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locate their country right in the middle of 35 U.S. military bases!
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/david-stockman/the-donald-is-now-america-firsts-own-assassin/ (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/david-stockman/the-donald-is-now-america-firsts-own-assassin/)
How the Donald αssαssιnαtҽd America First (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/david-stockman/the-donald-is-now-america-firsts-own-assassin/)
By David Stockman (https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/david-stockman/?ptype=article)
January 6, 2020
By the twisted logic of Imperial Washington you could say the Iranians were asking for it. After all, they had the nerve to locate their country right in the middle of 35 U.S. military bases!
Then again, your saner angels may ask: What in the hell is Washington doing with a massive military footprint in a region and in a string of backwater countries that have virtually no bearing on homeland security, safety and liberty?
Djibouti? Oman? Kyrgyzstan? Uzbekistan? Afghanistan? Bahrain? Kuwait? And, yes, Iraq and Iran?
In fact, Washington destroyed the former for no good reason and based on egregious Big Lies about Saddam’s nonexistent WMDs and sheltering of al-Qaeda. That turned Iraq into a failed state hellhole pulsating with sectarian frictions and anti-American grievances – even as the rump state of Iraq centered in Baghdad fell under the control of Iran-friendly Shiite politicians and militias.
At the same time, Iran itself is zero threat to the American homeland. It’s tiny $350 billion GDP amounts to 6 days of US annual output and its $20 billion defense budget is equivalent to what the Pentagon wastes every 8 days.
Militarily, it has no blue water navy, an air force that could double as a cold war museum and a short and medium range missile force that is self-evidently dedicated to defense and deterrence in the region, not an attack on the USA way over on the yonder side of the deep blue seas.
Its 300 or so active aircraft, for example, include 175 US F-4, F-5, F-14 and sundry transports, helicopters and trainers purchased by the Shah during the 1970s and kept together since the revolution with bailing wire and bubble gum. It also fields 60 or so Soviet vintage MiG-29s and Sukhoi Su attack aircraft – plus a few dozen European and Chinese planes of mostly ancient design.
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Likewise, even its most advanced medium range cruise missile (Soumar) can barely get to Rome, Italy, to say nothing of Rome, Georgia.
As is evident from the yellow, green, red and black circles on the map below, which circles outline each missile’s striking range, the overwhelming bulk of Iran’s missile force has a range of 500 miles or less. These missiles are capable of hitting targets in the immediate vicinity of the Persian Gulf, or roughly the same area which encompasses the 35 military bases designated by American flags in the graphic above.
Stated differently, Iran’s extremely modest military capacities are not remotely about an offensive threat to the American homeland. They are overwhelmingly about defending itself in its own neighborhood, where Washington has been intervening and occupying with massive firepower and hostile intent for decades.
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Therein, of course, lies a hint. More than 13 years after Saddam’s last hurrah on a Baghdad gallows, the US still has upwards of 30,000 troops and contractors in the immediate vicinity of the Persian Gulf. But why?
It can’t be owing to ISIS. The Islamic State was never much more than a no count salient of dusty, woebegone towns and villages on the Upper Euphrates straddling Western Iraq and northeastern Syria that was destined to collapse on its own barbaric madness anyway; and which was essentially dispatched by the Russian air force, Assad’s military and the Shiite militia forces organized by the dead man himself, Major General Soleimani.
Likewise, it should be obvious by now that it’s not the oil, either. At the moment the US is producing nearly 13 million barrels per day and is the world’s leading oil producer – well ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia; and is now actually a net exporter of crude for the first time in three-quarters of a century.
Besides, the Fifth Fleet has never been the solution to oil security. The cure for high prices is high prices – as the great US shale oil and Canadian heavy oil booms so cogently demonstrate, among others.
And the route to global oil industry stability is peaceful commerce because virtually every regime – regardless of politics and ideology – needs all the oil revenue it can muster to fund its own rule and keep its population reasonably pacified.
Surely, there is no better case for the latter than that of Iran itself – with an economy burdened by decades of war, sanctions and mis-rule and an 80-million population that aspires to a western standard of living.
So left to its own devices, Tehran would produce 5 million barrels per day from its abundant reserves. That’s barely one-tenth of its present meager output, which is owing to Washington’s vicious sanctions against any and all customers for its oil and potential investors in modernizing and expanding it production capacity.
