Month: Mar 2026

John Milton coined the word for the capital of Hell in Paradise Lost.

While we are using Greek, how about another pan-word: Pandora’s Box.

This is what I am thinking:

Epstein was an agent provocateur given licence and resources to indulge hedonistic elites and capture their excesses for the potential leverage yielded.

He captured lots of juicy stuff which prominent people would rue if it hit the public eye. Free parties, jiving with the rich and famous, hedonism like modern day orgies.

All secretly filmed, archived and presumably shared with his sponsor, probably Mossad. Oh, and the FBI got some of it too, eventually.

Randy Andy was leaked as an appetiser and the Brits reacted … puritanically:

You can do what you like old boy, but if you get found out you’ll have to resign your membership of the club…

A few more names have been tossed around and some very heavy manipulation of the FBI info is apparent. More and more leaks indicate that the biggest target is still very much in the mix!

If that evidence, those video images, is around, my bet is that Epstein’s sponsor is pulling most of the strings.

Hence we see an almost senseless (from US perspective) attack to neutralise Iran. For Israel this is an imperative strategic objective, as it is not likely to have been able to survive long term against Iran and its proxies.

Notwithstanding real urgency and absence of provocation the big man says “do it!!” and his dogs of war roar in and wreak death and destruction.

For a president who boasted on his avoidance of warfare and peacemaking prowess, this was astounding, as is the prospect of 5000 US boots on the ground.

But where is the victory?

Some mullahs are dead or dying, surface military installations and navy has been pulverised.

The 440kg of enriched uranium has not yet been discovered; the Iranians are still firing back from their bunkers.

Is the snake dead? It has already regrown one head….

Maybe the biggest threat to peace in the Middle East will be subdued and the power of radical Muslim theocracies diminished. That will be a good thing.

But… the box has been forced open and suddenly the global economy has a knife to its throat.

The realisation has dawned like a blinding light on just about everybody. Breaks in supply from a major supplier, destruction and shut down of supply chains affect every country. Even now there are shortages of petrol.

We cannot last long without petrol arriving – supermarkets can’t be supplied, crops can’t be harvested, industry falters….

The US is already on the brink of a recession, maybe it will be saved by its own and Venezuelan oil. Not many others will.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s a grand plan to diminish oil supplies for China and Russia to bring them to heel, but that seems absurdly dangerous… ?

It is probably too late, but planting potatoes instead of dahlias may be prudent.

The other outcome which will have a resounding impact on Mediterranean and European countries is refugees. The western civilisation (excluding the good ol’ USA) has been unable to emulate the Arab world and reject refugees and asylum seekers, rather paying them off to stay elsewhere.

Iran is generating a tsunami of terrified, desperate families. Turkey and Iraq are full, as are Sudan and Ethiopia. Israel and the Arab states won’t take any.

This is a major domestic policy issue which will topple governments and hasten the pendulum swing to the right.

It is already impacting Australian politics reeling from its Government Ministers’ partiality for the Palestinian cause.

It might not quite be World War 3 but the impact is going to be enormous.

Dahlias are overrated anyway!