@globalpolitics is there anyone out there in this community to handle questions regarding the latest functioning of the election commission of India ??

Following the US-Iran Ceasefire, Iran announced a closing of the international traffic separation scheme by mining the area and re-routing ships through a new traffic pattern within the territorial waters of Iran and under jurisdiction and control.

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When faced with domestic/personal political problems, an easy method to sideline & slowly solve them, is to start or escalate #war.

It shifts the public conversation, changes the legal & political environment /interests, eases expanded military action at home, & creates opportunities to reward & align with certain factions (oligarchs, corporations, #military leaders).

Here are my thoughts and analysis on the subject in the shape of a table.

What do you think?

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*Focusing on recent / ongoing conflicts!

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Like it says on the box. Highly recommended to get a better understanding of the conflict, with the added bonus of being able to check in real time the various predictions and strategical challenges that would face Iran and a potential attacker (USA), from April 2024.

A lecture on the US-Iran war by a geopolitics scholar. Extremely informative and a must-see, please spread it.

We review the Pentagon Briefing with Secretary Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Caine, on the situation in the war against Iran. Secretary Hegseth noted not to worry about the Strait, but we reviewed their answers about convoying and mines and then reviewed the latest situation report by the Joint Maritime Information Center on the situation.

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LIVE: Secretary of War and CJCS, Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, Hold a Press Briefing at the Pentagon

The March 12, 2026, update discusses the attack on two tankers off the coast of Kuwait and a containership off the UAE. We provide an update on shipping news including some national perspectives. Finally, an examination of Secretary Wright's comments about convoying, the issues with conducting convoy operations and the proposal to waive the Jones Act for 30 days in an effort stem fuel costs in the United States.

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00:00 Introduction 02:11 March 12 Update Persian Gulf/Strait of Hormuz 06:59 News Updates 09:48 How the US is Fumbling Global Shipping: Escorts, SPR & The Jones Act

In this Thursday, March 12, 2026 lecture to his Beijing high school students, Professor Jiang explains how extreme eschatologies drive geo-politics.

Eritrea was once an Italian colony. It has a distinct culture, and resides on the Red Sea, as a trading country, dependent upon the sea.

There was a war which lasted 30 years, after its founding in 1952, but the war brought it into the 1990's. They won. It's a tiny little country, and its people are clever.

Ethiopia—and one has known sever Ethiopians, who are always the salt of the Earth, wonderful people—wants to overtake Eritrea, simply for access to shipping ports.

We must stand with the Eritrean people as they struggle against Ethipian dominance in the region. ..

As my lival convenience store owner explained, you can have access to our ports, but you must pay. And this payment will further enrich Eritrean society.

Please care about this situation, and tell me how these conclusions are wrong. Your thoughts and concerns are like manna in the desert. Let us care about Eritrea.

One week into the United States and Israel’s war on Iran, and the messaging coming from the White House is consistently chaotic and contradictory. From regime change and nuclear threat to preemptive attack - the Trump administration is struggling to juggle its narrative. And while the mainstream media is working overtime to legitimise the Trump-Netanyahu war at home, Americans remain unconvinced.

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Negar Mortazavi – Host, The Iran Podcast Samira Mohyeddin – Host, On the Line Media Antony Loewenstein – Author, The Palestine Laboratory Borzou Daragahi – Writer, badlands, Substack

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Voices within the Iranian diaspora that support the US-Israeli bombing campaign are being given a disproportionate amount of airtime across Western mainstream media.

One of the most prominent figures is Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s former shah, who has presented himself as someone who could “lead the transition” to a new government in Tehran.

Meenakshi Ravi looks at how the one-sided coverage lends credibility to the war.

Reporting under fire in the West Bank

With the eyes of the world focused on Gaza and now Iran, far too little attention has been paid to another territory where Israel exercises near-total control: the occupied West Bank. Israel has intensified its policy of fragmenting the territory, carving it up and expanding control over the land.

Journalists in the occupied West Bank have seen their movement severely restricted by hundreds of new checkpoints and barriers. And they face the constant threat of soldiers who are more aggressive and settlers who - protected by the army - are more emboldened and violent than ever.

One of those journalists is Ameed Shehade, a correspondent for Al Araby TV, whose unflinching reporting frequently places him directly in harm’s way.

Featuring: Ameed Shehade – West Bank correspondent, Al Araby TV

Most people think they deeply believe things, and that there is some kind of ultimate truth which cannot be negotiated. One comes to see themselves as an extension of a shared identity within a given ethical, moral, and theological/philosophical construct. People believe themselves to be superior to others who almost believe exactly the same thing as them, but not quite, they didn't 'get there'.

It's extremely exhausting, and so you have to go to war with these people, time and time again, because they are deeply self-centered and passive-aggressive. Or aggressively passive-aggressive (backhanded(.

Because there is a flow. There's just this fliw, and things are obstructing the flow, as if they can make the stream reverse course by swimming against it.

It also helps if you have a Messianic, apocalyptic conception. Jesus didn't believe in a Messiah, he thought he was one (or he was, whatever, however you see it is fine). That's way less offensive than believing in one. Either you are or aren't the Messiah. Otherwise, please stop it.

The other aspect is cruelty. People these days always talk about 'harm', which could be anything, properly defined, but real cruelty doesn't really need to be defined. People don't like that. So when someone wants to blow up your country because of it, don't be surprised.

