Support After Abortion released a study that shows a significant portion of women suffer from the consequences of abortion even decades after they’ve had them.
The study showed ” that 40% of women who experienced medication abortions suffered adverse emotional and psychological effects.”
Perhaps the highlight of the segment was this moment when Patricia Brown spoke about the after effects of her abortion when she was 16-years old. She came to the support center “decades later.”
When asked if she would have had an abortion if she could do it all over again, she responded “If I’d known there would be an emptiness, ain’t no way I would have,”
The consequences of abortion on the mother, on society as a whole, has hardly been given serious study. Seeing one study that dared explore the “less obvious” negative side effects of abortion (beyond the obvious negative effect, the murder of an unborn child) is very encouraging. Seeing that study given voice on a Disney-owned media company indictates, potentially, either a crack in the Empire or a token appeasement to settle down dissent.
Time will tell, yet we celebrate the spreading of the word of the death-creating patterns of abortion that go far beyond the abortion, the woman, the abortionist, and even the father. These patterns touch the very spirit of our sense of humanity in ways that few have taken to explore in any impartial, phenomenological sense.
The abortionist should fear the consequences of such a study, for the people would learn of the brutal authoritarian death engine of power the habit of abortionist thought creates for the elite few.
“We appreciate ABC’s even-handed coverage of Support After Abortion’s mission to help women and men who suffer after abortion,” said Support After Abortion CEO Lisa Rowe, a licensed clinical social worker. “Abortion is often framed as a political issue, which disenfranchises women and men who experience adverse impacts like grief, anger, and shame. ABC’s story was about politics and revenue, but it also showed the human side of suffering after abortion.”
OPINION by Bill Collier- A recent article on CNBC about Facebook/Meta losing over 2/3rds of its stock value in a year has analysis and investors wondering if the tech giant will even survive. Whereas in 2021 at around this time, Facebook was valued at around a trillion dollars, this year, it is $377 billion in total value.
Not surprisingly for a globalist corpostate press organ, the CNBC article totally misses the elephant in the room, which is that Facebook’s core problems revolve around poor community governance (things like moderation and “fact checking”) and a fundamental misunderstanding of and lack of appreciation for their users, many of whom do not feel they and their creeds are treated fairly.
I like Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, the core business model is for FB to become more of a platform for all than a private community with a more globalist corpostate ideological bent.
Allowing people to connect to family, friends, interests, and causes in a dynamic manner and with civility and common decency that is governed with fairness, common sense, and consistency, without bias or editorial (disguised as “fact checking” bit which is really opinion policing), would work.
This would be a great path forward, as opposed to reacting to activist (usually on the left) “demands” coming from audience groups (young wokatarians) who don’t use the product is, in my estaimation, a massive distraction from the core business. It is costing users, reputation, and now revenue.
Facebook serves an older demographic and, frankly, the older set will remain a core constituency well into the next 30 plus years. Providing other platforms for the younger set would be good, but it would be a mistake to simply roll out another iteration of a more popular platform.
Facebook has long suffered poor governance issues, not least because of the perceived editorializing-as-standards and the clear globalist corpostate bias of its “fact checking”, which creates distrust and which opens the platform up to constant criticism from right and left. All these fires keep distracting key decision-makers whose talents are essentially a wasted resource.
People don’t want a “free speech platform” that is “anything goes”, but if the user base is diverse in its religious, political, and philosophical perspectives, tending to favor one part of the user base over others, as it is perceived is the case, will necessarily decrease the engagement and participation of the “offended” group. It doesn’t matter if this is factually true or if it is the intent.
This is a perception at least partially caused by the inconsistent, often illogical, implementation of governance and, frankly, the oddball way “fact checking” is applied which makes the platform both seem biased and illogical.
For instance, to refute the statement “there are only two genders”, Facebook’s “fact checkers” cited the extremely rare case where people are BORN with a mix of gender traits as “proof” there are more than two genders.
The exception does not disprove the rule. but this illogical, upside-down, and absurd, use of an extremely rare exception as “proof” that the claimed rule, “there are only two genders”, is wholly false did nothing good for Facebook’s reputation or bottom line.
This kind of thing, as well as many instances of inconsistent application of standards which are perceived as putting the thumb on the scales against half their user base’s creeds, is anathema to being perceived as an honest broker and neutral arbiter. It is bad governance.
To be clear, while the rank and file bias of most of Facebook’s staff are likely leaning toward corpostate globalism or leftism in general, it may in fact be unfair to say Mark Zuckerberg wants to push a “leftist agenda.”
