This past weekend Evie and I attended the annual Brownstone gala in Chattanooga TN. It was sold out and packed with people just like us: curious, awake, and more than a bit worried about the direction of things.
For my talk, I riffed around the saying ‘the purpose of a system is what it does.’ I noted that despite the great Blue Wave I predicted no real change in the prosecution of the Iran war.
The purpose of the permanent state for my entire adult life has been to engage in war. That’s what it does, and it doesn’t matter which party is in office. So it will carry on as it has been unperturbed by the changing of the guard.
And, indeed, that’s been the case.
US & Iranian Attacks
This past weekend, the US repeatedly struck Iranian targets on Qeshm Island and in Jask:
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Smoke is rising into the night sky on Qeshm Island, after a U.S. strike against an air defense system.The same system was reportedly active earlier.Probably won't be again…Source:
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[November 8, 2026]
Missiles were reported to be flying in both directions:
🚨BREAKING: Heavy missile exchanges have...