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Dr. Joseph Dillard is a psychotherapist with over forty year's clinical experience treating individual, couple, and family issues. Dr. Dillard also has extensive experience with pain management and meditation training. The creator of Integral Deep Listening (IDL), Dr. Dillard is the author of over ten books on IDL, dreaming, nightmares, and meditation. He lives in Berlin, Germany. See: integraldeeplistening.com and his YouTube channel. He can be contacted at: joseph.dillard@gmail.com

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Has Iran Really "Belled the Cat?"

Joseph Dillard

In Aesop's Fable, “The Mice in Council,” a group of mice hold a meeting to figure out how to deal with a dangerous cat. One clever mouse suggests putting a bell around the cat's neck, which would warn them of its approach. All the mice agree it's a brilliant plan, until one old mouse asks, “That's a great idea, but who is going to bell the cat?” The plan fails because no one is willing to take the deadly risk of approaching the cat to put the bell on.

In a “might makes right world,” in which terrorism, apartheid, and genocide are undertaken by all-powerful “cats” without regard to law, confident in their protection from accountability, the cats control the global domain.

It may be true that without the cats we would be overrun by mice. It could be that cats are noble and actually have the greater good of all mice in mind. It is, however, unlikely that many mice would agree with these conclusions The cats set the rules of engagement, to the point of determining which mice live and which ones die.

In such circumstances, the overwhelming control and power of the cats means that the mice have little choice but to submit to the constant threat of feline terrorism. The best they can do is keep hidden, or perhaps figure out how to get into alliance with the cat.

While human mice can create alliances with the “cats” that real mice obviously cannot make, it is wise for human mice to remember what a famous cat ally one said: “… it may be dangerous to be a cat's enemy, but to be a cat's friend is fatal.” This is doubly true for those cats that divide the world between God's Chosen Cats and goyim.

In that context, it is astounding that a very middling mouse living far off in the mountains and deserts, against all expectations and predictions, may have actually managed to bell the cat. The cat, or cats in this case, is the combined power of the U.S., Israel, the EU, the various Gulf states (with the exception of Oman and Iraq), as well as other western allied states, such as Australia, Japan, and South Korea. Maybe some of these are mice who are pretending they are cats to keep from getting eaten. It is sometimes hard to tell. In any case, all these mice are deeply complicit in maintaining the reign of the cat, each for their own reasons. If the cat is belled, it not only goes hungry, so do all those affiliated mice.

But could it be true?

Has Iran truly “belled the cat?”

We can reasonably argue that it is too early to tell. The cat has continued to amass a huge armada of land, sea, and air forces, with the fervent support of its rabid feline partner, in the vicinity of the Iranian mouse. By the time that you read this, these cats may have unleashed holy hell on the Iranian mouse.

But let us say that they have done so. In fact, let us go to a worst-case scenario: These cats nuke the Iranian mouse, a possibility that is increasingly discussed and considered. There are even reports that cat king Trump has threatened to do so in a meeting with his military advisors, who refused to let him near the nuclear codes. Apocryphal?

If Trump and Netanyahu undertake a joint nuclear, land, air, and sea assault on Iran, how likely is the Iranian mouse to be reduced to say, Libya or Syria? Why might we believe that after some five centuries of the combined Western cat terrorizing global mice, that it has finally been belled?

Many commentators are increasingly considering it likely. This is because

1) Iran is the size of Europe. Consider its size in relation to that of Ukraine, which is less than half at the size of Iran. Think of all the missile, drone, and human attacks Russia has made on Ukraine in over four years. How close has it come to subduing it? The implication is that the U.S. is unlikely to subdue such a huge country as mouse kingdom Iran.

2) The power generation and military systems of Iran are widely distributed and can function in a largely independent manner.

3) Iranian missiles and drones, as well as their production, are located deep underground, unlikely to be destroyed by a nuclear attack.

4) Previous attacks have only strengthened Iranian nationalism and unity, which at present to be close to those of the Islamic Revolution and the overthrow of the Shah.

In addition, the consequences of previous attempts to decimate the Iranian mouse are instructive. Satellite images of the US naval command base in Bahrain shows it was effectively annihilated by the Iranian mice immediately after the decapitation strike by the cat on February 28th. The cat's naval vessels are now effectively prohibited from entering the Persian Gulf.

At least 12 aircraft were destroyed by the mice on one day, when some sort of rescue/nuclear material theft attempt resulted in the largest one-day loss for the cat since the Vietnam war.

How badly the rabid feline occupying Palestine was mauled in March remains undisclosed, but there is evidence, despite its continued attempts to devour southern Lebanon, that its claws, if not its paws, have been amputated.

Some current assessments are that a land invasion by the cat would be welcomed by the mouse. It has terrain, demographic, logistic, and military advantages that are together overwhelming. A naval action is even less likely, as a marine assault of Iranian islands or coastline would be a suicide mission due to the layered defense structure of the Iranian mice meaning the cat navy cannot approach closer than several hundred kilometers without facing the real possibility of becoming a coral reef. Air attacks alone have never won a war and they are difficult to maintain. There are many indicators that Western offensive and defensive weaponry has largely been depleted, both in Ukraine against the Russian mice, and in previous attacks on Iranian mice.

The implications are that while an attack by the cat could at this point severely maul the mice, in the long run, in a drawn-out conflict, the mice will win. This is largely because the cat has no way to break the mouse stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which will eventually starve both the cat and mice everywhere. The notable exceptions are Russian and Chinese mice, who seem to be quite capable of actually benefitting from such a situation in a number of ways.

If it is true that the cat has been effectively belled, what does it mean?

The consequences are historic.

1) It spells the end of the petrodollar, by which the U.S. cat has been able to get global mice to finance its economy and debt, meaning that there has been no economic limit on its global terrorism. That will now be over, done, and become an impossibility.

2) The Iranian mouse will continue to gain in respect, stature, and power on the global stage, eclipsing the power and influence of the Gulf States and Israel, because, after all, it did what no one else had been able to do: bell the cat.

3) Without the ability to wage wars of choice, the future of Israeli and U.S. cats is in doubt. This is because the identities of both are largely built on might makes right. If that goes away they may share the fate of that famous cat kingdom, Sparta.

4) Other mice are likely to gain confidence and hope once the cat is truly and effectively seen to be belled. That implies the collapse of decades of highly effective cat propaganda. Anti-felineism will no longer be censored or viewed as a crime. The proclamations that the mice are actually authoritarians out to conquer the world may die away.

5) All the mice that were either in cahoots with the cat or ignored its terrorism will now either deal with the terms of the mice (pay toll at Hormuz) or go hungry.

Will the world be better without cat terrorism? For mice, most certainly. For cats and their allies, probably not. Those mice that served the cat can now be predicted to manifest authentic amnesia of that fact in order to reduce cognitive dissonance. They will honestly never remember a time when they supported or ignored cat terrorism.