The fact most moderators and community governance staff may tend toward a bias, and perhaps it shows, is less a reflection of ownership bias and more a function of a poor governance architecture.
Instead of investing in new tech that is not taking hold, the whole metaverse, Faecbook should reexamine its entire governance system and the structure of the platform to provide a safe and friendly environment that is welcoming to all, regardless of creed and etcetera, but that insists users must, foremost, decide the content and entities they wish to be exposed to without being able to demand the platform cancel others who are otherwise well behaved.
Facebook/Meta isn’t focusing on keeping and growing a user base to whom advertisers can pitch themselves and their messages. What is really happening is that Facebook is trying to claim to be such a platform while its governance and “fact checking”, and how it spends its political dollars, all tend to lean in direction that half or more of their user base do not fancy.
Facebook is seen as a booster for the Democrats that tries to also pretend it is a platform for all, even if this may be an unfair characterization. The reputation hit among those on the right cannot be good and is not substantively addressed while kowtowing to the media-induced and leftist-activist supported frenzy of the hour hasn’t earned the support of the Democrats or the coveted younger demographic who, one suspects, Mark Zuckerberg thinks are represented by the very loud but tiny woke minority.
It may be true, though I am not prepared to claim it is true, that most Facebook users represent a more “conservative demographic” than a leftist demographic and that if Mark MUST use ideological sympathy to gain more users who are more engaged he may want to radically change course and lean right.
In light of current events in Russia, we’re going to take a look at something long forgotten in the United States: Civil Defense, and how the US government has been failing it’s citizenry since 1979.
Prior to World War 2, there wasn’t really a notion, nor a need, for a “civil defense” structure within the United States as we understand the term. While there had been efforts to mobilize the nation’s non-military workforce, including women, during World War 1, there simply wasn’t that great of a threat of external attack, and the false start was quickly dismantled after that war ended.
Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance.
Once large-scale war returned to Europe in 1939, however, it became clear that the United States would be facing severe challenges. As a result, the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) was established on May 25, 1940, to coordinate a national strategy for mobilizing the population to defend the country in the event of a direct attack. These preparations, as tentative as they were, came into sharp focus following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the staggering Japanese offensive throughout the Western Pacific Ocean. Very shortly, German U-Boats swarmed towards American waters, and promptly sank over 100 merchant vessels along the US Atlantic and – some in sight of land – in the first three months on 1942, alone. Pearl Harbor-style raids by Japanese aircraft carriers along the Pacific Coast were seen as a real possibility. As well, there was a real fear of Japanese and German commandos sending landing parties ashore from submarines to sabotage everything from industrial plants to railroads and bridges; machine gun-equipped security posts were set up to guard Hoover Dam.
Allied tanker torpedoed in Atlantic Ocean by German submarine. US Navy photo.
Even though the feared attacks never went further than U-Boat raids on shipping and one of the strangest series of raids ever seen (aside from the actual invasion of Alaska), an extensive network of air raid shelters and local security was established, and remained functional until the end of the war, when it was disbanded.
That document led to the establishment of a huge network of programs, studies, shelters and supplies, that placed some level of planning for the civilian population of the United States to survive a projected nuclear attack. The resulting Civil Defense program continued it’s attempt to prepare American civilians for surviving a nuclear attack until the early 1970’s, when it’s oversight began to be dismantled, and its functions dispersed out to other agencies. Everything from food, water storage, tools and medications (even a 200-bed emergency hospital) were available from the Civil Defense system, direct to homeowners and small communities, at either no or little cost…But that wouldn’t last. There were, of course, problems and failures, but at least the government was trying.
Survival Supplies for the Well-Stocked Fallout Shelter, c.1964. US Gov’t photo.
FEMA is a “reactive” agency – aside from providing some free information on their website, there is no longer any systematized response to any sort of disaster, be that a hurricane, earthquake or nuclear war. “Proactive measures” are not in the wheelhouse of any US government agency, when it comes to protecting the civilian population. While there are certainly “survivalists” and “preppers” out there, those people are frequently ridiculed and shoved into the category of “kooks” and “weirdos” for trying to coherently prepare for any sort of catastrophe – after all, if something should ever happen, the government will help you far better than you can on your own, right?
Hurricane Katrina survivors at the Houston Astrodome Red Cross Shelter. US Gov’t photo.
Today, with the proverbial “wars and rumors of wars,” as well as economic and energy chaos around the world, civilians (and even some military’s troops) are increasingly worried, because the governments of the world offer little in the way of assurance, let alone practical solutions, and quite literally seem to be attempting to make things worse. There have been too many years between serious, practical planning, done by actual specialists, to prepare people for “Disaster X”.
