by Rachel Stewart

The world’s in a perilous place right now. But you know that.

In a perfect world, there would be no nuclear weapons. Full stop. But we don’t live in that world. The reality is they do exist, and they’ve never stopped casting a shadow across all of humanity since their creation.

Growing up throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s the spectre of nuclear war was a constant refrain. The failed American Bay of Pigs invasion and subsequent Cuban Missile Crisis kept petrified Americans awake for 13 nights, literally not knowing if they’d wake up in the morning. The tense stand-off between Russia’s Khrushchev and JFK reverberated around the world. Utter annihilation loomed until a deal was struck, but the trauma lingered for decades.

My generation absorbed the terror of nuclear weapons, and what they can do – given our own parents had lived through the end of WW11 and seen the collective fate of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nukes were not an abstract concept to them or to us, by osmosis.

Sure, it helps if you’re on the side of the drop-ee and not the dropper, but the fact remains that the images out of Japan were seared into anybody’s brain who cared to look. At that point they were a rogue state in a posture of non-acceptance that the war was actually over.

Iran now finds themselves in a somewhat similar position. The regime’s hatred of Israel and the west, their endless calls for ‘Death to America’, and the fact that they are closer than ever to having a functioning nuke, means their time is up. Deal after deal has been offered and rejected.

Whether the United States enters the fray militarily is unclear, but all the signs are now pointing that way. They have the only plane that carries the only bomb capable of taking out the deep underground nuclear facility in Fordow.

The geopolitical consequences of doing that are immense. Ostensibly it could lead to a very clear-cut East vs. West conflict of epic proportions. But the consequences of not doing that are also immense. As Trump has consistently said, Iran must not have nukes. He also says, ‘peace through strength’.

And who knows. Maybe a deal can be done and the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear capabilities will begin in earnest, but it’s unlikely. The Ayatollah is not known for his negotiation skills.

So we wait.

And while we wait it was disheartening to see the mostly white protests around Europe and the U.S. In New York’s Times Square they chanted “Iran, Iran makes us proud! Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”

They also massed outside the Israeli Embassy in London waving Palestine and Iranian flags, and yelling, ‘hands off Iran’.  These are, of course, the same Hamas-loving, Palestine-supporting crowd who now have to fully embrace and French kiss Iran by extension.

It’s not that they’re anti-war, or even anti rogue states having nukes, they’re just anti-Israel. And retarded. Oh, I’m sorry, for the sensitive among you, that’s ‘neurally diverse’ – or some such bullshit.

Anyway, somewhere along the line they got lost in hatred and started loving grown men taking child brides, forcing women to cover their faces, and killing dissenters. They decided democracy was uncool, and supporting a barbaric regime was the better option. Or do they just like the clothing better? Keffiyehs and balaclavas do tend to cover their faces well when their busy cosplaying Jihadis at an antifa riot event.

Here we all are on the global precipice of something huge and western wokies choose the side of the people who would kill them in a heartbeat. It does your head in. To know that their grasp of history is so tenuous – or non-existent – is utterly depressing.

Short of a worldwide catastrophe that changes us all for ever, we are still going to be left with these imbeciles barking like seals at everything in the west being evil and bad. The very west that gave them the freedom to do exactly what they’re doing. To say the things they say.

Back in the real world, those of us who know which part of the world we’d rather live in also know that in the history of mankind, war is the one constant. Like it or not, it is the nature of things. We can all wish things were different, but they are not. The year 2025 may as well be 1095, which is when the centuries-long Crusades started.

The technology may be vastly different but the human pre-disposition for war remains. We are tribal by nature. Those mentally deficient protesters are just as tribal as any war hawk. They are just as capable of conflict and violence as anybody else – as the streets of Los Angeles have shown us.

We should hope for peace but prepare for war. Iran needs to lose the nukes stat.

Now, let’s talk about Pakistan………