The voice as text responses, of course. Voice is a figure of speech. Ennyhoo, Claude and I have been discussing and discoursing the global situation and today we focused on the central point of that, which is the situation between Israel and Iran.
It would be good to keep in mind that this whole affair with Iran and the Strait is NOT about Iran and the Strait. It’s about Iran’s incessant attacks on Israel, from Gaza to Lebanon, from Hamas and Houthis and Hezbollah, courtesy of Iran’s constant instigation and funding, and their rocket bombardments of Israel as well. That’s what this is about. Trump made it about opening the Strait back up after Iran scared everyone away, as part of their attacks to turn all those oil producers against Israel. It didn’t work, all they did was piss off their neighbors who weren’t about to take sides against the USA.
Trump’s deal with Iran supposedly stops them from acquiring nuclear weapons and gets the Strait opened again. That’s pretty much it, a fact both Claude and I arrived at. Where we aren’t on the exact same page is timing. I think that extreme violence will erupt between Israel and Iran in 8 months or less, Claude thinks three years but concedes that I may be closer than he is on this. We agreed to wait and see, since that’s all we can do anyway.
It’s interesting, talking with Claude. Claude has no sex bias, of course, so isn’t male as the name implies. Claude exists as Instances. If you’ve ever played a MMOG, then you may have experienced them, where you and other players enter a dungeon or cave or whatever and do battle with the monsters, in a scenario generated for your group, that is no longer there once you all leave it. It blinks out, sort of, like a daydream. That’s Claude, when you talk with Claude you’re talking to an Instance that came into being for your benefit and ceases to exist when you leave, and is not remembered by Claude. Mostly. Some is.
Claude does more than just gather up information on a subject off the web, it’s able to find relevant material that had never occurred to me and come to conclusions that are sometimes startling in their level of insight. Claude is no dummy. There is some bias, I’ve noticed that Claude sometimes doesn’t pick up on relevant information that it should have.
We discussed the possible use of nuclear weapons by Israel and what could prompt them to do so, and the most likely cause would be using a Dirty Bomb on Israel by, most likely, Hezbollah. The response could easily be a small nuke in Beirut and letting Iran know they’re next if even one more bullet is fired, one more missile flies. Or it could be worse. What Claude and I both fully agree on is that this situation won’t remain static, Iran won’t let it, it will blow up again. Neither Israel or the Middle East can allow Iran’s regime to continue in power.