While savoring his Venezuelan Triumph, President Trump should pause for a moment to contemplate the Varian Disaster that shocked the Roman Emperor Augustus to his core.
I think the article presupposes Trump was operating out of an arrogant self-awareness of America’s great military power.
Like, all we care about is growing our empire. I think that misses the point.
On the other hand, I think he was operating out of the desire to prevent unacceptable levels of empowerment of Russia and China.
There are an estimated 300 billion barrels of oil under there.
I don’t want Taiwan invaded by China. Among other things. I don’t want China running the world. And you and I both know that’s what they want and that’s what they’ve been working for for decades.
Tokyo, Japan — In an unprecedented move, the Japanese government has declared a national state of emergency following a sharp and unexplained spike in child fatalities — all with one chilling common thread: mRNA vaccination.
What began as isolated whispers in hospital corridors has erupted into a nationwide medical uprising. Pediatric ICUs are overwhelmed. Autopsy reports are raising red flags. And behind the chaos, a pattern is forming — one that Japan can no longer ignore.
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Findings by Japanese scientists have renewed debate over the safety of mRNA COVID-19 ‘vaccines’, after a press conference on July 13, 2025, unveiled data showing a significant spike in deaths occurring 90 to 120 days after vaccination.
The data, first revealed in June and presented by Professor Yasufumi Murakami of Tokyo Science University, were drawn from 21 million anonymised vaccination records obtained through official information requests. These records included vaccination dates, lot numbers, and death data, and reveal that multiple doses of the vaccine appear to correlate with earlier mortality peaks, suggesting cumulative toxicity.
Murakami estimates that between 600,000 and 610,000 deaths in Japan may be linked to mRNA COVID jabs—a figure that matches unexplained excess mortality statistics but has gone largely ignored by Japanese health authorities. The delayed timing of the deaths—often months after vaccination—means they often fall outside
It was sold to the gullible public as a "vaccine" that would stop the corona "virus".
Well, as experts such as Dr. Mike Yeadon and Drs.Sam and Mark Bailey now do acknowledge.....THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A VIRUS and the "vaccine" is a bioweapon carefully crafted to kill a few months AFTER injections.
Pfizer, Moderna and Fauci forced the covid shots on the population. Biden mandated them for many groups and coerced their requirement in many private entities. Trump was a victim of Fauci just like 275M Americans who took the covid shot.
I think Trump is 'circling the wagons'. The EU is lost because of the unassimilated illegal migrant invasion. The UK likewise is in the same Muslim pickle - Germany, Sweden same. Italy is far below Italian replacement - they will all but vanish as an Italian people - eg the statistic is for 100 current Italians today, there will only be 6 great grandchildren. Trump has made the determination that it's best to shore up one's own homeland and resources. It is retarded to believe he's is going to 'take' Russia. As it is retarded to believe Putin is 'taking' Europe as soon as he's finished with Ukraine. jeesh
Well, the US did just seize a Russian tanker and still hasn't ceased supplying arms and CIA targeting intel to the corrupt regime in Kiev. History teaches us that things can unexpectedly escalate
Ask yourself if you would want unflagged ships in your area. And yes they were trying to hide their country of origin, but look at Peru’s coast and the Chinese fishing fleet there that turns off ID markers once they hit the sea border.
The status of the tanker in question is more nuanced than your response suggests, including that it was given temporary authorization to sail under the Russian flag. Clearly, the sole purpose of the "transfer" (if it truly complied with all requirements and wasn't nullified by the reason for transfer and other technicalities) was to temporarily avoid sanction enforcement. So, if ICE is pursuing Tren de Aragua members and all of a sudden Russia grants them temporary Russian citizenship when ICE is trying to get the handcuffs on, do you let them go? No.
There is nothing nuanced about the US proxy war against Russia or the US declaration at the Bucharest NATO Summit in 2008 that Ukraine would join NATO. I don't pay attention to US war propaganda, because most of it is dishonest self-serving BS. I've not forgotten all of the BS we've heard since 2001.
The war is not with other countries. The war is with a genocidal elite that want to own the entire planet and get rid of "useless eaters".
You know, like old people who have paid into SS their entire working lives as well as the unborn. See Dr. James Thorpe book on this.
"Sacrifice documents the true story of Dr. James Thorp, a respected doctor of maternal fetal medicine, who in 2020, finds his entire profession has lost its mind, as well as its soul. Stunned to find his colleagues take the bribe money, drink the Kool-Aid, and push the COVID-19 shots, Thorp is one of the few Ob-Gyns to bear witness and broadcast the multitude of pregnancy complications including miscarriages, stillbirths, and many other tragic outcomes resulting from the shots."
I am in complete agreement with this comment as well as your article. This is a proxy war we instigated. I only question technicalities of the status of the ship and I don't have answers to those questions.
It was a tanker flying under the flag of Guyana sailing from Iran to Venezuela that painted a Russian flag on the side of the ship after changing course in response to the threat of seizure off the coast of Venezuela.
I think your response is over projecting Trumps intentions. There is no war, he's caring out what the democrats ordered years back to arrest this person. Judge what the man does not what he says.
We don't have a "two party" system -- All the governmental authorities are working to install a demonic AI and robot run world wide society in which there are no "choices" and no way out. That is why the notorious Klaus Schwab so loved the Chinese...they were the first nation to begin the horrifying program. China is a nation of empty towns and villages.They have killed all the "useless eaters".
Imagine how it will be some day to hear knocking at your door and confront a robot who shoots you in the face?
I have a funny feeling that what you describe, or something very simular, is what the “rapture” in Revelation is, as it refers to a “snatching” up of the non compliant. It’s not a gentle raising up into heaven the way some evangelicals read scripture .
This is my "belief system" -- while we live on this beautiful god-created planet our duty is to expose and fight demonic entities. I do not know what the "rapture" could signify.
that explicitly believed that if they took a poison together they would all be raptured up. They were found later after they all were totally dead. And of course ...there is the notorious Jim Jones who also murdered all his followers that lived in a large South American compound, with....koolaid. That is where the expression "drink the koolaid" came from, I think.
Readers of Dr. McCullough tend to be more on the cutting edge of things than the kool-aid drinkers. At least, I always thought so....
And as you may not know, John Leake is a true crime writer....
What I was inferring in a roundabout way, is that not only do we not know the date and time of the end times— But the term rapture comes from the greek word harpatzo which infers a kind of sudden or violent snatching (like a sudden drone attack) and not a diaphanous floating skyward as the evangelicals proclaim.
I am Catholic so I can say this. It is my intuition that the Vatican when Francis was pope received substantial donations from the Gates Foundation. Bill was never a genius techie, he was an unscrupulous aggressive monopolist. (Paul Allen was the visionary genius) Melinda was the nominal Catholic , but big on population reduction. B and M had many visit$ with Francis I have always suspected Bill, whose hobby is chess, worked that Jesuit ( and Jesuits can be so intellectually arrogant ) into just the right spot to sell his scheme of vaxxing the world. How better to begin than with someone who is boss of billions? It certainly worked in my diocese where it was pushed heavily. And I became a persona non grata for opposition.
