Apparently the Ukraine hasn’t any hummingbirds. That may be an explanation for why Emperor Zelensky is cruel enough to send young women ages 18 to 24 into the front line of battle as combat infantry. He also plans to send old men over 60 there as well.
I had no idea that hummings don’t live in the old world. They are found only in the new world. Sadistic royalty sending women and old men to be splattered in battle should be sure to go with them.
The improvisational, creative rock star Frank Zappa said something like ‘Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex’. That was a perceptive remark at a deeper level of social analysis. Zappa’s remark might be upgraded to include the 5% of the 1% with the military industrial complex regarding who politics in the United States primarily benefits. One wonders about President Trump though; when he has seemed to dissent with simply expanding wars upon second rate nations he appears to be an exception to that paradigm. Yet when he follows it such as to support a war against Russia he seems to be right in tune with Zappa’s prognostication.
The late Charlie Kirk sought to bring more Christians into political engagement in politics with his 'Turning Point U.S.A.'. He had saved 12 million dollars while growing that organization from age 18, so he was probably sincere about faith and bring the nation to return more to the faith of the founders. It is not particularly surprising that a radical left-leaning youth in a state with a dominant non-Christian religion was the tool to take down an existential irritant. One might wonder if anything of that tragedy was at all meaningful in light of the Zappa paradigm of politics largely going where it is directed by the M.I.C. and plutonomy.
The late Charlie Kirk is a good example of the problems Christians have in engaging politcs. Can one even affect contemporary politics significantly without being rich? Jesus said that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. That presents a Hobson's choice of a sort to those with Christian spirit who would like to make the nation a better place.
The Ukraine conflict generated by massive paranoia, European perfidy in politics, the worth of wars to military and industrial corporations, Russian resistance to N.A.T.O. eastward expansion and loss of Ukraine to the west via President Clinton is a difficult inertial monstrosity to resist. President Trump has gone as far as he feels reasonable- even sending some American military officers to Belarus to observe the Belarussian-Russia joint military exercises that were made to offset N.A.T.O. military exercises near Belarus.
Obviously the war is counterproductive to global well being, peace, security and economics. Some of the military-industrial establishment may even have realized that expending conflict to increase profits may be harmful to themselves too if the conflict transitions into World War Three. Maybe they won’t resist a draw-down even though traditional profit tactics goad them forward into hellfire.
The Democrat Party is very dangerous though. They seem to lack competence at politics generally and serve to render actual functioning marketplace of ideas style Democracy improbable because of the mass confusion and incompetence they bring to the electorate. Disseminating lies, illusions and so forth are commonplace for Democrats. Apparently they really are against U.S. border security and a democracy of, by and for the people of the United States rather than anyone in the world in general. Massive civil disobedience that is perpetual has the effect of making political self-determination by the electorate ineffective. The party simply is a third column for those that attack every sort of American establishment within the United States without concern for the harm dumped upon fellow citizens as a result of their party’s political malfeasance.
Democrats throw so much smoke and bull into the political system that accomplishing meaningful environmental economic progress, or ending the Ukraine conflict; slowing massive species extinction and keeping the U.S. Government finances solvent are set not on the back burner- they thrown into deep freeze, Democrats are the smoke and mirrors mass confusion tool for concentrating wealth. They may provide election cycle rhetoric and raising taxes on the rich yet act on that only when they haven’t political power to actually do so. Fundamentally Frank Zappa was correct. There must be some coordination and some level to make the American electorate so badly informed and unconcerned about the state of the nation, the public debt and impoverished lives of millions that exist even when the unemployment rate is quite low. Upgrading and innovating where things Frank Zappa accomplished in music yet in U. S. politics that capacity seems notably absent.
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The Bible does say that God appoints the rulers of nations. That doesn't mean that everything a government does is good obviously, yet the matter is a part of the paradigm of predestination and God's plan for the destiny of the world and people in it. It is alright for Christians to support national sovereignty and the integrity of a democracy. In my opinion a lot of people that hate Christians,, hate the United States and capitalism see a twofur in attacking Christians and nationalism simultaneously. Gemini summarized the paradigm of God appointing rulers of nations- "a common theological belief found in both the Christian and Islamic faiths, particularly referenced in the Bible (Romans 13:1, Daniel 2:21) and the Quran (3:26). "
One may apply various hermeneutic paradigms to scripture seeking to extract support for diverse political meanings from it. Harmonizing all of the various books and content of the Bible into a wholistic paradigm for oneself may take time. The work of Christ in seeking to rescue humanity from the power of the thermodynamic field in which everyone exists physically and chases after energy and desirable things without a spiritual sense is simple for God yet not so simple for mankind to comprehend. God is spirit while the Universe is physical and material.
