What’s with… the war in Iran?

There’s an old complaint tossed out whenever we Mudlanders seem to be ignoring the obvious on one thing or other in the public sphere – “Guyanese eyes still na clean!” Even though we now have a hospital dedicated SOLELY to cleaning eyes, your Eyewitness thinks the kind of “eye cleaning” we REALLY need is learning to read between the lines when we scour our news feeds. But since we’re fast following the Yanks in getting our news from social media comedians and podcasts of political hacks – they’re interchangeable!! – it’s tough reading between lines that are actually punchlines!!
Anyhow, now that we’ve been assured that the Iran war’s already hitting us big time in our pocketbooks – which were never too well-laden to begin with – your (virtue-signaling!) Eyewitness thinks he’ll be doing a public service by examining how much longer THAT conflict might continue!! It’s clear by now that we ain’t gonna be having no repetition of the Venezuelan scenario!! There, all it took was to snatch President Mad Maduro with some Special Forces and back his VP Delcy Rodriguez who started performing better than a puppet on a string!! But being the cautious – soul he is – some unking detractors would say “timid”? – he’s gonna simply quote from the assessments of media friendly to the US Administration so he won’t be accused of being “anti-American”!!
On the tactic of “leadership decapitation” and installing a pliable replacement, the Yanks did one better than the Venezuelan operation!! Along with the Israelis, they conducted pin-point bombing based on on-the-ground info and killed not only the president of Iran but almost all his ministers and high government officials – AND the armed forces top brass!! But according to the Wall Street Journal the regime continued unabated as, “..the void is being filled by radical new leaders who have shown little interest in political compromise at home or abroad”!!
Then there was the matter of war strategy: According to an Iranian leader, “We fought in an asymmetric war in such a way that, with our own design and preparedness, we pushed the enemy back. The enemy had money and resources but did not act correctly in design. They make mistakes in strategic decisions. They are wrong about our people, just as they are wrong in their military design.” The asymmetric war was to use cheap drones!! According to the New York Times, “Iranian drones, made with commercial-grade technology, cost roughly $35,000 to produce. That is a fraction of the cost of the high-tech military interceptors sometimes used to shoot them down.
“In just the first six days, the U.S. spent $11.3 billion – with interceptor stockpiles running dangerously low.’
And the Straits of Hormuz are still controlled by Iran!!

…Caricom?
While Caricom’s fissioning under the pressures generated by the Yanks reasserting their Monroe Doctrine – which they insist confers hegemony over our hemisphere – others still see value in the regional grouping!! France – which has been recently nudged out of former “Francophone Africa” – has announced that it has modified its laws so that its colonies in the Caribbean might join CARICOM as associate members”!!
France doesn’t call them “colonies” but “overseas territorities” that have representation in their parliament!! As if that meant anything with their insignificant numbers!! But what do they expect to gain from Caricom?? Your Eyewitness believes that with Trump’s anti-NATO stance, France wants influence in a bloc that’s close to the US!! A conclusion that several of our worthies have criticized Pressie for arriving at, early in the day!!
As France explained, her colonies “will be able to participate in the work of the organisation and its agencies, gain access to more comprehensive information on regional developments, and strengthen their capacity to take action within their immediate geographical environment”!!

…our Essequibo defence?
Iran just confirmed your Eyewitness’ old recommendation that our asymmetric defense against Venezuela be based on drones. We should be ordering up 100,000 from Iran/Russia/China pronto – and train those communities identified by Bridgadier Khan in drone assembly workshops!!
Though she deleted the names after the Court protested, it’s defamatory!!