If President Trump is considering taking Greenland by force merely because it is strategic to the protection of the US, and because both Russia and China have ships there, he had better think twice.
The American people will never approve of such a predatory, military move on a peaceful country. Although his point is well taken, and Greenland is very strategic to the protection of the United States and Canada, we still need to secure Greenland's permission to either join or come under the protection of the United States. Anything less than that would be an offensive invasion which the American people would never, never approve of. Trump would lose his base----game over!
People need to go back and study the original intent of the Monroe doctrine. Like anything else, it can be misconstrued, misquoted, and redesigned to be presented in a totally different way then what was first intended (which was to stay out of foreign wars).
John, if you are laying the groundwork to implant the idea that President Trump is some kind of a megalomaniac that would think himself successful if he invaded Russia, you are making a big mistake. He is sometimes overconfident, but not crazy. He continues to defend Truth, defend the constitution, defend our nation's sovereignty, and work for the betterment of the American people, the working class as a whole.
Trump was the sponsor of both the covid DEATH SHOTS and also he urged remdesivir on the people. Remdesivir causes pancreatic cancer. As of this moment pancreatic cancer rates are shooting up. Coincidence?
Trump had an obligation to study and confer with a variety of experts before recommending any such drastic actions. As we now know through RFKjr excellent book THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI....Fauci has a well documented history of lies and crimes starting in the AIDS crisis...which also was "caused" by a faked up virus. As Peter Duesberg has explicitly exposed in the excellent book INVENTING THE AIDS VIRUS....there was no AIDS virus and Anthony Fauci murdered thousands of people with the highly toxic AZT from Wellcome Burroughs Pharma. Fauci has long been known to be a thoughtless murderer and a sadist. He actually restrained a number of beagles with muzzles, covered them with sugar syrup tied them up and watched them being eaten alive by insects as they howled day and night. He murdered defenseless children in an orphanage by putting tubes into their stomachs and pumping them with poisson. He's a sick monster as is his distinctly masculine looking wife Christine Grady who also held a high position in the health industry.
Please don't ever fall for Cicero's smarmy, slimy lies about Caesar. Both Cicero and Cato represented elite oligarchic interests resisting Caesar's reforms, which favored the masses. This class bias colors their portrayals of Caesar as a power-hungry demagogue. The overwhelming grassroots support for Caesar underscores how Cicero's (and Cato's) criticisms reflect minority elite views. Caesar's improvements were real but framed by opponents as bribes for power.
Cicero's and Cato's negative claims (e.g., Caesar as tyrant) are heavily biased and more and more scholars are coming to agree with this view. Cicero and Cato ignored Caesar's motivations to stabilize failing Republic, and they egregiously exaggerated threats.
So, this paragraph is complete nonsense: "A notably cool head in Rome at the time—Marcus Tullius Cicero—perceived that Caesar’s Gallic Triumph would certainly go to his head. He viewed Caesar as a dangerous figure who was willing to disregard established laws and norms to gain power. I don’t know if Cicero’s perceptions of Caesar are applicable to President Trump, but I’m a bit concerned that they are."
Read Morstein-Marx's book on Caesar and the Roman People.
No doubt Caesar had a lot of grassroots support! All you have to do is compare his writings with Cicero's to see who was the more thoughtful man. How does Morstein-Marx rationalize Caesar's naked aggression against the Gauls and all of the atrocities he committed, such as Lucan's account of him cutting down their sacred oak grove near Massilia just to humiliate their religious authorities? How was this different from Titus destroying the second Jewish temple? Academic historians are always trying to make their mark with some radical new interpretation of ancient accounts.
"Religion is the key of history." Christopher Dawson, historian. The spiritual beliefs of a culture comprise the underpinnings, explanation, and motivations for said culture. When warring against a foreign culture, takedown of its spiritual underpinnings is required. Example: Islamic Jihad, and the Western combine of the conquistadors with sword in hand, alongside the priest with cross in hand.
First of all, it is wrong to view historical events/deed through modern eyes and ideologies. Modern perspectives might view actions like the mass slaughters or enslavements as genocidal or excessive, however, they aligned with Roman norms for dealing with "barbarians" and were not seen as exceptional crimes warranting accountability. He portrays Caesar as a highly successful republican leader whose conquests elevated him to a status akin to Alexander the Great (hence the chapter title "Caesar in Gaul: The Making of a New Alexander"), rather than an aspiring autocrat.
The most prominent example he addresses is the 55 BC incident with the Usipetes and Tencteri tribes, where Caesar violated a truce and slaughtered a claimed 430,000 people (including non-combatants) after their surrender. This drew criticism from Cato the Younger, who, like the drama queen he was, proposed handing Caesar over to the Germans for judgment, framing it as a religious offense that angered the gods and should redirect divine wrath onto Caesar alone. Morstein-Marx dismisses Cato's rant as rhetorical bluster with no follow-through, no senatorial support, and no lasting consequences. He argues it was just part of Cato's broader political vendetta against Caesar's populist methods and success.
The Senate's supportive decrees and the Roman people's enthusiasm for his triumphs and prospective second consulship reflect approval, not horror at atrocities such as we feel today.
On the specific incident of cutting down the sacred oak grove near Massilia, this event occurred during the Civil War in 49 BC (not the Gallic Wars), as part of Caesar's siege of the pro-Pompeian city of Massilia, where his forces felled the ancient Druidic grove for timber to build siege engines. Lucan's poetic account in Pharsalia dramatizes it as a sacrilegious act of hubris and humiliation against local religious authorities, but historical sources like Caesar's own Civil War present it pragmatically as a military necessity amid wood shortages. Just another example of the Telos of History that Morstein-Marx rails against.
I don't think human nature and its motives have changed one ounce since Caesar. He was a glory seeking egomaniac that Cicero perceived him to be. Humans have always exulted in their triumphs over other tribes and don't worry about the suffering of the vanquished. Unscrupulous politicians have always exploited these perennial instincts, and vulgar people have always savored the spectacle of triumph. Nothing has changed. it's exactly the same today.
We are weak and flawed and have always been so....According to the John Milton's narrative in PARADISE LOST....we were put on earth to replace the evil fallen angels who were thrown out of heaven. This is a calamitous position as "frail weak man" is continually assaulted by demonic forces. This version seems about right to me.
Powerful synthetic drugs....destruction of the family unit (our bedrock for training the young in civilized behavior} huge numbers of abortions, declining literacy rates --- all combine to deliver us into hell.
Remember that the Bible was the first book printed when the printing press was invented. Before that time, every book had to be laboriously copied BY HAND! Imagine spending your whole life copying books? The Gutenberg bible changed western civilization.
On the contrary, we are conditioned by the society in which we live to a very great extent. But you are right certainly about personality types. And if you want to really SEE Cicero, read Jerome Carcopino's book: "Cicero, the secrets of his correspondence". It's even available on archive.org.