The bottom line is this: You are on your own. The government is not going to be there to help you..in fact, the government may very well decide that whatever you have, what you have spent your own money to stockpile for your family, is not actually yours, and that they will take it from you, by force, if they deem it necessary. If you doubt this, read it in their own words, HERE – the language is intentionally broad, and it can be changed on a whim.
Again: You are on your own. If you don’t have a plan, you’d better get started. Rice and beans are cheap…for the moment.
For more information, visit the website of the Civil Defense Museum HERE
Educators and administrators running K-12 education on America’s military bases are indoctrinating the children of military personnel in radical gender ideology, critical race theory, and left-wing activism. In a new Claremont Institute investigative report, my colleague Scott Yenor and I document this latest evolution in America’s culture war.
This development at military-run schools tracks broader trends in American education. In recent months, Chris Rufo has exposed the rampant woke indoctrination occurring in our nation’s K-12 schools, with striking examples from Los Angeles, Portland, and San Diego. In 2020, Rod Dreher wrote about the creeping woke rot at America’s oldest military academy.
A year after request, West Point turns over mostly illegible documents
The College Fix recently received more than 50 pages of emails from the United States Military Academy at West Point –15 months after a student reporter filed a public records request.
Many of the pages were blacked out with the exception of several articles included in the communications or the initial greeting or ending. The redactions on the initial request were done by The Fix to protect the mailing address of former student reporter and current Fox News employee Ashley Carnahan, who filed it.
At a June 13, 2022 TE School Board meeting, a parent asked the board whether his special needs child would be taught about his “white privilege” when the child gets to high school. Earlier in the evening, Superintendent Richard Gusick had glibly insisted, “We do not teach critical race theory in our classrooms.” Yet, now, he delivered a carefully worded response:
Currently, that’s [i.e., teaching white privilege is] not part – a direct part of our…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutterres warned the world we’re all going to die unless we create a one-world-united-nations to deal with “inequalities” and “climate change.” The one-world advocate said, “The international community is not ready or willing to tackle the big dramatic challenges of our age. These crises threaten the very future of humanity and the fate of our planet. Our world is in peril — and paralyzed. Let’s work as one, as a coalition of the world, as united nations.”
As global leaders descend on New York City for the annual U.N. General Assembly, the body’s Secretary-General António Guterres issued a dire warning in an opening speech on Tuesday: “Our world is in big trouble.”
“Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider,” he said. “And challenges are spreading farther.”
The annual gathering of high-level diplomats in the General Assembly is the first to happen in a fully in-person format since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s the first to take place since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — an international conflict that has drawn deep divides between the organization’s most powerful members, sparking calls for the U.N. to be reformed and prompting questions about whether it can still serve its stated purpose “to maintain international peace and security.”
18-year-old Cayler Ellingson was murdered by Biden acolyte Shannon Brandt. The 41-Year-Old Democrat ran over the young man with his car after he learned the teen supported Trump. ALLEGEDLY inspired by Biden’s MAGA HATE speech, the ALLEGED psychopath ALLEGEDLY executed Biden’s “justice” himself. He is free on bail after admitting to murder.
Shannon Brandt, 41, mowed down 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson early Sunday morning over what he later claimed was a “political argument” over whether “the teen was part of a Republican extremist group.” That language strongly resembles the description used by Biden just a few weeks ago to describe Trump and “MAGA Republicans” as being “a threat to the very soul of this country.” In that speech, Biden claimed it was Republicans who had “blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence”
Ellingson was reportedly participating in a street dance before the incident occurred. According to court documents obtained by Valley News Live, Ellingson called his mom shortly before the crash to ask if she…
Brandt called 911 around 2:30 a.m. Sunday and told the 911 dispatcher that he just hit Ellingson, claiming the teen was part of a Republican extremist group and was calling people to come get Brandt after a political argument. In the aftermath of the killing, Brandt asked for nobail, saying he has family and a job in town and is not a flight risk.
In McHenry, North Dakota, a 41-year-old man allegedly ran down an 18-year-old teenager over a political dispute, killing him. He was reportedly drunk at the time of the attack. To make things more …
ManKills‘MAGA Extremist’ Teen. A man admits to intentionally killing an 18-year-old with his SUV following a political argument, as he claimed the teen was a “MAGA Republican extremist.”.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol said that at about 2:55 a.m. Sunday, Brandt killed 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson in an alley in what was described by authorities as a hit-and-run incident in Brandt …
Forty-one-year-old Shannon Brandt said he was afraid 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson was “part of a Republican extremist group and that he was afraid they were ‘coming to get him.'”. So he allegedly killed Ellingson with his car. After visiting the scene where the incident happened, deputies went to Brandt’s house in Glenfield, ND, which …
The US 7th Fleet Commander, Vice Admiral Karl Thomas, warned US leadership China can soon surround and blockade the island of Taiwan. “They have a very large navy, and if they want to bully and put ships around Taiwan, they very much can do that,” he said.
