I SEE ALOT OF STUPID PEOPLE

Humans are very stupid: Iran war, Strait of Hormuz and climate collapse reveal our biggest failure | POV

Too many dictators in the world and power hungry women desiring more power than men.

There is a certain kind of madness that only becomes visible when you step back far enough to see the whole picture. We are a species that split the atom, decoded our own DNA and sent a car into space purely for the spectacle of it. Somewhere right now, in a well-funded laboratory, serious and brilliant people are drawing up plans to put human beings on Mars. A barren, frozen, airless rock sitting 225 million kilometres from here. And yet, for all of that extraordinary ambition, we cannot stop blowing each other up on the planet we already have.

In West Asia in 2026, the United States and Israel have gone to war with Iran. Missiles are flying, cities are shaking and children are dying. And sitting in the middle of all of it is a narrow strip of water, roughly 33 miles wide at its narrowest point, separating Iran from Oman. The Strait of Hormuz. According to the United States Energy Information Administration, 20 million barrels of oil pass through that strait every single day.

That is 20 percent of everything the entire world consumes. One fifth of the fuel that heats homes, runs cars, powers hospitals and flies planes. Since the war began on February 28th, tanker traffic through the Strait has come to a near-complete standstill. A handful of vessels are still making the transit, many under naval escort, while hundreds more sit stranded at anchor on both sides, waiting.

Nobody in any war room seems to be asking the obvious question. When an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz is struck, where does the oil go? It does not evaporate. It spills into the water. Greenpeace Germany has described the threat of an oil spill in the Strait as an ecological ticking time bomb, with simulations showing that a major spill could devastate coral reefs, mangrove forests and seagrass meadows across the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.

According to NOAA,

The United States’ own National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the consequences of a large oil spill on marine ecosystems can be felt for decades. Not years. Decades. Oil destroys the insulating fur of sea otters and the feathers of marine birds, exposing them to hypothermia. It suffocates coral, poisons fish, shellfish, dolphins and whales, blocks sunlight from reaching the ocean floor and dismantles entire food chains. A war has been lit next to a shipping lane carrying a fifth of the world’s oil. And the ocean has no interest in our politics.

The planet, meanwhile, is keeping its own score. According to NASA, 2023, 2024 and 2025 were the three warmest years in 146 years of recorded history, three in a row, back to back to back. Berkeley Earth has warned that the warming spike across these three years has been so extreme that it suggests an acceleration in the rate at which the planet is heating.

The World Meteorological Organization confirmed that 2024 was likely the first calendar year in human history to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the very threshold the Paris Agreement was designed to prevent us from crossing.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union’s own climate monitoring body, put it plainly. Every single year in the last decade is one of the ten warmest ever recorded. All of them. Everyone.

And what are we doing about it?

We are spending billions not on renewable energy transitions or climate adaptation but on precision-guided weapons to destroy the infrastructure of countries we disagree with. The Arctic is melting, sea levels are rising, glaciers are retreating at record speed, and we are debating the ownership of a Tomahawk missile.

The Iran war is just one exhibit in what might fairly be called the museum of human stupidity. In the same century, we invented the internet and invented ways to use it to radicalise teenagers. We mapped the human genome and then used genetics to justify racial hierarchies. We built the United Nations to prevent wars and then used it as a stage to perform diplomacy while wars happened anyway.

We are fighting each other over race, over caste, over religion, over nationality, over who is allowed to love whom, over which side of a line drawn on a map a grandfather was born on. The planet does not care about any of these lines. A rising sea does not check a passport before it floods a city. A wildfire does not ask a religion before it burns a home. A warming ocean does not distinguish between the fish in Israeli waters and the fish in Iranian waters. Nature is not fighting our wars. Nature is keeping score.

And then there is the Mars question. Serious, brilliant, well-funded people are currently planning human colonies on Mars. There is talk of making it a second home for humanity, a backup planet, an insurance policy against our own self-destruction. But the question worth asking is what exactly we are planning to do up there.

Take our borders with us? Our religious disputes? Build a separate colony for the wealthy, a kind of off-world gated community for billionaires, while the rest of humanity chokes on a burning Earth? Because that is what it looks like we are building. Not a new civilization. The same old one, with better rockets.

The victims of every war, without exception, are always the same people. Not presidents or secretaries of war. Not the arms manufacturers watching their stock prices climb as missiles fly. The victims are always the people. The girl carrying books into a school in Minab. The sailor on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz who had nothing to do with any decision made in any war room.

The fisherman in the Gulf of Oman whose livelihood disappears when oil blackens the water. The child in Bangladesh who goes to bed in the dark not because of poverty or drought but because a war fought six thousand kilometres away has triggered gas rationing across an entire nation. According to the International Energy Agency,

Bangladesh and Pakistan import nearly two thirds of their total LNG supplies through the Strait of Hormuz. Gas-fired power generation accounts for 50 percent of Bangladesh’s electricity. If the Strait stays closed, the lights go out. Not in Washington, not in Tel Aviv, not in Tehran. In Dhaka. In Karachi. In the homes of people who have never heard of a Tomahawk missile and never will.

In January 2025, NASA’s climate director Gavin Schmidt said something that should have stopped the world in its tracks. “We are halfway to Pliocene-level warmth in just 150 years.” The last time Earth reached full Pliocene warmth, sea levels were dozens of feet higher than today and Greenland had no ice. We have already travelled half that distance in just 150 years.