Cicero was plainly loyal to the oligarchic 'good men' of the time (because he wanted to be accepted by them as a member), who were equivalent to today's Neocons, as against the clearly aristocratic Caesar who was a champion of the common people. By any standards, Cicero is a smarmy, two-faced, platitude spouting hypocrite. And, his writings actually support that if his letters are read in concert with his speeches. Cicero is a rare opportunity to see beneath the mask because of the publication of his letters. It's a lesson well worth taking to heart and remembering.
Back then, death was not seen the same way it is today. Human life was not valued the same way it is today. Other values were very different as well. So, even if personalities can be typed throughout history, (as I think they can), the values have changed a lot.
Many people lionize Cicero and Cato when, in fact, they were agents of repression and can be said to have directly brought about the Roman Civil War in concert with Pompey. Blinkered history may blame Caesar, but the record shows that he did everything possible to avoid civil war, but he could not sacrifice the Republic to do so. The assassination of Caesar ended the Republic, Caesar didn't.
I'm sure they did in one way or another. But if you read enough history, you repeatedly come across ideas about death and dying that are very difficult for us to grasp. It takes years of immersing yourself in history to really grasp it.
In many ancient societies, death was more integrated into everyday life—familiar, accepted as inevitable, and often viewed as a transition rather than an absolute end. Life was seen as more transient and collective, with less emphasis on individual preservation at all costs compared to today's medicalized, prolonged approaches.
In ancient Egypt, death was seen as a brief transition to an eternal afterlife, with earthly existence viewed as temporary. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures exhibited a mix of fear and acceptance. Greeks feared death due to mythological punishments but viewed it as the soul's release from the body, with philosophers like Socrates embracing it as purification—famously drinking hemlock calmly as a "journey."
Rituals were communal: family gathered for farewells, bathing the body, and ensuring proper burial to prevent ghostly returns. Romans shared this, placing coins for Charon to ferry souls across the Styx, and permitting euthanasia for unbearable pain while distinguishing it from irresponsible suicide. Life was valued—evidenced by laws against unjust killing—but transient; gladiatorial games and battlefield deaths were normalized as entertainment or honor, reflecting a lower threshold for violence than modern norms.
In ancient Persia, influenced by Zoroastrianism, death involved family rituals at the deathbed and beliefs in post-death judgment, with a dichotomy of redemption or downfall. Bodies were exposed in towers (Dakhmeh) to avoid polluting the earth, emphasizing purity over individual preservation. Religious teachings stressed life's sanctity and condemned killing, but death was "tamed" and accepted as part of existence.
Other examples include ancient China, where death was a prolongation of life through ancestor worship and dual souls, fostering ongoing connections between living and dead. Hinduism and some Native American traditions saw death as cyclical rebirth or coexistence with ancestorss. Overall, these attitudes reflect worldviews where death was holistic and spiritual, not just bodily cessation—life was precious in religious terms but not "protected" from fate or community needs like today.
Today, attitudes have shifted dramatically due to materialism and loss of real belief in the spirituatl nature of the world. The whole horror of death that haunts our modern world has more to do with the fear that material life is all there is than any real 'sanctity of life'. Modern society wants to conquer death. Ancient societies accepted and integrated it.
Ancient peoples were less "sentimental" about individual lives due to context. At the same time, their rituals and beliefs showed the value placed on human existence within larger cosmic or social frameworks. In our day, we rabidly focus on extension of the material life, and avoidance of death.
In ancient societies, the practice of rulers ordering high-ranking officials or elites to commit suicide was not uncommon, particularly in empires like Rome and China where it served as a method of punishment that preserved a veneer of dignity, allowed for philosophical or honorable acceptance, and often spared the victim's family from total ruin. This reflects the broader historical attitudes toward death.
In ancient Rome, forced suicide was a frequent fate for senators, philosophers, and officials who fell out of favor, especially under emperors like Nero or during civil strife. Romans viewed it through a lens of honor and philosophy—Stoics like Seneca saw it as aligning with virtue and control over one's end, rather than a devaluation of life.
In ancient China, emperors used "cisi" an imperial edict granting suicide to high officials or nobles as a punishment for corruption, failure, or disloyalty. This was reserved for elites, allowing them to die honorably rather than face public execution, which would shame their lineage. Death was accepted as part of cosmic order or ancestral continuity.
Socrates was sentenced to drink hemlock for corrupting youth and impiety, effectively a forced suicide he accepted philosophically, discussing the soul's immortality in Plato's Phaedo. This mirrors Roman attitudes, prioritizing wisdom and acceptance over clinging to life.
Human life had value—evidenced by reserving suicide for elites and allowing dignified exits—but it was not inviolable.
None of the above really addresses what some of the ancients thought about the afterlife. Ancient Mesopotamians depicted the underworld as a dark, dusty "land of no return" ruled by Ereshkigal:
In the earliest Greek sources, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the underworld — ruled by the god Hades — was a bleak, misty place at the edges of the world or beneath the earth. All souls, regardless of virtue or status, ended up there in a uniform, shadowy fate. Achilles lamented this fate, famously telling Odysseus: "I'd rather serve as another man's labourer, as a poor peasant without land, and be alive on Earth, than be lord of all the lifeless dead." Later Greek thought, influenced by Plato, Orphism, and mystery cults, introduced divisions: Elysian Fields for heroes/the virtuous, Tartarus for the wicked, and Asphodel for ordinary souls.
The Hebrew term Sheol described a similar underworld — a dark, silent pit beneath the earth where all the dead went, righteous and wicked alike, without moral judgment in most early texts. "A land of gloom like thick darkness, where light is as thick darkness" (Job 10:21–22). "For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you thanks?" (Psalm 6:5). This view evolved over time — later Jewish texts introduced compartments, resurrection hopes, and judgment — but early biblical Sheol mirrors the "gray pseudo-life" of other ancient Near Eastern underworlds.
In many ancient societies (especially pre-Hellenistic Greek, early Hebrew, and Mesopotamian), high mortality, short lifespans, and the harshness of existence made death feel like a loss of everything vital. The afterlife wasn't a consolation prize but a pale continuation — a way to explain why the dead were gone yet somehow lingered in memory or ritual. Proper burial rites were crucial to avoid restless haunting, but the state itself was undesirable.
So, as I said, the ancients often accepted death as inevitable and integrated it into life, without the modern emphasis on prolonging individual existence or fearing it as total annihilation. The "gray pseudo-life" underscored life's preciousness here and now making earthly joys all the more valuable by contrast.
Christianity profoundly transformed ancient attitudes toward death and the afterlife, shifting them from the predominantly bleak, shadowy, and largely undifferentiated views of Greek Hades and Jewish Sheol to a more hopeful, morally differentiated, and ultimately triumphant perspective centered on resurrection, judgment, eternal life with God, and the defeat of death itself by transitioning to a purely spiritual life.
In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, 15:42–50, he discusses the nature of the resurrection body. Paul contrasts the current "natural" (or "psychic"/earthly) body with the future "spiritual" body, and explicitly states that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God".