China now boasts a large navy with enough surface warships to blockade rival Taiwan, according to the commander of the U.S. Navy’s frontline fleet.
“They have a very large navy, and if they want to bully and put ships around Taiwan, they very much can do that,” Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
The internet exploded with rumors Chairman Xi was under arrest after he had been absent from the public since mid-September. Meanwhile the 20th CPC National Congress elected its members, all solidly Xi people. On September 26, 2022, Xi made a public appearance in Beijing.
BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — A total of 2,296 delegates were elected to attend the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), according to an official statement released Sunday.
Chinese President XiJinping visited an exhibition in Beijing on Tuesday, according to state television, in his first public appearance since returning to China from an official trip to Central Asia in mid-September.
Purges of senior officials and unfounded rumours of military coups in Beijing have fed into feverish speculation ahead of a key meeting of China’s ruling party next month, when President XiJinping is expected to be granted an unprecedented third term.
Unsubstantiated claims spread on social media that the Chinese president is under house arrest, although the reports have been dismissed as “wild rumors.”
We all like nice things. Especially new, nice things. New things tend to have that “new” smell and/or touch. They “feel” better, and give us all a certain sense of accomplishment – after all, “new” tends to be expensive, in comparison to older things, and “buying new” gives us a feeling of accomplishment, because the new thing is a physical representation of our hard work paying off.
But – is “new” actually “better“?
In the realm of consumer products, the reality of new items hitting the shelves (literally or figuratively) is very much hit or miss. Many times – perhaps even most times – the new stuff offers new features, or is lighter, or does things more efficiently than what it is replacing. Conversely, many times, the new product – while looking very snazzy or streamlined on the outside – is actually flimsy, cheaply made and has a very good chance of failing if you look at it sideways, usually the day after its warranty expires (if it even came with a warranty). This can lead the frustrated consumer to try and return the product for a replacement or a refund (which sometimes, they are actually able to receive), and often going out and buying a similar product from a more reliable and trusted brand.
But in reality, buying a “new and improved” coffee maker on sale and having it fail on you after three months, while frustrating, really isn’t a monumental problem; annoying, certainly, but no one is dying over it…In the military realm, however, the consequences of untested tools – and worse, untested structural models – can be catastrophically disastrous.
Let’s look at two examples, one a matter of hardware, the other, a matter of organization.
Boom Sticks
First, with the rise of the AK-47, militaries around the world began to clamor for a rifle chambered in an “intermediate cartridge“, in short, something more powerful than a pistol-calibersubmachine gun, but not as massive as a full-power cartridge. The path to the intermediate cartridge idea is one of those dark secrets of firearms history, that will make for a good, more in depth article down the line, but here, it will be sufficient to outline a brief overview.
Intermediate rounds are, on average, smaller and lighter than their larger cousins, which equals less use of materials (i.e., gunpowder and various metals); while the savings are tiny, per cartridge, when you are producing billions of rounds at a time, those tiny figures become very significant, very quickly. On the side that really matters to a land army – infantry combat – the “field experiment” of the last sixty or so years, initially seemed to validate the idea of the intermediate cartridge: the intermediate class of round seemed to be perfectly effective at its intended role. But looks, as usual, can be deceiving.
Comparison of Pistol, Rifle and Intermediate cartridge. From left: 9 × 19 mm Parabellum (Pistol cartridge) 7.92 × 33 mm Kurz (Intermediate cartridge) 7.92 × 57 mm Mauser (Rifle cartridge)
While fine at ranges out to 300 meters or so (the intermediate’s intended range), when ranges moved out past that, the rifles rapidly became very ineffective, more so because – since the “maximum effective range” was accepted worldwide as 300 meters – the militaries of the world saw little reason to train the average recruit to shoot any further than that…and besides, the few times where the ranges opened up, military forces had General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG’s), Heavy Machine Guns (HMG’s), mortars, artillery, sniper rifles and even air support to deal with anything “out there.”
The resulting twenty-plus year long series of wars and interventions around the world began to show cracks in the armor of the intermediate cartridge idea. As infantry combat moved out of jungles and cities, and into vast deserts and mountain ranges, combat ranges opened up considerably, well outside the range (pdf link) of intermediate cartridge weapons. And this is where the US military hit a wall.
