Posted on 03/20/2026 8:47:43 AM PDT by MacNaughton
Europe’s own regulatory architecture turned off Europe’s own energy supply. And America. . . on the other side of the Atlantic with a full tank of gas, watched it happen.” —Jeff Childers
Let’s pause for a moment amid all the excitement to address an abiding mystery of these times: why does the news media seem to be rooting for American failure in the Iran operation? Or more generally, how did the media become handmaiden to the Lefty-left and all its ancillaries? How were they lured into their Cloward-Piven bunker of crypto-Marxian “resistance?”
It’s unlikely that the network executives, news producers, and editors are communists outright. That would take you into a simpleminded John Birch Society fantasyland. Or did they just read too much Antonio Gramsci on campus back in the day. If they’re merely whores pandering to an audience, it’s a dwindling one as the Woke mass formation dissolves and the insanity of its agenda stands naked. (Why not pander to the growing demographic that yearns for a restoration of normality?)
Is the news controlled by the so-called Deep State? Do cadres in the CIA send headlines to the Washington Post newsroom? Many think so. I don’t pretend to know one way or the other. The problem with lying, of course, is that you have to keep lying to protect your previous lies. Does the rise of alt-news across the Internet provoke them to lie harder in the face of better narratives? Or is it just plain old group-think, fear of stepping out-of-synch with tribal certainties and shibboleths? Which is to say, are they merely cowards and cads?
Do they really believe in the totalizing bad faith of the Democratic Party in its naked racketeering and power-seeking? That’s a sinking ship — the party that is now battling to obstruct simple straightforward election reform in the US Senate. Here’s a headline from today’s New York Times:
What will The New York Times do when bona fide, convincing evidence from material seized in recent FBI raids in Georgia and Arizona shows that recent elections were arrantly and knowingly rigged? It’s going to happen, you know. And if the procedural delays in the Senate drag out for weeks over the SAVE Act, the truth is likely to emerge while the bill is still in process, and will slam the whole country in the face, like thirty inches of re-bar. Will the newspaper print an apology to its readers?
We’re in a season of whacking great change in global and national affairs. “Epic Fury” in Iran will neutralize a regime dedicated to terrorizing the region and reorder the world’s energy flows to the disadvantage of America’s adversaries. China will lose its deep discount on imported Iranian oil just as in Venezuela a month ago. It already lost control of the Panama Canal as well. All its inroads around the western hemisphere have been nullified in this first year of Trump 2.0. China has to play nicer with America now.
The crisis has demonstrated that the US can’t depend on its NATO allies — who either refused to send ships to assist, or dawdled over it — which can allow the US to step away from the enormous expense that NATO imposes on us, and also from the tarbaby known as Ukraine. The truth is, we are ideologically more aligned with post-Soviet Russia than we are with France, Germany, and the UK under their current regimes. Ironically, the Russians, with Hungary, Poland, and the Czechs, are the last earnest defenders of Western Civ. Europe has apparently elected to go medieval, anyway. They like to pretend that they can maintain a high standard of living without oil or natgas, a formula so obdurately stupid that only the most awful hardship might avail to change their policies.
This month, the US leaped to create a maritime insurance alternative to Lloyd’s of London, meaning the UK banks can no longer impose a 20-percent cost premium on Persian Gulf oil, which thunders through the global system and affects everyone. We’ve already stepped away from the UN-backed international Net Zero carbon pricing scam on tanker and container ships. The economics of oil are going through a quick and decisive readjustment. With an end to Iran’s threats to world peace, the US can eventually leave policing of the Persian Gulf to the nations that depend on its oil (we do not).
Meanwhile, the US will continue pounding Iran until it can’t launch so much as a distress flare. They will have no nukes, no navy or air force, no more missiles and drones and payloads, and no ability to manufacture any more of them. And if they try, we will blow them up again. That’s real politics, not performative diplomatic jive. Sooner or later, the Revolutionary Guard regime will disintegrate and someone else will have to step up. The Iranian people deserve a chance to live in the sunlight after what they’ve been through for a half century. But it’s really up to them to make it happen. It’s pretty obvious that the American President and his people understand that.
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That statement has crossed my mind as well. Unfortunately for Russia, their birthrate, like all of the West, is falling, alcoholism is rampant, and Islam has taken root within the country.
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... The truth is, we are ideologically more aligned with post-Soviet Russia than we are with France, Germany, and the UK under their current regimes. Ironically, the Russians, with Hungary, Poland, and the Czechs, are the last earnest defenders of Western Civ. ...
.... That statement has crossed my mind as well. Unfortunately for Russia, their birthrate, like all of the West, is falling, alcoholism is rampant, and Islam has taken root within the country. ....
Agree on both accounts.
Yeah, and the very same can be said for the USA. The drugies are everywhere and the legalization of pot isn't helping the situation. The pot is everywhere in the schools, and the kids act like a bunch of zombies..
It sure seems to me that what's happening our nation is being done purposefully, with malice... :(
All part of the “Great Falling Away”.
The world is full of stupid people. Europe has more than its fair share of the stupid. Even before they augmented their population with the new inbred immigrants of 70 IQ, they were stupid. I think that the way in which the European Union government has taken control of the member nations was, instead of Celts over here and Franks and Danes over there and Saxons, all with their own heritage, they just stirred in a bunch of Syrians to homogenize the continent. It makes it harder to Brexit.
I am actually rooting for the end of NATO even though I lived over in Germany for 7 years as a kid. You could see it coming when driving around and it was Turks operating the jackhammers and crawling in and out of the manholes.
A nuclear-armed Muslim run Europe is something the world cannot survive. They have to get their act together.
The world will survive, the European “Union” will not.
“Islam has taken root ...”
I think China, Russia, and all of our non-Iran adversaries will be happy to eliminate the crazies running Iran, and that that is the main purpose of the Iran war.
Another clear eyed Kunstler assessment. Thanks for posting.
That's going to give the Zeepers fits...
I'm stealing that.
Cloward-Piven is pronounced KLOW-erd PIH-ven.
Cloward: Rhymes with “showered” or “towered” (First syllable sounds like “clow” as in cloud, second is “erd”).
Piven: Sounds like “PIH” (as in pit) + “ven” (as in vent).
The emphasis is on the first syllable of both names: KLOW-erd PIH-ven.
And now I know.
Death of the #EneMedia would serve world peace even better and faster than the death of all the world’s terroristic Islamic Theocrats.
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