So if it’s not ISIS or oil, exactly why does Washington maintain the circle of 35 bases displayed in the graphic above and keep thousands of US troops and other personnel in harms’ way in the region?
Or more to the moment, why has the Donald been unable to bring the forces home as he has so often proclaimed to be his policy?
The answer, of course, is that the foreign policy apparatus of the US government is controlled by anti-Iran neocons and regime changers. We are still in Syria not to fight ISIS, which is gone, but to block Iran’s land route to its allies in Syria and Lebanon (Hezbollah); and we remain in Iraq solely to use it as a base for clandestine US and Israeli attacks on these allies and proxy forces.
These Washington instigated or conducted attacks on Iranian allies, in fact, are why there was growing pressure in the Iraqi government to demand that the US finally leave. These pressures will now become overwhelming in light of this week’s US bombing of five PMF camps (Popular Mobilization Forces) which are Shiite militias that have been integrated into the Iraqi army and which are under the command of its prime minister, and last night’s assassination of their Deputy Commander along with Soleimani.
To be sure, Iran’s choice of allies has nothing to do with America’s homeland security: None of the sovereign governments of Lebanon (where Hezbollah is the leading political party) or Syria or even Iraq (which is an ostensible US ally) have protested these confession (i.e. Shiite) based arrangements and the aid and benefits which flow from them.
That’s because the so-called Shiite crescent is a bogeyman invented by Bibi Netanyahu and is the excuse for his hysterical anti-Iranian foreign policy. The latter is not even designed to enhance Israel’s own security, but to vilify a “far enemy” that can keep his rightwing coalition glued together and himself in power.
Likewise, the US military-industrial complex’s greed and appetite for power and pelf is so voracious that it will embrace any and all missions anywhere on the planet – no matter how stupid or futile or immoral, as per the case of 19-years in Afghanistan – that keep the budgetary loot flowing.
Accordingly, the Washington apparatus conspires to keep the 35 Mideast bases in place and to trigger actions like last night’s insane assassination of Iran’s foremost military leader in order to reify the threat and to periodically stoke tensions and counterattacks that keep missions alive and the forces deployed.
Indeed, we are hard-pressed to imagine a more poignant case of the pot calling the kettle black than Washington’s claim that it had to retaliate owing to actual and expected Iranian “aggression”.
For crying out loud, Washington has been demonizing, ostracizing and economically attacking Iran for decades, and is now literally attempting to destroy its economy and society through is oil sanctions and its “maximum pressure” campaign that aims to bring the fate of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi to its top leaders in Tehran.
So do ya think a regime under a veritable existential threat might gravitate toward retaliation as an alternative to extinction?
And we needs be clear about the matter of striking back in self defense. Washington’s current sanctions campaign against Iran is so aggressive and brutal that it constitutes war by any other name.
a of land, sea and air-based high-tech lethality and than declare outright economic war on it with a barely-disguised aim of regime change, it must and will fight back however it can.
That’s why Secretary of State Pompeo’s statement justifying the Donald’s act of naked aggression is so hideous.
Washington is putting the entire nation of Iran at risk in the very place where God or evolution, as the case may be, formed the peninsula on which it resides; and it is doing so without any Iranian provocation against the security of the American homeland whatsoever.
But this neocon knucklehead has the gall to insist that when it comes to the actual anti-Iranian belligerents (i.e. U.S. forces) Washington has bivouacked where they have no business being at all, that not a hair on their head should come to harm.
That’s Imperial arrogance of a kind rarely seen in a world history which is littered with exactly that.
“I can’t talk too much about the nature of the threats. But the American people should know that the President’s decision to remove Soleimani from the battlefield saved American lives,” Pompeo told CNN.
The IRGC general had been “actively plotting” in the region to “take big action, as he described it, that would have put hundreds of lives at risk,” according to Pompeo.
Undoubtedly, things will now spiral out of control because the Iranian regime must and will retaliate for Soleimani’s death. Indeed, by vaporizing the latter, the Donald has now also vaporized any chance of actually implementing the “America First” policy upon which he ran, and which was the principal basis for his freakish elevation to the Oval Office.
The fact is, the only decent thing Obama did on the foreign policy front was the Iran Nuke Deal. Under the latter, Iran gave up a nuclear weapons capability it never had or wanted for the return of billions of escrowed dollars (which belong to Tehran in the first place), while putting itself in a straight-jacket of international inspections and controls that even Houdini could not have broken free from.
