In my view, Trump has finally said to the Islamic Republic of Iran “ENOUGH ALREADY”!!!
Forty-seven years of the autocratic bullying & bluster of the mullahs, the ongoing threats & terror activities within the Middle East (& around the world), the irrational insistence on acquiring nuclear missile capability (that could eventually reach all of Europe & N America), not to mention an enduring commitment to the destruction of the Israeli state (along with all the Jews they can find & kill) reached a tipping point & Trump decided to use overwhelming U.S. military force to effect regime change in Iran.
Our forces have already (within the initial hours of the conflict) decapitated the Iranian government & are systematically destroying the stockpiles of ballistic missiles & remaining military units, primarily the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) throughout the country. This phase of the operation could take months unless the regime & its supporters willingly abdicate & allow for free & fair elections to restore a democratic government going forward.
This concerted military effort will continue until what’s left of the regime capitulates & surrenders its weapons. Otherwise, Trump has made clear that anyone loyal to the mullahs who does not submit to this directive will be hunted down & eliminated.
It was also made abundantly clear to Iranian leaders that the one non-negotiable agenda item was Iran’s continuing enrichment of uranium & its development of weapon systems (primarily ballistic missiles) to deliver them. After last summer’s “Midnight Hammer” operation, there should have been no confusion regarding our ‘a priori’ commitment to permanently halt Iranian pursuit of nuclear weapons. They ignored that VERY CLEAR signal & in that inaction, their ideological zealotry has cost them dearly.
The ultimate big winners here will be the citizens of Iran (now Persia again?) who want to live free of the oppressions of a brutally radical religious cult, if they are able to seize the day & reclaim their country from the Islamo-fascist tyranny that has infested the Middle East & influenced the geopolitics of the entire world for almost an entire half-century.
Trump finally decided that he alone could end that awful tyranny once & for all, and he had the courage & the audacity (not to mention the military capacity) to act decisively. And he had the cajones to give the order. Good for him.
It’s a new world now & aggressively troublesome regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer be tolerated, at least while Trump & his successors are in power in the U.S. That particular Sword of Damocles is no more.
History will ultimately be the judge. It was high time, in my view.
Having a Persian family member, I agree with you hundred percent!
As a Christ follower, seeing the massive human rights violations and persecution is gutting. Iran is the largest growing Christian Church in the world, despite the threat of torture and death around every corner.
I was in high school when the monarchy was toppled and the brutal regime began.
Almost 40,000 Iranian protesters murdered in a two day period… And the numbers we're getting are way underestimated for how many have been killed just the first 45 days of this year.
For 47 years, we have been complacent and even complicit as a country. The cries of the Persian people are so deafening, that we turned up other noise so we wouldn't have to have that on our conscience.
All the while, the great head of the snake has become almost invincible... almost..
The America we live in now, had Hitler risen to power during our time, he would've ended up with all of Europe under his thumb.
We know some folks over in Iran (Persia) and were finally able to communicate with them. They are doing well. Yes, there are a growing number of believers in Iran. Amazing!
Sadly, yes, the current regime actually brought in terrorists to carry out the kill orders. Even as late as yesterday, members of the regime were killing people by running over them as they protested while the people in this country condemn what Trump has done.
PS - though I do not believe it needs to be separately stated because of the use of MILITANT/MILITANCY in describing Muslims, in order not to offend people with delicate sensibilities, please note that by using the terms MILITANT/MILITANCY in describing Muslims, I am referring to SUNNI Muslims not SHIA. Although historically, both groups have been involved in terrorism to an extent and the current Islamic regime in Iran is what is known as Shia Islamic Theocracy. Thank you.
What I find fascinating is the way Iran has treated its people since its illegal incursion and deposing of the Shah of Iran and the world seems fine with it. For 47 years, they've treated women like chattel. More than 70% of the women executed for "murder" had had enough of their husband's abject abuse. They fought to save themselves and were rewarded with the death penalty. When young virgins were arrested and executed, they were also raped prior to execution so that they could be guaranteed hell in the afterlife.
Too many gay people to count were hung by their necks until dead on cranes in public spectacles designed to scare the general populace.
Was Iran ready to embark on strikes against the US (foreign and here at home)? Possible, according to Marco Rubio. Should we have simply let those things happen and THEN mustered up a response?
We live in a world where groups of people hate anyone who is not Islamic. They believe it is their goal to change this world to one ruled by Islam. They believe they are building their final caliphate and through it the Final Mahdi will rise to rule the world. Christians know him as the Antichrist.
Yet, it is interesting that all the so-called feminists in the west condemn these military strikes yet have nothing to say about the way women and gays have been treated in Iran's Islamic regime.
The US-Israeli strikes took out Khamenei, his top 40 officers and even the guy who was to succeed Khamenei. Persians are so grateful for the freedom they can taste, yet here in America, too many wring their hands as though the world is coming to an end.
Jeremiah 49:34ff has some interesting things to say about Elam (today's Iran). It is GOD who controls these events for His glory. Is America or Israel always right? Of course not, and neither are these countries always wrong, though to some, Israel can do nothing right or good and doncha know, Israel apparently rules the world!
So did these military strikes unleash terrorists at home and abroad? It's certainly possible, but it would have only been a matter of time for that to occur anyway, regardless of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Frankly, I'm glad to see Khamenei gone. I'm sorry for those who are saddened by that fact. He and all his officers are now in hell, wishing for a do-over and are no longer deceived by the lies of Islam they held in this life. They see REALITY now and the TRUTH.
Whether people get off on vanquishing a loathsome enemy or not, the truth is that when seriously evil people are eradicated, there is RELIEF over it and there should be. Too many today commit truly heinous crimes and eventually seem to walk free. How is THAT justice?
Khamenei has been asking for this because of all his saber rattling for years, his attacks on US soil, as well as in foreign places.
But yeah, we should just turn the other cheek, which serves only to increase the hostilities and cause them to believe we are weak.
If someone tried to break into your home, tell me you'd just sit there and let them run amok? Would you then feel tremendous relief if you fought back with lethal force or would you cower in the corner?
Islam has no reason to give up. The only thing Islam understands is FORCE used against them. We see what's happening in Europe and the UK. We see what is happening in the USA, but gee, let's pretend it doesn't exist because how dare we seek to vanquish a loathsome enemy to activate our "neural circuitry in which lust resides."
Your comment was fairly long, but I think you nailed it. The real issue is that in this world, radical, violent people only respect you if you're stronger than they are. That is the bottom line.
The US and Israel did what they had to do, and they will continue doing what they have to do against all violent nations. Until Jesus comes. The Bible states that after the rapture, the restrainer will be gone----and absolute lawlessness will take over in the form of chaos, strife and violence.
