‘For reasons not clear to me, our leaders - both parties, “liberal” and “conservative”, and our generals and admirals, have ruled out this effective and historically supported technique and replaced it with using the armed forces to “send a message”. The message, perfected by 1967, was “See us take casualties, that proves we’re serious. But, see, we don’t hate you and won’t conquer you, because we’re not mean”.’
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I agree with all your points, except that the Cold War with the USSR would have been no cakewalk after August 29, 1949.
In Europe, the ME, and most importantly to us, here at home, I think we are watching the collapse of the Post - WWII order and ideologies. The efforts to metastasize those ideas from the national to international arenas are faltering.
The whole deck is being reshuffled and new hands are going to be dealt. All the establishment can do at this time is prolong their demise, although they still think they can win. Jeb is the posterchild for the elites’ disconnect with reality.
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The deck is not being reshuffled!
Do you really believe God’s word?
The “great men of the Earth” are going to remain in power until the Last Trump, when “the governments of men” will become the governments of Yehova.
Nowhere does the word say that these connivers will be defeated until Yeshua physically returns to Earth with his mighty angels to crush them.
Prophecy calls for a round of musical chairs where ten men are allowed to be the figurehead of the world government for a short time.
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