But the Donald wantonly shit-canned this arrangement, not because Iran violated either the letter or spirit of the deal, but because the neocons – led by his bubble-headed son-in-law and Bibi Netanyahu errand boy, Jared Kushner – blatantly lied to him about its alleged defects.
Indeed, the resulting Washington pivot to the current “maximum pressure” aggression against Iran is fast becoming the Empire most demented and shameful hour – even as it crystalizes like rarely before the difference between homeland defense and imperial aggression.
Under the former, not one American serviceman, contractor or civilian official would be in harms’ way because the ring of hostile bases surrounding Iran would not exist nor would Washington be waging economic warfare on what would otherwise be a prosperous 5 million barrel per day oil trade with the world.
Only empires put their citizens needlessly in harms’ way and thereby trap their leader’s into a cycle of violence which feeds upon itself.
The Donald is now yet another American president ensnared in the kind of tit-for-tat trap that is the modus operandi of Empire First.
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Stupid article.
How many of those 35 bases did Trump establish there? I'm pretty sure the answer is ZERO. Trump inherited the "Imperialist America", he didn't build this.
Trump is not King or Emperor, who can sit on his throne one fine day and issue an edict that all 35 existing bases around Iran will be immediately closed and the troops returned home.
Trump has only been in office for 3 years. A compelling argument could be made that "Rome wasn't built in a day", and you can't undo 30+ years of Deep State entrenchment and Neocon plans in a mere 3 years. A compelling argument could be made that Trump is moving as fast as he can.
Last, but not least, we are STILL not at war, even as of January 6, 2020, going into year 4 of Trump's presidency. All the Leftists, RINOs, Deep State Republicans, Never Trumpers, Democrats, Media, etc. are WRONG so far about Trump being dangerous, incompetent, ready to start a war, etc. He has had many chances thus far to start a war, and hasn't done so. If anything, he is defusing many tinder-kegs around the world circa 2016 such as North Korea and Syria. He also isn't attacking Russia as some kind of Cold War enemy -- unlike many in the Media especially the Leftists.
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Stupid article.
How many of those 35 bases did Trump establish there? I'm pretty sure the answer is ZERO. Trump inherited the "Imperialist America", he didn't build this.
Trump is not King or Emperor, who can sit on his throne one fine day and issue an edict that all 35 existing bases around Iran will be immediately closed and the troops returned home.
Trump has only been in office for 3 years. A compelling argument could be made that "Rome wasn't built in a day", and you can't undo 30+ years of Deep State entrenchment and Neocon plans in a mere 3 years. A compelling argument could be made that Trump is moving as fast as he can.
Last, but not least, we are STILL not at war, even as of January 6, 2020, going into year 4 of Trump's presidency. All the Leftists, RINOs, Deep State Republicans, Never Trumpers, Democrats, Media, etc. are WRONG so far about Trump being dangerous, incompetent, ready to start a war, etc. He has had many chances thus far to start a war, and hasn't done so. If anything, he is defusing many tinder-kegs around the world circa 2016 such as North Korea and Syria. He also isn't attacking Russia as some kind of Cold War enemy -- unlike many in the Media especially the Leftists.
A stupid simplistic response to the article. I hope you managed to read past the headline.
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Stupid article.
How many of those 35 bases did Trump establish there? I'm pretty sure the answer is ZERO. Trump inherited the "Imperialist America", he didn't build this.
Trump is not King or Emperor, who can sit on his throne one fine day and issue an edict that all 35 existing bases around Iran will be immediately closed and the troops returned home.
Trump has only been in office for 3 years. A compelling argument could be made that "Rome wasn't built in a day", and you can't undo 30+ years of Deep State entrenchment and Neocon plans in a mere 3 years. A compelling argument could be made that Trump is moving as fast as he can.
Last, but not least, we are STILL not at war, even as of January 6, 2020, going into year 4 of Trump's presidency. All the Leftists, RINOs, Deep State Republicans, Never Trumpers, Democrats, Media, etc. are WRONG so far about Trump being dangerous, incompetent, ready to start a war, etc. He has had many chances thus far to start a war, and hasn't done so. If anything, he is defusing many tinder-kegs around the world circa 2016 such as North Korea and Syria. He also isn't attacking Russia as some kind of Cold War enemy -- unlike many in the Media especially the Leftists.
