the romans actually did break into iran a couple of times, but they couldn't hold iraq. if the romans could have held iraq, they could have conquered iran. the roman people had an aversion to it and that mattered. it was too far. the roman world, as the romans saw it, ended at the zagros. it was probably a greek thing. i dunno. i know that the romans had a hard time holding armenia and mesopotamia and that was the reason they never held iran, although there are roughly five examples of roman emperors marching right into persia and taking the capital.

they wouldn't go south of the sahara or too far down the nile or into the arab peninsula or up the rivers of the black sea, either. they had their own self-determined limits.

iran is a big country, but it's hard to defend, and it has been conquered with small forces several times throughout history - the persian invasion itself, alexander, the arab conquest and the mongol conquest were all carried out with very small numbers of troops.

the americans don't need to colonize iran.

i actually think that an invasion would be much easier than some analysts are suggesting. history has three widely studied clear examples of how to do it.

the iranians have been through this before, too.

when genghis khan sent emissaries to the region demanding a tribute, they were killed.

the result?

40 million dead muslims, most of them iranian in ancestry.

their god did not save them then.

their god will not save them now.

irrationality must have a price. 

this won't be as bad as that.

those troops should have been there to start, that is true. if the iranians were rational, they would have taken advantage of that mistake, rather than forced central command to carry through.

there's about 5000 troops, i believe, on their way.

so long as the chinese let them do it, it won't take long.

this is a perfect example of iranian irrationality. it is trying to rationalize irrationality.

the iranians are not an equal at the table. their concerns are not to be taken seriously, and all they've done is isolate themselves and get themselves blown up, and it's just going to get worse. it is the very idea that they have any leverage to alter the outcome of the situation that is irrational, and it's driven by the delusion of their faith.

negotiation means compliance and a rational actor would understand that and comply. 

when the iranians say "every time we talk to them, they bomb us", it's because they refuse to be rational and comply and submit to overwhelming military dominance, which has been the underlying situation for decades. they don't get it. there was no other outcome. the americans have been extremely patient, but time's up, and they have to submit and comply, or be slaughtered and erased from history. those are their choices, and the fact that they don't understand that is a function of their inability to reason rationally.

the americans keep giving them a chance to do what they're told, before they're blown up, and they continue to refuse, and continue to choose being blown up, and then lash out at their neighbours, who now also want to blow them up. they think they can win a war to control a strait and are going to force the americans to go in and do it instead of understand the inevitable outcome and save everybody the effort.

the iranians will themselves be forced to pay reparations to the countries around them via siphoning out profits from their oil sales. this is like the nazis demanding reparations for dresden.

once again, the choice iran has is to submit or die. that is the choice iran has had for forty years. time's up. our media calls that a "negotiation", and iran wants to pretend it is going to be allowed to negotiate. this is irrational. if they were rational, they would submit and avoid getting destroyed.

they can't submit or otherwise behave rationally because of their faith.

their god will save them.

it's pitiful. and they deserve what's coming.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrlwk29ppzo

i should be able to get in the shower tonight and hopefully that wakes me up.

no signs of rats in the back, now. nothing.

i've been unable to stay awake the last week or so. it seems like i got drugged again. but are the stalkers back?

i'm not sure.

i'm making a tactical decision to wait until mid april to see what happens with the upstairs eviction. i'm not feeling good about it right now. something's not right, but i'm being intentionally denied access to information. they won't like how i respond to that but i need to wait to see what happens, first.

i smell like somebody drugged me, and i'm tired like i've been drugged, but i'm not experiencing most of the effects i was previously. i might be dealing with the environmental effects from the losers on the third floor, but i haven't smelled anything except occasional cigarettes.

all i can do is sleep it off and try to feel better.

immigration should prevent jd vance from re-entering the united states until he washes off his filthy, disgusting face.

the iranian mullahs apparently wanted to negotiate with somebody that looked like a chimp, like they do, so they requested dogface vance to bark his way through the meetings. i'm sure that won't be a waste of time.

listen.

trump tried his negotiation tactic and it utterly failed. a lot of stupid people are going to say a lot of stupid things, but the reality is that the iranians are not rational actors. the venezuelans, who are actually a functioning democracy despite claims to the contrary, albeit one that needed leadership renewal, turned out to be rational actors. the cubans might turn out to be rational. the lebanese state is rational, it's just broken. the iranians are deeply irrational and cannot be negotiated with.

trump should have known that and he didn't because he's naive about the effects of religion on rational discourse. trump is not a christian; he doesn't believe in god. he is a vulgar marxist. he sees religion as a tool of control. he is correct; religion is a tool of control, but he seeks to manipulate it rather than dismantle it. he was not able to comprehend the blowback in iran. he saw them as allies that needed a kick in the ass, rather than as psychopaths that needed to be hung in public.

if trump won't learn his mistake, which was treating the iranians as rational negotiators, then the mechanisms to remove him from decision making need to be invoked.

the iranian state has demonstrated repeatedly that it must be destroyed with overwhelming force and extreme violence. get on it.