However, it seems that Paul isn't describing a purely ethereal, non-physical "spiritual earth" or disembodied afterlife as the end goal. He teaches bodily resurrection—but of a radically changed, glorified kind. The current mortal, corruptible "flesh and blood" body doesn't inherit the kingdom; instead, God transforms it (or gives a new one analogous to it) into an imperishable, spiritual body fit for eternal life in the renewed creation.
Another thing, in respect of Titus destroying the second Jewish temple, consider what is called "Tacitus Fragment 2", now widely considered to be a part of the lost portion of Tacitus’ fifth book of his Histories. This fragment was preserved/cited by the Christian historian Sulpicius Severus in his Chronica (2.30.6–7) (c. 400–403 AD). It seems to confirm that Christiani was the Latin name for a group of major participants in the Jewish War against Rome and that Titus deliberately destroyed the Temple to cripple Judaism and eliminate the base of operations of this group because they were dangerous rebels. The relevant portion reads as follows:
"It is reported that Titus first deliberated, by summoning a council of war, as to whether to destroy a Temple of such workmanship. For it seemed proper to some that a consecrated Temple, distinguished above all that is human, should not be destroyed, as it would serve as a witness to Roman moderation; whereas its destruction would represent a perpetual brand of cruelty.
"But others, on the contrary, disagreed – including Titus himself. They argued that the destruction of the Temple was a number one priority in order to destroy completely the religion of the Jews and the Christiani. For although these religions are conflicting, they nevertheless developed from the same origins. The Christiani arose from the Jews: with the root removed, the branch is easily killed."
The scholars are still arguing over this text (and have been for a long time), but it looks more and more as though it is going to be accepted as authentically Tacitean. It’s a pretty damning statement about early Jewish Christianity, confirming that they were little more than messianic rebels. This is contradicted by what Josephus has to say about things. But Josephus is highly unreliable. See my book "From Paul to Mark".
Titus was entirely correct strategically, as well as being the chosen instrument of God in carrying out the words of Christ." his disciples came to him to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." Matthew 24:1-2 KJV.
Is this conclusion that early Jewish Christians were rebel enemies of the state different from what I learned in Catholic grammar school many decades ago from the humble “Lives Of the Saints” ? The martyrs of the Roman empire were put to death, legitimized because they were “rebels” to state sanctioned philosophy of the Roman Empire and likewise a blasphemy to Roman gods— until Constantine.
It seems you read Trump's actions and words through the lens of TDS. The facts do not show the scenario you paint.
The dust-up in Ukraine was not Trump's doing. It was the design of the same corrupt folks that have fought him tooth and nail. Do not forget that they impeached Trump for his attempt to expose the corruption in Ukraine overseen by our State Department.
He has fought against the arrogance of the MIC constantly... but such Deep State actors are not easily defeated. Perhaps it is Trump who is engineering the fall of those who have for so long created war and human suffering.
While I love your in-depth analysis on so many topics, when it comes to Trump, you seem to "swing and miss" quite consistently as a result of a blindspot induced by TDS propaganda.
I do not know of a person other than Trump who could navigate the troubled waters created by a generation of rogue power brokers. He no doubt must travel with some pretty dubious characters on this journey to a time of peace. We should wish him well... and not project nefarious motive.
The first thing I want to do is assure you that I am not angry. I am. however, a little sad. You were the top contender for the one person who agreed with me 100% of the time. Unfortunately it was not to be. You have fallen off of the pedestal I built for you. The problem I now face is that I do not have the data to prove my view point. Not only that, but I am left with a question. While the perception of Trump is that he is a loose cannon that is unpredictable and lawless, my observation is that he is an absolute stickler for following American laws, especially the Constitution. Therefore, it came as a distinct shock a couple of days ago when I heard him say that it was stupid to follow other people's rules that they use to their advantage and your disadvantage. That is not a direct quote, just the sense I got from whatever he actually said. My observation, however, still stands. He LOVES to beat you using your own rules against you. That is how he won the Republican nomination in 2016. That is how he took Maduro out. Maduro was not a duly elected head of state. He was a vicious criminal with indictments against him before he stole the Venezuelan election. This was not regime change which I am against. This was a surgical operation to remove a dangerous cancer. We will see if the Venezuelan people have learned their lesson and can take back the reins of government so viciously yanked from their hands by Maduro. In yanking Maduro out of his hiding place, Trump was playing by Maduro's rules. Trump is not perfect and no human being is exempt from the temptations of power. However, Trump seems to be doing better than most. We'll see. The opera is not over until fat lady (U.S. Electorate) sings!
John, you always have such great insight and the ability to put that into words. Thank You for giving us information to ponder on and subjects to pray about.
Thank you for your earlier recommendation of the Robert Harris novels about Cicero. The Romans were in many ways, thoroughly modern, with thoroughly modern problems. I suspect three legions were annihilated because of Roman hubris and poor generalship. There is a Chinese proverb that goes something like: it is easy to raise an army of 10,000 men, but it is difficult to find a general to lead them. Modern militaries are not immune to these frailties.
Not only the military but also our FBI and CIA. A lazy hubris and unbelievable pride caused a group of somebodies at a high level to muff the Charley Kirk assassination cover story big time. What our rulers attempted to tell us was so full of holes even a numbskull like me could drive a truck through their tale.
I think the article presupposes Trump was operating out of an arrogant self-awareness of America’s great military power.
Like, all we care about is growing our empire. I think that misses the point.
On the other hand, I think he was operating out of the desire to prevent unacceptable levels of empowerment of Russia and China.
There are an estimated 300 billion barrels of oil under there.
I don’t want Taiwan invaded by China. Among other things. I don’t want China running the world. And you and I both know that’s what they want and that’s what they’ve been working for for decades.
This is 5G warfare.
Don't forget that El Presidente urged remdesivir on the public. Right now we have a sudden spike in deaths from "pancreatic cancer" as well as a huge increase in cancers of all types. https://www.targetedonc.com/view/fda-orphan-drug-status-granted-to-anti-cdh17-adc-in-pancreatic-cancer
Tokyo, Japan — In an unprecedented move, the Japanese government has declared a national state of emergency following a sharp and unexplained spike in child fatalities — all with one chilling common thread: mRNA vaccination.
What began as isolated whispers in hospital corridors has erupted into a nationwide medical uprising. Pediatric ICUs are overwhelmed. Autopsy reports are raising red flags. And behind the chaos, a pattern is forming — one that Japan can no longer ignore.
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Findings by Japanese scientists have renewed debate over the safety of mRNA COVID-19 ‘vaccines’, after a press conference on July 13, 2025, unveiled data showing a significant spike in deaths occurring 90 to 120 days after vaccination.
The data, first revealed in June and presented by Professor Yasufumi Murakami of Tokyo Science University, were drawn from 21 million anonymised vaccination records obtained through official information requests. These records included vaccination dates, lot numbers, and death data, and reveal that multiple doses of the vaccine appear to correlate with earlier mortality peaks, suggesting cumulative toxicity.