After going “all in” on the intermediate cartridge during the Vietnam War, the US military was stuck with an entire ensemble of weapons, equipment, training foundations and doctrines that revolved around the intermediate M-16. But now, they were finding themselves being engaged by guerrilla’s firing near century-old rifles, shooting at ranges well beyond 1200 (YouTube link) meters (pdf link). In those instances, US troops generally only had a few GPMG’s and HMG’s to respond. The US military’s response was to develop a completely new (and, inevitably, veryexpensive) rifle and light machine guncombination, along with a completely new type of cartridge that is best described as “intermediate plus“, that had longer range and better “hitting power” than the 60+ year old 5.56x45mm rounds.
U.S. Soldiers with the firing party with the 69th Infantry Regiment, New York Army National Guard prepare to fire a rifle salute during the Pearl Harbor Day ceremony in New York Dec. 7, 2012. US Army photo.
For those who might be scratching their heads and wondering why the US military went this route, congratulations – many other people have been doing the same thing: Why not simply adopt an older cartridge, specifically the 7.62x51mm M80, that was already in the system (such as the M240-series), and any of a number of older-pattern rifles of proven design…after all, new manufacturing techniques and materials would surely make those older designs very competitive, weight-wise, right?
The answer for the US military was, simply put, politics: with a Congress facing a public tired after twenty years of inconclusive war, and massive budgetary issues, there was no way that the military could go to Congress and ask them to fund a step “backwards”. On the other hand, they couldask Congress to fund something “new and improved” – they just had to put the right “bells and whistles” on it…or, to be peckish, a nicer ribbon.
In contrast, stands India: Faced with a rifle that just wasn’t working, no matter what they did, India bit the bullet, admitted defeat, and inked deals to both purchase and manufacture the AK-203 rifle in 7.62x39mm (a total of 670,000 – 70,000 directly from Russia, with the remainder to be manufactured under license) in Uttar Pradesh, while also purchasing slightly modified SIG 716 G2 Patrol rifles in 7.62x51mm.
Indian Army soldier armed with a modified AK-type rifle. Indian Ministry of Defence photo.
The bog-standard 7.62x51mm M80 cartridge has been standard for most western GPMG’s since at least 1983 – it just works.
Whether switching to a “new and improved” weapons suite is a good idea for the US military or not, remains to be seen. Hopefully, it will work.
Hopefully. Troops’ lives depend on it.
Misusing An Organizational Idea
The current war between Russia and Ukraine brought into focus the Russian idea of the “Battalion Tactical Group” (Russian: Батальонная тактическая группа, batal’onnaya takticheskaya gruppa). The BTG is one of those oddities that is rather hard to define, primarily because it only works in a very narrow area of military operations, that being as a “cadre force.”
On paper, a BTG is a combined arms formation that is technically a “battalion” of mechanized infantry, with a number of smaller specialist units (i.e., engineers, medical, air defense, etc.) being assigned as needed, and kept in a high state of readiness. Conceptually, a BTG is similar to the Western “task force” at various levels…except in artillery, where the BTG – with fewer than 1,000 troops assigned – has more long-range firepower than a US Brigade Combat Team (BCT).
There are, however, problems.
The first, is a lack of infantry support. One of the mistakes many civilians make in studying modern warfare, is the idea that tanks can do everything on their own. They cannot. A tank crew is seriously restricted in seeing what is happening around them, specifically in that they cannot see enemy infantry armed with lightweight anti-tank missiles that are more than capable to turning a tank into burning scrap metal. This is not a feature unique to Russian tanks – it is a feature of all main battle tanks in the world, in general. The only viable solution to this problem, was training specialist infantry to escort and guard the tanks against enemy infantry.
Obviously, this requires a lot of infantry…Yet Russian BTG’s, on average, have about 250 infantry escorting them, somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of what they actually need. Why?
The BTG dates from the end of the Soviet era, when the Soviet Army was refining its plans for invading Western Europe, and were carefully studying how to deal with Western company, battalion and brigade task forces. BTGs were deployed as an experiment in Afghanistan, before the final collapse of the Soviet efforts in that country in 1989, and worked well enough in that level of fighting that they were kept on, until the Soviet Union dissolved. At that point, the rancid Soviet economy that Russia inherited simply could not support the expense of permanently established combat units that required careful tactical training to work effectively. Worse, the necessary reforms to make all of this happen required a long-serving, professional corps of non-commissioned officers (NCO’s, i.e., Corporals and Sergeants), which was something the Soviets had never really tried to build. This, coupled to the political upheavals of the day, and the general Russian attitude towards their military as a barely-necessary evil (unless the enemy is literally inside the gates…and sometimes, not even then) which made an “all-volunteer” force of the likes of the United States or Great Britain an impossibility, made mass formations and a rigid conscription system moot points. While the Russian army retained the idea of brigades and divisions, at their hearts, they were really just a collection of sketchily-trained, down-market BTG’s.
