Greater Israel is fully predicated on the US backstopping its existence, both politically and militarily.

Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and now I guess Syria all align with Israel due to an enormous American boot on their collective necks. As soon as that weight is seen to lift up, you’re going to get a full blown Congolese War between the various tin pot dictators and aristocratic despots.

Israelis simply don’t have the manpower to control more territory. Their plans to settle the West Bank and Gaza are heavily predicated on damned near every Jew left on earth moving into their domain. And even then - so many of the Israel Jews hate one another, hate their Christian neighbors, hate their Arab co-conspirators, and hate their European financiers. This isn’t sustainable in any material way. Not without the world’s largest economy propping them up.

Going to enjoy reading this article every week for the next 20 years.

the fall of multiple fictional empires

Appropriate, since we’re talking about Isn’trael.

You know, I’m not the kind of guy who thinks “If we didn’t have laws, people would just do horrible things to one another because we’re all libidinal animals shackled by the threat of state violence.”

But if I’d just stormed the US Capital Building, spent six months in iPad timeout, and then received a Presidential pardon to Do As Thou Wilt, I might get a little freaky with it under the preconception that laws really don’t apply to me.

You’re describing Revelations Jesus. And by the time he finally shows up, all the killing’s been done by the Fake Jesus that’s tricked legions of people into damnation.

This is also the only Gnostic text that made it into the canonical texts. If you get into the actual Gnostic beliefs about Jesus, you’re on a rollercoast ride of spiritualist philosophy bordering on the Sci-Fi. Alternate dimensions, shared souls, astral projection, just all sorts of weird goofy shit that the Council of Nicea cut from the program.

Revelations is, at its heart, a story of how Rome and its pagans will all eventually get what’s coming to them. That the Christians-Who-Are-Doing-It-Wrong will get what’s coming to them. That the Jews will get what’s coming to them. It is a story wildly out of line with the prior books, but one that resonated strongly with the post-Constantine neo-Christian order.

The Iranian government is a bunch of evil assholes, just like the Israeli and US governments.

The need to paint everything in broad brush “Good v Evil” is what legitimizes these wars to begin with. The idea that you’re doing anyone a favor by bombing them should be ridiculous on its face. But we consistently build up this narrative of the Just War, we declare everyone we don’t like is Hitler, and then we throw more and more of the planet into the “Hitler” bucket when they aren’t along for the ride once the bombs land.

It’s just that they have been attacked by equally evil cunts.

When you kill off all the nice guys, what you’re left with are the assholes. The Iranian government is the end result of this multi-generational culling process. The American and Israeli governments are, too.

He’s running for campaign donations.

He’s going to be out in front with every national media apparatus screaming “Electable” and “Do you want another four years of Trump?”

No idea if he can win, but he’s got all the right friends to make it happen. A real Hillary Campaign for 2028.

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the theocratic authoritarian government of Iran is looking like the good guys

It’s almost as though Americans have been brainwashed to believe brown people with the wrong religion are inherently evil. And, as a consequence, they find themselves on the side of a genocidal regime that venerates child murder.

It’s an authoritarian theocracy.

Americans have been posting those “Before the Shah” photos of women in bikinis for so long. I gotta wonder how they’re going to respond to a bunch of dead little gi-

Oh, nope. It’s racist slurs. They’re just screaming slurs.

You want to start a genocide?

We’ve been sponsoring or engaged in genocide in the Middle East since the Nakba of '48. Trump’s just doing it badly.

Retribution for what?

Fighting back.

Not immediately kowtowing to the wounded narcissist?

Practically since Reagan, it has been crazy to see how many times the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has done exactly that. The Ayatollah worked with Rumsfeld. He worked with Bush. He worked with Obama. He worked with Trump the first time. He worked with Biden. It’s amazing how many times Iranian leadership could be bought off with the promise of sanctions relief or was willing to turn the other check in the face of a political assassination or a stuxnet computer virus or a frigate seizure.

Whipped dogs rolled over less frequently than the Iranian government, until we straight up started putting bullets into the heads of their senior leadership. Now the only people left to run the country are the real, actual, not-fucking-around revolutionary diehards.

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I mean, that’s not wild on it’s face. You can explain shifting morality with respect to changing material conditions and social relationships.

I might argue that the Old Testament God was intended to offer leverage to the intelligencia (priest class) over the military/aristocracy (kings and their courtiers).

Meanwhile, the New Testament was fundamentally describing a God of Slaves, preaching equinimity and grace in the next life for the hardships of the modern day.

And then, when the slave class overthrew and supplanted the Pagan aristocracy, suddenly the Old Testament was back in fashion again.

It makes sense historically

No no no. That was the Old Testament which doesn’t count anymore.

The New Testament is the one that we care about (except we’ve we don’t)

Why don’t you start with that South African illegal immigrant who overstayed his visa illegally?

Because he’s one of their biggest donors, obviously

Ilhan has been targeted by the entire Washington establishment since she took office.

The US government cannot stomach a Somali community engaging in any form of self governance anywhere on earth

The government belongs to and serves the people

It clearly doesn’t. Any amount of time interacting with a police officer should tell you as much.

A traitor to whom? The billionaire class quite literally owns all the property.

By not supporting the reigning despots, it’s liberals and leftists who are definitionally the traitors.

The people ruling the county aren’t on your side. They are your enemies.