Even when saved Christians remain in the world, although born again in the spirit. Prioritizing scriptural/spiritual paradigms over worldly affairs certainly is Christian, yet that doesn't imply neglect or incompetence in things concerning citizen options- forced options of a political nature. Sometimes one is compelled to make a political choice in one direction or another, where detachment leads to an increase in public wickedness and harm. Should a Christian with a chance to oppose abortion or fascism for instance, not choose to do so?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was faced with such challenges during the Second World War and was executed by the Reich for so doing. He actively supported the resistance rather than simply casting a vote in opposition. Post-tribulationists- partial-preterists, believe that this is an era where the church builds up to convert people to Christ- to proselytize. That is what has happened since the tribulation happened in the First century AD as Jesus said it would- with all things being fulfilled within that generation. When God's purpose is completed for the world then Jesus will return and other end-times events will transpire including the last judgement. Pre-tribbers have a different take and believe Armageddon need happen first and are far more detached from things in a way- and tend to let things empirically be neglected or whatever.
President Trump demurred on sending the National Guard to Chicago for crime control because of the problem of Chicago lawyers sending tsunamis of lawsuits. In effect, Chicago can micromanage foreign policy by shielding illegal foreign residents from contact with, and deportation by federal law enforcement officials.
https://suno.com/s/bfTJdgaAXFaILYvu
Chicago and Illinois are advancing anti-federal policy for state's rights, as is California and the Mexican government surrogate governing California. Not since the civil war have state's rights over federal rights been a solid Democratic party policy. The next Democrat President could be another Jefferson Davis fighting for under the table cheap labor in lieu of slaves. Some Democrats may be excited enough about state's rights to tell federal officials to go kick bricks as to shoot Republicans speaking out against Democrat party planks with anti-pathetic rhetoric.
Chicago and California are making progress toward becoming part of Mexico, demonstrating the viability a two-state final solution.
Interesting to consider the meaning of 1 Peter 5:8 in light of thermodynamics and original sin Everyone has the need to devour energy and increase. The devil epitomizes that desire as a raging lion seeking to devour. Jesus, as is pointed out, overcame the world and that natural thermodynamics paradigm.
The paradigm that the meek shall inherit the Earth is consistent, logically with Jesus Christ as a spiritual savior- the Son of God, leading one from that thermodynamic striving that is endemic and inherent in every known living creature in the Universe (or world) because they are made that way. In order to prevent sinful humans from living forever in disobedience, after the fall Adam and Eve- the forerunners of humanity, were cast into thermodynamics with birth, deaths and the need for work to attain energy to exist. When people are saved they have faith in God and are filled with the Holy Spirit- God transcends the physical world with its thermodynamic arrow of space-time serving as a containment or management facility for the spiritually wayward and disobedient. Jesus Christ alone is able to reconcile people unto what is acceptable to God.
Scripture hermeneutics can find meanings thousands of years ahead of science of the time it was written.
Russia denies having sent drones into Poland of an attack kind. The Gerbera recon drones haven't military munitions on them. They also have a range of no more than 420 miles- too far for launches from Russia to reach Poland.
There is a chance the wave of 19 Gerbera drones was some kind of media and treaty invoking mission by an unknown semi-intelligence agency and unknown agent provocateur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbera_(drone)
Even so, the Flight of the Mystery Drones shattering Polish air space may be reason enough for Senator Graham to ask for a Gulf of Tonkin style resolution to defend Poland against Russian aggression.
Gerbera drones are used mostly as decoys. Made of plywood covered with foam they cost about $10,000 apiece. Apparently they can carry a 5 lb load of plastic explosive, yet the range is reduced to fewer than 190 miles in that case. One-hundred ninety miles is a common flight range for simple recon tasks.