Murakami estimates that between 600,000 and 610,000 deaths in Japan may be linked to mRNA COVID jabs—a figure that matches unexplained excess mortality statistics but has gone largely ignored by Japanese health authorities. The delayed timing of the deaths—often months after vaccination—means they often fall outside
It a vaccine. It never was.
It is a gene therapy.
It was sold to the gullible public as a "vaccine" that would stop the corona "virus".
Well, as experts such as Dr. Mike Yeadon and Drs.Sam and Mark Bailey now do acknowledge.....THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A VIRUS and the "vaccine" is a bioweapon carefully crafted to kill a few months AFTER injections.
And don't forget Vax Daddy's "Warp Speed"
Pfizer, Moderna and Fauci forced the covid shots on the population. Biden mandated them for many groups and coerced their requirement in many private entities. Trump was a victim of Fauci just like 275M Americans who took the covid shot.
I will never forget!
John, I appreciate your historical, insightful, and non-partisan reflection regarding modern day politics. Thank you for your courageous discourse!
Thanks for reading!
I think Trump is 'circling the wagons'. The EU is lost because of the unassimilated illegal migrant invasion. The UK likewise is in the same Muslim pickle - Germany, Sweden same. Italy is far below Italian replacement - they will all but vanish as an Italian people - eg the statistic is for 100 current Italians today, there will only be 6 great grandchildren. Trump has made the determination that it's best to shore up one's own homeland and resources. It is retarded to believe he's is going to 'take' Russia. As it is retarded to believe Putin is 'taking' Europe as soon as he's finished with Ukraine. jeesh
Well, the US did just seize a Russian tanker and still hasn't ceased supplying arms and CIA targeting intel to the corrupt regime in Kiev. History teaches us that things can unexpectedly escalate
Ask yourself if you would want unflagged ships in your area. And yes they were trying to hide their country of origin, but look at Peru’s coast and the Chinese fishing fleet there that turns off ID markers once they hit the sea border.
The status of the tanker in question is more nuanced than your response suggests, including that it was given temporary authorization to sail under the Russian flag. Clearly, the sole purpose of the "transfer" (if it truly complied with all requirements and wasn't nullified by the reason for transfer and other technicalities) was to temporarily avoid sanction enforcement. So, if ICE is pursuing Tren de Aragua members and all of a sudden Russia grants them temporary Russian citizenship when ICE is trying to get the handcuffs on, do you let them go? No.
There is nothing nuanced about the US proxy war against Russia or the US declaration at the Bucharest NATO Summit in 2008 that Ukraine would join NATO. I don't pay attention to US war propaganda, because most of it is dishonest self-serving BS. I've not forgotten all of the BS we've heard since 2001.
The war is not with other countries. The war is with a genocidal elite that want to own the entire planet and get rid of "useless eaters".
You know, like old people who have paid into SS their entire working lives as well as the unborn. See Dr. James Thorpe book on this.
"Sacrifice documents the true story of Dr. James Thorp, a respected doctor of maternal fetal medicine, who in 2020, finds his entire profession has lost its mind, as well as its soul. Stunned to find his colleagues take the bribe money, drink the Kool-Aid, and push the COVID-19 shots, Thorp is one of the few Ob-Gyns to bear witness and broadcast the multitude of pregnancy complications including miscarriages, stillbirths, and many other tragic outcomes resulting from the shots."
Glad you are reminding us that we as citizenshave a lot of corruption to take care of.
I am in complete agreement with this comment as well as your article. This is a proxy war we instigated. I only question technicalities of the status of the ship and I don't have answers to those questions.
John, you know that that tanker was not a Russian ship.
What was it?
It was a tanker flying under the flag of Guyana sailing from Iran to Venezuela that painted a Russian flag on the side of the ship after changing course in response to the threat of seizure off the coast of Venezuela.
WOW! There is a whole lot more going on than I am capable of comprehending.
can you share the source for this?
I just grabbed a couple of news items here, together which present the facts I put in my post:
https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/world-news/venezuela-bound-oil-tanker-paints-russian-flag-on-its-hull-while-on-the-run-from-the-us-reports/
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/marinera-oil-tanker-tracker-bella-1-shadow-fleet-flag-paint-name-change-russian-request-what-oil-tanker-did-to-escape-us-10477819
WOW! There is a whole lot more going on than I am capable of comprehending.
I think your response is over projecting Trumps intentions. There is no war, he's caring out what the democrats ordered years back to arrest this person. Judge what the man does not what he says.
We don't have a "two party" system -- All the governmental authorities are working to install a demonic AI and robot run world wide society in which there are no "choices" and no way out. That is why the notorious Klaus Schwab so loved the Chinese...they were the first nation to begin the horrifying program. China is a nation of empty towns and villages.They have killed all the "useless eaters".
Imagine how it will be some day to hear knocking at your door and confront a robot who shoots you in the face?
That is our future. https://rumble.com/v18dcub-bill-gates-sings.html
I have a funny feeling that what you describe, or something very simular, is what the “rapture” in Revelation is, as it refers to a “snatching” up of the non compliant. It’s not a gentle raising up into heaven the way some evangelicals read scripture .
This is my "belief system" -- while we live on this beautiful god-created planet our duty is to expose and fight demonic entities. I do not know what the "rapture" could signify.
There was a cult in California--HEAVEN'S GATE-- https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/heavens-gate.htm
that explicitly believed that if they took a poison together they would all be raptured up. They were found later after they all were totally dead. And of course ...there is the notorious Jim Jones who also murdered all his followers that lived in a large South American compound, with....koolaid. That is where the expression "drink the koolaid" came from, I think.
Readers of Dr. McCullough tend to be more on the cutting edge of things than the kool-aid drinkers. At least, I always thought so....
And as you may not know, John Leake is a true crime writer....
What I was inferring in a roundabout way, is that not only do we not know the date and time of the end times— But the term rapture comes from the greek word harpatzo which infers a kind of sudden or violent snatching (like a sudden drone attack) and not a diaphanous floating skyward as the evangelicals proclaim.
I don't know a single person who speaks ancient Greek...do you?
"The Rapture" is routinely referred to by religious christians...sometimes repeatedly.
As you may not know there was a coin issued from the Vatican showing a child receiving a "vaccination" as if it were a holy sacrament.
I personally watched television evangelists who preached the "rapture" in no uncertain terms.
My husband was raised in a Jewish home. He never heard the word "rapture" pertaining to a biblical text.
I am Catholic so I can say this. It is my intuition that the Vatican when Francis was pope received substantial donations from the Gates Foundation. Bill was never a genius techie, he was an unscrupulous aggressive monopolist. (Paul Allen was the visionary genius) Melinda was the nominal Catholic , but big on population reduction. B and M had many visit$ with Francis I have always suspected Bill, whose hobby is chess, worked that Jesuit ( and Jesuits can be so intellectually arrogant ) into just the right spot to sell his scheme of vaxxing the world. How better to begin than with someone who is boss of billions? It certainly worked in my diocese where it was pushed heavily. And I became a persona non grata for opposition.