Then the antichrist will reveal himself, and demand everyone in the world to worship him, and Satan will have already entered into him according to the book of Revelation.
Of course, we Christians will no longer be here----good luck to those of you that never repented and accepted Christ---you are going to need a lot of luck!!!
I am in a state of despair. We are going to be at war forever, no matter what, for no logical reason other than money, power, and religious zeal for the few.
The republicans who could easily recognize the propaganda propping up the democrats support for the provoked war between Ukraine and Russia are now falling for the propaganda propping up the proxy war in Iran. Like seriously?! Didn’t we learn anything at all over the last five years?!!!
And the democrats are now against the Iranian war but are still in favor of funding the Ukrainian war that is literally destroying Ukraine. I absolutely feel my brain meting of the stupidity.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. We just bounce back and forth between the war mongering red team, and the war mongering blue team. Wars on islamists, wars on viruses, wars on narco terrorist, wars on everything that could possibly be made to sound scary in any way shape or form.
War= Open the death spigot. Open the money spigot. Open the power spigot.
On which planet can we live where people will not make up stupid fake reasons to go to war with one another…
I would blame it on men in general but the women in my life have also been the ardent and vocal supporters of Covid tyranny, the Ukrainian war, the Venezuelan war, the Iranian war, and I assume they will also support whatever other war we will be in soon.
I just don’t understand. Why can’t people see the string of lies that have preceded EVERY SINGLE WAR in our history? THE! GOVERNMENT! LIES!
After the last five years, how is it possible that a single person in the US doesn’t understand this?
"After the last five years, how is it possible that a single person in the US doesn’t understand this?" Have you considered the possibility that they're morons?
I just don't know what to do with the fact that 80-90% of the population is moronic. That's so depressing. What hope is there for a decent future... None. I have none. I can't keep arguing with people who parrot government propaganda ads. The government is just a tool for phsycopaths and sociopaths to control people. And humans always create governments.
I feel ya. I've read some of your interactions with the propaganda-regurgitators on this and other posts, and god help me, I've had a few of my own (against my better judgment; I stopped interacting on social media during the scamdemic, once I realised that cult-indoctrinated people do not and cannot respond to facts and reason). These people are out-and-out-morons. Or they're in a cult. Or maybe both. I cannot fathom how anyone with two functioning brain cells to rub together could possibly be falling for this. It's not even high-quality, carefully-crafted propaganda. It's just recycled dross from the last wars of aggression. And there's no consistent narrative to the propaganda; the justifications for this war change every day, and the propaganda-regurgitators either don't notice, or perhaps they don't even care. The total lack of self-respect demonstrated by the people cheering on this war, is for me the most galling aspect of it. The Epstein class pisses on their backs and tells them it's raining, and they beg for more rain.
There seems to be a lot of things going on but media induced fear obviously drives a lot of it. Tribalism. Cult-like behavior. Religion. Whatever it all is, the government has figured out how to control the majority of the population at any one time and make them feel like they are fighting for the right side even while it "rains on them" as you put it.
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare".
So it's a shame that the USA has hardly enjoyed half a dozen years' peace in 250 years of independence. Almost every year a war - and every single one started by Washington.
Just because someone said that it does not mean it's true necessarily. Because of the tremendous increase in Islamic militancy, the only thing they respond to is with FORCE. Nice words don't do it. FORCE makes the difference. We've got Muslims going around telling people to keep their dogs inside and they should not eat in public because Muslims don't eat during Ramadan. It's fine for Muslims to block streets to pray even though the Qur'an forbids that practice. If Christians did it, they would be hauled off to jail.
The world continues to give Islam and all its atrocities a free pass. During the Obama years, he did massive and many military "strikes." I didn't hear the same people condemning him as those condemning Trump today. In fact, Tom Hohman was working then on creating a safe border and Obama gave him a medal, while deporting thousands. Trump does it? Condemnation.
The problem today is ISLAMIC militancy ENCOURAGED by Obama because he himself hates the west and is Muslim. If we do not take care of the Islamic jihad problem, we will end up with becoming dhimmis to Muslims. You don't believe that then open a history book.
Because of the evil people and regimes in this world, it stands to reason that there will be wars and rumors of wars on a near continual basis. The US did not start many of them. They RESPONDED to the threats that existed. I suppose if Iran had unleashed itself in another 9/11 before we stopped it, then people would be complaining that we should have seen it coming and done something about it.
There is too much stereotyping and vague generalising. What is true of Shia Muslims in Iran is probably not true of Sunni Muslims who have fled to the UK or the USA. Many Muslims are peaceful and virtuous; others aren’t. Just like Christians and atheists.
I am specifically referring to SHIA Muslims - Islamic militancy. Shia Muslims are hardliners. Sunnis are completely different. When I speak of the atrocities committed by Muslims, I am referring to SHIA and that should be obvious. Were any of the Ayatollah's SUNNI? They were ALL SHIA and they believe they should kill anyone who is NOT.
Yeah, I know a ton of Christians who are constantly on the lethal warpath trying to kill others who do not agree with them (sarcasm).
Do you know WHY the CRUSADES took place? They were a direct response to the growing incursion of MILITANT ISLAM. Islam already had one caliphate and I am very aware of how SHIA Muslims treat Sunnis and non-Muslims.
I don't think I was stereotyping or vaguely generalizing at all. I specifically used the term Islamic militancy. You chose to read something other than what I was saying. But if you need me to spell it out for you I can do that. But ask yourself, if I used the term Islamic Militancy, how can that be taken to mean Sunni when it is clear that SHIA Muslims hate Sunnis almost as much as they hate Christians and other non-Muslims Including atheists)?
But you've gone from saying the all wars "every single one started by Washington" to attempting to differentiate between SHIA and SUNNI as if I grouped them altogether when clearly, by using the word MILITANT/MILITANCY should have been significant enough to highlight the difference and to point out that not all Muslims are included because not all Muslims are MILITANT.
Either you are a clever liar or just ignorant of solid Bible hermeneutics, please show me where in the Bible that God is against a legitimate war to destroy wicked countries that continually support and promote ongoing murder and despotism??! Also check out Romans 13 where we are to support and obey the rulers of our country that are doing their God-given duty to fight (war if appropriate) against wickedness, (clearly Iranian leadership fits this). To give Iran's people freedom from these tyrannical leaders!!
The connections between death and sex - between making and extinguishing life - are as old as man and woman.
A fascinating subject with some basis on neuro-science and lots of elaboration in literature and the arts. As such, it must be a mainfestation of something real.
