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That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. Ecc 1:9 Except Solomon never knew anything about drones, aircraft cyber warfare, missiles and satellite surveillance - so I guess the guy was wrong in the...

To some extent this rests on Israel and specifically on Netanyahu. On the one hand this was a direct attack by Iran, for the first time. On the other hand it was a telegraphed nothing burger as BPPLee described it. The shift from attack via proxy to direct attack is a significant change and...

I am interested to see how the British laser interceptor works out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68795603 The recent Iranian attack on Israel shows that drones launched from too far a distance can be intercepted quite easily if you have full battlefield intelligence and visibility. I guess...

Europe is already rearming after decades of neglect partly because of Russia's aggression but partly also as a result of the threat of a Trump Whitehouse abandoning NATO. Russian conventional warfare seems quite clumsy and ineffective given the vast amounts of men and material available to...

China's general policy is to sit on the fence in all major conflicts and talk about sovereignty and peace. They have too much internal stuff for a war right now and have probably calculated this is not the best time to act. But the ambition to take Taiwan is still there and the support for...

He has a growing capability, he has a loose alliance with Russia and China. But he and his predecessors also have a reputation for spewing a lot of hot air. If I were China or Russia right now I would be worried about this loose cannon starting extra conflicts right now.

The BBC suggests that some of the attacks were launched from Yemen and Iraq. At the end of the day, this was a slow-motion humiliation for Iran as it appears 99% of their missiles/drones did not reach their target. It would have been more effective and cheaper to simply spit in Israel's...

Lesbian relationships are even more unstable than gay male ones. Women initiate 2/3rds of marriage breakups.

The actual pattern is that homosexual relationships are rarely stable enough to make a long-term commitment and only a fraction of those who do choose to adopt. So Mom and Dad remain the greater threat to someone insulting sexual choices.

There is much that is unbearable about the right but this is an issue where they have a winning advantage. Family-orientated politics appeals to states having children ´with functional families and the greatest influence on voting behavior remains one's family background. In the long run, the...

I wish that were so but the poll numbers indicate otherwise with Trump ahead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election

This is a more helpful perspective than the original OP. The USA needs to be set in a global context. US-European influence is declining with its spiritual credibility and Christian's devotion is a major factor in that. Atheists and Agnostics are also-rans in the global context and a major...

This seems to have been a major blunder by Biden's team. The Woke agenda is what unites opposition against him and blinds them to more serious matters. He has given a clear piece of ammunition to Trump which can be used with deadly effect. The perception here, as with the QAnon conspiracy theory...

Interesting article. Hamas simply murdered civilians on October 7th and very few actual soldiers, so it is hypocritical for them to speak on this at all. The Israeli IDF is doing its best to minimize civilian casualties but in such a crowded context that is difficult. The Gaza stats are very...

They may understand how insidious this movement is and how well organized. My church in the UK is currently voting on whether to bless same-sex relationships and the pressure is coming both from above, from a compromised hierarchy, and also from more liberal members of the congregation...

Social justice figured much higher in the early church than it does in modern republican thinking. Don't believe me - read the bible? A civilization is judged by how it handles its weakest members. “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers...

Wow, so the choice in the election really is between an egotistical self-serving narcissist and a deceived puppet of mad perverts.

Trump is entirely unfit to be president but he knows how to play some Republican Christians. Like him, they do not care about the poor or the oppressed and while they model a form of godliness it is hypocritical and even blasphemous. You know Trump is selling Bibles now to make money to fight...

I do not like Trump and do not want him to win this year, but his pro-Israel credentials are clear. Netanyahu is not Israel and will leave power pretty shortly after he finishes with Hamas in Gaza. The Israeli people themselves will not tolerate another term and the perception is that he messed...

Gulf War 1 and 2 showed what happens to a technologically inferior enemy in a shooting war with NATO. The Iraqi army was annihilated in a matter of weeks. In that case the Coalition had absolute air supremacy and battlefield intelligence. The Ukraine war has become a war of attrition because...