“Actually the Russians are (most likely incidentally) protecting Christian rights in Syria.”
by facilitating mass murder of innocent women and children? Yeah that’s a real win win for Jesus - rolls eyes.
Nobody said these people played nicey-nicey, but I am sure that putting the Sunni in charge will result in much more of that that Joe Stalin could stomach.
“Actually the Russians are (most likely incidentally) protecting Christian rights in Syria.”by facilitating mass murder of innocent women and children? Yeah that’s a real win win for Jesus - rolls eyes.
We already know that YHWH had an itchy trigger finger; women and children were a very specific and well defined part of the war.
But WWJD? Would he recommend millions of his followers to kneel in front of just a single guy with a sword? Or perhaps he would tell his followers to buy swords, even selling their cloaks if they needed money? It would make sense. Dead followers may be pure, but they are still dead, and the evil will be triumphant if the good does not fight back. A naked, armed man has better chances in that fight than a finely dressed but unarmed man.
I personally see the wave of Arab Springs as a well engineered construction of Caliphate. Muslims carefully waited until the West weakens itself enough and then they struck. Tinpot dictators, who were not really loved by anyone, fell like bowling pins. The fifth column (that was inserted into major countries, often into their government) did an excellent job by making the West fight for Muslims' interests. The wave of Muslim conquests is spreading - by a government edict in some countries, by the sword in other, by political correctness in yet another, by terrorism elsewhere, and by demographics everywhere. As things are, if Muslims are unopposed they will indeed conquer the world - and they will not be kind to infidels. The option of "highway" will be still available, but it will be very painful in the neck area. After all, what do they need those assorted infidels for, outside of slavery?
The Muslim world, judged by an informal network of mullahs and led by an informal network of jihadi leutenants, knows exactly what it wants. They even shout it from the rooftops for everyone to hear. OBL was speaking of their goals all the time; he was written off as a crazy man. Well, you should listen even to crazy men - it's them who are crazy, not you.
But the West does not want to listen. The West lives in its own reality distortion field, like the one where treehuggers go to Alaska to befriend grizzly bears. You can believe in whatever you want, but that doesn't affect the bear - he will eat you if he wants to. The West believes that if they look inward and apologize for their imaginary sins the Muslims will love them and the sky will be full of rainbows, and so on. That doesn't change the fact that Koran tells all faithful to slaughter infidels wherever they find them. But nobody wants to read Koran either. I recall another major book, written by an obscure German rebel in 1930's. In that book he told everyone, in plain text, what he intends to do. Nobody believed him either - not until all of Europe was awash in blood. What would a time traveler need to save tens of millions of innocents? Very little; something that you can hold in your hand would do nicely - but only if applied in time. [Yes, tons of Alternative History books explored this avenue.]