Maybe one aspect is "power". The thrill of power in both killing and love-making (especially for the male of the species) is manifest.
Sadly some parts of the mind take over the rest. I can best quote Imam Ali (my own rough translation):
Angels are of light and wisdom.
Beasts are of desire and need.
Man is a mixture of angel and beast.
Should his light and wisdom overcome, he will be better than any angel.
Should his desire and need overcome, he will be worse than any beast.
You and Weinstein should not discount the Bible which says that there will be wars and rumors of wars, but the end is not yet. Christ will return and show us the way of peace for a thousand years.
OF COURSE lust and aggression are closely related. Both have to do with conquest and conquering. Also, a girl does bot know jealousy until she has sex. Thereafter, she suddenly sees her "rivals" which can trigger intense hate and sometimes even murder to defend what you see as "yours."
I agree with you John but you need to add most important factor: Satanic Psychopaths often Pedophiles rule this world under their "god" the Demiurge! Then it is all clear. However their time is very short and they know it!
A prehistoric catastrophe wiped out 95% of all men across Africa, Europe, and Asia
A few years ago, researchers studying the genomes of modern people made an unsettling discovery. At some point a few thousand years ago, genetic diversity among men suddenly collapsed. Entire male bloodlines vanished.
What they found wasn’t subtle. The data pointed to a staggering collapse in male genetic diversity — as if the world’s population of men had been almost completely wiped out. Models suggest that up to ninety-five percent of males in Africa, Europe, and Asia disappeared from the gene pool during this period. It’s one of the most dramatic population crashes ever recorded.
It didn't coincide with a sudden climate change event. They have found mass graves indicating violence from the period in many locations. It's only adult males in the graves. It is suspected the women and children were taken as captives. I suspect we have the DNA from the 5% that did the slaughtering. Any pacifist genes likely ended up in the graves.
Maybe you're right about our tribal tendencies leading to extinction but I had a thought about that, which made me think otherwise. When Darwin proposed his theories based on "survival of the fittest" letting the strongest survive to procreate, it seemed pretty reasonable at first but now, after studying how the microbiome works, how symbiotic relationships between species work to promote an enhanced survival based on co-operation rather than competition, a new paradigm emerges that is seen as foundational to nature and evolution. I think we, as humans have the capacity to co-operate and are already wired to be like that; interdependent with, not "the masters" of Nature. We've strayed so far from that with our huge populations, and our abilities to expand and control the limitations imposed by Nature. We forgot our basic origins, and tried to conquer our limitations.
Maybe it worked in the past, to get us to this point where we are now, but it's coming to it's limit now as we sit on the brink of extinction. We're not so high and mighty, not the masters in control, and are bound by our biology and nature to be a part of God's plan in co-operation and harmony. Our mastery and superiority is an illusion that hasn't been fully realized and never will be. We need to learn that.
War seems to me to always be the product of empire and the US has been the chief instigator since the civil war. (I mean, you gotta subjugate the natives first before you can go out and conquer the world.)
The individuals who generate war are lusting after the proceeds of it, not the dirty thrills of the machinery. They haven't personally had to put their skin into the game since the days of Napoleon and George Washington. This applies to the vast majority of citizens.
Those who do lust after the titillation that war offers are almost entirely the naive young men (and a few women) who volunteer for service hoping they'll get the chance to shoot someone or feed bullets to the one who pulls the trigger.
The minority of citizens who support war have two primary characteristics: They willingly buy the propaganda fed to them by their ideological demigod (in this case Trump) and they don't think the tanks or blood will ever roll down their street. Their third characteristic is lack of imagination or vision for the future where the sins of the father will be visited upon the son.
These four, short paragraphs are the outline of many a great book that deals with the subject at hand, capturing the generality of empire through the eyes of the participants and enablers.
So...women being forced to be subordinate to men, who can abuse them at all will because they are seen as cows or goats - this is fine with you? Gays being systematically executed for being gay is fine with you?
Trump is NOT my demi-god, nor is he even any form of god. However, the current regime illegally invaded and took over Iran, deposing the Shah. Back then women could dress normally and even wear bathing suits at the beach. People like you seem utterly clueless. You live in a western nation that grants you the privileges and rights you have while pretending to believe that what we see actually occurring in Iran is the result of PROPAGANDA.
Really? So the thousand of brave men and women who are brutally massacred by the current Islamic Regime in Iran didn't really happen? Within the past few days, the Iranian regime was still killing protesters by running them over with their vehicles didn't happen either?
Not sure what book you're referring to, but I'd be very willing to bet it was written by a true MARXIST who believes that Communism is the real and only answer to the world's problems.
When John wrote about “beautiful women” all I could picture were those formerly beautiful Iranian women who had acid thrown in their faces for the grave sin of letting a strand of hair or a sliver of wrist show. Not to mention those who are forced to wear those shrouds that cover them head to toe lest showing anything but their eyes through those slits provoke “lust” in those poor innocent men. I think I’m done with this subscription for a while.
Which country doesn't abuse its citizens? The US actively mutilates children in the name of "gender reassignment" and has had an active sex slave trade operating within and through its borders for fifty years or more. This doesn't even scratch the surface of the abuse the US government has unleashed on its citizens. Likewise, the things you find going on in Iran have been going on in Africa for centuries.
Get real with yourself and admit that you believe in the propaganda and exploitation of real world events outside your borders whimsically and when it suits the personal political interests of your chosen candidate or party. But it isn't rational or consistent. If it were then the US would be at war in every single country in the world because every single country, including the US, does these things. (Where is Tina Peters? Where were the Jan. 6 protesters?)
Only the citizens of foreign nations can determine when enough is enough and rise up and do something about it. But no one wants to take on that personal responsibility. (Enter the propaganda that only the US can "open the door to liberty and democracy for those poor, oppressed people"... the same line used in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq... Why do they keep using the same propaganda? Because it works, btw.)
Say what you want about people that shoot up schools and churches and bars but only when people who have had enough abuse by their government decide to take that sort of decisive action and make that sort of sacrifice toward their oppressors will their nation be reformed from the ground up and instill the fear in future elected leaders that the same fate awaits them if they go down the same road. The shared sacrifice of a nations' own blood is all that can shape the future. Besides, why do we want to fight other people's battles? What's in it for us? What's in it for the parents of some kid from Mississippi who gets shot to pieces in Iran? Nothing. The VA won't even treat him well if he does manage to make it home.
Having some white knight ride into your country and do it for you doesn't work. Never has, never will. All that ends up happening in the aftermath of other countries' young men spilling their blood on your behalf is enslavement, one way or another, by those "saviors." Besides, of all the places in the world the US could choose to spend trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, why Iran? Why are they the most deserving of this special intervention? Hmm. Yeah, I wonder.
