Exploring Bombs, Balsam, and Broken Treaties takes us deep into the unfolding war between Israel and Iran, examining how empire, subsidy, and symbolic warfare shape this latest eruption of violence. Far from a spontaneous escalation, this conflict follows a well-worn script — where enemies are rendered heretical through a medieval grammar, then annihilated under the guise of existential necessity.
In this episode, we interrogate the infrastructure of war: not only bombs and refuelling planes, but the deeper architectures of betrayal — broken treaties, media complicity, subsidised intelligence, and the terror logic of empire. We trace this theatre from Gaza to the Persian Gulf, from Tel Aviv to the South China Sea, mapping the shifting tectonics of multipolar power and the ghosts of colonial ambition.
But this is also a story of balsam — of memory, of restraint, of a people who do not forget. Iran’s legal and theological commitments, its cautious nuclear positioning, and its centrality to China’s Belt and Road make it both a symbolic and infrastructural threat to the crumbling Western order.
This is not merely a war of weapons — but of time, truth, and symbolic legitimacy.
In this conversation, we do not merely analyse. We begin again — to imagine and create our world anew.
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