"WAR FOR LAND"
Please read "WAR FOR LAND" below. It seems that people have gone mad. They are simply protesting mindlessly, parroting the anti-(whatever politician they don't like) disinformation, the anti-Israel and anti-Ukraine propaganda that is flooding over the internet and outside agitators taking over university campuses; a recent local news item stated that not a single one of the protest organizers at U of Pittsburgh were students there. Please also see this "letter to U. of Edinburgh protesters" written in April 2021 by reknowned Scottish professor of Middle Eastern Studies Denis MacEoin that refutes the current flood of anti-semitic and anti-Israel disinformation.
The current U.S. president proclaimed Easter Sunday this year to be "Transgender Day of Visibility" - see www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/29/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024/. What blasphemy! And the decrease in natural reproduction because of transgenderism, homosexuality, and abortion is bringing about the extinction of our population... so, as a leading politician said recently, we need all those illegal immigrants as workers.
The former U.S. president was convicted last week for committing adultery with a porn star, covering it up by paying her hush money, then writing it off as a legal expense, saying – "I didn't do anything wrong." (The local court that tried him had no jurisdiction to handle federal election law violations, and adultery and paying for non-disclosure agreements may not be illegal, but are still immoral and wrong.) Our country has sunk to the depths of moral depravity! And our country continues to print "funny money" for handouts with no goods or services to back it up, resulting now in a deficit of over a TRILLION dollars. Those "freebies" aren't free, they are actually a hidden tax that results in higher prices for goods and services, in other words, inflation.
Meanwhile, some conservatives have taken the insane position of aiding the neo-Stalinist regime in Russia by withholding aid to Ukraine. Stalin once said – "The death of one person is a tragedy; the death of millions is a statistic." Is that what we think when we watch the evening news: just more boring statistics? Millions of Ukrainians and Russians are being killed, both military and civilians. See this May 29 RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT from the ISW. A friend from Ukraine whom we met at our former church in Madison, WI, was born there and is now a U.S. citizen. He and his wife returned just for a visit in April 2021 but stayed on because of the Covid pandemic lockdowns (no airline flights) and the cost of having their baby in Ukraine versus in the U.S.
Now they are stuck there: as of June 1, men aged 18-60 who were born in Ukraine, regardless of dual citizenship, must not leave Ukraine. He sent me a link to the following YouTube video of the forced mobilization of men in Ukraine: it is entitled "A Veritable Safari" translated from Ukrainian – https://youtu.be/mOCWcQHloHw?si=gCti7kmJ3BiVQvE2. Please also read his report on the War in Ukraine.
The world has gone crazy. Here's my latest essay: WAR FOR LAND
In the C.E (“Common Era” – it’s considered ignorant and bigoted to say “A.D” – Anno Domini in Latin, which means “in the year of our Lord”), it is nevertheless important to realize that modern thinking is still permeated with the Christian ethic of loving your enemies and doing good to those who hate you. This ethic is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but is often paid only lipservice, as in calling the spy and war bureaus the departments of “State” and “Defense.”
Various reasons (rationalizations) are given, but the most basic reason for war is to seize the land and its wealth that belong to another country or nation. “The white man’s burden” or “The land of our ancestors” or “Making the world safe for Democracy” or “Lebensraum” or “Denazification” or “Manifest Destiny” or the “fulfillment of Bible prophecy” – all of these reasons have been used to justify land grabs. Ancient Israel once extended up into Lebanon and Syria, and included the territory of Gath (now Gaza) inhabited by the Philistines (now Palestinians). Israel’s leaders, not bothered by Christian ethics, claim that the current war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria fulfill God’s command to exterminate those people and fulfill Bible prophecies such as in Jeremiah chapter 47. If we believe that the Bible is true, then we must conclude that the "C.E." age of grace is wrapping up.
Other examples: the U.S. of today is the result of wars with the British, the French, the Spanish, and native Indian tribes. These are all normalized by the signing of peace treaties at the end, in which the loser gives up claims to some or all its land. After a war with European powers, the U.S. acquired Florida from Spain in 1819. Texas and southern California were annexed and became states in 1845 after wars with Mexico along with Alaska and northern California, which had been settled as far south as Fort Ross, California, 90 miles from San Francisco Bay by Russians, was acquired from Russia peacefully (of all things!) for $7.2 million in 1867. After the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines became U.S. protectorates in 1898.
We hardly need to mention the many wars in Europe to establish and widen kingdoms and empires – the German, Dutch, French, British, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian empires to name a few. Ukraine had slipped out from Russian control after World War One. The outcome of that war broke up not only the Russian Empire but also the British, French, Dutch, and German colonies in Africa and Asia. But in 1932-1933 Stalin’s “Holodomor” (literally “starvation plague”) killed 5 million Ukrainians to bring that area back under Russia’s new Soviet empire, resettling the Donbas, the eastern part, with Russians. Now one of Russia’s excuses for its invasion of Ukraine in 2014 is “to protect native Russian speakers” (who were not native to Ukraine three generations ago). In 1938-39 Hitler invaded Austria, then Czechoslovakia, then Poland, which precipitated World War Two.
The horrific nature of those wars and all modern warfare includes “total war” – the mass killing of whole civilian populations along with enemy combatants, using methods such as nuclear weapons, poison gas, napalm, land mines, thousands of bomblets in each artillery shell, and gas-air bombs that suck the oxygen out of the atmosphere, causing masses of people to suffocate. This is all justified by calling them “enemy co-belligerents” for co-operating with their own country’s soldiers.
But what would be more natural than for civilians to side with their own fighters in a conflict? Would not the Spanish and Mexican settlers in Florida, Texas, Arizona, and California have offered support and shelter to their soldiers? Would not an army make use of secret agents, guerrilla fighters, and partisans all purporting to be civilians, to pave the way for an invasion? Consider the millions upon millions of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S.A.: we know that some of them are foreign agents, but we simply don’t know how many others are. What if this is an elaborate plan to infiltrate our country with trained guerrilla fighters in order to foment an insurrection? Mexico doubtless has many citizens who hold a grudge with the U.S. for seizing so much of its former territory. Could a morally, demographically, and economically weakened U.S. withstand such an attack from within?
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