Would you say the same about the “…poor, oppressed people" in Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, etc? Should we have let them deal with their own problems? It is not the government mutilating children, in fact, this administration is actively stopping that travesty that was pushed by the previous one. Not all wars are the same, not all governments are the same. And making the murderous lunatics who shoot up schools and churches into some kind of role models who are fighting back against their oppressors is beyond comprehension.
America entered WW II when war was declared, and not because the poor and oppressed Jewish people, else America would have entered much sooner. We're US soldiers not entirely surprised by discovering the crimes of and in concentration camps? They didn't seem to have expected what they found.
Why was war declared in the US then, if not because of the poor and oppressed Jewish (and gay and other “undesirable” people)? I think they were surprised by the enormity and inhumanity of what they found.
I never said the US doesn’t abuse its citizens it simply seemed as though you were/are willing to set aside the abysmal atrocities perpetrated by the current illegal regime in Iran because it does not directly impinge on your own freedoms.
I don’t see Trump as a white knight but I’ll take him over Biden any day. In fact if not for what began with Obama this country would not be in the craphole it is in right now.
So the ppl of Persia do not deserve to be free?
Why Iran? Is it possible that the US knew something you didn’t regarding terror attacks?
Think what you’d like to think Ruth. I only responded to you initially bcuz you offered the same tired reasons why any country including the US goes to war - money. Yes, money is always part of the equation unfortunately bcuz of the greed of many. It isn’t the only reason.
And as far as the problems existing here in the USA that you mention, you have legal recourse bcuz you live in a Constitutional Republic. The ppl of Iran do NOT. If we can should we not help them?
No worries though, soon Trump will be out of office and this country will once again have open borders and give away everything to those illegally here while telling me that social security I paid into for 20+ years is going to be insolvent soon.
Well Ruth your thesis for a book is not likely the one Trump is attempting to build; and not that which most folks in the USA who've supported wars have EVER chosen.
"empire". . . no, US wars have not been about empire. We have not established any 51st state in the last 50 years, not raped and pillaged, not committed genocide to other races or countries.
Your conflation of US defensive postures over the years into empire building is outright wrong.
Support for war: This varies with age and wisdom at the time of the war. I was young and dumb during Vietnam and though I could understand the rationale (propaganda) being dumped for limiting Chyna! there was no way I would drop out and lose my 2S deferment. In retrospect I would now respect my young opinion more if I had grasped the mass media collusion with the Federal Executive administration to follow a narrative that only served to kill 57,000 Americans and many more Asians. At no time did I EVER believe we entered that war to expand empire in the rice fields of 'Nam.
Finally, I do NOT believe anyone really LUSTS for war as you and John seem fond of implying. That is saying some large group of Americans are psychopaths or are salivating over the huge profits to be made.
Crazy. Infinitesimal counts. Not a point one can extrapolate into a general reality. You are grasping at straws here.
You and I do not share the same definition of empire. You seem to want to define it in some sort of colonial way whereby the US puts up its flag in a foreign nation and declares it publicly to be the property and sole domain of the US government, complete with direct taxation or "statehood".
Is that your definition? If not, what is your definition of empire?
As for the lust for war, there are two kinds of soldiers. One is the guy who is just naive and thinks he can go into service to find some sort of direction in life, secure a job and maybe exercise some sort of patriotism. You sound like that guy. You come out, however, with your eyes opened to the truth about a soldier's life, how your government (not the citizens - citizens respect soldiers) views soldiers, but never quite catching on to how disproportionate your and your fellow soldiers' sacrifices were to the safety and security of your own nation. Just look at where we are right now in terms of debt, fraud and leadership. You think we as a nation would be, what, worse had we not gone abroad with all of our wars? Really? That's the nut of the question right there. Do you think we would be worse off right now if all of the resources we spent abroad propping up NATO and invading the Middle East would have, instead, been focused at home? I wonder.
The second type of soldier absolutely goes in looking to be a bad ass. One only needs to watch these people say exactly that in countless YT videos. Do we need those kind of people? Absolutely. Do we need those rare sorts overseas? No. They need to be badasses for justice here at home. They would wipe out the drug cartels (speaking of domestic invasions) en masse.
Lastly, if you don't think Hillary Clinton and Dick Chaney lusted for war then you may have shell shock.
Ahem, we seemed to have veered off course from John's original post of the connection between sex and war; it has been hijacked to the more superficial domain of current politics. Let's return to the instincts as they are inborn and greatly influence our behaviors.
Lust is the common principle of both sex (love) and war (violence) as there is intense DESIRE in both states but they are also antithetical. The former is based on merging with the other, while the latter is set on destroying the subject. Sadistic violence as in wars of conquest and mass murders are usually caused by the unfulfilled love feelings of the criminals and their frustrated retributions--as can be seen in the incel/transsexual mass shootings-they typically target women.
What about the seemingly "normal" sexual lives of war criminal politicians? As revealed by the Epstein Files, they are not normal at all but desire destruction WITH sex which "satisfies" their two goals--kill the object and all the love emotions simultaneously.
A great war is indeed on it's way, John Leake. It's called "Armageddon", based upon the location, Har Megiddon, the valley of Megiddo, just north and east of Tel Aviv. It literally is the end of the world, as we know it. It is not brought about by an "evolutionary mismatch" though, but it is a fulfillment of the Biblical prophecies. It is coming, maybe soon, if the current world events are any metric. The valley of Megiddo has been the site of many conflicts in history... but this one ends history. The Bible has never been wrong, and is fascinating to read and study, and compare with history, science, geology, and especially, today's news. Iran is historical Persia. Everyone should study the Bible for a solid perspective. Your mention of lust is Biblically supported. Hardcore soldiers are described in the Bible as "lusty men", to be feared for their lack of sympathy or empathy. Jesus saves, "vaccines" kill and maim.
In my view, Trump has finally said to the Islamic Republic of Iran “ENOUGH ALREADY”!!!
Forty-seven years of the autocratic bullying & bluster of the mullahs, the ongoing threats & terror activities within the Middle East (& around the world), the irrational insistence on acquiring nuclear missile capability (that could eventually reach all of Europe & N America), not to mention an enduring commitment to the destruction of the Israeli state (along with all the Jews they can find & kill) reached a tipping point & Trump decided to use overwhelming U.S. military force to effect regime change in Iran.
Our forces have already (within the initial hours of the conflict) decapitated the Iranian government & are systematically destroying the stockpiles of ballistic missiles & remaining military units, primarily the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) throughout the country. This phase of the operation could take months unless the regime & its supporters willingly abdicate & allow for free & fair elections to restore a democratic government going forward.
