This is as serious as it gets. Let’s survey the chessboard - from micro to macro.
The crying shadow in the funeral dance,
The loud lament of the disconsolate chimera.
T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton
Iran Now First Line of Defense of BRICS and the Global South
BY PEPE ESCOBAR
Israel’s shock’n awe on Iran – straight from the trademark US playbook - essentially failed, despite the initial combination of speed, meticulous military planning and the element of surprise, including hacking the Iranian electronic communications within the military grid; decapitation of the vertical IRGC nomenklatura; the spiderweb drone attack playbook; and bombing – ultimately ineffectual – of key nodes of the Iranian nuclear infrastructure.