A farewell ceremony for the 331st Airborne Regiment of the 98th Airborne Division withdrawn from Chechnya. www.kremlin.ru
As a result, while the concept of the BTG was retained after the Soviet Union became Russia again, the training of the troops in those formations was very haphazard. As the Russian economy began to rebound in the late-1990’s, training and readiness began to improve, and combat experience in forming ad hoc BTG’s during the wars in Chechnya showed that the concept was a viable way of fighting minor forces and guerrillas. This culminated in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, where the BTG idea seemed to work very well against the Western-trained Georgian Army (yet another article for the future). All of this led to the 2008 Russian military reform, an all-out attempt to revamp the Russian military establishment into something like a 21st Century force.
When Russia began its “intervention” in Ukraine in 2014, the BTG finally seemed to find its niche. While it had glaring weaknesses against comparable Western formations, Russian BTG’s being sent into eastern Ukraine were able to augment themselves with swarms of thousands of local anti-Kiev insurgents who, while poorly armed and scarcely trained, were able to advise and guide Russian units through local terrain, and were also able to help screen the BTG’s against Ukrainian anti-tank teams, backed up by the more professional Russian infantry and artillery. And, when Russia intervened in Syria in 2015, the Russian commanders on the scene quickly duplicated this model with local Syrian auxiliaries. The concept worked there, as well.
It seemed that Russia had found the perfect balance: BTG’s were simultaneously long-service soldiers, not conscripts, and – not being manpower-intensive – thus would not unduly upset the Russian population when they were sent out. At the same time, they seemed to be able to get the job done, and were very cost-effective in comparison to the older-model, mass formations of past wars.
“Scene of Gen. Custer’s last stand, looking in the direction of the ford and the Indian village.” Unknown author, ca. 1877. From the US National Archives.
Unless carefully controlled, Victory Disease can rapidly infect a population with the idea that their forces are nigh-invincible. If left alone to fester, this breeds an arrogance that the nation can take on any opponent, anywhere, anytime, without too much effort or thought.
Which brings us back to Ukraine, 2022.
Whatever the causes of the current war may be, this is not the article to discuss them. The Russian leadership clearly assumed that their forces would overrun Ukraine with relative ease, and would allow them to accomplish limited objectives that would not be too onerous on the Russian population. While this was mostly true in the southern sectors, it only appeared to be so, initially, in the northern theater. There, the BTG’s showed all of their glaring faults, as stalled convoys strung out along roads (an inevitable consequence in armored warfare – just ask the US Army and Marines about the advance on Baghdad in 2003) were suddenly cut to pieces by Ukrainian infantry and partisans operating behind the Russian advance. Without the mass of infantry that a more conventional organization would have had, the Russians were unable to defend those convoys as US forces had in 2003, as there was no way that the razor-thin film of infantry the Russians had access to could adequately protect the long columns of vehicles packed tightly into ready-made kill-zones. It was never that the Russians were “running out of infantry” – they simply never had the necessary numbers plugged into their organizational combat unit structures. The disastrous results of this oversight have now greatly lengthened the war, and have led – as of late-September, 2022 – to the Russian leadership calling for a “partial” national mobilization.
What impact this may have on the war, remains to be seen.
For the purposes of this article, Russia took a low-impact approach to military organization out of harsh necessity, and allowed it to become a dominant aspect of its military and – dangerously – its political psychology. When it then applied that approach to smaller wars, and saw that it worked, they made the assumption that it would work against larger opponents. With the inevitable failure of the model when it stepped outside its boundaries, Russia is now in the position of being forced to escalate the conflict to avoid defeat.
The following is written from a spiritual, Biblical perspective with an understanding that we wrestle not against flesh and blood and with a heart toward saving people from the “doctrines of devils” which underlay the agenda of today’s Democratic Party and its supporters.
We use this word “prophetic” in the sense it fortells trouble, presents an alternative, and warns of consequences, not because the writer claims to be a prophet of God or anything like that.
DEMOCRATS ARE ENEMIES OF GOD DAMNED TO A DEVIL’S HELL……And yet God loves each and every one and wants to save their souls.
Indeed, it must be remembered that we who may reject the doctrines of devils contained in the Democratic Party platform and their agenda are no better than anyone else without Christ.