This concerted military effort will continue until what’s left of the regime capitulates & surrenders its weapons. Otherwise, Trump has made clear that anyone loyal to the mullahs who does not submit to this directive will be hunted down & eliminated.
It was also made abundantly clear to Iranian leaders that the one non-negotiable agenda item was Iran’s continuing enrichment of uranium & its development of weapon systems (primarily ballistic missiles) to deliver them. After last summer’s “Midnight Hammer” operation, there should have been no confusion regarding our ‘a priori’ commitment to permanently halt Iranian pursuit of nuclear weapons. They ignored that VERY CLEAR signal & in that inaction, their ideological zealotry has cost them dearly.
The ultimate big winners here will be the citizens of Iran (now Persia again?) who want to live free of the oppressions of a brutally radical religious cult, if they are able to seize the day & reclaim their country from the Islamo-fascist tyranny that has infested the Middle East & influenced the geopolitics of the entire world for almost an entire half-century.
Trump finally decided that he alone could end that awful tyranny once & for all, and he had the courage & the audacity (not to mention the military capacity) to act decisively. And he had the cajones to give the order. Good for him.
It’s a new world now & aggressively troublesome regimes like the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer be tolerated, at least while Trump & his successors are in power in the U.S. That particular Sword of Damocles is no more.
History will ultimately be the judge. It was high time, in my view.
Having a Persian family member, I agree with you hundred percent!
As a Christ follower, seeing the massive human rights violations and persecution is gutting. Iran is the largest growing Christian Church in the world, despite the threat of torture and death around every corner.
I was in high school when the monarchy was toppled and the brutal regime began.
Almost 40,000 Iranian protesters murdered in a two day period… And the numbers we're getting are way underestimated for how many have been killed just the first 45 days of this year.
For 47 years, we have been complacent and even complicit as a country. The cries of the Persian people are so deafening, that we turned up other noise so we wouldn't have to have that on our conscience.
All the while, the great head of the snake has become almost invincible... almost..
The America we live in now, had Hitler risen to power during our time, he would've ended up with all of Europe under his thumb.
We know some folks over in Iran (Persia) and were finally able to communicate with them. They are doing well. Yes, there are a growing number of believers in Iran. Amazing!
Sadly, yes, the current regime actually brought in terrorists to carry out the kill orders. Even as late as yesterday, members of the regime were killing people by running over them as they protested while the people in this country condemn what Trump has done.
The corrupt world mainstream media as a lot to answer for. Thank god for the Tousitv's of this world
Thank you, yes.
PS - though I do not believe it needs to be separately stated because of the use of MILITANT/MILITANCY in describing Muslims, in order not to offend people with delicate sensibilities, please note that by using the terms MILITANT/MILITANCY in describing Muslims, I am referring to SUNNI Muslims not SHIA. Although historically, both groups have been involved in terrorism to an extent and the current Islamic regime in Iran is what is known as Shia Islamic Theocracy. Thank you.
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What I find fascinating is the way Iran has treated its people since its illegal incursion and deposing of the Shah of Iran and the world seems fine with it. For 47 years, they've treated women like chattel. More than 70% of the women executed for "murder" had had enough of their husband's abject abuse. They fought to save themselves and were rewarded with the death penalty. When young virgins were arrested and executed, they were also raped prior to execution so that they could be guaranteed hell in the afterlife.
Too many gay people to count were hung by their necks until dead on cranes in public spectacles designed to scare the general populace.
Was Iran ready to embark on strikes against the US (foreign and here at home)? Possible, according to Marco Rubio. Should we have simply let those things happen and THEN mustered up a response?
We live in a world where groups of people hate anyone who is not Islamic. They believe it is their goal to change this world to one ruled by Islam. They believe they are building their final caliphate and through it the Final Mahdi will rise to rule the world. Christians know him as the Antichrist.
Yet, it is interesting that all the so-called feminists in the west condemn these military strikes yet have nothing to say about the way women and gays have been treated in Iran's Islamic regime.
The US-Israeli strikes took out Khamenei, his top 40 officers and even the guy who was to succeed Khamenei. Persians are so grateful for the freedom they can taste, yet here in America, too many wring their hands as though the world is coming to an end.
Jeremiah 49:34ff has some interesting things to say about Elam (today's Iran). It is GOD who controls these events for His glory. Is America or Israel always right? Of course not, and neither are these countries always wrong, though to some, Israel can do nothing right or good and doncha know, Israel apparently rules the world!
So did these military strikes unleash terrorists at home and abroad? It's certainly possible, but it would have only been a matter of time for that to occur anyway, regardless of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
Frankly, I'm glad to see Khamenei gone. I'm sorry for those who are saddened by that fact. He and all his officers are now in hell, wishing for a do-over and are no longer deceived by the lies of Islam they held in this life. They see REALITY now and the TRUTH.
Whether people get off on vanquishing a loathsome enemy or not, the truth is that when seriously evil people are eradicated, there is RELIEF over it and there should be. Too many today commit truly heinous crimes and eventually seem to walk free. How is THAT justice?
Khamenei has been asking for this because of all his saber rattling for years, his attacks on US soil, as well as in foreign places.
But yeah, we should just turn the other cheek, which serves only to increase the hostilities and cause them to believe we are weak.
If someone tried to break into your home, tell me you'd just sit there and let them run amok? Would you then feel tremendous relief if you fought back with lethal force or would you cower in the corner?
Islam has no reason to give up. The only thing Islam understands is FORCE used against them. We see what's happening in Europe and the UK. We see what is happening in the USA, but gee, let's pretend it doesn't exist because how dare we seek to vanquish a loathsome enemy to activate our "neural circuitry in which lust resides."
Maybe stick to writing about the medical field...
I have to agree with DrFred57 on this one
Thank you.
You certainly know your stuff!
A few things at least :)
Your comment was fairly long, but I think you nailed it. The real issue is that in this world, radical, violent people only respect you if you're stronger than they are. That is the bottom line.
The US and Israel did what they had to do, and they will continue doing what they have to do against all violent nations. Until Jesus comes. The Bible states that after the rapture, the restrainer will be gone----and absolute lawlessness will take over in the form of chaos, strife and violence.
Then the antichrist will reveal himself, and demand everyone in the world to worship him, and Satan will have already entered into him according to the book of Revelation.
Of course, we Christians will no longer be here----good luck to those of you that never repented and accepted Christ---you are going to need a lot of luck!!!
I am in a state of despair. We are going to be at war forever, no matter what, for no logical reason other than money, power, and religious zeal for the few.