My thoughts exactly. It seems to me that people are so impatient and expect Trump to wave a magic wand and all of our problems will be solved. The moral problems in this country, and world, will only be solved by a return to God and His Church. Trump can help, mostly indirectly, by appointing morally upright members of the judicial branch of our government.
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A stupid simplistic response to the article. I hope you managed to read past the headline.
An article is stupid if the whole premise and foundation is flawed. I should have stopped reading at the headline, but instead I gave it the benefit of the doubt and skimmed the whole article. My initial impression was only proven correct.
More anti-Trump rubbish. My pet peeve is when conservatives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Deep State, Schumer, Schiff, Peℓσѕι, Rachel Maddow, Ellen Degeneres, the Clintons, etc. and bash Trump. Even if Trump is flawed in some ways, there are much bigger fish to fry, no?
I understand why the sodomites and Leftists are in a panicked frenzy to destroy Trump. I don't understand why conservatives -- even Catholics -- even Trad Catholics -- feel the same urge.
What do you REALLY hope to accomplish with all your Trump-bashing? I'd love to know. What's the end game? You get all of CathInfo to vote for some no-name third party candidate -- who doesn't get 1/2 of 1% of the popular vote. Then what?
You pat yourself on the back that you didn't give any quarter to anyone who supported Israel? You were "faithful to your principles"? Meanwhile, you get President Biden or President Buttplug, a hard-180 back to the Deep State (and they WON'T make the same mistake twice -- all the loopholes that allowed Trump to become President will be FIRMLY and COMPLETELY closed forever), many more babies will die by Abortion because all Trump's pro-life actions will be rolled back ASAP -- though that will take years, since Trump did SO MUCH for the pro-life cause! ;)
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An article is stupid if the whole premise and foundation is flawed. I should have stopped reading at the headline, but instead I gave it the benefit of the doubt and skimmed the whole article. My initial impression was only proven correct.
More anti-Trump rubbish. My pet peeve is when conservatives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Deep State, Schumer, Schiff, Peℓσѕι, Rachel Maddow, Ellen Degeneres, the Clintons, etc. and bash Trump. Even if Trump is flawed in some ways, there are much bigger fish to fry, no?
I understand why the sodomites and Leftists are in a panicked frenzy to destroy Trump. I don't understand why conservatives -- even Catholics -- even Trad Catholics -- feel the same urge.
What do you REALLY hope to accomplish with all your Trump-bashing? I'd love to know. What's the end game? You get all of CathInfo to vote for some no-name third party candidate -- who doesn't get 1/2 of 1% of the popular vote. Then what?
You pat yourself on the back that you didn't give any quarter to anyone who supported Israel? You were "faithful to your principles"? Meanwhile, you get President Biden or President Buttplug, a hard-180 back to the Deep State (and they WON'T make the same mistake twice -- all the loopholes that allowed Trump to become President will be FIRMLY and COMPLETELY closed forever), many more babies will die by Abortion because all Trump's pro-life actions will be rolled back ASAP -- though that will take years, since Trump did SO MUCH for the pro-life cause! ;)
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Regardless of what you think about Trump, Pat Buchanan’s article from a couple of weeks ago is spot on. Starting a war with Iran is going to end any chance he has of getting re-elected. He probably knows that. Maybe after 4 years of absolute hell in the White House he is ready to move on and so he is getting the war started so his successor can deny responsibility. Just like Obama in Iraq.
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Trump is not King or Emperor,
He might as well be. He can start WW III without congressional approval. He can kill anyone, anywhere where in the world at anytime if there designated an "enemy combatant" or " terrorist" of some kind. And this applies to any sitting president, not just Trump. But we've already seen him push the envelope on the War Powers Resolution before in Syria. At least in that reckless fury of missile launching he didn't αssαssιnαtҽ a govt official or general in a standing army, including a deputy chairman of a state-sponsored militia, a state that we are supposedly "allied" with. What Trump did here was take the most extreme course of action without any real council or briefing of congress before he decided to put us all at risk.
Even kings and emperors typically didn't make rash decisions like this alone.
