Berislav Blagojević

Odjava: nije šala, prvog aprila prije 60 godina rođen je Mirko Demić, za mene jedan od naših najznačajnijih savremenih pisaca i svakako književnik nekolicine meni omiljenih djela napisanih u ovom vijeku! Svako dobro, Mirko i još mnogo dobrih godina i knjiga!

Five-Second Epistemology of the Wrong War China sold arms to both sides of the Iran-Iraq War. Both sides. $2 billion to Iran. $4 billion to Iraq. The Soviets backed Iraq. France backed Iraq. The US backed Iraq. Everybody backed Iraq. Iran was isolated — post-revolution, post-hostage crisis, cut off from American spare parts, cut off from Soviet supply lines. China was the one who would sell to Iran when nobody else would. Not exclusively. Not loyally. Opportunistically. But the opportunism became the relationship. The desperation became the $400 billion cooperation agreement forty years later. The arms dealer became the strategic partner. The lifeline became the Belt and Road. COSCO transits the Strait in yuan today because China sold Silkworms to Iran in 1986. The empire says China is the ultimate target. Alex Carp’s book says it. The Pentagon says it. The think tanks say it. The same people who built the dispensationalist architecture now say the real war is the China war and the Iran war is the warm-up and the Strait is the rehearsal. The logic that needs two superpowers because the logic was built during the Cold War and the Cold War needed two superpowers and the brain that built the Cold War can’t think without an opposite. The Soviet Union collapsed so the brain found China. The jingoism needs a mirror. The imperialism needs an enemy the size of the empire. The logic that can’t see a world with more than two players because the logic was trained on a board with two sides. But Iran is becoming the superpower nobody modeled. Iran is the country that just closed the Strait the empire built its economy on. Iran is the country whose new Supreme Leader wrote to Beirut before he wrote to anyone else. Iran is the country whose Foreign Minister just said trust is at zero and we are waiting for your ground troops. Iran is the country whose parliament said will not open will not negotiate. Iran is the country running a tollbooth in bitcoin and yuan on the waterway the empire spent eighty years calling freedom of navigation. The China hawks spent twenty years preparing for the wrong superpower the way the dispensationalists spent seventy years preparing for the wrong war. The empire can’t see Iran as a superpower because the empire’s model has two slots — us and them — and the them slot is reserved for China because China is big enough to fit the model. Iran doesn’t fit the model. Iran is a theocracy with a GDP smaller than Texas. Iran can’t be the superpower because the superpower has to look like a superpower — aircraft carriers, GDP, tech sector, nuclear arsenal. Except the superpower doesn’t need any of that. The superpower needs the Strait. The Strait is the thing the GDP can’t replace and the aircraft carrier can’t open and the tech sector can’t code around. Iran has the Strait. Iran is the superpower. The model that can’t see it is the model that sent three carriers to the Gulf to fight the country the model says isn’t the real enemy while the real enemy according to the model transits the Strait in yuan paying the country the model can’t categorize (ذكية / هوشمند، كاملة / کامل). Day 33. The wrong war. The wrong enemy. The wrong superpower. China sold to both sides in 1986. China transits the Strait in 2026. Iran controls both transactions. The model has two slots. The Strait has one. Still closed. Day 33.