The republicans who could easily recognize the propaganda propping up the democrats support for the provoked war between Ukraine and Russia are now falling for the propaganda propping up the proxy war in Iran. Like seriously?! Didn’t we learn anything at all over the last five years?!!!
And the democrats are now against the Iranian war but are still in favor of funding the Ukrainian war that is literally destroying Ukraine. I absolutely feel my brain meting of the stupidity.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. We just bounce back and forth between the war mongering red team, and the war mongering blue team. Wars on islamists, wars on viruses, wars on narco terrorist, wars on everything that could possibly be made to sound scary in any way shape or form.
War= Open the death spigot. Open the money spigot. Open the power spigot.
On which planet can we live where people will not make up stupid fake reasons to go to war with one another…
I would blame it on men in general but the women in my life have also been the ardent and vocal supporters of Covid tyranny, the Ukrainian war, the Venezuelan war, the Iranian war, and I assume they will also support whatever other war we will be in soon.
I just don’t understand. Why can’t people see the string of lies that have preceded EVERY SINGLE WAR in our history? THE! GOVERNMENT! LIES!
After the last five years, how is it possible that a single person in the US doesn’t understand this?
"After the last five years, how is it possible that a single person in the US doesn’t understand this?" Have you considered the possibility that they're morons?
I just don't know what to do with the fact that 80-90% of the population is moronic. That's so depressing. What hope is there for a decent future... None. I have none. I can't keep arguing with people who parrot government propaganda ads. The government is just a tool for phsycopaths and sociopaths to control people. And humans always create governments.
I feel ya. I've read some of your interactions with the propaganda-regurgitators on this and other posts, and god help me, I've had a few of my own (against my better judgment; I stopped interacting on social media during the scamdemic, once I realised that cult-indoctrinated people do not and cannot respond to facts and reason). These people are out-and-out-morons. Or they're in a cult. Or maybe both. I cannot fathom how anyone with two functioning brain cells to rub together could possibly be falling for this. It's not even high-quality, carefully-crafted propaganda. It's just recycled dross from the last wars of aggression. And there's no consistent narrative to the propaganda; the justifications for this war change every day, and the propaganda-regurgitators either don't notice, or perhaps they don't even care. The total lack of self-respect demonstrated by the people cheering on this war, is for me the most galling aspect of it. The Epstein class pisses on their backs and tells them it's raining, and they beg for more rain.
There seems to be a lot of things going on but media induced fear obviously drives a lot of it. Tribalism. Cult-like behavior. Religion. Whatever it all is, the government has figured out how to control the majority of the population at any one time and make them feel like they are fighting for the right side even while it "rains on them" as you put it.
I guess MKULtra was and is a success.
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare".
So it's a shame that the USA has hardly enjoyed half a dozen years' peace in 250 years of independence. Almost every year a war - and every single one started by Washington.
Just because someone said that it does not mean it's true necessarily. Because of the tremendous increase in Islamic militancy, the only thing they respond to is with FORCE. Nice words don't do it. FORCE makes the difference. We've got Muslims going around telling people to keep their dogs inside and they should not eat in public because Muslims don't eat during Ramadan. It's fine for Muslims to block streets to pray even though the Qur'an forbids that practice. If Christians did it, they would be hauled off to jail.
The world continues to give Islam and all its atrocities a free pass. During the Obama years, he did massive and many military "strikes." I didn't hear the same people condemning him as those condemning Trump today. In fact, Tom Hohman was working then on creating a safe border and Obama gave him a medal, while deporting thousands. Trump does it? Condemnation.
The problem today is ISLAMIC militancy ENCOURAGED by Obama because he himself hates the west and is Muslim. If we do not take care of the Islamic jihad problem, we will end up with becoming dhimmis to Muslims. You don't believe that then open a history book.
Because of the evil people and regimes in this world, it stands to reason that there will be wars and rumors of wars on a near continual basis. The US did not start many of them. They RESPONDED to the threats that existed. I suppose if Iran had unleashed itself in another 9/11 before we stopped it, then people would be complaining that we should have seen it coming and done something about it.
There is too much stereotyping and vague generalising. What is true of Shia Muslims in Iran is probably not true of Sunni Muslims who have fled to the UK or the USA. Many Muslims are peaceful and virtuous; others aren’t. Just like Christians and atheists.
I am specifically referring to SHIA Muslims - Islamic militancy. Shia Muslims are hardliners. Sunnis are completely different. When I speak of the atrocities committed by Muslims, I am referring to SHIA and that should be obvious. Were any of the Ayatollah's SUNNI? They were ALL SHIA and they believe they should kill anyone who is NOT.
Yeah, I know a ton of Christians who are constantly on the lethal warpath trying to kill others who do not agree with them (sarcasm).
Do you know WHY the CRUSADES took place? They were a direct response to the growing incursion of MILITANT ISLAM. Islam already had one caliphate and I am very aware of how SHIA Muslims treat Sunnis and non-Muslims.
I don't think I was stereotyping or vaguely generalizing at all. I specifically used the term Islamic militancy. You chose to read something other than what I was saying. But if you need me to spell it out for you I can do that. But ask yourself, if I used the term Islamic Militancy, how can that be taken to mean Sunni when it is clear that SHIA Muslims hate Sunnis almost as much as they hate Christians and other non-Muslims Including atheists)?
But you've gone from saying the all wars "every single one started by Washington" to attempting to differentiate between SHIA and SUNNI as if I grouped them altogether when clearly, by using the word MILITANT/MILITANCY should have been significant enough to highlight the difference and to point out that not all Muslims are included because not all Muslims are MILITANT.
They are only peaceful when powerless and in the minority.
Either you are a clever liar or just ignorant of solid Bible hermeneutics, please show me where in the Bible that God is against a legitimate war to destroy wicked countries that continually support and promote ongoing murder and despotism??! Also check out Romans 13 where we are to support and obey the rulers of our country that are doing their God-given duty to fight (war if appropriate) against wickedness, (clearly Iranian leadership fits this). To give Iran's people freedom from these tyrannical leaders!!
The connections between death and sex - between making and extinguishing life - are as old as man and woman.
A fascinating subject with some basis on neuro-science and lots of elaboration in literature and the arts. As such, it must be a mainfestation of something real.
Maybe one aspect is "power". The thrill of power in both killing and love-making (especially for the male of the species) is manifest.
Sadly some parts of the mind take over the rest. I can best quote Imam Ali (my own rough translation):
Angels are of light and wisdom.
Beasts are of desire and need.
Man is a mixture of angel and beast.
Should his light and wisdom overcome, he will be better than any angel.