I don't know why you keep defending Trump on this issue. You know exactly what's going on here. Israel has been wanting to take Iran down for years, they have tried every angle imaginable to get us to take them out without success. And even Obama, as much as a disaster he was, even he was able to override the jews and get a reasonable agreement with the Iranians. And that was a contract, that mister so-called "businessman" arrogantly tore up in front of the rest of the world, losing any kind of global credibility of our word or bond because his Jєωιѕн masters couldn't deal with them being treated fairly. So now Donald like a spoiled brat that he is, takes it upon himself to either get us bogged down in another useless zionist war, spending trillions and possibly losing thousands of american servicemen or bomb the crap out ( murder) of a people that have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO AMERICA and destroy another ancient ME nation all because the U.S. lust for their oilfields and the safety of the sh**y little state of demonic israel. that's it. that's what this is all about.
I'm sorry, but your Trump is not our second coming. But he could just be our own undoing. Let's pray this is not the case.
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And even Obama, as much as a disaster he was, even he was able to override the jews and get a reasonable agreement with the Iranians. And that was a contract, that mister so-called "businessman" arrogantly tore up in front of the rest of the world
You have to be joking! The pallets full of cash, in exchange for "please don't build a bomb"? THAT agreement? You call that "reasonable"?
Obama is a Muslim. Muslims are Scourge #2. The Jews are Scourge #1. God has used both of these scourges throughout history to punish the Christian world whenever it apostatizes, just like God used the nations around Israel to punish the Israelites whenever they fell into idolatry back in Old Testament times. I'm not highly fond of EITHER scourge. Both are a chastisement.
Trump got us out of that AWFUL Deep State-crafted, one-sided "agreement", along with the Paris Accord (calculated to bring America into the Third World under pretext of fighting "Climate Change") and other agreements which are bad for America.
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I'm sorry, but your Trump is not our second coming.
Strawman much? I never said anything close to that. All I ever claimed is that Trump represented "as good as we're going to get" and we should all vote for him, in order to maximize how much time we have to prepare ourselves and our families physically, mentally, economically, and spiritually for much worse times ahead.
For those of you in the Unitive way and totally self-sufficient, living in a bunker with 3 years of stored food, a full ventilation system and tons of equipment for after the chastisement is over -- and tons of experience in every useful post-collapse skill (medical, tactical, communications, mechanics, repair, storage/organization of supplies, food preservation/growing, cooking/processing food, livestock, etc.) -- plus all your children have grown AND died in the odor of sanctity already -- try to have compassion on the rest of us, who aren't there yet :)
Because speaking for myself, I could use a few more years to get ready.
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I'm sorry, but your Trump is not our second coming. But he could just be our own undoing. Let's pray this is not the case.
Since when did Matthew or any Trump supporter on here suggest this? People use this distraction when they are losing an argument.
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You have to be joking! The pallets full of cash, in exchange for "please don't build a bomb"? THAT agreement? You call that "reasonable"?
Have you ever read through the JCPOA agreement? I don't know all the particulars, but I don't know exaclty what you mean by "pallets full of cash", I know in accordance with the agreement the UN and EU would lift or terminate it's sanctions against Iran which was costing them billions and they would also be able to recover frozen assets on overseas banks where they could recover 100 billion more. At any rate, this country was being squeezed economically for years all because they were n't allowed to develop a nuclear program and possibly build a bomb to defend themselves against their nemesis in Israel, WHO DOES HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS and refuses to adhere to any Non proliferation agreements with the UN or anyone else. so, what do you expect Iran to do? Oh right, the rulez don't apply to the jewz........and the U.S. is right there to enforce that "rule".
Speaking of "pallets full of cash", how many boatloads full of cash has America and everyone else given to Israel as opposed to this little agreement with Iran hmmm? I'm sure the Donald has no problem with that.
Obama is a Muslim. Muslims are Scourge #2. The Jews are Scourge #1.
I believe without Scourge#1 we don't have much of a problem with Scourge #2.
And Obama was a closet fag and a marxist. But hardly a moo-slihm.
God has used both of these scourges throughout history to punish the Christian world whenever it apostatizes, just like God used the nations around Israel to punish the Israelites whenever they fell into idolatry back in Old Testament times. I'm not highly fond of EITHER scourge. Both are a chastisement.
