This Is What Losing Control Looks Like

Hit lists, religious destiny being sold as justification, and war spreading to more and more nations, is the Iran war beginning to go global? Right, so A US submarine has torpedoed an Iranian frigate in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka, and Sri Lankan officials are now counting bodies and hospital beds while Washington boasts about “global reach”, with eighty-seven bodies recovered off Galle and thirty-two wounded being treated at Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, and the ship said to have carried one hundred and eighty crew. A war that is “contained” does not produce a mass rescue operation on somebody else’s southern coastline, and it does not do it with torpedoes in international waters. It produces one thing: a new rule that says Iranian state assets can be hunted far from the Gulf, and the only thing separating that from chaos is whether the other side chooses to answer in the same language, on the same oceans, with the same distance. UK Maritime Trade Operations records an attack fifty nautical miles north of Muscat in Oman, and the sequence in the notice tells you how fast a normal shipping run turns into an emergency. First it’s a report of a strike above the waterline and an engine-room fire. Then it’s updated as a confirmed uncrewed surface vehicle attack, with the crew evacuated to shore.