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If anyone was worried that Russia was going to intervene on behalf of its ally Iran in the new Middle East conflict, they need not be.

Vladimir Putin's response to the massive U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran — and even the Israeli strike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's longtime Supreme Leader — was at best bland. He called the U.S. and Israeli strikes "cynical" and murderous, but issued neither threats, nor red lines, nor commitments to help Iran.

To understand Putin's restraint, consider his larger strategy.

Russian leader sees no benefit to a futile challenge to the U.S. or Israeli militaries. And he has other priorities. This is not to say that there aren't clear advantages to Putin's patience. The ongoing crisis presents opportunities we know he will try to exploit.

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March 4, 2020

Iranian officials have accused Israel of carrying out some of the drone strikes on energy and civilian sites in the Arabian Gulf, calling the attacks a calculated bid to spark regional fury and pull Arab states into the war on Tehran.

An Iranian foreign ministry official told Middle East Eye that Israel was behind several of the drone strikes against Saudi Arabia and claimed that they were also responsible for at least one of the attacks on Oman.

"I can categorically say that some of the attacks were not carried out by us [Iran]," the official, who requested anonymity, said.

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AI won't replace you, your self-righteousness will.

I was highered at a friend's IT company because of the big Microsoft Windows 11 upgrade, which meant any PC on a 7th Gen or older Intel chip would not upgrade, and would therefore be incompatible with future security patches compliant with FTC legal framework.

Therefore I spent a year or more building new computers (not from scratch, but assembly level work to save our company money on the roleout), then imaging, upgrading, and installing basic software which made them network compatible.

It evolved into implication-level installations, on-site. Each level of the job meant an increase in onesown knowledge-base, but nothing like the computer wizards working upstairs (so to speak [at home]), with degrees in computer science and long lunch breaks.

Eventually, having implemented most of these products, our job resolved into installations of printers, plugging monitors in whose hdmi cables had slid out, and various other ground-level, field tech work which couldn't be physically done by the wizards upstairs (at home).

The other day a GM came to me while I was verifying a printer had an ancient fax machine plugged in (which was not our domain, at the end of the day), and begged me to come and look at his computer which wasn't screensharing to his 55-inch tv anymore (even though his laptop did, and other nearby pc's could).

The upstairs people wanted me to install a new pc. But I did a simple Google search and one suggestion was to reinstall the display driver. Which I did, and that solved it.

Everyone upstairs (at home) was shocked. That had never occurred to them in all their wisdom. They had so much experience and knowledge that it had never occurred to them to do a simple Google search.

Amen. AI-men.

That's why you lose your job. Not because AI is better, but because you are so self-righteous sitting at home in cheetos dust you cant even do a basic Google search on your smartphone.

Stop complaining.

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Over 20 years ago, patent office whistle blower Tom Valone already disclosed that by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents, secreted.

Disclosure? That’s your political aspiration and protest?

Lets aim a little higher.

Lets avail and provision everybody with the best.

Star Trek replicators, interstellar travel, and more.

Free energy tech + energy-to-matter transfer tech = they can print gold from nothing.

No cull necessary. No resource wars necessary. No mineral mining necessary. No combustion necessary. We never needed rockets.

Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla (and the many less loud and showy between)…

Spaceships for everybody.

“We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity… anything you can imagine we already know how to do.” — Ben Rich, former Head of the Lockheed Skunk Works

“It is easier for us to pay a private contractor to re-invent something so it will come out at a lower classification level, than to try to declassify it.” – Bennett Hart, then Deputy Director of the National Reconnaissance Organization

The first thing to remember is, there are few if any examples in history of a largely materially-served nation suddenly succumbing to a mass theological revolution. The people's of the Gulf region are highly educated, econo.ically prosperous people who largely import their workers and others who are of the 'oppressed class'; but they do this work, like Mexicans and other in America, to escape an even worse situation, and simultaneously support loved ones in their homecountry.

Due to the War on Terror, there has been little incentive for the recent generation to become Islamic fundamentals, and those who remain so also have to weigh recent gains and losses, such as in Syria, or conversely Yemen, and elsewhere, as their numbers and archaic ideals become less embraced while economic opportunities have increased. It is simply less attractive to follow fundamental values—even as we see a sharp decline in religious vigor in the American 'Bible Belt'; it seems horrible and threatening, but is numerically less expansive than ever before. Blame technology or simple human intelligence expanding. Your choice.

There is a mythology of Iranian superintelligence emerging, which credits a terrorist regime with some kind of power born of its fundamentalism which simply planned so far ahead, and was so sophisticated, that it could never actually be toppled. It is here where we bow to various pundits who are magical thinkers, because it is fun.

Every dying regime has a last hurrah. Let's say 30 years (something roughly equivalent to Stalin's death extending to 1989). Khomeini died in 1989, and so it has been roughly as long for the Iranians. If you went back in time (and still) people gave the Soviets much more credit than they deserved. Totalitarianism has a short timeline. Do your own research.

Finally, the idea that dysfunction around the Gulf will bring an end to the West is surely dramatic thinking. If anything, the high functionality of the Gulf region is owed to the West, and partially drew energy away from the West. Explain then how its demise hurts the West rather than drags more investment into it? There would be pains for sure, but the vast amount of geological wealth that lies elsewhere would be soon tapped, and the world would go on. But agreed, it would make a good novel if that didn't happen.