Maybe. Maybe not. I don't believe God is using anything against us so much as we are doing it to ourselves. the biggest enemy we have, is the enemy within. And our own ineptness, lack of character and weakness. the problem lies not with muzzies and izzy, it lies with the Christian "white" West selling out for the shekels. the problem is our leaders are unprincipled and we're too cowardly or at this point, too fat and lazy to really do anything about it. At any rate, it's our own lack of or corruption of our own morals than it is murderous muslim madman or the lying, usurping perfidious jew.
Trump got us out of that AWFUL Deep State-crafted, one-sided "agreement", along with the Paris Accord (calculated to bring America into the Third World under pretext of fighting "Climate Change") and other agreements which are bad for America.
I'll disagree on the former and agree with the latter. Even if he did want to back out of it, he could've approached it it a different manner. Other than, Israel bitched, so now all bets are off. The guy is such a hack for the jews, it's kind of embarrassing. ::)
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Since when did Matthew or any Trump supporter on here suggest this? People use this distraction when they are losing an argument.
I'm talking about this supposed "Q" thing and Trump's master plan to take the country back.
Back from whom? The same people he's handing it back too?
No one's losing any argument here. I'm just stating the facts. Trump is bought and sold by the jew.
He's no "savior". End of story.
But I've already conceded, he's the best we have to work with for now.
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…My pet peeve is when conservatives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Deep State, Schumer, Schiff, Peℓσѕι, Rachel Maddow, Ellen Degeneres, the Clintons, etc. and bash Trump.…
This is just a variant of the guilt-by-association fallacy
As a friend often opined, "It matters what is right, not who is right."
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This is just a variant of the guilt-by-association fallacy
As a friend often opined, "It matters what is right, not who is right."
Except when the DEVIL rubber-stamps your group as "awesome", you're probably not right :)
My point is that, when you find yourself with such a crowd, there's a good chance you're not right about the WHAT, any more than you chose a good WHO to run with.
I fail to comprehend how my opinion about anything significant could EVER match up with the opinions of those wicked, degenerate devils. They are at the stage of "good is evil, up is down, truth is error". They want nothing to do with God OR even His natural order. They have twisted their nature 180 degrees to desire satan instead of God. They carry water for Beelzebub. I have ZERO in common with them, except some human DNA, and even then, I'm not exactly related to them.
Nothing significant they do or believe can be right. They are THAT far gone. Except for breathing oxygen and other natural body functions, I will endeavor to be as different from this crowd as possible.
I certainly won't take their lead in politics or religion!
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This is just a variant of the guilt-by-association fallacy
As a friend often opined, "It matters what is right, not who is right."
I think that Matthew is pointing out that the vast majority of decent and honest people stand with Trump and the vast majority of degenerates, perverts, Satanists, and criminals literally hate him. There is a reason for that and it’s not too hard to figure out. If we are wrong about him, it’s not because we have bad intentions, it would be because we were fooled. I care very little about being on the winning side, I always strive to be on the right side.
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I care very little about being on the winning side, I always strive to be on the right side.
I think this is true about virtually everyone on CathInfo.
If you're looking to be on the winning or popular side, you need to leave now. Trad Catholics are vastly outnumbered.
Serious Trad Catholics are outnumbered by lax, worldly and lukewarm Trad Catholics (most CI members fit in here)
Trad Catholics are far outnumbered by Novus Ordo and "cultural", liberal, losing-the-faith, and other Catholics In Name Only.
Even "Catholics" are outnumbered by the atheists, heathens, heretics, pagans, and infidels in the world.
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None of the Trump supporters on CI were all excited about JP2, Obama, or any other secular "messiah" figure. We don't get caught up in just any frenzy or mania. We are all after the truth here.
In fact, if you look at my past posts, you will find that I didn't believe in the two-party system at all before 2016. I learned about the JQ back when I was a teenager. In the years leading up to 2016, I even told people I wasn't a Republican or a Democrat. I had completely given up hope on politics and "the system". Including in November 2016. Trump has pleasantly surprised me, and given me reason to hope for a short reprieve, and a chance for a few more years to work on preparedness of all kinds.
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None of the Trump supporters on CI were all excited about JP2, Obama, or any other secular "messiah" figure. We don't get caught up in just any frenzy or mania. We are all after the truth here.