Should his desire and need overcome, he will be worse than any beast.
Non-sensical pablum
You and Weinstein should not discount the Bible which says that there will be wars and rumors of wars, but the end is not yet. Christ will return and show us the way of peace for a thousand years.
Until then, guard your heart and be ready.
OF COURSE lust and aggression are closely related. Both have to do with conquest and conquering. Also, a girl does bot know jealousy until she has sex. Thereafter, she suddenly sees her "rivals" which can trigger intense hate and sometimes even murder to defend what you see as "yours."
I agree with you John but you need to add most important factor: Satanic Psychopaths often Pedophiles rule this world under their "god" the Demiurge! Then it is all clear. However their time is very short and they know it!
A prehistoric catastrophe wiped out 95% of all men across Africa, Europe, and Asia
A few years ago, researchers studying the genomes of modern people made an unsettling discovery. At some point a few thousand years ago, genetic diversity among men suddenly collapsed. Entire male bloodlines vanished.
What they found wasn’t subtle. The data pointed to a staggering collapse in male genetic diversity — as if the world’s population of men had been almost completely wiped out. Models suggest that up to ninety-five percent of males in Africa, Europe, and Asia disappeared from the gene pool during this period. It’s one of the most dramatic population crashes ever recorded.
It didn't coincide with a sudden climate change event. They have found mass graves indicating violence from the period in many locations. It's only adult males in the graves. It is suspected the women and children were taken as captives. I suspect we have the DNA from the 5% that did the slaughtering. Any pacifist genes likely ended up in the graves.
https://youtu.be/jYqrG8-V_Qg?si=tIy-RCiC_aMUi1S5
How interesting!
Maybe you're right about our tribal tendencies leading to extinction but I had a thought about that, which made me think otherwise. When Darwin proposed his theories based on "survival of the fittest" letting the strongest survive to procreate, it seemed pretty reasonable at first but now, after studying how the microbiome works, how symbiotic relationships between species work to promote an enhanced survival based on co-operation rather than competition, a new paradigm emerges that is seen as foundational to nature and evolution. I think we, as humans have the capacity to co-operate and are already wired to be like that; interdependent with, not "the masters" of Nature. We've strayed so far from that with our huge populations, and our abilities to expand and control the limitations imposed by Nature. We forgot our basic origins, and tried to conquer our limitations.
Maybe it worked in the past, to get us to this point where we are now, but it's coming to it's limit now as we sit on the brink of extinction. We're not so high and mighty, not the masters in control, and are bound by our biology and nature to be a part of God's plan in co-operation and harmony. Our mastery and superiority is an illusion that hasn't been fully realized and never will be. We need to learn that.
An empire. If you can keep it.
War seems to me to always be the product of empire and the US has been the chief instigator since the civil war. (I mean, you gotta subjugate the natives first before you can go out and conquer the world.)
The individuals who generate war are lusting after the proceeds of it, not the dirty thrills of the machinery. They haven't personally had to put their skin into the game since the days of Napoleon and George Washington. This applies to the vast majority of citizens.
Those who do lust after the titillation that war offers are almost entirely the naive young men (and a few women) who volunteer for service hoping they'll get the chance to shoot someone or feed bullets to the one who pulls the trigger.
The minority of citizens who support war have two primary characteristics: They willingly buy the propaganda fed to them by their ideological demigod (in this case Trump) and they don't think the tanks or blood will ever roll down their street. Their third characteristic is lack of imagination or vision for the future where the sins of the father will be visited upon the son.
These four, short paragraphs are the outline of many a great book that deals with the subject at hand, capturing the generality of empire through the eyes of the participants and enablers.
so we should believe the abuse and torture of Iranian women is just propaganda?
Patricia - I didn’t read Ruth Gordon’s comments as saying that at all.
So...women being forced to be subordinate to men, who can abuse them at all will because they are seen as cows or goats - this is fine with you? Gays being systematically executed for being gay is fine with you?
Trump is NOT my demi-god, nor is he even any form of god. However, the current regime illegally invaded and took over Iran, deposing the Shah. Back then women could dress normally and even wear bathing suits at the beach. People like you seem utterly clueless. You live in a western nation that grants you the privileges and rights you have while pretending to believe that what we see actually occurring in Iran is the result of PROPAGANDA.
Really? So the thousand of brave men and women who are brutally massacred by the current Islamic Regime in Iran didn't really happen? Within the past few days, the Iranian regime was still killing protesters by running them over with their vehicles didn't happen either?
Not sure what book you're referring to, but I'd be very willing to bet it was written by a true MARXIST who believes that Communism is the real and only answer to the world's problems.
Maybe read some other books, Ruth...
When John wrote about “beautiful women” all I could picture were those formerly beautiful Iranian women who had acid thrown in their faces for the grave sin of letting a strand of hair or a sliver of wrist show. Not to mention those who are forced to wear those shrouds that cover them head to toe lest showing anything but their eyes through those slits provoke “lust” in those poor innocent men. I think I’m done with this subscription for a while.
Tragic isn’t it meanwhile the Left never highlights those atrocities.
Which country doesn't abuse its citizens? The US actively mutilates children in the name of "gender reassignment" and has had an active sex slave trade operating within and through its borders for fifty years or more. This doesn't even scratch the surface of the abuse the US government has unleashed on its citizens. Likewise, the things you find going on in Iran have been going on in Africa for centuries.
Get real with yourself and admit that you believe in the propaganda and exploitation of real world events outside your borders whimsically and when it suits the personal political interests of your chosen candidate or party. But it isn't rational or consistent. If it were then the US would be at war in every single country in the world because every single country, including the US, does these things. (Where is Tina Peters? Where were the Jan. 6 protesters?)
Only the citizens of foreign nations can determine when enough is enough and rise up and do something about it. But no one wants to take on that personal responsibility. (Enter the propaganda that only the US can "open the door to liberty and democracy for those poor, oppressed people"... the same line used in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq... Why do they keep using the same propaganda? Because it works, btw.)
Say what you want about people that shoot up schools and churches and bars but only when people who have had enough abuse by their government decide to take that sort of decisive action and make that sort of sacrifice toward their oppressors will their nation be reformed from the ground up and instill the fear in future elected leaders that the same fate awaits them if they go down the same road. The shared sacrifice of a nations' own blood is all that can shape the future. Besides, why do we want to fight other people's battles? What's in it for us? What's in it for the parents of some kid from Mississippi who gets shot to pieces in Iran? Nothing. The VA won't even treat him well if he does manage to make it home.
