
I saw a few conservative eyebrows raise recently when the Governor of Montana, Greg Gianforte, did some curious political lifting for India by unveiling a bust of Ghandi in Missoula. Here’s how the Consulate General of India reported this momentous occasion on its Facebook page:

Hon’ble Governor Gianforte unveils the first Bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Montana!
Governor, along with Consul General, unveiled the first bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Montana at the prestigious Mike Mansfield Center at University of Montana in Missoula today.
Presented as a gift from the Government of India, the bust stands as a tribute to Gandhi Ji’s timeless ideals of peace and non-violence, and reflects the growing engagement between India and the State of Montana.
In his remarks, Governor Gianforte stated “Gandhi’s life reminds us that leadership starts with character. The inscription on the bust features a quote attributed to Gandhi that good ideas mean nothing without action. That message resonates here in Montana.”
The ceremony was also attended by the First Lady of Montana Susan Gianforte, along with leading Montana state officials, faculty and students of the University of Montana, and members of the Montana World Affairs Council.
I may have some interesting geopolitical war context that could shed some light on why it’s beneficial for America to be kissing India’s ass right now, and that’s because America may have exploited a pre-planned naval exercise with dozens of countries to setup an Iranian frigate to get torpedoed.
This theory comes from Jeremy Scahill and the appearance he made recently on Tim Dillon. I found a transcript of the conversation online and will paste it below:
Yeah, this is a dark one. And India is actually roiled by this right now because it implicates them. So the Indians, they love to project that they have hegemony in the Indian Ocean. They’re the ones that are going to, their Navy is going to keep the Indian Ocean safe. And so toward that end, they host this biannual kind of a little festival of ships.
Yeah. You know, I think 70 countries, including Iran and the United States, sent ships to these two separate but related events. And they did a live fire drill. And when did they do this? They did it from, I think, February 17th to the 26th.Gotcha. So it wrapped up 48 hours before, maybe 36 hours before the war started. They paraded on land that the U.S. pulled out of one of the two of these little festivals, but did participate in the other one with the Iranians. So, like, we’re there, like, with them. As part of the kind of peace protocol for these events, you’re only supposed to bring enough ammunition to, like, you know, fire off, you know, during. during your little events. You’re not supposed to come all, you know, kit’d up in a way that could cause, you know, serious problems. Because also, you’re out there doing these complex coordinated drills. You know, you don’t want something to go wrong.
Right. And so they try to keep it as safe as possible. And so then, you know, it starts to head back to Iran. And this is where we need more investigation. It appears that it was then held at a port for something like 11 hours near Sri Lanka. Yeah. Or a Sri Lankan port, which now people are suspicious was allowing kind of this nuclear sub to catch up to it.
There’s also the question of like, how did they find the exact location? There’s some, in India, they are speculating that the U.S. exploited its kind of joint intelligence network that it has built with India to get into the Indian system. And then because the Indians and the Iranians were, you know, they invited the Iranian ship and then they said goodbye to the Iranian ships, they knew exactly where it was.
So then the nuclear sub, you know, finds a ship and torpedoes it. And the laws of war, the Geneva Convention, say that if it doesn’t put your own ship at risk, you are obligated under international law to try to save drowning sailors. But you have to do the bare minimum. Also, under the kind of common sense of humanity, like you see somebody, drowning. It’s like a meme. You see somebody drowning, like, throw them a rope.
Right. That’s what we do. We prosecuted a Nazi at Nuremberg for not doing that. Right. But often, the Nazis did do it, which is like, we’re below them at this point. So Sri Lanka’s Navy had to come out and get there as fast as they could, and they managed to save, I think, 32 people from drowning. More than 80 Iranians died in the attack. And we posted the video as a, with the caption, something like this Iranian ship thought it was safe. Suckers, you know, you’re not.
And so now the Indian, so this is interesting, too, the Indian government is under enormous pressure because this is, you know, a slap in the face to them. If you noticed yesterday, Trump lifted sanctions on Russia when it came to selling oil to India. Remember a few months ago, the biggest thing that Trump was worked up about was that India was buying oil from Russia. He’s like, I’m going to do 25% sanctions. Or tariffs, I’m going to do 50% tariffs. You stop buying oil from Russia. Now it’s all fine. India can buy oil from Russia and we’re lifting the sanctions on Russian oil.
That to me feels like kind of blowback from this, like, that Modi is like, I need something here. You’re killing me at home. You got to give me something. How do you just… Now Putin will get billions out of this. What do you think China and Russia? What is the lens through which they’re viewing the current Iran conflict? You know, there was this really interesting argument being made by a guy for Barry Weiss’s news outlet, Havi Rettigiegur.
Meanwhile, Iran used Legos to recently troll its war “operation” adversaries and may be preparing to unleash hypersonic missiles after having its oil infrastructure heavily targeted over the weekend.


Ouch.
Tomorrow, make sure to check back here where I will expand on another important person Montana’s Governor might be inclined to visit with when he stops by Missoula, and I’m sure her tiny hat faith has nothing to do with it.
Thanks for reading!
I recently finished reading Jeremy Scahill’s book Blackwater: Rise of the most powerful mercenary army. Overall its a good book. He follows the money, religion (ideology), politics, etc. Where I feel he fails is in military and firearms use. For instance, he criticizes the Blackwater mercs for wearing wrap around sunglasses and having big muscles.
Wrap around sunglasses protect your eye better from blowback from firearms, debris etc. They also don’t block your peripheral vision, so you can engage your firearm faster from side attacks. Guys shooting skeet have been doing this for decades.
Also, none of the gear those Mercs wear is light. Their armor, ammo and weapons can weigh 50+ lbs. I’d suggest Scahill wear a backpack with that much weight all day everyday, and see how long he lasts without growing muscles.
Rant over.
I do agree with his overall assessment of the attack on the nearly unarmed Iranian ship. It was clearly a setup to take a ship with zero chance of collateral damage. The Iranian deaths were part of the psyop. When the U.S. military employs psychological warfare they always back it up with kinetic weapons and death to drive home the message.
I’m getting more and more interested in what Amyntor was trafficking in Montana under Goguen’s nose, because I think too many of our badges are doing steroids and popping pills.