In fact, if you look at my past posts, you will find that I didn't believe in the two-party system at all before 2016. I learned about the JQ back when I was a teenager. In the years leading up to 2016, I even told people I wasn't a Republican or a Democrat. I had completely given up hope on politics and "the system". Including in November 2016. Trump has pleasantly surprised me, and given me reason to hope for a short reprieve, and a chance for a few more years to work on preparedness of all kinds.
That’s the key, he gave us hope in a system that seemed too broken to fix. Frankly, I’m fairly certain that it’s not even able to be fixed at this point, but there’s always hope.
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Trump has pleasantly surprised me, and given me reason to hope for a short reprieve, and a chance for a few more years to work on preparedness of all kinds.
I'd rather have Trump than witch Hillary. That said, can we not be honest enough to give the greater credit to Putin than to Trump in having kept us out of a third world war up till now? If we end up with WW III due to the asinine assassination of General Soleimani which if nothing else, and despite any assertions to the contrary, has already placed us in a state of de facto war with Iran, perhaps we can look up from the temporal hell of ashes and gasp, "But at least Trump had good intentions."
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My pet peeve is when conservatives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Deep State, Schumer, Schiff, Peℓσѕι, Rachel Maddow, Ellen Degeneres, the Clintons, etc. and bash Trump.
My pet peeve is false dichotomies presented to defend Trump. By the way, if anyone has kept us out of WW III up to now so you can buy yourself a little more time it's much more to the credit of Putin than Trump.
I imagine you have made your opinion clear on this somewhere on CathInfo, but for the record where would you place Trump's assassination of General Soleimani on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being very bad and 10 being very good?
Also, if Iran were to αssαssιnαtҽ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Miley at the Toronto Airport would you categorize that as terrorism and if not why not?
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I think that one of the most despicable and moronic aspects of the assassination was that the US had invited Gen. Soleimani to assist brokering peace in Iraq.
Despicable for the immorality of the lies and murder (John 8:44); Moronic because the precedent teaches the world to never trust the USA. Trump stupidly squandered the last vestige of USA trustworthiness.
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America should not go to war with Iran now. That's what the enemy wants. The endgame is to get nuclear powers like America and Russia fighting each other. Since Russia is currently allied with Iran, if the situation escalates, it could all go bad quickly.
I think President Trump knows this, and I don't believe he will go for open war. Selected airstrikes on specific targets, maybe. But no more.
America should forge a new Christian alliance with Christian Russia for this new decade. Russia has nothing at all in common with Islamist countries like Iran. President Raegan did a great job in coming to the aid and moral support of the Catholic Church and Catholic Poland in particular that led to the Solidarity movement and the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe and ultimately Russia. But it's been downhill since then mostly in the West.
The West at large, because it has itself gone agnostic secularist, has not been able to credibly advance the argument that, while Christianity and Communism most certainly are mortal enemies and incompatible, America and Russia need not be.
First and foremost, like President Reagan astutely did in breaking up the Soviet Union, to break up Islamist terrorism around the globe, break up the uneasy alliance Russia has been forced to forge with them. After that, Islamism can be conquered.
President Trump is the right man for this job as well in the long run. He has often spoke of wanting to work together with Russia against Islamism. Unjust wars are useless and wrong. Islamism has to be fought in other ways.
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America should not go to war with Iran now. That's what the enemy wants. The endgame is to get nuclear powers like America and Russia fighting each other. Since Russia is currently allied with Iran, if the situation escalates, it could all go bad quickly.
I think President Trump knows this, and I don't believe he will go for open war. Selected airstrikes on specific targets, maybe. But no more.
America should forge a new Christian alliance with Christian Russia for this new decade. Russia has nothing at all in common with Islamist countries like Iran. President Raegan did a great job in coming to the aid and moral support of the Catholic Church and Catholic Poland in particular that led to the Solidarity movement and the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe and ultimately Russia. But it's been downhill since then mostly in the West.
The West at large, because it has itself gone agnostic secularist, has not been able to credibly advance the argument that, while Christianity and Communism most certainly are mortal enemies and incompatible, America and Russia need not be.
First and foremost, like President Reagan astutely did in breaking up the Soviet Union, to break up Islamist terrorism around the globe, break up the uneasy alliance Russia has been forced to forge with them. After that, Islamism can be conquered.
President Trump is the right man for this job as well in the long run. He has often spoke of wanting to work together with Russia against Islamism. Unjust wars are useless and wrong. Islamism has to be fought in other ways.