Having some white knight ride into your country and do it for you doesn't work. Never has, never will. All that ends up happening in the aftermath of other countries' young men spilling their blood on your behalf is enslavement, one way or another, by those "saviors." Besides, of all the places in the world the US could choose to spend trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, why Iran? Why are they the most deserving of this special intervention? Hmm. Yeah, I wonder.
Would you say the same about the “…poor, oppressed people" in Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, etc? Should we have let them deal with their own problems? It is not the government mutilating children, in fact, this administration is actively stopping that travesty that was pushed by the previous one. Not all wars are the same, not all governments are the same. And making the murderous lunatics who shoot up schools and churches into some kind of role models who are fighting back against their oppressors is beyond comprehension.
America entered WW II when war was declared, and not because the poor and oppressed Jewish people, else America would have entered much sooner. We're US soldiers not entirely surprised by discovering the crimes of and in concentration camps? They didn't seem to have expected what they found.
Why was war declared in the US then, if not because of the poor and oppressed Jewish (and gay and other “undesirable” people)? I think they were surprised by the enormity and inhumanity of what they found.
Germany declared war on America.
I never said the US doesn’t abuse its citizens it simply seemed as though you were/are willing to set aside the abysmal atrocities perpetrated by the current illegal regime in Iran because it does not directly impinge on your own freedoms.
I don’t see Trump as a white knight but I’ll take him over Biden any day. In fact if not for what began with Obama this country would not be in the craphole it is in right now.
So the ppl of Persia do not deserve to be free?
Why Iran? Is it possible that the US knew something you didn’t regarding terror attacks?
Think what you’d like to think Ruth. I only responded to you initially bcuz you offered the same tired reasons why any country including the US goes to war - money. Yes, money is always part of the equation unfortunately bcuz of the greed of many. It isn’t the only reason.
And as far as the problems existing here in the USA that you mention, you have legal recourse bcuz you live in a Constitutional Republic. The ppl of Iran do NOT. If we can should we not help them?
No worries though, soon Trump will be out of office and this country will once again have open borders and give away everything to those illegally here while telling me that social security I paid into for 20+ years is going to be insolvent soon.
You are creating so many strawmen that your computer is going to catch fire. Keep a big glass of water nearby.
So no answer then. Got it. That’s what the Left does when it can’t answer - attempts to redirect.
Have a nice day, Ruth.
Well Ruth your thesis for a book is not likely the one Trump is attempting to build; and not that which most folks in the USA who've supported wars have EVER chosen.
"empire". . . no, US wars have not been about empire. We have not established any 51st state in the last 50 years, not raped and pillaged, not committed genocide to other races or countries.
Your conflation of US defensive postures over the years into empire building is outright wrong.
Support for war: This varies with age and wisdom at the time of the war. I was young and dumb during Vietnam and though I could understand the rationale (propaganda) being dumped for limiting Chyna! there was no way I would drop out and lose my 2S deferment. In retrospect I would now respect my young opinion more if I had grasped the mass media collusion with the Federal Executive administration to follow a narrative that only served to kill 57,000 Americans and many more Asians. At no time did I EVER believe we entered that war to expand empire in the rice fields of 'Nam.
Finally, I do NOT believe anyone really LUSTS for war as you and John seem fond of implying. That is saying some large group of Americans are psychopaths or are salivating over the huge profits to be made.
Crazy. Infinitesimal counts. Not a point one can extrapolate into a general reality. You are grasping at straws here.
You and I do not share the same definition of empire. You seem to want to define it in some sort of colonial way whereby the US puts up its flag in a foreign nation and declares it publicly to be the property and sole domain of the US government, complete with direct taxation or "statehood".
Is that your definition? If not, what is your definition of empire?
As for the lust for war, there are two kinds of soldiers. One is the guy who is just naive and thinks he can go into service to find some sort of direction in life, secure a job and maybe exercise some sort of patriotism. You sound like that guy. You come out, however, with your eyes opened to the truth about a soldier's life, how your government (not the citizens - citizens respect soldiers) views soldiers, but never quite catching on to how disproportionate your and your fellow soldiers' sacrifices were to the safety and security of your own nation. Just look at where we are right now in terms of debt, fraud and leadership. You think we as a nation would be, what, worse had we not gone abroad with all of our wars? Really? That's the nut of the question right there. Do you think we would be worse off right now if all of the resources we spent abroad propping up NATO and invading the Middle East would have, instead, been focused at home? I wonder.
The second type of soldier absolutely goes in looking to be a bad ass. One only needs to watch these people say exactly that in countless YT videos. Do we need those kind of people? Absolutely. Do we need those rare sorts overseas? No. They need to be badasses for justice here at home. They would wipe out the drug cartels (speaking of domestic invasions) en masse.
Lastly, if you don't think Hillary Clinton and Dick Chaney lusted for war then you may have shell shock.
What a cynical, condescending view of those who serve in the military, and those who support them.
No, that's not what I heard. I recommend watching the film WINTER SOLDIER.
in some ways we already have devised an extinction of our own making, the covid shot, whose short effects clearly point to the end of times...
lust and the love of the righteous (self) successfully acheived do seem driven by the same impluses good of you to outline.
Ahem, we seemed to have veered off course from John's original post of the connection between sex and war; it has been hijacked to the more superficial domain of current politics. Let's return to the instincts as they are inborn and greatly influence our behaviors.
Lust is the common principle of both sex (love) and war (violence) as there is intense DESIRE in both states but they are also antithetical. The former is based on merging with the other, while the latter is set on destroying the subject. Sadistic violence as in wars of conquest and mass murders are usually caused by the unfulfilled love feelings of the criminals and their frustrated retributions--as can be seen in the incel/transsexual mass shootings-they typically target women.
What about the seemingly "normal" sexual lives of war criminal politicians? As revealed by the Epstein Files, they are not normal at all but desire destruction WITH sex which "satisfies" their two goals--kill the object and all the love emotions simultaneously.
A great war is indeed on it's way, John Leake. It's called "Armageddon", based upon the location, Har Megiddon, the valley of Megiddo, just north and east of Tel Aviv. It literally is the end of the world, as we know it. It is not brought about by an "evolutionary mismatch" though, but it is a fulfillment of the Biblical prophecies. It is coming, maybe soon, if the current world events are any metric. The valley of Megiddo has been the site of many conflicts in history... but this one ends history. The Bible has never been wrong, and is fascinating to read and study, and compare with history, science, geology, and especially, today's news. Iran is historical Persia. Everyone should study the Bible for a solid perspective. Your mention of lust is Biblically supported. Hardcore soldiers are described in the Bible as "lusty men", to be feared for their lack of sympathy or empathy. Jesus saves, "vaccines" kill and maim.