWO) is being promoted by Qatar;s official media outlet Al Jazeera. The interview subject is the director of “Progressive International.” She speaks strongly in terms of seeking “justice” for the “Global South” and even speaks favorably of “socialism,” but then explicitly pushes the MWO. Reminds me of the apparent Demo nominee for New York Mayor, Rohnan Mandami, a Uganda-born (of Indian ancestry) state assemblyman who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Here’s an example of how the Multipolar World Order (MWO) is being promoted by Qatar;s official media outlet Al Jazeera, as well as commentary in the New York Mayoral primary.. The interview subject is the director of “Progressive International.” She speaks strongly in terms of seeking “justice” for the “Global South” and even speaks favorably of “socialism,” but then explicitly pushes the MWO. Reminds me of the apparent Demo nominee for New York Mayor, Rohnan Mandami, a Uganda-born (of Indian ancestry) state assemblyman who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who who was enduorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who made strong pro-Palestine statements. We’’ll see how he works with New York’s business community. DSA, Sanders and Ocasio-cortez call themselves socialist, but actually espouse European social democracy, a political grouping which has worked for over 100 years as an enforcer of capitalism. And their actual proposals are little different from what used to be positions and policies espoused by mainstream Democrats and even “liberal” Republicans back in the 1950s and ‘60s.
"They have spat on humanity." Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla & Ken Roth on Gaza hypocrisy | Reframe, Al Jazeera, 6/22/25, 25 minutes.
"In this episode, Ken Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, interviews Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla on how much the Global South has influenced the world order and whether it can actually exert any pressure on the international stage.
Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla is the general coordinator for Progressive International, a think tank working to unite, organise and mobilise progressive forces around the world. She’s also one of the founders and the executive secretary of the Hague Group, a coalition of nations from the Global South formed in January 2025 to uphold the rulings of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court regarding Israel-Palestine, and “stand together to defend the principles of justice, equality and human rights”.
Among the collective measures the group has taken is to close their ports to ships carrying weapons or fuel to Israel and commit to honour international arrest warrants."
From the Lockdown Times i sent out minutes ago.
My assessment of the situation. The media are paying way too much attention to whether the 3 Iranian nuclear facilities targeted by the US strikes were totally destroyed vs much less damage inflicted. As long as the nuclear program lacks the means to convert enriched uranium which is in a gaseous form back to metal form, a process which requires a conversion plant, the program is dead in the waters. All the current evidence is that the conversion plant in Natanz, the only one which was known to be in existence, was destroyed. [EDIT: my bad, in Isfahan. Also, solid form cannot be enriched further, would need to be converted to gas, also requiring a conversion plant] If this is not the case, then the weight of the rest of the evidence would indicate the US/Israel war on the program was and remains a failure.
The ouster of the Assad regime took out a major asset of Iran in the region, exacerbating the drastic downgrading of Hezbollah. In addition, the new Syrian regime lacks the means to enforce any restrictions upon access to its air space. This enabled the Israeli Air Force and later the US Air Force to fly across Syria scot-free and then likewise across Iraq, whose airspace is defended by …. the US. The next country going east is Iran. Thus, the Israeli forces were able to create and maintain total air superiority over Iran, and destroy targets at will, including the Iranian air defense system and missile storage and launch sites. The IDF’s ability to operate on the ground via its clandestine units and special forces greatly increased this dominance. Iranian missile strikes on Israel did cause lots of damage and killed 28 people, but this pales compared to the damage inflicted upon the Iranian state/business entity. Any future near-term resumption of fighting would find the Iranian entity at a vast disadvantage.
And the promoters of the Multipolar World Order, the “alternative” pro-4IR narrative, are using the recent war to push their narrative very hard. They will do so no matter what’s going on. At this point, the Russian and Chinese state/business entities are not on their strong feet in the Southwest Asia theater. The fact that BRICS-Plus lacks even internal unity on this matter (India is quite explicitly supporting Israel, UAE is doing so more subtly, see programs on its media outlet, Al Arabiya) does not help the Russian and Chinese regional interests.
Thank you Eric for adding some levity to this situation. From what I can gather, most people around here don’t care about all of this and they’ve already forgotten how this latest chapter began. This forgetting is intentional and part of the digital fog. Despite it being concerning, I’m trying to stay awake. Lots of love.
Yep I was just noticing that it seems to all be done and forgotten.
And, here’s an example of how the Multipolar World Order (MWO) is being promoted by Qatar;s official media outlet Al Jazeera. The interview subject is the director of “Progressive International.” She speaks strongly in terms of seeking “justice” for the “Global South” and even speaks favorably of “socialism,” but then explicitly pushes the MWO. Reminds me of the apparent Demo nominee for New York Mayor, Rohnan Mandami, a Uganda-born (of Indian ancestry) state assemblyman who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Here’s an example of how the Multipolar World Order (MWO) is being promoted by Qatar;s official media outlet Al Jazeera, as well as commentary in the New York Mayoral primary.. The interview subject is the director of “Progressive International.” She speaks strongly in terms of seeking “justice” for the “Global South” and even speaks favorably of “socialism,” but then explicitly pushes the MWO. Reminds me of the apparent Demo nominee for New York Mayor, Rohnan Mandami, a Uganda-born (of Indian ancestry) state assemblyman who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who who was enduorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who made strong pro-Palestine statements. We’’ll see how he works with New York’s business community. DSA, Sanders and Ocasio-cortez call themselves socialist, but actually espouse European social democracy, a political grouping which has worked for over 100 years as an enforcer of capitalism. And their actual proposals are little different from what used to be positions and policies espoused by mainstream Democrats and even “liberal” Republicans back in the 1950s and ‘60s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61hkAaoHwQ
"They have spat on humanity." Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla & Ken Roth on Gaza hypocrisy | Reframe, Al Jazeera, 6/22/25, 25 minutes.
"In this episode, Ken Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, interviews Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla on how much the Global South has influenced the world order and whether it can actually exert any pressure on the international stage.
Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla is the general coordinator for Progressive International, a think tank working to unite, organise and mobilise progressive forces around the world. She’s also one of the founders and the executive secretary of the Hague Group, a coalition of nations from the Global South formed in January 2025 to uphold the rulings of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court regarding Israel-Palestine, and “stand together to defend the principles of justice, equality and human rights”.
Among the collective measures the group has taken is to close their ports to ships carrying weapons or fuel to Israel and commit to honour international arrest warrants."