If President Trump is considering taking Greenland by force merely because it is strategic to the protection of the US, and because both Russia and China have ships there, he had better think twice.
The American people will never approve of such a predatory, military move on a peaceful country. Although his point is well taken, and Greenland is very strategic to the protection of the United States and Canada, we still need to secure Greenland's permission to either join or come under the protection of the United States. Anything less than that would be an offensive invasion which the American people would never, never approve of. Trump would lose his base----game over!
People need to go back and study the original intent of the Monroe doctrine. Like anything else, it can be misconstrued, misquoted, and redesigned to be presented in a totally different way then what was first intended (which was to stay out of foreign wars).
John, if you are laying the groundwork to implant the idea that President Trump is some kind of a megalomaniac that would think himself successful if he invaded Russia, you are making a big mistake. He is sometimes overconfident, but not crazy. He continues to defend Truth, defend the constitution, defend our nation's sovereignty, and work for the betterment of the American people, the working class as a whole.
Trump was the sponsor of both the covid DEATH SHOTS and also he urged remdesivir on the people. Remdesivir causes pancreatic cancer. As of this moment pancreatic cancer rates are shooting up. Coincidence?
Trump was lied to about the effectiveness of the Covid shots by Anthony Fauci, and various Benedict Arnolds working under Fauci.
Trump was also lied to about REMDESIVIR.
Trump had an obligation to study and confer with a variety of experts before recommending any such drastic actions. As we now know through RFKjr excellent book THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI....Fauci has a well documented history of lies and crimes starting in the AIDS crisis...which also was "caused" by a faked up virus. As Peter Duesberg has explicitly exposed in the excellent book INVENTING THE AIDS VIRUS....there was no AIDS virus and Anthony Fauci murdered thousands of people with the highly toxic AZT from Wellcome Burroughs Pharma. Fauci has long been known to be a thoughtless murderer and a sadist. He actually restrained a number of beagles with muzzles, covered them with sugar syrup tied them up and watched them being eaten alive by insects as they howled day and night. He murdered defenseless children in an orphanage by putting tubes into their stomachs and pumping them with poisson. He's a sick monster as is his distinctly masculine looking wife Christine Grady who also held a high position in the health industry.
All this is public knowledge and Trump and his "advisors" should have known better. If they did not...then that was a criminal dereliction of duty.
Always enjoy history and the lessons to be learned. Then I remember Georg Hegel “What we learn from history is we don’t learn from history.”
Please don't ever fall for Cicero's smarmy, slimy lies about Caesar. Both Cicero and Cato represented elite oligarchic interests resisting Caesar's reforms, which favored the masses. This class bias colors their portrayals of Caesar as a power-hungry demagogue. The overwhelming grassroots support for Caesar underscores how Cicero's (and Cato's) criticisms reflect minority elite views. Caesar's improvements were real but framed by opponents as bribes for power.
Cicero's and Cato's negative claims (e.g., Caesar as tyrant) are heavily biased and more and more scholars are coming to agree with this view. Cicero and Cato ignored Caesar's motivations to stabilize failing Republic, and they egregiously exaggerated threats.
So, this paragraph is complete nonsense: "A notably cool head in Rome at the time—Marcus Tullius Cicero—perceived that Caesar’s Gallic Triumph would certainly go to his head. He viewed Caesar as a dangerous figure who was willing to disregard established laws and norms to gain power. I don’t know if Cicero’s perceptions of Caesar are applicable to President Trump, but I’m a bit concerned that they are."
Read Morstein-Marx's book on Caesar and the Roman People.
No doubt Caesar had a lot of grassroots support! All you have to do is compare his writings with Cicero's to see who was the more thoughtful man. How does Morstein-Marx rationalize Caesar's naked aggression against the Gauls and all of the atrocities he committed, such as Lucan's account of him cutting down their sacred oak grove near Massilia just to humiliate their religious authorities? How was this different from Titus destroying the second Jewish temple? Academic historians are always trying to make their mark with some radical new interpretation of ancient accounts.
"Religion is the key of history." Christopher Dawson, historian. The spiritual beliefs of a culture comprise the underpinnings, explanation, and motivations for said culture. When warring against a foreign culture, takedown of its spiritual underpinnings is required. Example: Islamic Jihad, and the Western combine of the conquistadors with sword in hand, alongside the priest with cross in hand.
First of all, it is wrong to view historical events/deed through modern eyes and ideologies. Modern perspectives might view actions like the mass slaughters or enslavements as genocidal or excessive, however, they aligned with Roman norms for dealing with "barbarians" and were not seen as exceptional crimes warranting accountability. He portrays Caesar as a highly successful republican leader whose conquests elevated him to a status akin to Alexander the Great (hence the chapter title "Caesar in Gaul: The Making of a New Alexander"), rather than an aspiring autocrat.
The most prominent example he addresses is the 55 BC incident with the Usipetes and Tencteri tribes, where Caesar violated a truce and slaughtered a claimed 430,000 people (including non-combatants) after their surrender. This drew criticism from Cato the Younger, who, like the drama queen he was, proposed handing Caesar over to the Germans for judgment, framing it as a religious offense that angered the gods and should redirect divine wrath onto Caesar alone. Morstein-Marx dismisses Cato's rant as rhetorical bluster with no follow-through, no senatorial support, and no lasting consequences. He argues it was just part of Cato's broader political vendetta against Caesar's populist methods and success.
The Senate's supportive decrees and the Roman people's enthusiasm for his triumphs and prospective second consulship reflect approval, not horror at atrocities such as we feel today.
On the specific incident of cutting down the sacred oak grove near Massilia, this event occurred during the Civil War in 49 BC (not the Gallic Wars), as part of Caesar's siege of the pro-Pompeian city of Massilia, where his forces felled the ancient Druidic grove for timber to build siege engines. Lucan's poetic account in Pharsalia dramatizes it as a sacrilegious act of hubris and humiliation against local religious authorities, but historical sources like Caesar's own Civil War present it pragmatically as a military necessity amid wood shortages. Just another example of the Telos of History that Morstein-Marx rails against.
I don't think human nature and its motives have changed one ounce since Caesar. He was a glory seeking egomaniac that Cicero perceived him to be. Humans have always exulted in their triumphs over other tribes and don't worry about the suffering of the vanquished. Unscrupulous politicians have always exploited these perennial instincts, and vulgar people have always savored the spectacle of triumph. Nothing has changed. it's exactly the same today.
What is it they say? If history doesn’t repeat, it sure does echo.
We are weak and flawed and have always been so....According to the John Milton's narrative in PARADISE LOST....we were put on earth to replace the evil fallen angels who were thrown out of heaven. This is a calamitous position as "frail weak man" is continually assaulted by demonic forces. This version seems about right to me.