That is nothing. That is a blink.

And instead of spending every waking hour fixing it, we are fighting a war next to the world’s most critical oil shipping lane, arguing about whose missile is more generic, and gambling with an ocean that has no political allegiances and no interest in our wars.

We are the only species on this planet with the intelligence to understand exactly what we are doing to it. And the only species doing it anyway. There is a word for that. It is in the title.

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Does the map of the Middle East need to be redrawn? In this video, we map out a new Middle East. We explore the 7 potential successor states that could emerge from a fragmented Iran.

As internal protests and external geopolitical pressures reach a boiling point, the question is no longer just about a change in regime but the potential collapse of the Iranian state itself.

Iran is often viewed as a monolithic power, but beneath the surface lies a complex mosaic of Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Baloch, and Lurs Is the 2,500-year-old “Iranian Identity” strong enough to survive a total administrative collapse, or are we looking at the birth of a New Middle East? We analyze the ethnic borders, the historical treaties, and why a “Map of 7” might be the most dangerous geopolitical shift of the 21st century.

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 The End of Modern Iran? 00:40 What if the regime fell? 01:14 Iran’s Different Ethnic Groups 01:56 Mapping the 7 New Successor States 02:19 The 2,500-Year Identity Crisis 03:25 Lost territories: Their History of Shrinking 05:05 A Yugoslavia-like Break Up? 06:18 A New Persia? 07:53 Southern Azerbaijan 09:43 An Eastern Kurdistan 12:34 Ahwaz – A New Arab Nation 13:45 Balochistan 14:54 Luristan, the Tribal Persians 15:46 Turkmensahra, Iran’s Turkic People 16:24 The impact on neighboring countries (Iraq, Pakistan, Azerbaijan) 17:20 The main obstacle to a break up (Why the Map Might Never Change) Become a member on Patreon & get your name in the credits + exclusive content! Stay up to date on more content from me: Tiktok: Instagram: Join the Discord Server: Business Contact: gilfamc@gmail.com #GeneralKnowledge

Fareed Zakaria To Rajdeep: ‘Iran Turning Into Hardcore Military Dictatorship With Clerical Facade’

In an extensive interview, Fareed Zakaria, journalist, author and anchor of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, discussed the escalating West Asia conflict and its global implications. He said Iran is turning into a hardcore military dictatorship with a clerical facade as Israeli strikes decimate its leadership. Zakaria observed that Israel is driving the war from the start, targeting Iranian leadership and deep state infrastructure, while American strategic objectives remain unclear. He warned that the bombing campaign is causing absolute devastation in Iran, destroying not just military assets but civilian infrastructure.

Zakaria noted the conflict reflects American strategic incoherence, with President Trump articulating multiple contradictory goals. He highlighted the revolution in military affairs, with autonomous drones allowing weaker players to expand conflicts asymmetrically. Zakaria expressed concern about the erosion of the rules-based international order, as decisions are made without UN approval or broad coalitions.

Iran’s Hormuz Trap Backfires Spectacularly on America-Hating Allies

Iran thought blocking the Strait of Hormuz would spike U.S. oil prices, crush American workers, and force President Trump to back down. The plan was classic Tehran: weaponize global energy to kneecap the West.

It exploded in their faces instead.

American refineries are ramping up output on abundant domestic light sweet crude that never touches the Strait, keeping U.S. prices steady around $100 a barrel. Asia? They’re getting hammered at $150 or more. China, India, Japan, and South Korea—the very nations that snubbed Trump’s call for naval help—now face crippling shortages. China’s imports through Hormuz have plunged 77 percent, their reserves will last just 108 days, and they’re scrambling to buy premium non-Middle East oil at a massive markup. Schools are shutting down across Southeast Asia. Workers are being sent home. Petrol pumps sit dry.

This isn’t just market chaos; it’s poetic justice. NATO allies dismissed it as “not their war.” Japan declined. Australia declined. Even as Iran selectively lets non-U.S. ships pass while choking everyone else, the so-called partners who lecture America on global responsibility are learning the hard way what real vulnerability looks like.

Trump warned them. He asked for support to reopen the Strait and secure the flow. They refused. Now the blockade they ignored is punishing them hardest, while American energy independence shines through stronger than ever.

The global order is fracturing exactly as free-riding “allies” deserve. Time for Trump to tie Ukraine aid and other U.S. commitments to real reciprocity on Hormuz. No more one-way streets. America first means holding the line—and letting the freeloaders feel the pain they helped create.

I want to ask you a question. We’ll get down into this. From your perspective, which is very significant as a great historian. Number one, has the president done the right thing?

Number two, how’s it going? Number three, why work with our ally Israel?

Yeah, I think all seven presidents before him had said that Iran could not get nuclear and when they left office it was closer and stronger than when they entered. Nobody wanted to and everybody said that the cat the mouse was going to be eaten by the cat but nobody wanted to uh bell the cat and warn anybody. It was only Donald Trump who did this. It was quite a courageous move because he’s got midterms coming up. The economy was starting to get back from the Biden uh problems and he’s gambled a lot politically, but I think it’s worth it as far as the progress of the war.