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By John Helmer, Moscow
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The weapon was first used at least forty thousand years ago, not only by Australian aboriginals (lead image, left) but also by ancient Egyptians and native Americans like the Navajo. Even the Poles are known to have mastered [3] the technology of shaping mammoth tusks and throwing them at people whose meat they wanted to steal.
In the new Red Pill Diaries podcast with Rasheed Muhammad, we open with the collaboration of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) and his foreign minister in the US plan of attack on the Iranian Navy squadron seeking safe harbour for several days before the war was launched on February 28, and before the frigate, IRIS Dena, was sunk on March 4. The evidence is presented of US planning, Indian collaboration, and Sri Lankan delay which combined to expose the Dena to lethal ambush when it was just nine nautical miles and eighteen minutes from safety.
The immediate lessons: Modi’s prejudice against Iran has triggered the biggest over-estimation of US and Israeli power in Indian history; India’s conduct has ended BRICS as a multipolar collective and alternative to the US empire; Iran’s new Hormuz Strait regime is penalizing India in favour of Pakistan and severely damaging India’s economic growth; Indian state elections in April will decide the political penalty which Modi and his BJP party must pay for losing the war they expected to win; and finally, the value to India’s military establishment of Israel as a weapons supplier, intelligence source and political ally is now less than zero.
The medium term lesson: Russia is emerging as the only credible force capable of supporting the balance of defence and deterrence in the Middle Eastern wars the US and its allies aim to fight.
The long term lesson: beware of the boomerang which the US, Israel, their Arab allies, and India threw at Iran because it has now returned to strike them more powerfully than any other in their arsenals. It’s also a stealth weapon which they failed to see coming and duck.
To view and to listen aired on Monday afternoon, Chicago time, click: https://www.youtube.com/live/GXKh0w4MEmI [4] For more podcasts from Red Pill Diaries, go to the archive [5].
[6]For the full, detailed story of the Dena requests to Sri Lanka and India for port sanctuary, starting on February 24 – four days before the war started; the US torpedo attack on March 4; the crew hostage negotiations since then; and the public coverup, read these two Dances with Bears reports:
https://johnhelmer.net/the-sinking-of-the-iranian-frigate-iris-dena-was-murder-executed-by-the-us-navy-and-calculated-then-covered-up-by-the-indian-prime-minister-and-foreign-minister/ [7] and
https://johnhelmer.net/fate-of-the-iran-navy-squadron-india-continues-to-side-against-iran-joins-us-pressure-against-sri-lankan-neutrality-russia-offers-oil-rescue-for-sri-lanka-premium-for-india/ [8]