Powerful synthetic drugs....destruction of the family unit (our bedrock for training the young in civilized behavior} huge numbers of abortions, declining literacy rates --- all combine to deliver us into hell.
Remember that the Bible was the first book printed when the printing press was invented. Before that time, every book had to be laboriously copied BY HAND! Imagine spending your whole life copying books? The Gutenberg bible changed western civilization.
On the contrary, we are conditioned by the society in which we live to a very great extent. But you are right certainly about personality types. And if you want to really SEE Cicero, read Jerome Carcopino's book: "Cicero, the secrets of his correspondence". It's even available on archive.org.
Cicero was plainly loyal to the oligarchic 'good men' of the time (because he wanted to be accepted by them as a member), who were equivalent to today's Neocons, as against the clearly aristocratic Caesar who was a champion of the common people. By any standards, Cicero is a smarmy, two-faced, platitude spouting hypocrite. And, his writings actually support that if his letters are read in concert with his speeches. Cicero is a rare opportunity to see beneath the mask because of the publication of his letters. It's a lesson well worth taking to heart and remembering.
Back then, death was not seen the same way it is today. Human life was not valued the same way it is today. Other values were very different as well. So, even if personalities can be typed throughout history, (as I think they can), the values have changed a lot.
Many people lionize Cicero and Cato when, in fact, they were agents of repression and can be said to have directly brought about the Roman Civil War in concert with Pompey. Blinkered history may blame Caesar, but the record shows that he did everything possible to avoid civil war, but he could not sacrifice the Republic to do so. The assassination of Caesar ended the Republic, Caesar didn't.
So you think in the "old days" people didn't mind dying?
I'm sure they did in one way or another. But if you read enough history, you repeatedly come across ideas about death and dying that are very difficult for us to grasp. It takes years of immersing yourself in history to really grasp it.
In many ancient societies, death was more integrated into everyday life—familiar, accepted as inevitable, and often viewed as a transition rather than an absolute end. Life was seen as more transient and collective, with less emphasis on individual preservation at all costs compared to today's medicalized, prolonged approaches.
In ancient Egypt, death was seen as a brief transition to an eternal afterlife, with earthly existence viewed as temporary. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures exhibited a mix of fear and acceptance. Greeks feared death due to mythological punishments but viewed it as the soul's release from the body, with philosophers like Socrates embracing it as purification—famously drinking hemlock calmly as a "journey."
Rituals were communal: family gathered for farewells, bathing the body, and ensuring proper burial to prevent ghostly returns. Romans shared this, placing coins for Charon to ferry souls across the Styx, and permitting euthanasia for unbearable pain while distinguishing it from irresponsible suicide. Life was valued—evidenced by laws against unjust killing—but transient; gladiatorial games and battlefield deaths were normalized as entertainment or honor, reflecting a lower threshold for violence than modern norms.
In ancient Persia, influenced by Zoroastrianism, death involved family rituals at the deathbed and beliefs in post-death judgment, with a dichotomy of redemption or downfall. Bodies were exposed in towers (Dakhmeh) to avoid polluting the earth, emphasizing purity over individual preservation. Religious teachings stressed life's sanctity and condemned killing, but death was "tamed" and accepted as part of existence.
Other examples include ancient China, where death was a prolongation of life through ancestor worship and dual souls, fostering ongoing connections between living and dead. Hinduism and some Native American traditions saw death as cyclical rebirth or coexistence with ancestorss. Overall, these attitudes reflect worldviews where death was holistic and spiritual, not just bodily cessation—life was precious in religious terms but not "protected" from fate or community needs like today.
Today, attitudes have shifted dramatically due to materialism and loss of real belief in the spirituatl nature of the world. The whole horror of death that haunts our modern world has more to do with the fear that material life is all there is than any real 'sanctity of life'. Modern society wants to conquer death. Ancient societies accepted and integrated it.
Ancient peoples were less "sentimental" about individual lives due to context. At the same time, their rituals and beliefs showed the value placed on human existence within larger cosmic or social frameworks. In our day, we rabidly focus on extension of the material life, and avoidance of death.
In ancient societies, the practice of rulers ordering high-ranking officials or elites to commit suicide was not uncommon, particularly in empires like Rome and China where it served as a method of punishment that preserved a veneer of dignity, allowed for philosophical or honorable acceptance, and often spared the victim's family from total ruin. This reflects the broader historical attitudes toward death.
In ancient Rome, forced suicide was a frequent fate for senators, philosophers, and officials who fell out of favor, especially under emperors like Nero or during civil strife. Romans viewed it through a lens of honor and philosophy—Stoics like Seneca saw it as aligning with virtue and control over one's end, rather than a devaluation of life.
In ancient China, emperors used "cisi" an imperial edict granting suicide to high officials or nobles as a punishment for corruption, failure, or disloyalty. This was reserved for elites, allowing them to die honorably rather than face public execution, which would shame their lineage. Death was accepted as part of cosmic order or ancestral continuity.
Socrates was sentenced to drink hemlock for corrupting youth and impiety, effectively a forced suicide he accepted philosophically, discussing the soul's immortality in Plato's Phaedo. This mirrors Roman attitudes, prioritizing wisdom and acceptance over clinging to life.
Human life had value—evidenced by reserving suicide for elites and allowing dignified exits—but it was not inviolable.
None of the above really addresses what some of the ancients thought about the afterlife. Ancient Mesopotamians depicted the underworld as a dark, dusty "land of no return" ruled by Ereshkigal:
In the earliest Greek sources, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the underworld — ruled by the god Hades — was a bleak, misty place at the edges of the world or beneath the earth. All souls, regardless of virtue or status, ended up there in a uniform, shadowy fate. Achilles lamented this fate, famously telling Odysseus: "I'd rather serve as another man's labourer, as a poor peasant without land, and be alive on Earth, than be lord of all the lifeless dead." Later Greek thought, influenced by Plato, Orphism, and mystery cults, introduced divisions: Elysian Fields for heroes/the virtuous, Tartarus for the wicked, and Asphodel for ordinary souls.
The Hebrew term Sheol described a similar underworld — a dark, silent pit beneath the earth where all the dead went, righteous and wicked alike, without moral judgment in most early texts. "A land of gloom like thick darkness, where light is as thick darkness" (Job 10:21–22). "For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you thanks?" (Psalm 6:5). This view evolved over time — later Jewish texts introduced compartments, resurrection hopes, and judgment — but early biblical Sheol mirrors the "gray pseudo-life" of other ancient Near Eastern underworlds.
In many ancient societies (especially pre-Hellenistic Greek, early Hebrew, and Mesopotamian), high mortality, short lifespans, and the harshness of existence made death feel like a loss of everything vital. The afterlife wasn't a consolation prize but a pale continuation — a way to explain why the dead were gone yet somehow lingered in memory or ritual. Proper burial rites were crucial to avoid restless haunting, but the state itself was undesirable.
So, as I said, the ancients often accepted death as inevitable and integrated it into life, without the modern emphasis on prolonging individual existence or fearing it as total annihilation. The "gray pseudo-life" underscored life's preciousness here and now making earthly joys all the more valuable by contrast.