Let’s start with the bad part and the rage but balance it with God’s love and mercy.
The anger and rage any decent human being must necessarily feel for the pure evil that is the Democratic Party is eventually the going to lead to the demise of that rebellious entity, although this entire land may suffer because her people align themselves with this wicked Party.
This is a justified feeling. But it must be balanced by love for the very people we may feel angry about.
We can argue that today’s Democrats (the Party’s leaders and financial backers) are the most immoral, barbaric people ever to have lived in this lands since the first humans came here. We may even say their spirits are shriveled, dark, and reprobate and that, in our estimation, they are a hazard to the every survival of this country, worse than ISIS.
(Worse than ISIS because they are quislings against the Founders and America’s true manifest destiny and they are subverting our institutions from within in a nefarious way.)
God says “male and female He created them” and this Party of wonton perverts claim 100 genders, and insist we cater to this alt-gendered demonic garbage on pain of being canceled. To hell with that! Literally.
The Bill of Rights recognizes our inherent rights to free speech and these cretins create monopoly platforms through a bait and switch deception which censor any speech the demonic Party doesn’t like. As for the rights of self-preservation, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion/conscience, the Democrats’ totalitarian Party of perverts and child abusers tramples on them with criminal abandon.
No, we don’t dialog with terrorists, Nazis, Communists, or Democrats. The shot-callers of the Democratic Party are in such wicked company and only a miracle from God will stop their pathetic lifeless souls from burning in hell for eternity, which every one of them richly deserves.
(Before you get all self-righteous, remember WE ALL DESERVE HELL and will get hell without Christ.)
To Democrats, we warn, you disobey and rebel against the living God, you damn yourselves. Your ways are the ways of death, your Party Platform is sin, dipped in misery, and covered in sorrow.
Every Democrat, every person who votes Democrat, is cursed because you align yourself with Satan against the Living God and His chosen People: you will either repent and recant this Party’s ideology or you will lose your eternal soul to a devil’s hell. It is that stark.
The Democratic Party and every single person who supports or votes for them are the Midianites seeking to genocide the People of God and to turn this land into a hellscape of alt-gendered totalitarian misery. You are damned, all of you: you cannot be a Democrat and be a follower of Christ.
That’s the bad part. It’s stark. It’s not nice and, frankly, seems over the top in an era when Democrats are so used to getting a pass and when every institution praises them and extols them as the best people and everyone else as bad. It is a shock for a Democrat to hear that their ideas and ideology are basically just retreads of the doctrines of devils.
They are all the same old lies from Satan, which began in Eden: you will be as little gods knowing right from wrong and in need of no master save yourselves. Of course, Satan knows that when you leave God’s covering and rebel against Him, you become a slave of sin and a minion of hell.
The corrupted press, academia, and entertainment industries all behave as if the Democratic Party platform itself were inviolate Scripture and the Bible was the demonic platform. Democrats have never been truly held to account for their evil ways. The left scream “separation of church and state”, when in truth their state religion is authoritarian decadence and their true aim it to persecute and even murder Christians who refuse to compromise their faith and convictions.
Jesus Christ died for sinners. Democrats are but the latest version of sinfulness and evil on a mass scale without check or balance, and when Jesus was dying on the Cross, His love was reaching to THESE VERY PEOPLE.
THIS IS WHY I will not let the rage that may rise within me when I hear a Democrat once again declaim against God’s law and call them evil cause me to sin or to hate these people. I will not hate evildoers who are only following their flesh and who are basically being misled by demonic and dark forces which they do not even know exist.
God loves Democrats, even though their very Party Platform reflects hatred of God’s laws and denial of His sovereignty over humankind. God’s will is not for us to rise up and start attacking Democrats, even though we are seeing them increasingly attack their political opponents in a blatant abuse of power that is deeply criminal.
We must proclaim the Kingdom, call for repentance, and preach the Gospel in truth, love, and mercy, with grace and with daily discipline. Whatever God may allow us to endure, even unto death, we must not forget He is God and these Democrats, like the Midianites, are utterly doomed unless they turn from their rebellion and receive the truth of Christ’s love and salvation.
Too oftne we, including myself, act on our anger and rage.
It is not bad to be angry that we hear how Democrats want to butcher children who have been groomed at school into believing they can change their sex/gender and experiment with sexual activities outside of the only form of marriage prescribed by God, a man and a woman who partner for life.
The Democrats’ slavish devotion to sexual deviancy and a denial of God’s just and righteous laws for the roles of genders, marriage, and sexual purity can make any decent, moral person angry. This is especially true because we know that if this land promotes such through its laws and abuses children in the process, on top of murdering them in the womb, that God’s wrath is likely to be poured out on this land.