Are you not aware of the list of countries the U.S had to bomb from PNAC, Iran is the last country on the list, what the jews want the jews get.....this anti semitism law jew boy Trump just passed is most disturbing....I'm no Trump hater as among my friends I'm looked as pro Trump because I've had to argue and give him credit whenever he made common sense remarks speaking against the psycho left... but at the end of the day he's a tool for the heebs
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Good interview with E Michael Jones to anyone interested:
The New Iranian Crisis - E. Michael Jones' Analysis (https://www.bitchute.com/video/AYFiv73kQis/)
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I imagine you have made your opinion clear on this somewhere on CathInfo, but for the record where would you place Trump's assassination of General Soleimani on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being very bad and 10 being very good?
Also, if Iran were to αssαssιnαtҽ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Miley at the Toronto Airport would you categorize that as terrorism and if not why not?
1. I don't have enough information about what Trump knew (military-supplied intel), Soleimani himself and what he was up to (and what he's done in the past) to make a judgment on the matter worth more than intestinal gas from a horse.
All I have is my level of trust in Trump, based on his first 3 years in office. So far, he hasn't gotten us into any new wars, and seems to be honestly interested in "bringing all the troops home" and ending the "endless wars" in the Middle East. The Media and those who watch the Media got extremely freaked out not too long ago about North Korea too. Has everyone forgotten that? How did that turn out?
So I'd be surprised if this leads to war -- unless the Deep State absolutely forces it to happen. They still have quite a bit of power. One can't go so far as to surrender or let one's troops be slaughtered, just to avoid war...
2. See #1.
I will just say this: if even 1/10th what everyone is saying is true (that the General help organize the killing of many hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq) he was on the field of battle, and killing an enemy in battle is justified. It's not like he was slain under the flag of truce. I think it highly likely he was involved with the Deep State which is in Iran as well as many other countries (who do you think John Kerry keeps visiting?), and was about to create some "events" that would be bad for America (read: dead Americans) AND would make life/re-election more difficult for Trump. In other words, Trump may have been virtually forced into his course of action.
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The USA is now at war, de-facto and de-jure, with BOTH Iraq and Iran (UPDATED 6X)
http://thesaker.is/the-usa-is-now-at-war-de-facto-and-de-jure-with-both-iraq-and-iran/ (http://thesaker.is/the-usa-is-now-at-war-de-facto-and-de-jure-with-both-iraq-and-iran/)
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I will just say this: if even 1/10th what everyone is saying is true (that the General help organize the killing of many hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq) he was on the field of battle, and killing an enemy in battle is justified. It's not like he was slain under the flag of truce. I think it highly likely he was involved with the Deep State which is in Iran as well as many other countries (who do you think John Kerry keeps visiting?), and was about to create some "events" that would be bad for America (read: dead Americans) AND would make life/re-election more difficult for Trump. In other words, Trump may have been virtually forced into his course of action.
A number of Tulsi Gabbard's views including her one on abortion (for which I could NEVER vote for her), are abhorrent. That said, I agree -- and most strongly -- with her on what she states here in answering Matthew, uh er I mean Martha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3slX5p3YAs
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1. I don't have enough information about what Trump knew (military-supplied intel), Soleimani himself and what he was up to (and what he's done in the past) to make a judgment on the matter worth more than intestinal gas from a horse.
All I have is my level of trust in Trump, based on his first 3 years in office. So far, he hasn't gotten us into any new wars, and seems to be honestly interested in "bringing all the troops home" and ending the "endless wars" in the Middle East. The Media and those who watch the Media got extremely freaked out not too long ago about North Korea too. Has everyone forgotten that? How did that turn out?
So I'd be surprised if this leads to war -- unless the Deep State absolutely forces it to happen. They still have quite a bit of power. One can't go so far as to surrender or let one's troops be slaughtered, just to avoid war...
2. See #1.
I will just say this: if even 1/10th what everyone is saying is true (that the General help organize the killing of many hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq) he was on the field of battle, and killing an enemy in battle is justified. It's not like he was slain under the flag of truce. I think it highly likely he was involved with the Deep State which is in Iran as well as many other countries (who do you think John Kerry keeps visiting?), and was about to create some "events" that would be bad for America (read: dead Americans) AND would make life/re-election more difficult for Trump. In other words, Trump may have been virtually forced into his course of action.
My thoughts exactly.