Christianity profoundly transformed ancient attitudes toward death and the afterlife, shifting them from the predominantly bleak, shadowy, and largely undifferentiated views of Greek Hades and Jewish Sheol to a more hopeful, morally differentiated, and ultimately triumphant perspective centered on resurrection, judgment, eternal life with God, and the defeat of death itself by transitioning to a purely spiritual life.
In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, 15:42–50, he discusses the nature of the resurrection body. Paul contrasts the current "natural" (or "psychic"/earthly) body with the future "spiritual" body, and explicitly states that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God".
However, it seems that Paul isn't describing a purely ethereal, non-physical "spiritual earth" or disembodied afterlife as the end goal. He teaches bodily resurrection—but of a radically changed, glorified kind. The current mortal, corruptible "flesh and blood" body doesn't inherit the kingdom; instead, God transforms it (or gives a new one analogous to it) into an imperishable, spiritual body fit for eternal life in the renewed creation.
My take on Caesar: give ‘em bread and circuses neo con kinda guy. Not a populist.
But notice: the Neocons are not giving us bread and circuses, the Liberals are. All the Neocons want is war.
Another thing, in respect of Titus destroying the second Jewish temple, consider what is called "Tacitus Fragment 2", now widely considered to be a part of the lost portion of Tacitus’ fifth book of his Histories. This fragment was preserved/cited by the Christian historian Sulpicius Severus in his Chronica (2.30.6–7) (c. 400–403 AD). It seems to confirm that Christiani was the Latin name for a group of major participants in the Jewish War against Rome and that Titus deliberately destroyed the Temple to cripple Judaism and eliminate the base of operations of this group because they were dangerous rebels. The relevant portion reads as follows:
"It is reported that Titus first deliberated, by summoning a council of war, as to whether to destroy a Temple of such workmanship. For it seemed proper to some that a consecrated Temple, distinguished above all that is human, should not be destroyed, as it would serve as a witness to Roman moderation; whereas its destruction would represent a perpetual brand of cruelty.
"But others, on the contrary, disagreed – including Titus himself. They argued that the destruction of the Temple was a number one priority in order to destroy completely the religion of the Jews and the Christiani. For although these religions are conflicting, they nevertheless developed from the same origins. The Christiani arose from the Jews: with the root removed, the branch is easily killed."
The scholars are still arguing over this text (and have been for a long time), but it looks more and more as though it is going to be accepted as authentically Tacitean. It’s a pretty damning statement about early Jewish Christianity, confirming that they were little more than messianic rebels. This is contradicted by what Josephus has to say about things. But Josephus is highly unreliable. See my book "From Paul to Mark".
Titus was entirely correct strategically, as well as being the chosen instrument of God in carrying out the words of Christ." his disciples came to him to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down." Matthew 24:1-2 KJV.
Is this conclusion that early Jewish Christians were rebel enemies of the state different from what I learned in Catholic grammar school many decades ago from the humble “Lives Of the Saints” ? The martyrs of the Roman empire were put to death, legitimized because they were “rebels” to state sanctioned philosophy of the Roman Empire and likewise a blasphemy to Roman gods— until Constantine.
Great article, yet again. Spot on analysis, and I think everything will turn out hyper successful. Strap in for golden era
It seems you read Trump's actions and words through the lens of TDS. The facts do not show the scenario you paint.
The dust-up in Ukraine was not Trump's doing. It was the design of the same corrupt folks that have fought him tooth and nail. Do not forget that they impeached Trump for his attempt to expose the corruption in Ukraine overseen by our State Department.
He has fought against the arrogance of the MIC constantly... but such Deep State actors are not easily defeated. Perhaps it is Trump who is engineering the fall of those who have for so long created war and human suffering.
While I love your in-depth analysis on so many topics, when it comes to Trump, you seem to "swing and miss" quite consistently as a result of a blindspot induced by TDS propaganda.
I do not know of a person other than Trump who could navigate the troubled waters created by a generation of rogue power brokers. He no doubt must travel with some pretty dubious characters on this journey to a time of peace. We should wish him well... and not project nefarious motive.
Unfortunately, the Trump White House, including Trump has been captured by TDS— IMHO
Humility looks great on paper, but arguably is the great human failing.
Hey, that’s pretty damn profound, right?
LOL! I got your joke!
It is especially dangerous to believe that you have been anointed by God to do great things when you don’t know God.
People who think they are carrying out "God's will" are extremely dangerous. These sorts have precipitated all the major genocidal wars through time....for example...starting with THE CRUSADES. And of course Hitler believed he was divinely selected. https://thegospelcentral.org/2025/10/31/when-the-church-crowned-a-tyrant-how-christians-thought-hitler-was-divinely-appointed-and-why-it-still-matters/
Great insights that need to said and heeded.
The first thing I want to do is assure you that I am not angry. I am. however, a little sad. You were the top contender for the one person who agreed with me 100% of the time. Unfortunately it was not to be. You have fallen off of the pedestal I built for you. The problem I now face is that I do not have the data to prove my view point. Not only that, but I am left with a question. While the perception of Trump is that he is a loose cannon that is unpredictable and lawless, my observation is that he is an absolute stickler for following American laws, especially the Constitution. Therefore, it came as a distinct shock a couple of days ago when I heard him say that it was stupid to follow other people's rules that they use to their advantage and your disadvantage. That is not a direct quote, just the sense I got from whatever he actually said. My observation, however, still stands. He LOVES to beat you using your own rules against you. That is how he won the Republican nomination in 2016. That is how he took Maduro out. Maduro was not a duly elected head of state. He was a vicious criminal with indictments against him before he stole the Venezuelan election. This was not regime change which I am against. This was a surgical operation to remove a dangerous cancer. We will see if the Venezuelan people have learned their lesson and can take back the reins of government so viciously yanked from their hands by Maduro. In yanking Maduro out of his hiding place, Trump was playing by Maduro's rules. Trump is not perfect and no human being is exempt from the temptations of power. However, Trump seems to be doing better than most. We'll see. The opera is not over until fat lady (U.S. Electorate) sings!
History is a great teacher. If only all Americans could know more than we do.
I agree that history is a great teacher, my question is are we great learners?
John, you always have such great insight and the ability to put that into words. Thank You for giving us information to ponder on and subjects to pray about.
Thank you for your earlier recommendation of the Robert Harris novels about Cicero. The Romans were in many ways, thoroughly modern, with thoroughly modern problems. I suspect three legions were annihilated because of Roman hubris and poor generalship. There is a Chinese proverb that goes something like: it is easy to raise an army of 10,000 men, but it is difficult to find a general to lead them. Modern militaries are not immune to these frailties.
Not only the military but also our FBI and CIA. A lazy hubris and unbelievable pride caused a group of somebodies at a high level to muff the Charley Kirk assassination cover story big time. What our rulers attempted to tell us was so full of holes even a numbskull like me could drive a truck through their tale.