Remember it says that though thousands on either side fall, if we are in the Lord, it will not come close to us our our dwelling. God will not let us suffer in this life unless it benefits us eternally and brings Him Glory.
Today’s Democrats are the modern Midianites, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the way these reprobate fools are vanquished will be exactly as the Midianites were. However, it does mean we should be more like Gideon and his 300 in terms of waiting on God and that, as Christians, we must continue in love toward even these enemies of the Kingdom that some may at least be saved.
Anyone who is a Democrat today is a rebel against God and enemy of the Kingdom: their Party’s platform is an abomination against God’s laws. We have to say that and warn them becuase never in US History have any group of people embraced the kind of utter evil this Party champions with their rainbow fascist savagery.
Even any good we see in this party, the lip service they give toward the poor and disadvantaged is often better than the substance of how Republicans serve such people, is nullified by their wonton rebellion against God’s laws. They desire to codify doctrines of devils into US itself in a Haman-like move to persecute the Elect and that makes every person who votes for them a traitor to the Kingdom if such claim to be Christians.
The choice is not Democrats versus Republicans, the choice is either follow God or vote Democrat, because no follower of Christ can ever associate with a Party that openly defies God’s laws on the most sacred of matters, regardless of how they may at least give lip service to the poor and disadvantaged (which is the only good they do).
Sexual sin, murdering the unborn, and perverting/grooming children and then butchering them are the most vile things any human being can engage in. Yes, we should serve the poor and disadvantaged, we should visit the fatherless and the widows, but if we claim to be just becuase we say we are about helping those in need while committing and/or tolerating those other sin, then nothing we can do will wipe the slate clean: we are evildoers without hope unless we repent and disassociate from all such things and from that wicked Party.
Democrats rightly point out that too many Christians who declaim against their perverted sexual agenda and abuse/murder of children do not care for the poor and disadvantaged and do not truly despise things like racism and misogyny. But they forget that the deepest and most vile sins they extol and the way they lionize the evildoers while defaming the righteous are far worse and damn their souls.
This is not a binary choice in which Democrats represent Satan and Republicans represent Christ. DEMOCRATS DO REPRESENT HELL ITSELF but Republicans do not represent Christ, they just don’t openly and wholeheartedly embrace the alt-gendered child killing, child grooming, doctrines of devils invoked be the Democratic Party.
One could be a Christian and vote Republican or not vote or vote some third party, but to vote for a Party whose very platform defies God’s laws and pursues the canonization of eivl in law is to rebel against God and betray the Kingdom.
The issue is not that Democrats might have a live and let live attitude that says people can decide their own sexuality and who they love: they actually want to legally shun and shame and internally banish anyone who dares say these things are a sin and who wishes to have no part in such things. They want to groom children to embrace these things and they want to punish those who reject such things, even if in rejecting these things we may not demand laws against people having a freewill choice in such matters.
But Christ died for these people. He died that they might live. We can tell them the truth, that they are following doctrines of devils, betraying the Kingdom (if they claim to be Christians), and waging war against God and His Elect. We must, however, also love them and desire their salvation and preach to them that Christ can set them free from the deception and bondage they are embracing in ignorance.
If you are a Democrat and claim to follow Christ, you are in deep and mortal danger. You cannot serve or support any entity whose very platform is a rebellion against God’s laws and which openly supports the persecution of people who choose to follow God’s laws to the exclusion of every other doctrine or ideology not forged within their spiritual crucible.
This doesn’t mean, ipso facto, you should suddenly become a Republican. That is a matter of your own conviction. Republicans aren’t the Elect, they just don’t have a platform that is founded upon open rebellion against God’s laws. (I vote straight Republican becuase I am essentially only trying to limit the power of Democrats, not because I think the Republicans will save us.)
If the Republicans begin to embrace the alt-gendered perverted agenda and baby-killing in their platform, then no sane or decent person will have a political home in this country and if or when that happens we can say without a doubt this land is already under judgement.
Efforts to incorporate the alt-gendered sexual deviancy into the GOP platform are, unfortunately, under way, although it is unlikely to happen this cycle. Still it is a sign of the end times, if not for humanity at least this civilization, that we may within a few more election cycles find that most American citizens support codifying open rebellion against God’s laws into the US criminal code and the persecution of the Righteous who cannot abide or participate in such.
For now, only the Democratic Party, of the two major parties, is openly defiant of God and at war against the Kingdom. For now, we must warn people to turn to Christ and reject/disavow that Party and its doctrines of devils because we love them and want them to have eternal life.
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