Thoughts from the war.
3 weeks under unexpected barrage of missiles and drones, it's quite bizarre to imagine our quiet and beautiful place with sounds of sirens every hour and the gut wrenching feeling that the worst is about to happen.
The country is a small island, with only one causeway connected us to the rest of the world. Let alone a severe fresh water vulnerability and huge dependency on desalination.
While everyone is talking about a marginal cost at the pump, we are unaware of what unknowns awaiting us, as most of our countries depend on imports for medicine, food and every little necessity.
The Israelis for some weird reason are playing a bad cop game which is quite dangerous, blowing up gas, oil fields, desalination plants, power plants, ports and airports and claiming it was the US or even GCC countries. Leaving GCC countries to receive the aggressive retaliations every day.
The GCC countries are trying their best not to engage in a direct confrontation, knowing that the US and Israel can just stop anytime they want, pack up and leave. Which leave us in a war with a group of people who have absolutely nothing to lose, an isolated country that survived 47 years of isolation.
I think Trump thought this would be a paper tiger, but it seems to be a bit tougher than a walk in the park like Venezuela. It's more of a carboard tiger.
The Islamic Republic was modeled over a Frankenstein of ideologies, a mix of Zoroastrianism, Twelvers Shia Islam, revolutionary communism and Islamic brotherhood organization. Covered in a novel and creative mix of eschatology invented to give a level of extreme holiness to the Grand Ayatollah and mixed with fairy tale end of times prophecies.
I'm not sure what the end game is, but the overall war is comical in nature. With stupid turn-based RPG like shot and retaliation events, huge theatrics from all parties and tons of misinformation and disinformation. For us, this is existential. And it's really concerning to have the lives and wellbeing of my wife and kids hanging in the balance for such foolish adventures.
Adam, pray for us! Maybe a mix prayer to Jesus and Allah can somehow work.
John, I actually prayed for you! So remember that for some unknown reason my prayer to Allah saved you! 🙂
Anonymity appreciated.