Posted on 05/23/2024 4:09:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
If the past is any guide to the present, we should take heed that what almost never happens in war can certainly still occur.
After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: “There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought.”
No one would disagree, even though several officials of both hypocritical governments have previously threatened their neighbors with nuclear attacks.
But still, why did the two feel the need to issue such a terse statement—and why now?
Rarely has the global rhetoric of mass annihilation reached such a crescendo as the present, as existential wars rage in Ukraine and Gaza.
In particular, Putin at least believes that he is finally winning the Ukraine conflict. Xi seems to assume that conventional ascendant Chinese military power in the South China Sea has finally made the absorption of Taiwan practicable.
They both believe that the only impediment to their victories would be an intervention from the U.S. and the NATO alliance, a conflict that could descend into mutual threats to resort to nuclear weapons.
Thus the recent warnings of Xi and Putin.
Almost monthly, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un continues his weary threats to use his nuclear arsenal to destroy South Korea or Japan.
A similarly monotonous, pro-Hamas Turkish president, Recep Erdogan, regularly threatens Armenians with crazy talk of repeating the “mission of our grandfathers.” And he occasionally warns Israelis and Greeks that they may one day wake up to Turkish missiles raining down upon their cities.
More concretely, for the first time in history, Iran attacked the homeland of Israel. It launched the largest wartime array of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones in modern history—over 320...
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While Pedo Joe and the NGOs are busy with the invasion of the USA, the bad actors of the world will seize the opportunity and act up even more.
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[More concretely, for the first time in history, Iran attacked the homeland of Israel. It launched the largest wartime array of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones in modern history—over 320...]
Ezekiel 38 will come. This was just a preview of things to be. Worry not, for Almighty God will intervene in that war. Iran and her allies lose BIG TIME.
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Ezekiel 38 is going to happen one of these days. Prophesied about 2,600 years ago. It’s for the Latter Days (v. 16) and the Latter Years (v. 8) (KJV).
Ezekiel 38 KJV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zuYCM0g2kc
Ezekiel 38 King James Version (KJV)
1 And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord God; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord God; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord God, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
[A similarly monotonous, pro-Hamas Turkish president, Recep Erdogan, regularly threatens Armenians with crazy talk of repeating the “mission of our grandfathers.” And he occasionally warns Israelis and Greeks that they may one day wake up to Turkish missiles raining down upon their cities.]
Turkey will also be part of Ezekiel 38. And Libya. And Sudan. And a hook will be in the jaw of Gog of Magog.
By all means we should continue to ship all of our arms over seas to support the Ukrainian government regardless of how corrupt that government may be.
We should also continiue to allow any and all men of military age to cross our southern border without having any idea who they are or why they are coming here.
What is the worst that could happen?
Great empires fall from within.
bkmk
In a just-released book, The End of Everything, I wrote about four examples of annihilation—the classical city-state of Thebes, ancient Carthage, Byzantine Constantinople and Aztec Tenochtitlán—in which the unimaginable became all too real.
A history lesson from the Professor! Actually quite good.
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“What is the worst that could happen?”
You didn’t take account of a million “refugees” from Gaza coming here.
Chilling article (and probably in the book) by VDH on how past civilizations once thought to be invulnerable can be taken over by barbaric cultures because they didn’t pay attention to what was going on in their present.
I listen to VDH’s podcasts most days of the week. I love his farm stories, brilliant take on current affairs, his classical history knowledge, and (especially) how he can point to lessons in ancient history and translate them to today.
He was generally very upbeat ten years ago, but I’ve watched him steadily become very pessimistic about our state of affairs. Today, he doesn’t seem to hold much hope for the continuation of the American Experiment.
I am surprised he didn't stress deporting the millions of illegals here who, at a minimum, have no intention of assimilating into American culture and, at worst, are inside the walls to destroy us. In his podcasts, he has also championed reducing LEGAL immigration to less than 250,000 per year.
Hanson has the perspective of a historian who knows his subject matter. He can recognize signs of societal collapse when sees them.
A streamlined list of the core basics we need to do if we are going to survive and be able to argue about the other things that need to be done.
build defense systems over the skies of our homeland
secure our borders
ensure our military operates on meritocracy
cease wild deficit spending and borrowing
rebuild both our conventional and nuclear forces
At horrendous cost to themselves to achieve nothing, in what should be a caution to the whole world. Proximity and inexpensive mass firepower using systems far cheaper than the missiles, planes, and C4I to take them out, is still a very potent force in the world, in what should an opportunity for the US and a caution for China regarding Taiwan.
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You just cost me money. LOL! Thanks for posting.
I doubt that the Dems & RINOS pay much attention to Mr. Hanson but they should. I suspect they will learn that lesson too late, at least for many of them.
“Dems & RINOS”
I’ve seen NO EVIDENCE that any of them cares one iota about the long-term survival of the nation or even our prosperity today. They are all squandering it to retain power and get rich. That is all they care about, sad to say.
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